At least he is to me. Since I was 7 years old, Ken Griffey Jr has been my favorite baseball player on the planet. Fast forward 17 years and he still is. While the guy has suffered through some injuries in his career he became just the 6th player in history (and likely only the 4th clean player) to ever hit 600 HR. I remember the day the Reds made the trade for him. I was 15 years old at the time and heck, I still have the press conference on VHS in my room somewhere (yeah, I know I should really transfer it to DVD). It was the most exciting day of my life to that point. He hit an injury bug while in Cincinnati (that I really wish some fans would keep their thoughts about to themselves; if you are ever at a game and sitting in RF and someone is yelling at Griffey and some 24 year old starts going off on them, its likely me… I seemingly have to do it at least once a game 30 times a year or so) that limited where his home run chase would go. Still, I think we should all appreciate what the man is, was and will be in the history of this beautiful game that we all love so much. I hate to think about it, but Ken Griffey Jr is baseball to me and I really don’t know what its like without him in the game. One day he is going to hang them up for good and baseball will lose a legend and an all time great. Appreciate it while you can and don’t take it for granted, guys like him don’t come around too often.