In Birdland, home of Cal Ripken Jr. and his streak of 2,632 consecutive games played, playing every day has long felt like a great virtue towards which all players should aspire. Those times where, like right now, the Orioles have the longest active consecutive games streak held by a member of the team - Manny Machado in this case, the only MLBer to play in every game this year - it's a fun little curiosity. Hey, he'd only have to play X more years to pass Cal!
With The Streak fresh in everybody's memory thanks to the recent passing of the 20th anniversary of when Cal took the record for himself, it's worth keeping in mind that there is a reason that no other player has ever even come close to Cal's streak, and maybe never will.