OleMissCub

Bela is pissed off about the Chinese girl beating Sacramone even after the Chinese girl busted it on one of her landings.

That Deutsche gymnast is the stuff of nightmares. It's like when Chris Kattan played Kerri Strug.

Christ, the blondish kid in the background makes me lose it every time. There's so much to love in that image beyond just the black kid. There's the mouth agape blonde boy behind him, the darkheaded boy next to him screaming, and the little white fist pump going the whole time.

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got an AIM chat started for the game. PM me your screename if you want an invite.

I didn't know Bleeding Gums Murphy had a daughter. WRAP IT UP SWEETHEART!

Blackbeard for me.

Why would you put Clemente above Wagner??

and Aramis will be taking one if he ate that big bag of McDonalds like Dexter said.

nyet something you want to tell us about yourself? I was just messing with you. I don't even know who she is or what she looks like.

nyet

Of course a Brewer would strike out one of the greatest right handed hitters of all time with the game on the line.

KEMP YOU IDIOT!!

Christy Mathewson, the first real American sports superstar, was not only one of the greatest players ever, but one of the greatest people to ever play the game. In 551 games started, he was 378-188 with a 2.13 ERA 135 ERA+ 1.059 WHIP He put up what is still considered to be one of the greatest, if not THE greatest performance in baseball history during the 1905 World Series. Christy pitched 3 of the 5 games in the series and won all 3 of his starts, going 27 innings and allowing 0 ER. 3 World Series complete game shutouts. During WWI, he enlisted in the Army and served in the same unit as Branch Rickey and Ty Cobb. His career was effectively over because of gas inhalation while in France, and he died a few years later as a result. Mathewson is an important figure in the game because he was a virtuous superstar who came along when the game needed an image change. He came along at just the right time and did more to improve the reputation of the game than probably any other player in history. He was one of the first pitchers to approach their skill from a scientific standpoint, methodically studying opposing batter's and the physics of pitching itself. In fact, while in the hospital after he received his wounds, he used to pitch entire games in his head, pitch for pitch. As a pitcher, he threw a straight fastball with tremendous velocity, a sinker, a changeup, two different types of curveball, a pitch that was likely a slider, and he is generally given credit with introducing the fallaway, what is now known as a screwball. Basically every pitch that he could throw, he learned how to throw and used it effectively. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Mathewson_in_NY_uniform.jpg http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=22532&d=1176342273http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31114&d=1194047586 http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=25418&d=1182290914http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/4015/mattyfollowbc2.jpg Christy and Rube Waddell: http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=23572&d=1178394665 Matty and Walter Johnson: http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6660/mattytrainqw0.jpg Mathewson with Ty Cobb during WWI: http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/cobbmatty.jpg This is a haunting piece of artwork by Grant Smith about Mathewson's gas injury titled "Maybe I'll Never Die": http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_maybeNeverDie.jpg

I think it is imperative that we not forget that Neifury played for the Royals.

It matters on down the road for HOF voting purposes sometimes. For example, when advocating for Santo, most folks will point out that during the 1960's, he was top 10 in MVP voting four times. The only other players to do this during the decade were Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente, Al Kaline, Frank Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Pete Rose, Yaz, Brooks Robinson, & Harmon Killebrew. All of those are pretty obvious HOFers (except Rose of course).

What could he realistically have hoped for beyond 6 million dollars? That seems pretty dang good to me.

Great, that mugwump Fielder is coming up. Please popup or strike out fatboy.

Far as I'm concerned, if you are a HS player getting that kind of money, you better be an A-Rod or Griffey type talent and be good enough to go basically right into the MLB.

What the hell is going on? 6 milion + signing bonus'??? When did this happen? Is this the first year? The biggest MLB signing bonus' i'd ever heard of before today was like 3 million or something.

God in heaven....

awesomenesss

When does Phelps swim?

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