Comments on: Calling up the rookie from the Alaskan League

By: TheRealityBasedDave

TheRealityBasedDave — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:02:09 +0000

Bert would be in the hall of fame, if he didn’t play for sucky teams.
Check the stat page:
http://www.baseball-reference......be01.shtml
Look at the “similar pitchers” catergory near the bottom on the left. Eight of ten are already in the hall.

By: secularhuman

secularhuman — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:05:20 +0000

my response is baseballian: Clyde’s numbers and lefthandedness now would earn him a minimum 10-year stay in the major leagues and many tens of millions of worthless American dollars.
And as a historical note Charlie Finley did nearly exactly the same thing to Mike Morgan just a few years after Clyde’s debut and during Clyde’s flameout. He started Morgan straight out of a Las Vegas high school and after a solid debut for the Oakland A’s — before several thousands of extra fans — started Morgan against the same team in his second game, which defined both stupid baseball and Finley greed because you just don’t want to do that with any young pitcher who’s just come up, and he was “raked” as the baseball cognoscenti like to say. He was in the minors before long and it is to Morgan’s credit that he salvaged a relatively long-lived major league career, if a much more mediocre one than he might have had had he been nurtured instead of exploited.

By: ericl

ericl — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:44:56 +0000

TBogg:

Great Post. This is why I return again and again to your site. On point comentary, I learn something new, you make me laugh, and you have improved my horizions for new music (new to me)

Thanks agian.

Eric in Austin

By: EnfantTerrible

EnfantTerrible — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:12:53 +0000

Burt Blyleven started his first major league game at age 19, and went on to pitch for another 20+ years. He’s got *two* World Series rings on his fingers. Sometimes these teenage wonders work out.

Of course, Blyleven is smart - smarter than Clyde, Dalkoswki, Laloosh and Palin put together, which is pretty amazing for a ball player.

By: BillCinSD

BillCinSD — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:45:28 +0000

or Steve Dalkowski, the player on whom Nuke Laloosh is based. Million dollar arm (maybe the fastest throwing pitcher ever), not even a 10 cent head. In his minor league career he pitched 995 innings, striking out 1396 and walking 1354. He evidently doesn’t remember much since the 1960s due to alcohol induced dementia. In his first minor league year, Dalkowski had a game he lost 8-4 in which he struck out 24, walked 18, hit 4 batters and threw 6 wild pitches.

By: Ruthie

Ruthie — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:53:32 +0000

The problem is that even if McCain had the decency to harbor such fantasies of revenge, the religious right are too oblivious to see this. They’d vote for a trained chimp wearing a cross. (Come to think of it, they sorta did!) The people who would ultimately be screwed are the rest of us; because McCain forgot that the trained chimp’s handlers gave Diebold the contract for the voting machines.

By: boloboffin

boloboffin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:11:38 +0000

Deep back in my mind, I’m thinking that McCain has known all along that he was going to lose, and he’s determined to flame out and take the religious right with him. I see him grabbing them all in his hands and laughing maniacally, “I’ve survived five plane crashes — how many have you? BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!”

Just a little notion that keeps tugging at me…

By: paulbeard

paulbeard — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:58:25 +0000

I think this long piece at Making Light ties a lot of interesting tidbits together.

If only we had some kind of vehicle to verify and publicize this stuff. I’m thinking of something on an easily handled, inexpensive material, like paper, and you could print this stuff up and sell it, maybe have some advertising, some late night sports score, movie reviews. But the other stuff — call it “news” — on the paper thingie would have to well-researched, well-written, and in the public interest. Maybe they could do the same thing on TV or radio.

By: SnarkiChildOfLoki

SnarkiChildOfLoki — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:55:41 +0000

gordonsowner:

I thought you were going to end the story with:

The only difference between Sarah Palin and David Clyde: lipstick.

Unless lipstick was part of Clyde’s wild streak.

Isn’t lipstick on pitchers banned in baseball, along the same line as spitballs?

I, for one, am looking forward to a VP that really has hunting skill and experience. They won’t be shooting lawyers in the face by accident, that’s for sure. AND field-dress them afterwards. When is her hunting date with Fat Tony, by the way?

By: mmmHobNobs

mmmHobNobs — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:42:51 +0000

You can look it up.

… and now I have an irresistable urge to watch bull durham … if only for the quote “you couldn’t hit water if you fell out of a fucking boat”

thanks T!