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remind me to wear a cup if I ever handle snakes. Then again, I would have a cool story..."I lost the left one to a desert rattler in Pheonix, the other one has been to scared to come down ever since"

I was thinking that is what it had to be.

You mean ducking under my desk won't save me if my school is in a nuclear blast zone?

If what I hear is correct, no pitcher was ever as dominating as Koufax was in his prime. So if we are doing this based on who had the best ability to pitch, Koufax. But hell, if you base this list on what someone does when they are at their best then you would have people saying Ron Guidry or Mark Fydrich are the best of all time. If the question is who had the best career, I say Young or Johnson. I have always been a big Nolan Ryan fan. When I was young the name Nolan Ryan was connnected with greatest pitcher ever in my mind. As I started reading and just learning about othe pitchers I learned that Ryan was not the greatest pitcher ever, but possibly the ballsiest. Ryan didn't care about walks, he just didn't want to give up a hit, on a 3-0 or 3-1 count Ryan would fire in a curve ball. simply amazing, not to mention the fact the guy threw 100+ mph. Had Ryan played on better teams he would have won 400 games IMO. But he got his ring in '69. There are a lot of guys who probably deserve to be considered, but it would be impossible to make a long enough list. Pedro, Randy, and Maddux are just as dominating as Roger, their careers have just been shorter. Tom Seaver is also one guy who probably deserves more credit than he gets. As does Gaylord Perry, even if he threw spitballs, it still takes a hell of a pitcher to win 300 games.

Congrats to those two! Can someone here tell me whats up with B-Mac's ERA? He has a low WHIP, and seems to have good numbers across the board, yet his ERA is surprisingly high. This especially surprises me because usually there is a correlation between high whip and high era, but B-Mac has a very low whip, and a very average ERA. Is this just a case of bad luck, or is he one of those pitchers who has had one or two absolutely horrible games that inflate the ERA?

ESPN Page 2 Writer Ralph Wiley Dead at age 52 That is a scary way to die. RIP

In all of our Reagan discussions, I don't remember the terrible pollution of the 80's being brought up.

I don't see his face coming out well on rock. I agree for the most part, but I think the transition in Russia oculd have been smoother. There was a good article in National Geographic a year or two ago that showed the positive aspects and negative aspects of life in Russia now. It showed both a struggling economy, and a large number of people who want to see communism restore the glory to the mother russia. I often think of the older people who were no longer working and lived off the state. They really got screwed when communism fell.

I agree that Bush foreign policy has sucked. The word diplomacy seemingly does not fit into his vocabulary. I fear that a second term may bring this country to war with North Korea, Yemen, or some other country in the 'axis of evil'. There has also been some rumblings about a mandatory military service. There is a good chance I will be in the NROTC anyway, so mandatory service doesn't affect me, however I am against the idea. On one hand, I don't like Bush's use of 21st century brinkmanship (for lack of a better term), but on the other hand, the military has a bad habit of declining when a democrat is in office. Oh God damn these political quagmires

I agree...but I think I am surprised these people didn't question this man when he asked to take the teenage daughters as wives.

What happened to the fox? I got its autograph once.

Scott Elarton: 0-6; 9.71 ERA; BAA: 3.16 I remember when he was supposed to be the second coming down in Houston. Now he makes Brian Anderson look like Sandy Koufax. If Elarton didn't throw as hard as he does he would not get this many chances.

That guy is an asshole.

Only 1 smiley can display how I feel about this game:

Damn you furcal

Big Frank is having a nice year.

What is the record, 56?

RIBS...f*** YES!

big oppurtunity for ribs

gwerty, the girl in your avatar resembles that woman that got punk'd on "My big, fat, obnoxious fiance"

I think the police forgot to put the height chart behind crede when they took this photo that is a mug shot smile

Timonial Perez sporting a robust .241 average

Valentin, Paulie, and Timonial are due up

Julio Franco is as old as Bobby Cox

thanks, I'll give it a shot