SAMMAMISH — Sam Snead and Ted Williams once famously argued over whether it was harder to hit a golf ball or a baseball, to which Snead said famously:
“Ted, I have to hit my foul balls. You don’t have to go into the stands and play yours.”
End of argument, right? Not according to Ken Griffey Jr., who can be a contrarian’s contrarian, when he puts his mind to it. When that quote is relayed to baseball’s newest Hall of Famer, after five hours in the sun at Sahalee on Tuesday, he replied with a grin:
“Not really.