Talk:Golden sombrero

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[edit] Non-MLB list

I'm not fond of this section. All that's here is the same few college softball teams over and over again, probably added by fans of those particular teams. A list that truly is "non-MLB" would include the minor leagues, colleges, Little League, Joe Wikipedian who plays for his over-35 team at work, etc., etc. It would never be a complete list, and if it's going to be kept around, at least with this title, I think it should be tagged as such.

Really I'm not big on any of the "golden" lists just because so many of them occur in a year. By the '08 or '09 season, this article is going to get unwieldy. Not to mention if it were ever expanded backward. There's gotta be an external link on something like Baseball Almanac that would have the same info.

Anyone else have thoughts? Dakern74 11:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm fine with removing it. Per what you said, it's probably already way way out of date. I'm sure far more walk-on college players have had 5- or 6-strikeout games. —Wknight94 (talk) 12:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Little leaguers and Johnny Nobody of the Assbackwards, Ontario Beer League softball will never have reliable sources, and really can never be included. I'm not sure there's a problem with having minor league occurances. WilyD 13:01, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Too many to list

While we're at it, what is the point of listing every 4-strikeout game for the last two seasons? There's too many to be of any use. It happens several times per week on average. I'd prefer to see a list of multi-homer games - there'd be fewer of them and it would be more impressive. I'm going to remove those and leave just the 5+ strikeout games unless there's a strong objection. The 5-strikeout section isn't even being maintained because people are so busy keeping the 4-strikeout section up to date. I'll bet neither of them is complete now. It's better to have one complete section than three incomplete sections. I'm also removing the non-MLB section which I'm sure is about 2% complete at best. —Wknight94 (talk) 12:44, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

Agree wholeheartedly. Three more got added just in the last two days. Of course, you will probably have to keep re-removing them since a few people are in the habit of adding them every night. On the other topic, I have the MLB record book, and could do a list of 3-homer games if one doesn't already exist. Although there would be 448 players on it. Not counting any this year. Gulp. Dakern74 05:08, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I found the strangely-named MLB players who have hit 3 home runs over consecutive innings as well as MLB hitters with two or more 3-home run games in a season. As far as the size of articles, we have Top 500 home run hitters of all time with 500 people and New York Mets all-time roster (created by me) which has around 800. I think a slowly-growing list of 400-500 people is perfectly acceptable. Don't be surprised if you meet some resistance though... You might even want to combine the first two articles I mentioned into an overall list. —Wknight94 (talk) 12:51, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Hey, that's more like it, Dakern74... get the existing content up to date and accurate before we start adding in more sections willy nilly. Keep it up!  :) —Wknight94 (talk) 11:26, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

First it was only the heading of "20th century" that threw me. But apparently whoever did the original list forgot to look at the playoffs (cuz they're separate sections in the record book). Oh well, back to my hundreds of home-run hitters..... -- dakern74 (talk) 19:49, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Busted. Guess my book only lists the 6's in extra-inning games, not the 5's. I checked the boxscore, and the recent re-addition of Ben Grieve is correct. -- dakern74 (talk) 20:36, 31 August 2006 (UTC)