18 thoughts on “Open Sports Thread not involving the Passion”

  1. With Jason Giambi looking like Andre Agassi and Jeff Bagwell claiming “he can no longer lift heavy weights” and all the BALCO stuff? Sounds like steroids/HGH are no longer fashionable.
    We’re gonna see offensive numbers down in general. Good, I like pitching!

  2. spc67, aren’t the pitchers using too? I heard Pedro gained a lot of muscle mass at some point in the recent past – the winter before last, maybe?

  3. You want sports?
    YOU WANT SPORTS?
    The Stanford/Washington State basketball game that just ended is one of the most amazing games I’ve EVER seen.
    Stanford was losing, everything going against them, and they score 7 points in the last twenty odd seconds including a miracle 3 pointer at the buzzer. Unbelievable!!!!!!!!

  4. spc67, aren’t the pitchers using too?
    Good point.
    I heard Pedro gained a lot of muscle mass at some point in the recent past – the winter before last, maybe?
    Yes he did. But one has to work out hard to derive benfit from steroids. I can’t see Pete doing that.

  5. Anyway they should make Pedro pitch with heavy weights on his body, like Harrison Bergeron in the short story by Vonnegut. He’s just too good.

  6. Anyway they should make Pedro pitch with heavy weights on his body, like Harrison Bergeron in the short story by Vonnegut. He’s just too good.
    Anybody who quotes Harrison Bergeron (and his arch enemy Diana Moon Glampers) is ok with me!
    Pedro’s lack of stamina and general frailty keeps him from being one of the alltime greats IMO. But for seven innings 27-8 starts a year? Only a few are as good.

  7. I’m of the opinion he’s about the best pitcher ever. If he didn’t have to pitch four leave-more-than-he-has-on-the-field games against the Yankees per year he’d last longer. His ERA the last three years? 2.4, 2.3, 2.2. In 99, 23-4 with an ERA of 2.07. In 2000, an ERA of 1.74 for 200+ innings and a WHIP of 0.74. I repeat, an ERA of 1.74 for 200+ innings and a WHIP of 0.74. That’s just insane. Oh, I forgot the 0.167 BAA. Ron Guidry had one similar year 25 years ago – when the league ERA was more than a run lower.

  8. Ian Crocker set a world record in the 50m butterfly, unshaven and untapered. Crocker also lowered his American record in the 100-yard fly by 0.72 seconds, which is a huge jump at this level.
    Stanford nudges UCLA for Pac-10 women’s swimming title. Kalyn Keller wipes Janet Evans’ 14-year-old Pac-10 meet record off the board, and is within striking distance of the Pac-10 overall record. The extraordinary (as well as extraordinarily viewable) Natalie Coughlin of Cal-Berk seems to be off her stride, or just completely untapered.
    Despite the strength of Pac-10 women’s swimming, Auburn will surpass them in NCAAs. Auburn should also take the men’s nationals. Stanford, Auburn, Florida and Cal all have enormous depth and strength in both men’s and women’s swimming programs. That’s admirable, I think. But, unfortunately, not nearly as exciting to the mainstream as college football is.

  9. I’m of the opinion he’s about the best pitcher ever.
    Nah, the best pitcher ever category is limited to pitchers who can win big games all by themselves. Koufax throwing shutouts while pitching 300+ innings, Seaver, Grove etc.
    Pedro is Gale Sayers. The others I’ve mentioned are Jim Brown.

  10. Hey, bring Koufax in against today’s Yankees or Red Sox and let’s see how he does. It’s not Pedro’s fault his teammates have the attitude that “Pedro’s pitching today, automatic win, we can slack now”.
    Slart, what does “tapered” mean in this context?

  11. Taper is something that applies to swimming and track; dunno if it’s got other applications. It refers to the tapering-off of heavy workouts, usually placing more emphasis on sprints and not tearing muscle tissue in the week or so prior to an important meet. My senior year in HS I didn’t taper for Sectionals (most everyone else on my team did) but I did for State.

  12. Hey, bring Koufax in against today’s Yankees or Red Sox and let’s see how he does.
    With today’s free swingers? He’d probably give up 7-8 hits and 2 earned runs through seven innings…of course Mr. Koufax is in his 60’s now. 😉

  15. Spring training’s like, almost here, right?
    Spring training is definitely here, and through the magic of TiVo, I’ve seen all the nationally televised games to date. I’ll have a post up in the next day or two about them, and I’m working on a big honkin’ post about steroids in professional sports, too. Tie that in to privacy, and the War on (some) Drugs, and it’ll even be political. 🙂

  16. “Tie that in to privacy, and the War on (some) Drugs, and it’ll even be political. :)”
    I thought that a sports thread would smoke you out. 🙂
    Seriously, post how you like. We’re getting a nice spectrum (pardon the pun) going here; all we need is a science/tech person and it’ll almost be like our very own newspaper.

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