. . . about the fate of one of America's most revered Sports Heroes, "Gentleman George" Sisler, and the scandalous lack of a great big cheater's asterisk when his unbreakable mark was assaulted by one of the Japanese miscreants pictured in TOKIO JOKIO. Specifically, from three minutes, 24 seconds into TOKIO JOKIO through the 3:38 mark of this animated short, Warner's always psychic prognosticators render an eerily accurate visual of Japan's lone sports achiever of note from the past 100 years, Ichiro Suzuki. Unlike a legitimate Sports Hero such as America's "Sultan of Swat" (home run king Babe Ruth), the Japanese batsman depicted by the Looney Tuners can only hit harmless flies (which is what Suzuki would do decades later, when he wasn't delaying games with his plethora of boring singles). The Fake News sportswriters of the mendacious U.S. False Facts Media breathlessly tried to outdo each other in the distribution of "politically correct" rotten reporting involving Ishiro and Sisler. "Gentleman George" has been a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame since 1939. In 1912, as one of coach Branch Rickey's PITCHERS for the University of Michigan, Sisler struck out 20 batters in a seven inning game! (That's more guys than Ichiro has whiffed in his ENTIRE CAREER.) At the Major League level, George had a 41-game hitting streak in 1922 (again, more than Ichiro ever THOUGHT of doing), during a season generally regarded as the BEST any player EVER turned in for ANY team in the long annals of MLB. He was voted the FIRST American League MVP that year. After sinusitis, coupled with a shortage of antibiotics, cut his career short, Sisler enabled Rickey to sign #42, Jackie Robinson, as America's FIRST Black player in any major team sport. On top of all this, Sisler worked to achieve a mechanical engineering degree from the U of M (who knows if Ichiro even finished high school).
In the fall of 2004, Suzuki had only 251 hits through 154 games (and Game 154 of an MLB season will always denote the REAL "final call" for single season records!), a half dozen FEWER than George racked up in the same number of 1920 contests. However, crazed sportswriters and Suzuki's Seattle team of perennial losers (they haven't even won the World Series EVER, which makes them worse than the pre-2016 Chicago Cubs!) kept counting Ichiro's "hits" during eight bogus & meaningless "add-on" games. Eventually, Suzuki was "credited" with 262 base "knocks," as opposing pitchers grooved him their offerings at batting practice speeds to get their own names in the paper for giving up "historic" Suzuki hits! Tellingly, Suzuki batted only .372 in 2004; Sisler posted a .407 mark in 1920!
In the fall of 2004, Suzuki had only 251 hits through 154 games (and Game 154 of an MLB season will always denote the REAL "final call" for single season records!), a half dozen FEWER than George racked up in the same number of 1920 contests. However, crazed sportswriters and Suzuki's Seattle team of perennial losers (they haven't even won the World Series EVER, which makes them worse than the pre-2016 Chicago Cubs!) kept counting Ichiro's "hits" during eight bogus & meaningless "add-on" games. Eventually, Suzuki was "credited" with 262 base "knocks," as opposing pitchers grooved him their offerings at batting practice speeds to get their own names in the paper for giving up "historic" Suzuki hits! Tellingly, Suzuki batted only .372 in 2004; Sisler posted a .407 mark in 1920!
