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Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:26 am
I've Participated in two e-mail drafts.
Here's when you know you've made a bad pick-
After picking a player you hit 'reply all' and send out the pick. The E-mail comes back with a 'E-mail failure notice'. When resending the e-mail, you get another notice that says, 'Failure was not your e-mail, it's the pick'.
It must be December-
Jake Peavy and Brandon Webb are throwing well.
Andy Pettitte is leaning towards retirement....
I just got my new decoder ring in the mail, after looking at the sentence with my decoder, it now reads-
'Andy Pettitte's grip on the Yankees nads can be released for 15 million bucks'.
I find Pettitte's signing or retiring intriguing. Like Jeter, he is worth far more to the Yankees than any other organization. That first contract offer by the Yankees had better not miss by much. The Yankees need him far more than he needs the Yankees.
Every year Pettitte has pitched for the Yankees (13), he has won double digit games, twice winning 21 games.
He has 240 wins over his career. It would not hurt his Hall of Fame chances to move that figure up a bit.
(Please, no steroid responses, we all know)
Speaking of steroids, Rafael Palmeiro is up for consideration this year. Announcement of the Hall of Fame voting is January 5. Palmeiro will be a much stronger steroid contender than Mark McGwire. Palmeiro had over 3,000 hits and over 550 home runs, along with a .288 average.
Whatever Palmeiro did on the field, will be dwarfed by his emphatic finger pointing denial at the steroid hearings. If denied access to the Hall of Fame, voters are sending a clear message that 3,000 hits and 550 home runs are not enough for the Hall of Fame, if it is done by cheating.
Bonds, Sosa, and Clemens are up for the Hall of Fame in two years. THAT, will be an interesting vote.
This year, Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven will get voted in.
Keeping Alomar from being a first ballot Hall of Famer was a good punishment for spitting in the face of an umpire. Although, Ty Cobb would beat umpires, and spit in their faces routinely, it was a more accepted (believe it or not) practice back then.
"When I began playing, baseball was as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch"
-Ty Cobb
Bob Feller stated that Walter Johnson was the fastest pitcher he had ever seen. Johnson's film shows a very short windup, reminiscent of you and I playing catch in the backyard. A man throwing that hard with so little technique, amazing.
A note on both Cobb and Johnson-
The first time Johnson pitched against the Tigers, Ty Cobb was yelling to the Senators Manager about bringing in a country boy for a Man's sport. Cobb was held hitless that day.
Johnson would bear down on Cobb throughout his career, always remembering that first game vs. the Tigers.
Johnson, though, would let up on Cobb's teammate Sam Crawford, who had become a close friend of his. It perplexed and infuriated Cobb that Crawford could hit so well against Johnson, while he failed.
Cobb and Johnson, later, were part of the first group inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Here's when you know you've made a bad pick-
After picking a player you hit 'reply all' and send out the pick. The E-mail comes back with a 'E-mail failure notice'. When resending the e-mail, you get another notice that says, 'Failure was not your e-mail, it's the pick'.
It must be December-
Jake Peavy and Brandon Webb are throwing well.
Andy Pettitte is leaning towards retirement....
I just got my new decoder ring in the mail, after looking at the sentence with my decoder, it now reads-
'Andy Pettitte's grip on the Yankees nads can be released for 15 million bucks'.
I find Pettitte's signing or retiring intriguing. Like Jeter, he is worth far more to the Yankees than any other organization. That first contract offer by the Yankees had better not miss by much. The Yankees need him far more than he needs the Yankees.
Every year Pettitte has pitched for the Yankees (13), he has won double digit games, twice winning 21 games.
He has 240 wins over his career. It would not hurt his Hall of Fame chances to move that figure up a bit.
(Please, no steroid responses, we all know)
Speaking of steroids, Rafael Palmeiro is up for consideration this year. Announcement of the Hall of Fame voting is January 5. Palmeiro will be a much stronger steroid contender than Mark McGwire. Palmeiro had over 3,000 hits and over 550 home runs, along with a .288 average.
Whatever Palmeiro did on the field, will be dwarfed by his emphatic finger pointing denial at the steroid hearings. If denied access to the Hall of Fame, voters are sending a clear message that 3,000 hits and 550 home runs are not enough for the Hall of Fame, if it is done by cheating.
Bonds, Sosa, and Clemens are up for the Hall of Fame in two years. THAT, will be an interesting vote.
This year, Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven will get voted in.
Keeping Alomar from being a first ballot Hall of Famer was a good punishment for spitting in the face of an umpire. Although, Ty Cobb would beat umpires, and spit in their faces routinely, it was a more accepted (believe it or not) practice back then.
"When I began playing, baseball was as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch"
-Ty Cobb
Bob Feller stated that Walter Johnson was the fastest pitcher he had ever seen. Johnson's film shows a very short windup, reminiscent of you and I playing catch in the backyard. A man throwing that hard with so little technique, amazing.
A note on both Cobb and Johnson-
The first time Johnson pitched against the Tigers, Ty Cobb was yelling to the Senators Manager about bringing in a country boy for a Man's sport. Cobb was held hitless that day.
Johnson would bear down on Cobb throughout his career, always remembering that first game vs. the Tigers.
Johnson, though, would let up on Cobb's teammate Sam Crawford, who had become a close friend of his. It perplexed and infuriated Cobb that Crawford could hit so well against Johnson, while he failed.
Cobb and Johnson, later, were part of the first group inducted into the Hall of Fame.