Posted by TFG on 2nd July 2003
Achewood - Ray’s Place
Way better than the Penthouse Advisor or Esquire or any of that other crap.
Dear JH,
Your letter makes a lot of assumptions about my political leanings. In fact, it’s mainly kind of a jerked-up advertisement for college-style thinking! In reality, you just pay your taxes and they are misused sometimes and used properly some of the time. No one ever guaranteed anyone a life in Utopia, so just go suck on your “college lollipop” until you realize that your “wonderful childhood” is “over.”
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Posted by TFG on 2nd July 2003
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Posted by TFG on 2nd July 2003
ESPN.com - Page2 - The List: Most overrated of all time
7. Nolan Ryan
If you wanted to go see a game with lots of K’s, lots of walks, and not much in-between, Ryan was your man. In his long career, he racked up some spectacular achievements — for example, 5,714 strikeouts and seven no-hitters. Other spectacular marks included 2,795 walks and 292 career losses, which put him, with a 324-292 record, not far above .500.
Granted, he pitched most of his career for mediocre teams, but he never won the Cy Young Award (Steve Carlton, his contemporary and also a strikeout pitcher, won four Cy Youngs). A great hurler, but not, as many fans believe, the greatest in baseball history.
8. Pete Rose
He’s got the most hits in baseball history, but that doesn’t make him the greatest hitter in baseball history, as many casual fans believe. Rose kept himself in the game for five years after he should have retired, and he hurt the Reds as a player his last couple of years. Don’t get me wrong: Rose was great, and he worked his tail off, but his his hits record is greatly overplayed. He didn’t even come close to Ty Cobb at the plate:
Rose: BA: .303; OBP: .375; SLG: .409, career high of 82 RBI, 198 SB
Cobb: BA: .366; OBP: .433; SLG: .512, seven seasons of 100+ RBI, 892 SB
Sure, idiots. Whatever you say. Nolan Ryan AND Pete Rose were overrated. Accordiing to these fools, so was Pete Maravich and Joe Namath. These icons share the list with the likes of Jose Canseco and Deion “Baseball” Sanders.
ESPN continues it’s headlong plunge into Gen-Y mediocrity, and can’t find anything better to work on in between TMQ columns. Must be tough keeping up with morons at Fox, struggling mightily to get to that 18-34 demographic.
Ol’ Overrated takes young fool to woodshed.
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