Friday, May 24, 2013
MLB: Don Sutton never shy about voicing his opinion
(mlb.mlb.com)
Sutton: Because that’s where the defaced money is.
Read More...The outspoken Sutton—who came up with the Dodgers in 1966 and pitched with them for 16 of his 23 seasons—has his own opinion about everything.
He said in an interview last week that he hates pitch counts.
“I say it with a laugh in my voice when I broadcast: ‘That’s 100 pitches. On the next one, he’s going to turn into a troll.’ At 101, you just disappear. Poof, you’re gone,” Sutton said.
...MLB.com: Did you cheat?
Sutton: No, I never got ...
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1 2 >Good thing Darren Daulton and Lenny Dykstra, Luis Gonzalez and Matt Williams, and David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez had nothing to do with Schilling's 11-2 postseason record.
Judging by his physique, he never would have passed the more stringent tests the Sox run today for fried chicken and Beer.
Hes only a top 30 alltime pitcher on career regular season value, so apparently he needs his post season accomplishments bring him up to "borderline".
Schilling was a .500 pitcher until age 30, when he had that "conversation" with Roger Clemens. Coincidence? Do we really think someone who'd have performance enhancing surgery -- putting a dead man's tissue in his own body -- would have any qualms about taking a few shots for the good of the team? Just asking, you know.
pretty sorry murray chass impersonation. you can do better
Schilling's HoF case is going to be as disproportionately about his postseason accomplishments as just about any candidate we've seen. The sportswriters' approach to Curt is going to make Jack Morris look like he took Game Seven off because there was something good on TV that night.
Leave everything else alone but give Schilling a postseason W-L record of 7-6, or 8-5, or 6-7? I think he gets David Coned in his first and last ballot, especially amid the upcoming tumult.
It was a Curt Schilling impression.
Unlike Morris, Schilling is pretty clearly a viable HOF candidate, definite borderline candidate that deserves a discussion, unlike Morris.
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Please god, won't somebody make it stop.
As a pitcher he merits close inspection and perhaps HoF membership.
As a commentator/analyst on MLB network many of his comments are couched in a manner as to shine a bright light on himself.
Self-serving might be too strong a statement but something just doesn't ring true for me on this guy.
Too strong? Every time he speaks, I want to check that I still have my wallet and take a shower.
And he's famous!
What is the evidence on Clemens and Sosa? As far as I can tell, neither has any solid evidence as far as use.
What is the evidence on Clemens and Sosa? As far as I can tell, neither has any solid evidence as far as use.
Good question. Maybe JPR can provide us with some of his inside information.
He's also an ex-teammate of Brady Anderson! How deep does the rabbit hole go?
I obviously don't know the man but I'd like to see some evidence for his being a good guy.
The whole argument of "good" and "bad" guys with famous people is absurd. We don't know them. Just as we should get more evidence that someone is bad, we should expect evidence that someone is good. Given that we can't really know, it should be ignored. I don't care how good or bad someone is - how much did they do for the game of baseball. If you think PEDs disqualifying, fine. But don't come preaching that some guy you don't know is a good guy so we should accept what he says.
I realize that, but still, that's getting up there towards truly elite rate stat company.
And thanks to his fat mouth and the obscuring stir the steroid candidates make, he won't get in for some 10 years.
*Everyone above him will be, is or should be in the HOF
In court in 1981, Pete Rose testified under oath that he didn't know what a greenie was, two years after having done an interview with Playboy where he discussed having taken greenies. Testifying to Congress in 2005, Bud Selig testified that he'd personally taken executive steps to combat steroids in baseball, several years before the date that he'd previously told the press he first learned about steroids in baseball.
Steroid use was a continuation of the baseball culture, not an affront to it. It's terrific that steps have finally been taken to reduce, obstruct and punish PED use, but retroactive moralistic bullshit is exactly that: retroactive moralistic bullshit. Which won't stop heaps and heaps of it from being served up for decades to come.
And if the BBWAA ever experiences twinges of pain or whiplash from suddenly pivoting from gang-attacking Steve Wilstein to gang-attacking Mark McGwire, I hear there are some great synthetic drugs for that.
Well, let's be fair. There's evidence against Clemens. His personal trainer testifying against him and providing waste products is certainly evidence. It's just that the evidence is not credible, since the personal trainer has zero credibility.
But Clemens is not Sosa.
Bunyons pitch for ALS just doesn't have the same ring does it?
It isn't hard to do things that make you look like a good guy if you're trying. But history is full of guys who looked to be "good guys" who turned out to be world class scumbags.
While playing in the greatest K/9 and K:BB era ever...
And if you can conclusively prove that, you've really had a lot of time on your hands the past several years. Not to mention a remarkable sense of clairvoyance.
Good luck with that. I've given up on saying anything when idiots needlessly type "going forward" just because they like the way the keyboard strokes evidently make their nether parts tingle (&/or make themselves feel, I suppose, remotely intelligent); "at the end of the day" is just as bad, of course, if not worse, but it's not going away, either.
That's always seemed relatively obvious to me. And, of course, it wasn't just MLB that was complicit, but the individual teams, the non-juicing players, the media and the fans.
Then again this is the same media that always seems shocked in print whenever it is uncovered that a famous athlete has been cheating on their wife, lover etc.
Even taking PED's/steroids/whatever out of the picture, I always find it funny how little Sosa's corked bat gets mentioned. Yeah, he "just happened to grab a batting practice bat he used to impress the fans with." That's really believable. And I'm sure it just happened that one time. Coincidentally, that one time he happened to get caught...
Says the man who apparently believes in linear time as a real thing, rather than just a perceptual artifact.
Technically, it IS the end of the day. It's dark outside and everything.
My favorite recent NYer cartoon.
While I don't have the Giclee print, I do have it on my refrigerator.
Christ, what an #######.
Score another one for that theory.
I'm a long time subscriber to the New Yorker and quite often I identify with idiotman, like the time I convince myself back in 2000 that George W would make a better president than Al Gore.
Every player, at every second, thought of PED-use as cheating.
I don't know if I would go quite this far (Jose Canseco, for example, might be the exception that proves the rule), but I don't see how anyone could argue this point. Nobody else openly talked about their steroid usage during their playing career, despite numerous stories every year about what players did to get in the best shape of their lives, etc. Pretty much everyone, when accused of steroid usage, denied it.
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