Juan Pierre: Bags 600 steals and celebrates with Honey Buns and Hawaiian Punch
Juan Pierre just became the 18th player in baseball history to steal 600 bases and in lieu of champagne and the usual adornments awarded himself Hawaiian Punch and honey buns.
Pierre’s teammates came up with the idea after consulting his wife with the simple question: What do you get a man who has stolen 600 bases?
“I love Honey Buns and Hawaiian Punch,” Pierre told The Miami Herald. “That’s the thing, I don’t drink, so champagne or none of that, that doesn’t do me any good. Hawaiian Punch and Honey Buns is a very good surprise.”
In what’s long seemed a given, Pierre now joins the likes of hall of famers Lou Brock and Rickey Henderson in the bowels of baseball immortality.
The clearly hyperactive Pierre thus becomes the ninth-fastest player in MLB history to reach that plateau and just the eighth whose career started after 1920 to master the trifecta of 2,000 hits, 1,000 runs and 600 steals over the course of a career. The others include Brock, Henderson, Tim Raines, Joe Morgan, Willie Wilson, Bert Campaneris and Kenny Lofton.
“You start mentioning the names that you’re accomplished with… honestly, I don’t feel like I deserve to be mentioned with those guys,” said Pierre.
But honestly, how many of them can say they’ve encountered what Juan Pierre has to get there?
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