OleMissCub

These are some OUTSTANDING photographs:

Come to think of it, Carl Mays, the pitcher who killed Ray Chapman in 1920, threw submarine: http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/9610/carlmays2vl7.gif note: That gif is in real time, not slow motion. That's actually how slow they threw back then. Chapman just had a really thin skull.

lol, do you know anything about the physics of pitch speed and pitch break??

Nonsense. This photo of Walter Johnson's pitching grips was taken literally 100 YEARS ago. http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/walterpitch.jpg That's a 4 seamer, slider, sinker, changeup, knuckleball, and curve.

Yes, because 100+mph fastballs and Marmol sliders are the norm nowadays. Some people have the ability to throw extreme heat but most don't and that applies to 2009 the same way it does to 1939. If there are gangly high schoolers with little training out there that can sometimes hit 95mph, I'd guarantee you that there were grown men who were professional athletes 60 years ago who could do the same. These guys faced a choice back then: get guys out at the big league level or grab your lunch pail and go back to the coal mines. I'm pretty sure they did their best to maximize their arm strength. The laws of physics and the human arm haven't changed in 60 years. Some pitchers today might be trained to have better mechanics, but that only accounts for so much. That works both ways. Teddy Ballgame and Willie Mays didn't have the access to the film of their upcoming pitchers either. Then answer it. As far as stats are concerned, I begin to look at stats legitimately that were posted AFTER the rules changes of 1903 such as when the foul-strike rule was adopted. and why not? Williams hit over .380 the same years Mays and Mantle were winning MVP's. They were still kicking butt when Pete Rose started making AS teams. Rose was still kicking butt when George Brett started making his AS teams. Brett was still kicking butt when Gwynn made his AS teams. Gwynn was kicking butt when ARod started making his teams. Do you think they'd all be mediocre players in today's game as well?

most cheap HR's of all time: Mel Ott. Lefty power hitter and Polo Grounds had a 258 foot right field fence.

definitely the latter

The Nats look like a bunch of confused high school players. This is the greatest thing ever.

The Sosa stuff didn't bother me so much as your temporal-centric point of view about players in the past...and you weren't talking about Cap Anson types who played 130 years ago, you were talking about Ted freaking Williams. Williams hit .388 in 1957 and Hank Aaron hit .322. In 1971 Aaron hit .327 and Pete Rose hit .301. In 1981 Rose hit .325 and Rickey Henderson hit .319. In 1990 Henderson hit .325 and Ken Griffey Jr hit .300. In 2005 Griffey hit .301 and Mark Teixeira hit .301. You see what I'm doing there? When do baseball players and their baseball talent become legit to you? 1995 or something? To think that an UNGODLY hitter 50 years ago would be some scrub today is completely stupid. Is Rickey Henderson legit in your mind? If so, then you have to say Pete Rose is legit because they both co-existed and were successful in the same season against the same competition. If Pete Rose is legit to you then Aaron must be legit. If Aaron is legit to you then Ted Williams should be legit. The basic elements of the game (to which real baseball talent applies) haven't changed all that much in 100 years. The talent pool is bigger and the players are obviously more athletic than they used to be, only a fool would deny that, but that principle applies to guys who played in 1985 just like it applies to those who played in 1915. So when do you stop being a snob toward players in the past? If Ted Williams was 30 years old playing in the game today he'd still be hitting the absolute piss out of the ball. Would he have a .400+ season like he did in 1941? Probably not, but I imagine he'd still be in the running for a batting title.

The Nats are hilarious.

That Bergen guy is bad, but check this fool out: John Gochnauer: .187/.258/.240, 46 OPS+ but amazingly his bat wasn't the worst part. In 134 games as the shortstop for Cleveland he made....wait for it....98 errors. The year before he made 48 errors.

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omg....the Nats are the Bad News Bears I haven't laughed out loud at a baseball game in a while. that was an awesome error.

There is no tailgating at Coors. But there are plenty of sports-type bars right outside the park. Coors is a really nice place to watch a game and there are always plenty of Cubs fans there when they come into town. Denver is a great town. You'll enjoy it.

don't you EVER defame my crazy kitty by putting sori in it.

LOL! that rules the world.

they'd have been like aaron boone and stuff if they played today. probably wouldn't even make it past like advanced A league or something. willie mays might have made it to AA, but even then, i totally don't know. those pitchers in the 50's who pitched against Mays only threw like 40 mph or something like that.

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I've got the sound turned down at work. Details? he said that if the nationals hitters had the cubs pitchers they'd be first in the NL East.

that was the best backhanded compliment i've ever heard. len rules

So are 2 of his sons shut out? No. Because he died without a will, his wife will get the same share as all of his children over whom paternity has been established will get. So it looks like his money will be split into 5 pieces.

he's just honoring this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAMl5guWVd4

has a sensitivity to the smell of sewage