If You Think Scoring 60 Points in an NBA Game Is Harder Than Hitting Four Home Runs in an MLB Game, You Are an Irredeemably Stupid Person

I saw this poll from Overtime and now I'm absolutely seething on a Friday afternoon. I generally prefer to live in ignorance of how many morons are allowed to walk the streets every day, but then I see something like that which forces me to reckon with that reality.

Fifty-nine percent of people who voted on this poll think scoring 60 points in an NBA game is more difficult than hitting FOUR home runs in a single game against Major League pitching. There is something wrong with your brain if you think those feats are even remotely comparable, let alone putting the former above the latter.

There have been 78 different 60-point games in NBA history — by 30 different players. It happened three times just in 2021. Putting up numbers like that against professional basketball players is certainly nothing to shake a stick at; I don't want to make it sound like I'm saying that's easy. But it's happened 16 times since 2014.

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There have been 16 four-homer games in the history of Major League Baseball.

Hitting a baseball against MLB pitching is the hardest thing to do in sports, period. It's nothing short of miraculous that there are even a handful of people on the planet who can turn a 98 MPH sinker into a home run. Doing that four times in just four or five plate appearances is almost unfathomable.

Now let's take into account there have been about 4,500 NBA players in the history of the league while MLB had its 20,000th player make his debut this season. Then throw in the fact there are twice as many MLB games in a season as NBA games and that MLB has been around for about eight more decades and you start to get a perspective for how patently ridiculous it is to compare these two things.

I'm going to do my best to not be mad online about this for the rest of the day. Please stop being dumb.