| 15th February 2007 08:32 PM |
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| Fiji Joe |
quote:
pdog wrote:
but those Reigndeer are on something...
Rudolph was the worst, you know his nose is red from doing something...
Santa uses voodoo...which is fair game
Here's a picture of Hank Aaron breaking the Babe's record...he was a broken down old man...but he was clean
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| 15th February 2007 08:35 PM |
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| Fiji Joe |
Babe Ruth would insult your momma and tell you he was going to hit the next pitch over the wall...and then he'd do it
He was clean too
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| 15th February 2007 08:38 PM |
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| Fiji Joe |
Pete is banned from baseball...but barry is still playing
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| 15th February 2007 08:44 PM |
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| Fiji Joe |
My favorite ballplayer of all time...a wonderful story during the summer of 1976
Mark Steven "The Bird" Fidrych (born August 14, 1954 in Worcester, Massachusetts) was a Major League Baseball player for the Detroit Tigers.
The son of an assistant school principal, he played baseball at Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough, Massachusetts. In the 1974 amateur draft, he was not selected until the 10th round, when the Detroit Tigers picked him. In the minor leagues one of his coaches dubbed the lanky right-handed pitcher "The Bird" because of his resemblance to "Big Bird" of the Sesame Street television program.
Fidrych made the Tigers as a non-roster invitee out of spring training, not making his major-league debut until April 20, and not making his first start until mid-May. He only made that start because the scheduled starting pitcher had the flu. Fidrych responded by throwing seven no-hit innings, ending the game with a 2-1 victory in which he only gave up two hits. He went on to win a total of 19 games, led the league in ERA (2.34) and complete games (24), was the starting pitcher in that year's All-Star Game, won the American League Rookie of the Year Award, and finished second in voting for the Cy Young Award.
In the process Fidrych also captured the imagination of fans with his antics on the field. He would crouch down on the pitcher's mound and fix cleat marks, what became known as "manicuring the mound", talk to himself, talk to the ball, aim the ball like a dart, strut around the mound after every out, and throw back balls that "had hits in them," insisting they be removed from the game. On June 28, 1976 he pitched against the New York Yankees in a nationally televised game on ABC; the Tigers won the game 5-1. After a game filled with "Bird" antics in which he and his team handily defeated the Yankees, Fidrych became an instant national celebrity.
Every time he pitched, Tiger Stadium was jam-packed with adoring fans. In his 18 appearances, attendance equalled almost half of the entire season's 81 home games. Teams started asking Detroit to change its pitching rotation so Fidrych could pitch in their ballparks, and he appeared on the cover of numerous magazines, such as Sports Illustrated (twice, including once with Sesame Street character Big Bird), The Sporting News, and Rolling Stone. In one week, Fidrych turned away five people who wanted to be his agent, saying, "Only I know my real value and can negotiate it."
Fidrych also drew attention for the simple, bachelor lifestyle he led in spite of his fame, driving a green subcompact car, living in a small Detroit apartment, wondering aloud if he could afford to answer all of his fan mail on his league-minimum $16,500 salary, and telling people that if he hadn't been a pitcher, he'd work pumping gas in Northborough. He fascinated everyone, most especially young girls, with his frizzy blond curls, blue jeans, and devil-may-care manner.
At the end of his rookie season, the Tigers gave him a $25,000 bonus and signed him to a 3-year contract worth $255,000. Economists estimated that the extra attendance Fidrych generated around the league in 1976 was worth more than $1 million.
Unfortunately for Fidrych, he tore the cartilage in his knee fooling around in the outfield during spring training in 1977[1]. He picked up where he left off after his return from the injury, but about six weeks after his return, during a game against Baltimore, he felt his arm just, in his words, "go dead." It was a torn rotator cuff, but it would not be diagnosed until 1985. [2].
Fidrych managed to finish the season 6-4 with a 2.89 ERA and was again invited to the All-Star Game, but he declined the invitation due to injury. He pitched only three games in 1978, winning two. On August 12, 1980, 48,361 fans showed up at Tiger Stadium to see what would be his last attempt to make a comeback. At the end of the 1981 season, Detroit gave Fidrych his outright release and he signed as a free agent with the Boston Red Sox, playing for one of their minor league teams. However, his torn rotator cuff, still undiagnosed and untreated, never healed. At age 29, he was forced to retire. After seeing everyone from chiropractors to hypnotists, Fidrych went to famed sports doctor James R. Andrews in 1985. Dr. Andrews discovered the torn rotator cuff, operated, and cleaned out the shoulder, but it was too late for another comeback. So a promising career ended too soon and unnecessarily, just as Wally Bunker's had a decade earlier.
Today, Mark Fidrych lives on a farm in Northboro, and is also a licensed and working commercial trucker. His family currently owns and runs a diner in Northborough called Chet's Diner.
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| 15th February 2007 08:53 PM |
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| pdog |
i don't know about Hank, but Rose, who I love, was on speed like everyone else back in the 70's and 80's...
Aaron was class, even if he did some marching powder... |
| 15th February 2007 08:56 PM |
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| Starbuck |
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Royals will not win The Series in The Fall.
Twins will not win The Series in The Fall.
putting these two sentences together, like, right next to each other and all that...that is akin to saying "your posting abilities are at the same level as a retarded cow, a constipated neanderthal or ian billen".
please, no insults. BTW, did the giants win their division last year?
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| 15th February 2007 09:06 PM |
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| pdog |
quote:
Starbuck wrote:
putting these two sentences together, like, right next to each other and all that...that is akin to saying "your posting abilities are at the same level as a retarded cow, a constipated neanderthal or ian billen".
please, no insults. BTW, did the giants win their division last year?
But The A's did... Go milk the cow farmer bucky!
Who'd they sweep in the post season? |
| 15th February 2007 09:06 PM |
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| parmeda |
quote:
Fiji Joe wrote:
Pete is banned from baseball...but barry is still playing
A-fucking-MEN! |
| 15th February 2007 09:44 PM |
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| pdog |
If Bonds had any class he would just retire. The SF Mgt. is paying tons of money to keep him around, sell some tickets, instead of building a better team...
I've loved watching him play al lthese years, but it's over, except for the ego's and money! |
| 16th February 2007 01:47 AM |
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| Starbuck |
yet another good jew ballplayer....
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| 16th February 2007 02:53 AM |
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| pdog |
It ain't the steroids that make you move fast...
Oh no....
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| 16th February 2007 06:17 AM |
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| HardKnoxDurtySox |
who cares if bonds used performance enhancing drugs? they weren't banned by baseball at the time and some of them weren't even technically illegal. i know people want to try and keep alive some bogus "sanctity of the numbers" but every era is different anyway. babe ruth didn't play against any blacks or latinos and he didn't have to face juiced up pitchers throwing 85mph sliders.
also, i like how everyone just assumes that guys like pujols, arod, and howard are clean and that it would be more legitimate if they started breaking records. i'm not saying they aren't, but how do we know? |
| 16th February 2007 06:20 AM |
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| HardKnoxDurtySox |
quote:
Starbuck wrote:
bonds as the all time HR king...what a fuckin' joke. i agree 100% feej....he tops out at 450 sans roids. what a mockery of god's favorite sport.
well, considering bonds already had 411 after '98 when he allegedly starting juicing, i find that hard to believe. |
| 16th February 2007 10:35 AM |
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| Stonesthrow |
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HardKnoxDurtySox wrote:
who cares if bonds used performance enhancing drugs? they weren't banned by baseball at the time and some of them weren't even technically illegal. i know people want to try and keep alive some bogus "sanctity of the numbers" but every era is different anyway. babe ruth didn't play against any blacks or latinos and he didn't have to face juiced up pitchers throwing 85mph sliders.
also, i like how everyone just assumes that guys like pujols, arod, and howard are clean and that it would be more legitimate if they started breaking records. i'm not saying they aren't, but how do we know?
Sox:
1. In the real world, using steroids is illegal unless they are prescribed by doctors.
2. Babe Ruth did not wear a batting helmet or the equivalent of body armor at the plate as Bonds does. Pitchers were not tossed out of games for throwing at batters. Also, traveling by train was much longer and more tiring than travel by plane. One year (1921, I believe), Ruth hit more home runs by himself than did several entire teams. On the other hand, rumor has it that Ruth was using an illegal substance during most of his playing career-- beer. Prohibition 1919-1933. Bring on the asterisks.
3. The current players you mentioned are clean because they choose to be clean and because they are randomly tested. They have too much to lose by juicing.
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| 16th February 2007 11:24 AM |
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| Fiji Joe |
quote:
Stonesthrow wrote:
Sox:
1. In the real world, using steroids is illegal unless they are prescribed by doctors.
2. Babe Ruth did not wear a batting helmet or the equivalent of body armor at the plate as Bonds does. Pitchers were not tossed out of games for throwing at batters. Also, traveling by train was much longer and more tiring than travel by plane. One year (1921, I believe), Ruth hit more home runs by himself than did several entire teams. On the other hand, rumor has it that Ruth was using an illegal substance during most of his playing career-- beer. Prohibition 1919-1933. Bring on the asterisks.
3. The current players you mentioned are clean because they choose to be clean and because they are randomly tested. They have too much to lose by juicing.
And that's note even mentioning Ruth was using the heaviest bat in the history of the game...because at the time, the retards thought heavier was better...and let's not mention the dead ball of it all...and the fact that those balls were not minty fresh and white at all time...and the higher mound, and the true strike zone...anyone who thinks that having to worry about getting plunked in the head without a batting helmet does not effect your hitting has never played the game...and come on, just look at the history of the game...including its current state...the best pitchers in the game are predominantly white...with a sprinkling of Gibson's and Pedro's mixed in...the man hit a home every 8 time he went to bat...that is unmatched in baseball history |
| 16th February 2007 11:39 AM |
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| Joey |
" ....anyone who thinks that having to worry about getting plunked in the head without a batting helmet does not effect your hitting has never played the game..."
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| 16th February 2007 11:48 AM |
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| Fiji Joe |
Omaha will always just be a minor league city
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| 16th February 2007 12:46 PM |
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| Joey |
" Omaha will always just be a minor league city "
Lil' Fiji ......Don't you already have ENOUGH pain ?
*********** SIGH **************************
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| 16th February 2007 01:34 PM |
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| Fiji Joe |
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Joey wrote:
Look at it this way...After the Sprint Center is completed, you guys will have the sharpest arena around to host professional bull riding |
| 16th February 2007 02:24 PM |
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| Joey |
" Look at it this way...After the Sprint Center is completed, you guys will have the sharpest arena around to host professional bull riding "
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| 16th February 2007 02:51 PM |
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| pdog |
If Ferdinand Magellan had a rocket ship, he would've discovered the moon....
Who is to say otherwise! |
| 16th February 2007 05:03 PM |
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| rolling who |
Take it from someone who covered spring training the past three years (but not this year, unfortunately)...
The Yanks are in Tampa and the Mets are in Port St. Lucie (on the East Coast)
Hank Greenberg was greater than Sandy Koufax
If you're going to get on Bonds for being a cheater, don't forget to get on ALL THE NFL FOOTBALL FRAUDS WHO CHEAT LIKE CRAZY ON 'ROIDS AND HGH. Why doesn't anyone ever get on them like they do on baseball players??? |
| 16th February 2007 05:17 PM |
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| sirmoonie |
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HardKnoxDurtySox wrote:
babe ruth didn't play against any blacks or latinos
No doubt. Nothing but a glorified hockey player. Don't understand why anyone was surprised that the fattest kid in the class won the sausage eating contest every year. |
| 16th February 2007 05:22 PM |
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| Saint Sway |
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rolling who wrote:
If you're going to get on Bonds for being a cheater, don't forget to get on ALL THE NFL FOOTBALL FRAUDS WHO CHEAT LIKE CRAZY ON 'ROIDS AND HGH. Why doesn't anyone ever get on them like they do on baseball players???
its ok if the entire NFL wants to all juice up and use performance enhancing drugs and beat the crap out of each other. That seems fair.
we just dont want a few mongo NFL players in MLB swatting baseballs out of the park like they were Tic Tacs |
| 16th February 2007 05:22 PM |
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| pdog |
Ever wonder why The NBA doesn't screen for weed in their drug tests? |
| 16th February 2007 05:24 PM |
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| Saint Sway |
hey Feej,
can you post some McGuire before and after shots?
that guy turned into Jumbo Elliot |
| 16th February 2007 05:30 PM |
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| Saint Sway |
how many HRs did this clown hit after they busted him for a corked bat?
not many, right?
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| 16th February 2007 05:36 PM |
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| sirmoonie |
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pdog wrote:
Ever wonder why The NBA doesn't screen for weed in their drug tests?
Because they don't want to look like the NHL. |
| 16th February 2007 05:41 PM |
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| Saint Sway |
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pdog wrote:
Ever wonder why The NBA doesn't screen for weed in their drug tests?
who cares?
its not exactly a performance enhancing drug, is it?
No scoring records are going to ever be shattered because some small forward likes to hit the chronic |
| 16th February 2007 05:44 PM |
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| pdog |
That's my point, they're all baked... |
