McCarver Inching Closer Toward Kindergarten Graduation

That's not true. nice try though... If the leadoff home run hitting batter misses any base (and is protested by the fielding team) his "solo homer" becomes less than a homer (depending on which bag he legally touches last) AND he is out!

Nice try Manny, but if it isn't ruled a homerun, then how could it be a leadoff HOMERUN?

How is a base hit a base hit if the guy gets thrown out trying to take another base? It doesn't change the fact that it was a hit!

A ball hit out of the park is ruled a home run when the umpires do the circle thingy with their hands... it goes in the scorebook differently if they miss a base and it gets appealed.

Ask Robin Ventura what a Grand Slam single feels like...

You can't beat me, dude.

What the hell are you talking about? A homerun is when a hitter touches all four bases safely on one play without assistance from an error or interference or advancing on a throw or anything not related to his hit. You can hit it out of the ballpark and not be given a homerun if you don't touch all four bases. But you can't hit a leadoff homerun that isn't a homerun. You can hit a ball out of the park, skip over 2nd base, get called out on appeal, but then you'd have a leadoff double, wouldn't you? I really hope you're jokingly trying to be an idiot. Otherwise you're trying way too hard to make words work for you and argue some trivial semantical point. And yes, I know that isn't a word.

semantical says who?

Do the announcers wait until the guy touches home plate to call it a Home Run? No.

Do Home Run contests include baserunning? No.

Even in the game of bedroom baseball, you hit it out of the park but skip second base and get called "out", you can still tell your buddies that you went yard... it just doesn't count as a score.

To make sense, it would go like this... "He hit a leadoff home run but forgot to touch second base, so he was called out and the hit was ruled a single."

They wouldn't say "he hit a single that would have been a home run if he touched all the bases". EVERY single would be a homerun if they touched all the bases!

And another thing, I've never heard an inside the park Home Run called a "solo home run".

Are announcers always correct and/or are they official scorers? No

Do homerun hitting contests count in any record book? No

If there is nobody on base and a batter hits an inside the park HR, is it a 2 run homer? No. A three run homer? No. A Grand Slam? No. Is it officially a solo (one run) homerun? Yes

Has there ever in the history of baseball been a leadoff homerun that wasn't a solo homerun? No.

Are you reaching? Yes

A "record" is the recording of an event. If you can look it up, it's been recorded and thus made a "record".

Who holds the "record" for most HR hit in a HR contest anyway?

We can argue this all night if you want because there is no official definition of a "Home Run" in section 2.00 in the MLB rule book.

But I did find this tidbit in 5.10(c) - where is calls a "home run" a fair ball hit out of the playing field: If a batter or any runner accidentally becomes incapacitated after a home run is hit and cannot proceed as a runner, the umpire can call time and a pinch runner can advance the bases for the accidentally injured player. What happens if the pinch runner misses a base?

I don't "reach". My brain just has very long arms...

we've been using that one alot lately...

if Tim McCarver was dead, Joe Buck would be tolerable. If Joe Buck was dead, Tim McCarver would still suck (probably even MORE)

Put Peter Gammons in the broadcast booth and Tim McCarver out to sea on an ice flow.

...in warm and deep pirahna, electric eel and shark infested waters (the kind of sharks with killer bees in their mouths)