Davis is 6'6 and can hit 96 and has a big curveball so I can see why some people like him, but something obviously hasn't added up

Although you could say all that about PELF at one point (sans curveball). And I'm sure some people thought he could be really good too at one point

Or he's hoping he can dangle waving the NTC to get an extension if traded.

WheelsFellOff wrote:Or he's hoping he can dangle waving the NTC to get an extension if traded.

That's a better explanation than my first instinct, that he doesn't want to be traded.

Not saying that's the case. Not my place to know what's in a man's heart.

It's funny how when we didn't have ESPN and the internet, stories sometimes weren't well known like they are today. I didn't remember this tragic story regarding Tony Horton in 1970:

The end of Horton's playing career came unexpectedly on August 28, after he took himself out in the fifth inning of the second game of a doubleheader against the California Angels. A batting slump and constant booing from the Indians fans led to such emotional distress that Horton would attempt suicide that evening.[1][2] He would receive treatment and recover, but the stress of professional baseball forced him to leave the game prematurely; he had played his last game three months shy of his 26th birthday. His manager, Alvin Dark, in his book When in Doubt, Fire the Manager, would call Horton’s sudden exit “the most sorrowful incident I was ever involved in, in my baseball career.”

In his very short career, Horton batted .268 with 76 home runs and 297 RBIs in 636 games played. His early exit from the game has often been tied to Indian lore with the Curse of Rocky Colavito.

As part of their 40th anniversary season, the Rangers will be wearing 4 different throwbacks...the home and powder blues from the 70s/early 80s, the Nolan Ryan late 80s ones, and the Pudge/Juan Gonzalez mid 90s red ones

Some GAYLORD PERRY lookin shit there

looks like peck in the middle

gonna start calling this year my 30th anniversary season

?

def peck sighting

might be cause it's always joked that you look like the young conlin pic and the guy in the middle looks like a fuzzy young conlin

possibly imagining all this

BigEd76 wrote:As part of their 40th anniversary season, the Rangers will be wearing 4 different throwbacks...the home and powder blues from the 70s/early 80s, the Nolan Ryan late 80s ones, and the Pudge/Juan Gonzalez mid 90s red ones

Remember when "throwback uniform" either meant that (a) the jersey came from the early 1900s or (b) the jersey looked good?

dude how much fucking longer do we have to put up with derek holland's shitty mustache?

So anyways, while I await the wife's arrival from work so we can act a little Christmassy, I'm watching this Ken Burns' Baseball documentary from '94.

And they just showed the 1960 Mazeroski home run at Forbes Field. The thing that's amazing was it was hit to LF but the wall there was more than 400 feet away. And the wall was really high too. In fact, here are the dimensions in 1960:

Left Field: 365 feet
Left-Center Field: 406 feet
Deepest Part of the Park; Left-Center: 457 feet
Center Field: 435 feet
Right-Center Field: 408 feet
Right Field: 300 feet

That got me to thinking about Ralph Kiner. This guy led the league in home runs for seven straight years from 1946-1952. He was only 30 by then and he was traded to the Cubs early in the season. He hit 35 dingers in '53 and didn't lead the league. And then he was done by age 32. If I remember right, he had a really bad back.

I always though it was quite an accomplishment for Kiner to hit so many homers in that place. I did some PTK research and learned that the Pirates had changed the dimensions to a more normal 336 down the line and 376 in the power alleys for Hank Greenberg and kept them there for Kiner. After they traded him, they restored the dimensions to the gigantic pasture it had been before.

Buster Olney Blog (ESPN Insider) wrote:If you want to start a fight the day after Christmas, just ask this question: What are the best rotations in the majors?

I asked that question on Twitter this morning, and given the passion built into the answers, you would've thought the question was about Democrats and Republicans, or the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement.

With just about all the best starting pitchers off the board -- Edwin Jackson is still out there, like the best thing on the shelf at the mall the day after Christmas -- we can make a fair assessment about how the Nationals' acquisition of Gio Gonzalez changes Washington, or how C.J. Wilson could augment the Angels. So here they are, the 10 best rotations in baseball:

anybody know if the Phillies made the top 10?

If the Nats end up signing Fielder I'm legitimately concerned about our hold on the #2 spot in the 3rd order standings

Warszawa wrote:

Buster Olney Blog (ESPN Insider) wrote:If you want to start a fight the day after Christmas, just ask this question: What are the best rotations in the majors?

I asked that question on Twitter this morning, and given the passion built into the answers, you would've thought the question was about Democrats and Republicans, or the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement.

With just about all the best starting pitchers off the board -- Edwin Jackson is still out there, like the best thing on the shelf at the mall the day after Christmas -- we can make a fair assessment about how the Nationals' acquisition of Gio Gonzalez changes Washington, or how C.J. Wilson could augment the Angels. So here they are, the 10 best rotations in baseball:

anybody know if the Phillies made the top 10?

It's Trollney so we'd not be #1 I would think.

Atl has us beat in terms of 6th/7th emergency call up from A+

Soren wrote:Atl has us beat in terms of 6th/7th emergency call up from A+

He'll be saddened at the lack of the best #9 starter though.

Warszawa wrote:

Buster Olney Blog (ESPN Insider) wrote:If you want to start a fight the day after Christmas, just ask this question: What are the best rotations in the majors?

I asked that question on Twitter this morning, and given the passion built into the answers, you would've thought the question was about Democrats and Republicans, or the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement.

With just about all the best starting pitchers off the board -- Edwin Jackson is still out there, like the best thing on the shelf at the mall the day after Christmas -- we can make a fair assessment about how the Nationals' acquisition of Gio Gonzalez changes Washington, or how C.J. Wilson could augment the Angels. So here they are, the 10 best rotations in baseball:

anybody know if the Phillies made the top 10?

We're #1! It's a Kwanzaa miracle!

1. Philadelphia Phillies

The Phillies lived up to the hype in 2011, leading the majors in starters' ERA by a little less than half a run. Roy Halladay is going to the Hall of Fame regardless of whether he throws another pitch, Cliff Lee was intermittently the most dominant pitcher in the majors during parts of the 2011 season, and Cole Hamels is exceptional and will be on a mission next season, as he prepares for free agency. When Roy Oswalt had back trouble, Vance Worley stepped in and held opponents to a .666 OPS (as a starting pitcher).

Atlanta checked in at #10a so Buster could find a way to sneak 11 teams into his own top 10.