Judge & Bellinger Re-write Rookie Rounder-tripper Records

As of Monday, Aaron "Dave Kingman" Judge of the Damn Yankees now holds MLB's rookie campaign record for homers as well as the current Junior League seasonal lead behind only Giancarlo Stanton's Senior League leading 57. It was home 'gainst a varying shade a' scrappy KC squad, that the Paul Bunyan-esgue 25 year-old first tied then untied said mark in a pair of dingers. Thusly 50 for the season, and thusly Mark McGwire's 1987 tally nigh incredibly takes a backseat by one and still-counting.

Baseball 2017: Year of the Homerun, indeed. Are you not entertained, gentlepersons???!!! "Now you've heard it advertised, don't hesitate. Don't be caught with your drawers down, Don't be caught with your drawers down. You can step right up, step right up." Barks the vaudevillian Tom Waits holding a handful of hologram'd for yer own good MLB tix.

But wait, there's more...

The NL ain't about to be completely out-done. For the brilliant-cum-floundering Trolley Dodgers have a thing all their own in this, the Year of the Homerun. A thing in the form of a person, a person named Cody Bellinger. This past Friday night, Bellinger surpassed his own league's mark of 38 shared by 1956's Frank Robinson and 1938's Wally Berger before him. This even as he didn't debut till ten days after Tax Day.

Bellinger stepped into the record books via a three-run moon-shot in the third whilst facing the lowly San Francisco Giants and their hurling representative one Mr. Jeff Samardzija. The first baseman is just exactly of legal age to drink. Lettuce all drink.

To new eras and to juiced ball asterisks; somehow oh-so nicer than juiced player asterisks.

"You've Eaten my Socks" Kaplowitz Radio: September 24, 2017