Ken Griffey Jr., who has been approaching his 600th career home run has sat out the last few days in the Reds vs Phillies series at Philadelphia. While the reports are Griffey is not feeling up to snuff, we all know the real reason is that the Cincinnati Reds organization would rather see him make his 600th strike on Reds territory in front of the home town fans. You’d have to be a jet fuel genius to realize that a scenario such as Griffey’s 600th would account for higher than average ticket sales at the box office and I don’t think there’s many true baseball fans out there who would disagree with the organization’s intentions to please their fans and take them to the show.

Here’s an excellent article about Griffey’s 600th from of all places, a NY Yankee blog, but the author brings several insightful and overall positive opinions to the table. Including this quote which is indicative of a true MLB baseball fan…

Griffey deserves to be treated just like those who hit 600 prior to him. He deserves to have more people talking about him and praising him. So why don’t we? As baseball fans I think that we should all be excited for this historical happening, regardless of what team we root for.

Couldn’t agree any more with that bit of logic especially these days when players move from team to team at the blinking of an eye. Regardless of the current team a player is part of the starting linuep, we should respect them when they accomplish greatness which only furthers the game we love as fans.

SportsPhile also has another fantastic article entitled Where’s All The Hoopla For Ken Griffey Jr’s 600th Home Run? that echoes similar opinions to the previously mentioned article. One especially intriguing observation is when the the author, Chuck, states the following…

What you WON’T see is much of any celebration on Ken Griffey Jr. approaching the 600th home run milestone. I believe this is so unfair and hypocritical because Ken Griffey may be the first player in the last 35 years to reach 600 without cheating. He’s being forced to quietly make history in the shadows.

A statement we here at BaseballTalkPro are in total agreement with. The truest of MLB baseball fans are watching Griffey humbly advance into the elite 600 crowd occupied by only five other sluggers: Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, Sammy Sosa. The closest active players behind Griffey is the Yankees’ bombshell Alex Rodriguez and the White Sox’s Jim Thome.

Hats off to Ken Griffey and we’ll all be watching for that 600th HR in from of the Cincinnati Reds fans !!!

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