Whenever I say I will cheer for a team, they become cursed
please say you will cheer for the yankees
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MLB 2022
- Thread starter Gaolee
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please say you will cheer for the yankees
Can't do it!please say you will cheer for the ynakees
If you are going to give up a home run, it may as well be epic. I don't recall who it was who hit one off Randy Johnson in the old Kingdome, but the hitter was a dead fastball hitter with a whole lot of power, and of course Randy Johnson threw smoke to beat smoke. As I recall, it was the only home run to make it all the way to the back wall of that building. Randy Johnson was amused by it as much as anything. Heat meets heat going the other way, so all that energy got turned right around.
I can't cheer for the Yankees or the Astros. I'm rooting for an NL World Series champ this season.
Root for the Padres, they are all that San Diego has left.
cool story! i witnessed will clark (remember him?) 's first a.b. ... it was a pinch-hit appearance against nolan ryan in the astrodome. clark planted a fastball into the right field seats far, far away ... we knew right then he was gonna amount to something.
and then there's pujol's blast against lidge. ooof. almost ended lidge's career.
and then ... there was the promotional windshield shade giveaway day game at the astrodome ... one side of the shade had an astros logo and the other, an emergency message. they put in kerfeld, 1st post-surgery appearance, in for the 9th of a long-lost game. after a run scored, david parker (remember him?) planted a 3-run homer right about where will clark had. the folks in the stands started waving 'send emergency help!' signs all over the dome. it was majestically pathetic.
As a Cubs fan, I can cheer just the tiniest bit for the Yanks--strictly because of one Anthony Rizzo. At this point, the best outcome for this season would be a Schwarber/Rizzo World Series.please say you will cheer for the yankees
I wish there was a way for both of them to lose.
Tainted. At least of the steroid users of that era, he ultimately came clean about it all. Unlike the guy on the Giants who still lives in never never land.
Have y'all seen the 2015 documentary Fastball? I've watched it three times now. I love it.
Watching those old timers talking about various pitchers they faced is a treat.
Nolan Ryan threw 235 pitches in one game and often hit 150-75 per game. My word, I forgot about that. Whitey Herzog said he was his own closer, ahahaha. Can you imagine asking a pitcher to stay in a game that long today?
Then I forgot his last game was in the Kingdome. I was at that game. I remember it now.
-Mike
Watching those old timers talking about various pitchers they faced is a treat.
Nolan Ryan threw 235 pitches in one game and often hit 150-75 per game. My word, I forgot about that. Whitey Herzog said he was his own closer, ahahaha. Can you imagine asking a pitcher to stay in a game that long today?
Then I forgot his last game was in the Kingdome. I was at that game. I remember it now.
-Mike
I was at that game with my son. I don't remember the exact year, but I do remember that he didn't pitch all that well in that game. Amazing that we were both there. I had forgotten until you mentioned it.
Dave Niehaus going nuts, like he always did, too. I had forgotten that it was the steroid freak who hit it. That was one I didn't see happen.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
The biggest difference is that pitchers today throw every pitch with 100% force. Back in the day, they didn't - they weren't trying to strike everyone out, and would save their arms for the most important pitches. The last pitcher who really did that was Bartolo Colon. He gave up his share of hits and home runs, but every home run seemed to come with the bases empty, and most of the hits without a runner in scoring position. What does that tell you?
Check out how many pitchers today are having at least one Tommy John surgery, and still coming back to throw. Back before that technique, every single one of those pitchers would have had to retire from the injury.
That's awesome. In my case, the roles were reversed. I was the son and went with my father.
I remember my pop telling me it was probably the last chance we'd ever get to see Nolan pitch in person so we needed to go.
-Mike
Have you watched that documentary? Those guys back then weren't holding anything back. I actually think it's quite the opposite today, guys are holding back to protect their arms/shoulders/etc. They don't make baseball players like they used to.
Sure, I'm speaking in generalities for the sake of the conversation. I'm not meaning to say every MLB pitcher today is not throwing 100% every pitch or that every MLB pitcher back in the day did throw 100% every single pitch. I do believe, generally speaking, pitchers don't throw as hard as often today as they did in the past. It's not so much a complaint, but I do think guys hold back these days for reasons of self preservation.
-Mike
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Not for self-preservation, but because they were expected to pitch 9 innings. Nowadays, it's throw as hard as you can, and maybe get to 100 pitches if you are considered rubberarmed.
I'm not saying they were doing it consciously, but there is a different attitude when you are trying to get a ground ball, versus strike outs. Go back to Ryan's heyday, and hitting the 90s meant you were a flamethrower. Lots of major leaguers couldn't break 90. Today, even some high schoolers are. A lot of MLB pitchers today have changeups in the 90s.
