BLT. Yum.

Okay... over a year later, and I think I actually want to start blogging here.

I was driving to work this morning and ESPN radio was talking about someone who hit a triple, with the bases loaded. So that got me thinking. I think we (not me, but the stats guys in charge) should create a new stat:

the BLT... or Bases Loaded Triple.

Yeah, it's a little less "romantic" than the grand slam, but hey, that's still a pretty good swing of the bat, at a rather important time. And I bet it's every bit as rare as the grand slam, if not even more rare. Think about it:

Comparatively speaking, the grand slam is a rather rare occurrence. The career home run leader (Barry Bonds) has 762. The career grand slam leader (Lou Gehrig) has only 23. And I just read that in the 2005 season, "grand slams accounted for 132 of the 5017 total home runs hit (2.6 %)."

Then take into consideration that five people hit at least 40 HR in 2007, compared to five people hitting at least 10 triples in 2007. I know the math isn't that simple, but that means that triples are about 1/4 as common as homers. Would that mean that the BLT is exceedingly rare? I don't know. But it sure does make me hungry thinking about it.