Tank Tales: Ichiro

Allow Me 2 Be Frank

Frank The Tank

Sports

5 • 875 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

With Ichirco's recent move from the field to the front office, we decided it was a great time to discuss his legacy on another Tank Tales. It's not talked about enough how truly great Ichiro was. He is the greatest Japanese player to ever step foot on an MLB field, and that still doesn't do his legacy justice. Frank and Brendan break down the impact Ichiro had on the game, and all his insane records and statistics. Dude also has the coolest stance of all time...

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0:00.0	Tonight we're recording a Tank Tale Short.
0:03.2	If anyone missed the Tank Tales we did back in February and March,
0:06.7	one on the 98 Home Run race, and one on the 86 Mets,
0:10.0	I highly recommend you go back and listen.
0:12.5	Tank Tales are what we consider 3430s in podcast form,
0:15.8	all led by Frank's insane amount of sports history knowledge.
0:19.4	Every now and then when there's a topic worth doing a Tank Tales on, but it isn't long enough to do a full episode.
0:25.2	We're going to do them as a tank tail short.
0:27.5	The first one tonight is about each year.
0:29.7	How he came over from Japan, winning MVP and Rookie of the Year in the same season, the
0:34.3	Oh one mariners win record and whether or not each year is the true hit king.
0:38.3	If there are other sports stories you'd like to hear in this format, don't hesitate to
0:41.9	reach out to us at
0:43.0	Frank to Tank Pod on Twitter dams are always open War! War, I'm the God.
1:04.0	What is it good for absolutely none?
1:08.0	RBIs, and the most important,
1:12.0	slugging percentage in OPS.
1:15.0	Wins and losses an ERA.
1:19.0	But don't come around with that Wins over replacement,
1:22.0	because I say,
1:23.6	War!
1:24.6	O God, good God, God, what is it good for?
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