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Triple Crown and DUI? Cabrera can do it all!

With all this talk about replacement referees and fantasy football, a historical event in baseball is being overshadowed. Miguel Cabrera is doing more than just flirting with the Triple Crown. He is all the way to third base with it. Cabrera is currently only two homeruns from going all the way with the Triple Crown. Detroit only has seven games left and he is four points ahead of Joe Mauer in batting average, up nine RBI on Josh Hamilton and only trails Hamilton by one homerun, 43-42. This is something everyone should be keeping an eye on, hell, both eyes. The last triple crown winner was Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. I am willing to bet that 90% of the people who read this weren’t even born when that happened.

There is always talk of a triple crown winner in June or July. This is 155 games into the season. There is a legitimate chance he will accomplish this rare feat. There have only been 16 Triple Crown winners in the history of baseball. The first one being Paul Hines in 1878. That’s right 1878! Quick math tells me that is 134 years of trying to do this (probably even longer, but I didn’t want to do that much research).

With the Mariners out of contention for everything except an under 90 loss season, which they are only one win away from accomplishing, I will be rooting hard to see Cabrera get to the Triple Crown. Seeing historical events is something all sports fans should want to see. Not everyone gets to see a Triple Crown in their lifetime. I want one to happen in mine.