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I'm all for eliminating the balk rule. The reason Reyes didn't get away with what he did was that he actually caught the ball before he dropped it--it was definitely in his glove, so the batter was out and the force was eliminated before the ball touched the ground. If he had found a way to let the ball bounce off his glove, it would probably have worked.
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Damn. Nice work. Nick Altrock was a pitcher, not an outfielder. Before he became a professional baseball clown, that is.
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Frayed Knot wrote: ="dinosaur jesus"]I do believe that Mazzilli could throw every bit as well with his left as with his right. So can my grandmother. He never did do it in an official game, though. Did your grandmother? Old Granny Hamner? No. She was dying to, but they wouldn't let her.
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I believe it was the Japanese leagues that put up the barrier, which is perfectly understandable. They didn't want to lose their most popular players. And still don't, so far as they can help it. The first Japanese player in the major leagues was Masanori Murakami in the 60's, who signed with the Giants when he was 19 years old, before a Japanese team grabbed him. He pitched for a couple of years and was very impressive, then went back to Japan and had a long career. I think a better comparison than the Negro leagues would the high minor leagues at the turn of the century into the 30's. The overall level of play was lower than in the majors, but some of the best players in the game were held there by contract. Ruth would have been a legend if he'd never left the old Orioles, but he wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame. The same with Dimaggio and the Seals.
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I do believe that Mazzilli could throw every bit as well with his left as with his right. So can my grandmother. He never did do it in an official game, though.
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I do have one for you: Greg Harris, the switch-hitting switch-pitcher.
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I don't know, but add Koufax and Koosman to the lefty throwers, righty hitters. And probably a lot of other lefthanded pitchers who figured they weren't going to hit much anyway, so they might as well protect their pitching hand.
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IGT Game 7 NLCS Cardinals vs Mets Shea Stadium
dinosaur jesus replied to stevejrogers's topic in Archived Game Threads
Endy Chavez is stronger than dirt. -
IGT Game 7 NLCS Cardinals vs Mets Shea Stadium
dinosaur jesus replied to stevejrogers's topic in Archived Game Threads
Perez is firing. Who is this guy? -
IGT Game 7 NLCS Cardinals vs Mets Shea Stadium
dinosaur jesus replied to stevejrogers's topic in Archived Game Threads
I haven't been this nervous since, uh, yesterday. -
Everybody but Maine is available tonight. How about one inning for each of them, and save Trachsel for extras.
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Say it with me everyone....this time with glee
dinosaur jesus replied to a topic in New York Mets Talk
Wagner! Sorry. Go get 'em tonight, Billy. -
The fate of Steve Trachsel? If he pitches again like he did last time, defenestration.
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Don't knock Orber Moreno.
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Edgy DC wrote: giving Leiter his first start since 5/15/05 just strikes me as a desperate move that sends a message of desperation to the team. That really does sound like desperation. Did they sneak Alois onto the roster?
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This is way too close, both in time and, for a lot of people here, distance. There's nothing hypocritical about not finding it funny.
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Actually, he had pretty good control. Sorry to be so literal.
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Another almost is Bobby Ojeda.
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If you allow fewer men on, you have fewer jams. But if someone who gets into more jams is better at getting out of them, and someone who has fewer isn't as good as getting out of them, that does seem to come to the same thing. It's all pretty circular.
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I'd say that you might be quite right about what Ryan and Glavine would do in the same situation, and about when it would be best to use each of them. But it would also be true about a lot of other pitchers who fit their profile.It is interesting about Carlton, though. I don't remember him well enough to say, but is it possible that depending on the situation, he could be a completely different kind of pitcher? The way Pedro is when he's rolling--he'll go three times through the order sometimes and get the hitters out a different way each time.
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I don't buy it. Wouldn't you think the fact that the pitchers who give up fewer runs than their peripheral numbers would indicate tend to be high-hit, low-walk, low-strikeout guys, and the ones who give up more tend to be power pitchers, suggest that there's something in those styles of pitching--not in the pitchers' "clutchness"--that's making that happen? Also, it seems to me that with runners on, it's normal for on base percentage to go and and slugging percentage to go down. It doesn't mean anything to look just at Glavine's numbers. I think all of this is just a way of saying that over his career, Tom Glavine has been a really good pitcher who did it without overpowering stuff. But I think we all knew that.
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I spell Reyes R-E-Y-E-S. I don't think they need Jeter to do it. But it would be hilarious to make him switch positions.
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NLCS KTE - St. Louis Cardinals
dinosaur jesus replied to A Boy Named Seo's topic in New York Mets Talk
I was at one of those games in St. Louis in April 1986. Doc shut them out 9-0, Knight hit two homers. Fantastic. I lived in St. Louis from 1985 to 1987. It was a wonderful rivalry, and that 1985 season was the most memorable I've ever witnessed. It ended wrong, but all in all I loved it--in a way, even more than 1986. That series against the Cardinals at the end of 1985, when the Mets needed to sweep to tie it, and almost did, was amazing. -
ScarletKnight41 wrote: ="Johnny Dickshot"]I look at this headline and see Torre Caned. Like they'd do in Singapore. I thought I was the only one who read it like that. Jesus. I was going to say the same thing.
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RealityChuck wrote: It's all Torre's fault. After all, he was the one person on the roster who wasn't hitting. Well, no, he wasn't the only one.
