Baseball’s iron man and former Baltimore Oriole great uttered a sentence that many wouldn’t have ever expected to hear.
According to a TMZ Sports video, Cal Ripken, Jr. was asked about New York Giants’ quarterback Eli Manning losing his consecutive starts streak a week ago.
Ripken repsonded, “It saddened me… but streaks aren’t everything.”
Ripken told TMZ, “I don’t look at it that way — that you’re extending a streak or ending a streak. It never was something that I thought of as beginning or ending.”
You can watch the whole video here.
