Just for the record, there is no way I'd offer to catch Vander Meer bare handed.
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Just for the record, there is no way I'd offer to catch Vander Meer bare handed.
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Since K's and Ernie Lombardi have entered the discussion. Lombardi only had 262 K's in 17 seasons. He only had three seasons when he K'd more than 20 times and his high was 25 in 1944 (his worst season) when he had 408 PA.s
All my posts are my opinion - just like yours are. If I forget to state it and you're too dense to see the obvious, look here!
Lombardi also had some great years for Brooklyn, giving them three HoF catchers (Campanella, Piazza, and Lombardi). If I were ranking all-time catching among organizations, Brooklyn/LA might be where I start.
Lombardi only played his rookie year with Brooklyn. He had a .752 OPS (OPS+ of 102) in 196 PA. The bulk of his non Reds career was with the NY Giants.
All my posts are my opinion - just like yours are. If I forget to state it and you're too dense to see the obvious, look here!
My entire baseball life, I thought Lombardi played half his career in Brooklyn, the other half in Cincy. My bad.
Were you one of the ruined the strikeout thread with "constant whining?" Or did you make a post just like this that said if you don't like it, stay out of it and don't ruin it? This isn't a trick question, I'm just making sure you've been consistent, because I can completely see your point... but want to make sure you supported the other thread in reverse as a consistent principal that people should stay out of stuff if they don't like it. After all, I saw quite a few people immediately jump in and criticize the strikeouts thread.
One thing you're missing about the Derek Jeter thread, Vin Scully thread, etc... those threads haven't been discussed over and over for two years. I'm not saying that justifies not being able to talk about it (I can't emphasize that enough). But it's one thing to talk about Derek Jeter for 2 days until the topic cycles off the front page and continually bumping a thread dedicated to a player's career for two years constantly after his leaving. And again, so I can emphasize this: I personally don't think it shouldn't be able to be talked about. But I definitely see how it would annoy people just as it annoyed people when the strikeout thread was up.
Guess what? A lot of stuff annoys a lot of people here. It's my experience that people come to the defense of stuff they like and complain about stuff they don't. It's nothing against you personal, because we're all guilty of it, but I would be willing to bet sometime at some point you've complained about some topic being discussed or something being said. Yes? We've all done it.
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