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  1. OleMissCub
    i'm such a novice at watching hockey. 52 inch TV and still can't see the damn puck
  2. OleMissCub
    how long has it been since the hawks won the cup?
  3. OleMissCub
    ever the southerner, my girl just said "ooooo, your chicago friends! bless their hearts. so close."
  4. OleMissCub
    Just came across this (thanks Danza for finding it) in Matty's book when he is talking about throwing the screwball, which we all know is a horribly damaging pitch to the arm and why you rarely see it these days. http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/7642/screwball.jpg
  5. OleMissCub
    I believe Christy Mathewson wrote a book in the 1910's that I think may be available for free on Google Books. Would be interesting to take a peek and see how he handled batters a full century ago.
  6. OleMissCub
    Yeah I thought the same thing. Certainly reminded me of how fun it was to watch Prior when he first came up.
  7. OleMissCub
    My view on this question is that I think starting pitchers back in the old days simply HAD to have rubber arms and if they didn't then they weren't starters. I'm sure there are plenty of guys pitching today that COULD throw 160 pitches a game without incident like Livan Hernandez or Randy Johnson have recently, but we'll never know because pitchers are handled with such care. Back in the old days when pitchers weren't such a monetary investment, they were able to find out who could handle that type of pitching stress and who couldn't. So I think in the old days it had more to do with the guys having rubber arms than taking off the gas when they faced certain parts of the order.
  8. OleMissCub
    Obviously agree with the first two, not sure about the last one though. Seems to me that most of the time I read about older pitchers they had the ability to throw more pitch types than guys today. I've often come across stories about power pitchers (just for example) from the 50's or 60's also mixing in a knuckler in there. There's a great picture of Walter Johnson demonstrating his grips for six different pitches. I'd think pitchers today are more skilled at fewer pitch types.
  9. OleMissCub
    Somewhere Walter Johnson is weeping that another phenom pitcher is going to go to waste in DC. Although I guess the real reason Big Train is crying could be that he sees how much Strasburg is making already.
  10. OleMissCub
    dude has just sick nasty movement on every pitch
  11. OleMissCub
    I guess one of the casualties of the latest assault on the board is that the "View Active Topics" doesn't work anymore. Anyone who doesn't navigate the board using that is missing out. It's a pain to have to click on every board individually. Can't wait till it works again
  12. OleMissCub
    I don't understand your sig. why is that guy circled?
  13. OleMissCub
    Mark Reynolds just ended Jiminez' 33 inning scoreless streak. Only his second homer given up this year.
  14. OleMissCub
    I think the old timers they are referring to are from the deadball era or something. The Spalding book hasn't been a big deal since like the 20's.
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  16. OleMissCub
    he pitched the longest perfect game in history. He retired 28 straight.
  17. OleMissCub
    haha, the Michigan governor just issued a proclamation declaring that Galarraga threw a perfect game
  18. OleMissCub
    from Peter King's twitter
  19. OleMissCub
    exactly. Look, if a team is being "perfect gamed" with 2 outs in the 9th, then they are defeated and deserve to lose. Any questionable call needs to go to the pitcher's team. I know that umps are supposed to be completely unbiased, but they know what is going on in the game 99% of the time.
  20. OleMissCub
    It sure looked like Joyce knew he effed up. He took a like of crap from Cabrera during that last AB, too. ya that seemed like one of those situations where you take one for the pitcher and get tossed bitching at the ump. I think that may have been what Miggy was trying to do because he was certainly giving him a solid stream of griping.
  21. OleMissCub
    ahem....Tulo at 2nd...ya right
  22. OleMissCub
    Which is why I said "I believe" it was from the book. If it isn't from that book then it is probably from Ken Burns' Baseball
  23. OleMissCub
    It's not like Erik made that up. I believe he's paraphrasing a story from "Crazy 08". That said, it's highly suspect that any ballplayer would have actually taken up such an impromptu proposition, especially for that little (MLB players averaged $2,500 a year in 1908). The only dollar amount that I know of from back in that era where someone was actually paid to throw a game (other than the Black Sox) was $50, which was paid to a Reds pitcher in 1918.
  24. OleMissCub
    Complete game shutout. 10-1, 0.78 now
  25. OleMissCub
    my god, this is just sad
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