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05-07-2007, 12:16 AM
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Bo Jackson?
Why does Narron compare Hamilton to Bo Jackson? Jackson was a strikeout machine with poor BA, and his fielding skills were not nearly as refined as Josh's. I see a guy who can steal bases and hit 30HRs, but the comparison ends there...
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05-07-2007, 12:37 AM
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05-07-2007, 02:03 AM
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Re: Bo Jackson?
All about tools.
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05-07-2007, 02:53 AM
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Re: Bo Jackson?
Bo Jackson was a freak of nature. Maybe he's referencing Hamilton in that way.
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05-07-2007, 04:06 AM
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Re: Bo Jackson?
I think the sheer raw natural power. Buck O'Neill talked about Jackson in Ken Burns' series on baseball saying he'd only heard three players whose bats hitting a ball made a distinctive sound when the ball was going out - Babe Ruth, Josh Gibson & Bo Jackson.
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05-07-2007, 04:19 AM
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Re: Bo Jackson?
The thing about Bo is that we'll never really know how good he could have been. He was continuing to improve as a baseball player each year when he had the hip injury while playing for the Raiders. Sad...
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05-07-2007, 04:40 AM
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Re: Bo Jackson?
The thing about Jackson is he proved that you can't play two sports. He wore down every year as the season went on, and though he had great range because of his speed in the outfield he just didn't practice enough and made a zillion errors defensively. He never had phenomenal numbers, just decent ones.
If he hadn't played football, the talent was there to be one of the greatest ever in baseball, but football took a lot of it away, and eventually all of it.
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05-07-2007, 07:41 AM
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05-07-2007, 07:56 AM
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05-07-2007, 07:58 AM
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Re: Bo Jackson?
Bo knows diddly... and so does Redhook!
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05-07-2007, 08:02 AM
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If anything, he should've quit baseball to play football full-time. He was an unbelievable running back and a much, much better football player than baseball player. One of the top 5 running backs I've ever seen. If he was a full-time running back I think he would only be behind Brown, Peyton, and Sanders. He was that good.
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05-07-2007, 09:15 AM
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Re: Bo Jackson?
Actually, the comparison was athletically, not as a ballplayer.
"He can be as good as anybody in the game," said Narron, who compares Hamilton's athletic ability to that of Bo Jackson.
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05-07-2007, 10:23 AM
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I would agree with that. Bo was the first name that came to mind once I saw Hamilton with my own two eyes. You can literally see that they are another plane athletically and for me at least thats quite a draw. When a player like that comes along, they just jump off the screen at you and you can't take your eyes off them. The Freel's and Ecksteins of the world just don't have the same entertainment value, even though they are obviously worthy of admiration. BTW how does one come to the conclusion that Bo showed you can't play both sports? He was an All Star in both, what else did he have to do to prove it? Bo Jackson did show how lame others attempt(cough*Dieon*cough) to play both sports was, I'll give you that. |
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05-07-2007, 03:00 PM
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I agree with everything but that he proved that you can't play two sports. Instead of being great or "one of the greatest" at one of them, he was only good, sometimes very good at both. He would have been great at whichever sport he would have chosen.
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05-07-2007, 03:05 PM
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Very easily. He was an All-Star only once. There's nothing great or even very good about that. When you look at his splits over his career, he steadily declines as each season wears on. He committed more errors than Jose Canseco.
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