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1. Esoteric throws a 'hard slider' Posted: February 11, 2013 at 02:16 PM (#4367121)Came straight from Colin Farrell, claims he's tastin' her juice
Hear the one about Piazza, some say he must be gay
I try to argue, but they said if he was straight he wouldn't move that way
Hear the one about Smitty, some say he don't like pants
On the internet he's six feet tall, he sits there in a trance.
Stop (Stop) spreadin' Mike Crudale around
Stop (Stop) spreadin' Paul Kilgus
Here's his no-hitter.
Doesn't look like he had great command.
Zing
(Wonder if anyone ever used the phrase "D'Acquisto D'Acquired" in a headline announcing one of his transactions?)
one of the details that really stood out: he had no phone in his apt. when he was with the giants. that is so strange. times were different.
That was back when Chub Feeney's secretary was one of the two or three most powerful people in MLB.
Who was riding shotgun in D'Acquisto's car -- him or the secretary? Remember, kids: Friends don't let friends dangle modifiers.
Hey, I have no phone in my apartment either.
come to think of it, neither do i. but i did in 1976. if i didn't, my mom wouldn't have been able to call me to tell me to get out of her basement.
When healthy, D'Acquisto, as the old saying goes, could throw a strawberry through a locomotive. The difficulty was in hitting the locomotive.
He's just GOT to collect these in a book. Instabuy.
Well it's not helping him move, but that's a big step.
“Well, not in my house,” Rapp snapped.
“I didn’t know your name was Hilton,” I said, “Is your last name Hilton?”
That's just all kinds of awesome.
I didn't in 1976, when I was a 21-year-old college student. Anything to save a few bucks. Used to walk a few blocks to a pay phone in a reasonably quiet location for my weekly (collect) call to my parents.
Now there's managin'.
I'm pretty sure you didn't drive the 101. You drove Highway 1.
Rk Player BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB IP BB SO ERA ERA+ HR HBP BK WP Tm1 Mitch Williams 7.08 8.59 1.21 691.1 544 660 3.65 111 49 52 24 44 TEX-CHC-PHI-HOU-CAL-KCR
2 Tommy Byrne 6.85 5.06 0.74 1362.0 1037 766 4.11 97 98 85 4 28 NYY-TOT-SLB
3 John DAcquisto 6.28 6.93 1.10 779.2 544 600 4.56 80 52 19 5 56 SFG-TOT-SDP-CAL-OAK
4 Mark Clear 6.20 9.00 1.45 804.1 554 804 3.85 109 60 35 8 49 BOS-MIL-CAL
5 Rex Barney 6.17 5.06 0.82 597.2 410 336 4.31 92 48 15 4 21 BRO
6 Carlos Marmol 6.03 11.73 1.94 514.2 345 671 3.38 129 39 46 6 28 CHC
7 Herb Score 6.01 8.78 1.46 858.1 573 837 3.36 118 79 7 2 55 CLE-CHW
(Gotta love Mitch...on top of the walks and WP, look at all the balks...lol)
Highest walk per 9 single season, minimum 100 IP.
Rk Player BB/9 IP SO/9 SO/BB Year Tm BB SO ERA ERA+ HR HBP GDP SB CS1 Tommy Byrne 9.40 143.2 4.45 0.47 1951 TOT 150 71 4.26 102 5 15 16 7 4
2 Bobby Witt 8.81 143.0 10.07 1.14 1987 TEX 140 160 4.91 91 10 3 10 44 2
3 John DAcquisto 8.66 106.0 4.50 0.52 1976 SFG 102 53 5.35 68 5 3 8 12 7
4 Mickey McDermott 8.58 130.0 6.65 0.77 1950 BOS 124 96 5.19 95 8 2 12 0 4
5 Tommy Byrne 8.22 196.0 5.92 0.72 1949 NYY 179 129 3.72 109 11 13 12 7 3
6 Bob Wiesler 8.20 123.0 3.59 0.44 1956 WSH 112 49 6.44 65 11 3 20 4 5
7 Bobby Witt 8.16 157.2 9.93 1.22 1986 TEX 143 174 5.48 79 18 3 6 46 4
8 Jesse Jefferson 7.96 115.1 5.54 0.70 1975 TOT 102 71 4.92 79 11 2 7 15 8
9 Roy Golden 7.81 148.2 4.90 0.63 1911 STL 129 81 5.02 67 6 5
10 Johnny Gray 7.80 105.0 4.37 0.56 1954 PHA 91 51 6.51 60 10 0 12 6 4
11 Mitch Williams 7.79 108.2 10.68 1.37 1987 TEX 94 129 3.23 139 9 7 8 6 11
12 Eric Plunk 7.63 120.1 7.33 0.96 1986 OAK 102 98 5.31 73 14 5 13 17 7
Can kinda see why Rigney was so grouchy. That would drive a manager nuts. Man amazing Bobby Witt managed to do as well as he did his first couple of years in Texas...not only did he walk the world, but everybody stole on him too. He managed to be a league avg starter the next 10 years though 1988-1997....95 ERA+, 181 IP per year, and a 105-112 record. Pretty nasty decline though.
But that's really just about it. Otherwise, his articles are absolutely stuffed with all sorts of fun, fascinating (and sometimes enlightening) anecdotes, and they really do take you to a place where typical sports journalism is usually incapable of going: inside the head of an actual veteran baseball player.
I would also buy this in book format, someone within the publishing industry, HINT HINT!
“Pheasant Run is the place to be,” Keith assured me in between beer sips, “Near U of M. A lot of stewardesses there. College girls, too.“
Stewardesses yes, but there's no U of M or college really near Pheasant Run. Bob Gibson lived there during the season, along with Hernandez and probably half the Cardinal team.
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