I agree Ripken's record will probably never be broken. Even though that is what people said before he did it. But really A player would be an idiot to even try. Ripken's career suffered because of the record, and even worse the O's suffered also. I do like the mentallity of wanting to play for the ridiculous money ball players make, but as a fan I would hate for a over the hill player to keep playing when he was hurting my team.