Posted on 02/15/2005 4:01:21 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
I'd place Nettles between Robinson and Schmidt as far as glove play is concerned (his performance in the '78 WS was legendary), but obviously at the bottom of that (short) list in overall play.
Urban legend, buddy.
One of my favorite baseball blooper videos.
>>I miss him dearly.
Just take a trot up to Aberdeen this Spring and take a breath of fresh air.
The ball hitting him on top of the head and going over the fence will always be my favorite Canseco memory. The best part was that he looked like he didn't know the ball hit him. I'm inclined to believe he didn't feel it.
I agree with you 100%, and I've said for years that he would have been a much better player if he had simply taken some time off every now and then. The real clue to this is that his best season was only about 4-5 years into something like a 20-year career, and he was pretty much in a long, slow decline from that point forward.
He needed 500 HRs and didn't get there. That's what I think all this bitterness is about. He's a guy with tremendous talent who should have been a sure-fire first ballot Hall of Famer, and he let it all go by doing stupid things like ruining his arm playing "relief pitcher". So since he isn't going to get in, he's slamming all of his contemporaries like Ripken and McGwire who will.
I think Canseco's just angry at those shortstops because the odds of them having a fly ball bounce off their heads and over the wall for a home run were remote at best.
A-rod played for the Texas Rangers.
How is Conseco using racism while A-Rod is also spanish.
Neither A-rod nor Jose is from Spain.
"Cal Ripken indirectly was responsible for the Orioles being bridesmaids and not champions."
"He should have been moved to 3rd base long before Mike Bordick arrived. His range was diminished and his bat speed hardly provided warning track power for too many years."
You may be a Patriot but you know nothing of baseball history, the Orioles, or Cal Ripken Jr.
The Orioles teams sucked in his later years.
Ripken had very good range, better than all but the elite defense only types.
Ripken hit more HRs from SS position than anybody in the game including Ernie Banks.
There was nobody in the farm system or the bench that was better than Ripken at SS...Manny Alexander sucked ass.
"Cal Ripken indirectly was responsible for the Orioles being bridesmaids and not champions."
"He should have been moved to 3rd base long before Mike Bordick arrived. His range was diminished and his bat speed hardly provided warning track power for too many years."
You may be a Patriot but you know nothing of baseball history, the Orioles, or Cal Ripken Jr.
The Orioles teams sucked in his later years.
Ripken had very good range, better than all but the elite defense only types.
Ripken hit more HRs from SS position than anybody in the game including Ernie Banks.
There was nobody in the farm system or the bench that was better than Ripken at SS...Manny Alexander sucked ass.
If they had moved Cal to 3rd, they might have been able to sign a free agent SS.
I'm of the age where the SS was a defensive position and not to be counted on for offense.
Cal changed that...to the detriment of the O's. Cal invented A-ROD and JETER...and to a lesser extent, Nomar Garciaparra.
If Cal had been playing his REAL position 3rd base, they would have been able to fill in the SS position.
Finally, 3rd is an easier position to play.
Arlington is part of Dallas?
I'm from New York, so my Texas geography isn't very good. I thought Arlington was like a separate city and stuff.
RUSH WAS INAPPROPRIATE. NO AMOUNT OF TANGENTIAL VERBAL EXCREMENT THROWN AGAINST THE FR WALL EVERY TIME A MINORITY ATHLETE IS IMPERFECT WILL VALIDATE IT. ANYONE WHO APPLAUDS YOU WAS A LAPDOG TO BEGIN WITH. BUILD A BRIDGE AND GET OVER IT.
this has been a public service announcement.
"I'm of the age where the SS was a defensive position and not to be counted on for offense."
See that's the problem. Move on. The game passed you by. Ripken revolutionized the Shortstop position. He was one of the originals who added power and rbi production to an anemic position. That is a team multiplier. For the majority of his career he was the only one out there doing what he did.
Besides the point is not Ripken a HOFer...it is that a scum sucking Roid taking weasel like Canseco talked shit about Ripken.
Envy. Jealousy. Liar. Noncredible. Canseco and others.
I don't blame him, there were always 100-200 or more 'jock-sniffers' hanging around the team hotel lobby, bar, restaurant, hotel taxis, plus the hotel workers who bug the h*ll out of ballplayers they want to be near.
The team ownership wanted the streak to last as long as possible too..and had the last word as long as Cal could take the field. That is who the fans were coming to see, in or out of the race.
It reminds me somewhat of Mantle. If Mantle could limp out to the field on crutches, they wanted him out there. He and Cal were both gamers.
One line on Canseco. I think that fly ball that bounced off his bean over the fence for a homerun...well it must have done some damage to his brain. Of course brain X-rays would find absolutely NOTHING.
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