Josh Hamilton Leads By Example
Last night, two of Major League Baseball’s top sluggers
faced off when the American League Champion Texas Rangers’ Josh Hamilton squared
off against Albert Pujols of the Los Angeles Angels. The League expected this to be a real slugfest,
so they chose to cover the game first hand.
Albert Pujols may have hit three home runs in one game one
of the last times these two sluggers met during the World Series. However, last night, Pujols went 0-4. Since becoming one of the highest paid
hitters in all of baseball, Pujols is batting a dismal .192 average with only
one home run, which he hit earlier this week.
In contrast, Josh Hamilton went 3-4 with two solo home runs
boosting his average to .407. Unlike
Pujols, Hamilton has hit 17 home runs, with a record breaking 4 home runs in
one game earlier this week.
How rare is a 4 home run game? Very! In the past 15 years 61 players hit for the
cycle, 32 pitchers threw no hitters, there were 31 four-strikeout innings, 7
perfect games, yet only 4 players have had a 4 home run outings!
What’s interesting, though, is regardless of how well Josh
has been hitting, he did something far more impressive last night. He picked up a squeegee and swept the water
out the dugout after a two hour rain delay.
It’s not every day you see a multi-millionaire slugger sweeping the
floor. So I could not resist and had to
ask Josh if he thought he was a tad overpaid to be sweeping the floors. Josh smiled and simply said, “Heck no,
besides I have to do this at home, too.” (That's me in the photo right after I asked him...)
The moral of the
story is I doubt Pujols would be hitting better if he were humbly sweeping the
floors. However, we are never too much
of a super star to do the little things, like sweep the floors, which may lead
to great success.
In case you were wondering, the Rangers won 10-3.
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