Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport's partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here's a thread about what I learned.
Ted Williams’ career stats:
2654 H
525 2B
521 HR
1798 R
1839 RBI
2021 BB
AND YET:
Lost ages 24, 25 & 26 years to WWII.
Lost almost all of ages 33 & 34 years to the Korean War.
If you think “Eh, he was 34 anyway”:
Hit .345, .356, .345, .388 his first four years after Korea.
Fran Tarkenton passed for 47,003 yards while playing 14-game seasons in an era where you could gleefully murder all the receivers and the quarterback. Let me pull out my NFL passing yard inflation calculator and see how much that would be today:
∞
Yeah, I get infinity yards.
Vikings fans learn early that nothing’s going to be easy in this life. Kid is 12 and he’s obviously already seen enough traumatic shit to be as jaded as your average divorced 49-year-old. 94% chance he poured a Scotch right after this and muttered “Goddamn Steelers.”