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Post by Credo on Mar 7, 2019 20:02:40 GMT -8
Clearly, A's manager Billy Martin was not a proponent of pitch-count limits on his starting staff.
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Post by Credo on Mar 7, 2019 20:35:41 GMT -8
For about four years this guy was the most intimidating pitcher in baseball, and one of my early baseball heroes. Couldn't believe it when a stroke cut him down in the midst of his best season ever.
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Post by Bick on Mar 7, 2019 21:13:08 GMT -8
I liked him a lot as well, but hard to top Nolan Ryan as the goat.
You brought up the A's. Put Ricky Henderson as the all-time poster boy for the A's
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Post by Credo on Mar 8, 2019 1:25:28 GMT -8
Sad news today about Tom Seaver, who apparently is retiring from public life due to the onset of dementia.
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Post by davidsf on Mar 8, 2019 9:16:49 GMT -8
Don Drysdale (3432 innings pitched, 2.95 Career ERA) was my hero for years...
Until the Angels moved to Anaheim and, later, Nolan Ryan moved into my neighborhood (right across the street from Duke’s aunt and grandmother).
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Post by Bick on Mar 8, 2019 11:20:19 GMT -8
Back to the Mets for a second.
The first player that comes to mind when thinking of the Mets, is Doc Gooden over Tom Seaver. That's the trouble when guys don't play the lion's share of their career with one team.
Going team by team, sport by sport, that would be an interesting list.
I think Drysdale would be it for the Dodgers for me.
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Post by MDDad on Mar 9, 2019 10:55:29 GMT -8
I liked him a lot as well, but hard to top Nolan Ryan as the goat. You brought up the A's. Put Ricky Henderson as the all-time poster boy for the A's Nolan Ryan is still one of my two or three favorite baseball players of all time. The recent rash of injured arms, Tommy John surgeries, pitch count limitations and pitchers being babied, it all reminds me of something Ryan once said when talking about the fact that he could throw 150 pitches every four days and never had a sore arm: "It's like any other exercise - the way to develop arm strength is to throw more pitches" (paraphrased). |
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Post by davidsf on Mar 9, 2019 12:14:45 GMT -8
Back to the Mets for a second. The first player that comes to mind when thinking of the Mets, is Doc Gooden over Tom Seaver. That's the trouble when guys don't play the lion's share of their career with one team. Going team by team, sport by sport, that would be an interesting list. I think Drysdale would be it for the Dodgers for me. Drysdale as a favorite, for me, really only rose to the top because he was the Pitcher I saw most. but his teams had so many memorable players, from Sandy Koufax, Willie and Tommy Davis, Ron Perranowski, Maury Wills... and that’s just a handful. |
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Post by ProfessorFate on Mar 9, 2019 13:44:35 GMT -8
I liked him a lot as well, but hard to top Nolan Ryan as the goat. You brought up the A's. Put Ricky Henderson as the all-time poster boy for the A's Nolan Ryan is still one of my two or three favorite baseball players of all time. The recent rash of injured arms, Tommy John surgeries, pitch count limitations and pitchers being babied, it all reminds me of something Ryan once said when talking about the fact that he could throw 150 pitches every four days and never had a sore arm: "It's like any other exercise - the way to develop arm strength is to throw more pitches" (paraphrased). Agree wholeheartedly. I can't think of anything that is more aggravating, than having the manager pull out a pitcher who is totally throttling the other team, and putting in a relief pitcher who immediately blows the lead during his first inning on the mound. |
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Post by Bick on Mar 10, 2019 17:43:02 GMT -8
The trophy guy
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Post by Credo on Mar 10, 2019 22:01:59 GMT -8
And the crazy thing is that this team didn't even win the World Series. Brooks Robinson stole the show in 1970, but those Reds came back and--with Joe Morgan and George Foster--finally won in 1975 and 1976.
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Post by Bick on Mar 10, 2019 22:14:39 GMT -8
And the crazy thing is that this team didn't even win the World Series. Brooks Robinson stole the show in 1970, but those Reds came back and--with Joe Morgan and George Foster--finally won in 1975 and 1976. That team could HIT! I'll put Johnny Bench as the all time Reds poster boy. |
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Post by Credo on Mar 19, 2019 23:36:43 GMT -8
With March Madness upon us, a shout out to Patrick Ewing, who led Georgetown to three Final Four Championship game appearances in his four years. Won't see that again....ever.
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Post by Credo on Mar 19, 2019 23:49:55 GMT -8
Future teammates face off against each other in--I'm guessing--about 1974.
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Post by Credo on Mar 19, 2019 23:54:43 GMT -8
If the NFL wants to begin the healing process from that lousy Super Bowl LIII, this might be a good place to start.
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