rings and mOney
It's funny how some players who betray whatever colors they may have to play for Yankees -- and tap down a few extra million in process -- get to parade through Canyon of Heroes and before drunken horde...
Image via Sports Illustrated
While others must be content to sit and count their stash.
Come again all you baseball sophisticates and explain again to Wayward O how it's all just business.
Image via Sports Illustrated
While others must be content to sit and count their stash.
Come again all you baseball sophisticates and explain again to Wayward O how it's all just business.
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posted by the wayward o at
11:41 AM
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And, because of it, Mike will be a near-miss for the HOF. It could have been so different -- If Rafael Palmeiro had gotten good wood on just one of those RISP chances in the '97 ALCS, well, I won't belabor the point. But the fulcrum of baseball history shifted against the Os that week and they have yet to recover from it.
The resurgence of pitching in 2009, in my opinion, is a result of MLB cleaning out it's system. there were no 50 home run hitters this year.
Mike Mussina played in an era when steroid used was the norm. If one could remove that thin veil of secrecy, and I bet you would find that on any given day 4 (maybe 5) guys in every line up he faced were using, just enough to tip the scales against him. If Mike Mussina were pitching in 2009, I think a different outcome would be evident.
He was a brilliant location pitcher, and mastered the art of changing speeds. His move to first was nearly undetectable. When Mike Mussina was on the hill, you knew your club had a better than average chance of winning the game.
And then there were those 1:05 Sunday starts, you know the ones, against the the Twins or the Angels, or the Yankees or the Blue Jays when he just was not hitting those spots, and the Hulking hitters were sitting on the hanging curve ball. And balls that could have been SHOULD have been outs were "wall scrapers" for home runs.
Mike is, for sure counting his money, and the lack of a ring and his likely exclusion from Cooperstown will haunt him always, He would look around the club house at the Bobby Bonillas and Raphael Palmeiro's and Brady Anderson's and wonder......
but for the 'roids.
And, to rub salt in Angelos' wounds, Davey Johnson is on the HOF ballot.
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