Tom Seaver

[metirish]

I couldn't think of anything great for my Seaver post,I did find this funny though...from the Chicago Sun Times talking about Ripken

] Seaver won 311 games and three Cy Young Awards and finished with a 2.86 ERA. Great numbers, but not as impressive as Ripken's -- beginning with 2,632.

[Willets Point]

] Great numbers, but not as impressive as Ripken's -- beginning with 2,632.

Bull doody!

Congratulations Irish on achieving Seaverhood.

[seawolf17]

Am I the only person who just doesn't give a crap about the streak? Big whooping deal. That's only one piece of his legacy.

[Theoldmole]

I wonder who the first pitcher to challenge Ripken's streak will be?

And congrats Irish.

[Guest Edgy DC]

When Ripken finds an interesting picture of Manny Aybar, then I'll be impressed.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

="metirish"]

Hey! I also have a photo of Seaver with a dog!

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Congrats Irish

[soupcan]

'Zat a Chocolate Lab?

Looks a bit too hound-ish to me

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

And Seaver looks like he may have gotten a Kenny Rogers facelift.

[Willets Point]

Does Seaver have a Kenny Rogers brown patch on his hand too?

[stevejrogers]

seawolf17 wrote: Am I the only person who just doesn't give a crap about the streak? Big whooping deal. That's only one piece of his legacy.

I agree, its a part, but really, the man;

-Is one of the few with 3,000 hits and 400 hrs, with a good many of them at SS which is traditionally a weak hitting position, he is still clinging to the All Time HR mark as a SS (ARod is one behind) though I'm sure he's a ways behind Honus Wagner in the hit parade

-Speaking of which, he and Yount completely revolutionzed the way the SS is looked at. ARod and Jeter have professed their admiration of him, and he paved the way for the Nomars, and Tejadas of the world as well

The problem with "The Streak" is that it really overshadowed the greatness of one Henry Louis Gehrig because of the urban legend about it's start (Wally Pipp) and the fact that ALS caused it's end, which in turn was the end of Gehrig's career, period.) and so by default it became this part of baseball's mythos that when it came time for Cal to break it, it became something greater than the sport!

[Guest iramets]

I always thought it would have been the coolest thing if Cal had stayed out of the lineup just before he broke the streak, but run a marathon that day, or proved in some other way that he was physically capable of breaking Gehrig;s streak, but didnt want to. Imagine what kinds of rapturous praise he would have gotten if he did something like that.

[nymr83]

personally i was a happy to see any record held by a yankee fall.

[Guest cooby]

Nice pictures, metirish

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Nymr83 wrote: personally i was a happy to see any record held by a yankee fall.

Badass! (That's a compliment)


Cal is easily an all-time great, and I have nothing but respect and admiration for him and the class with which he played the game.

But he's no Tom Seaver!

HAIL SEAVER!