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He had good stuff, kept the ball down and had a great curveball. He wasn't knock the bat out of your hands overpowering, but he came after you and he was really hard to hit. He was a relatively little guy (for a pro athlete that is), less than 6 feet tall and weighed in the 160s, and I always wonder if that might have been a reason he didn't hold up physically as a starting pitcher.

1. What’s the next game on our schedule? The first game.

2. Losing the first game doesn’t end your season in the expanded playoff era.

People who keep bitching about “The Hall of Very Good” are still using the criteria for Cooperstown that were in place when Joe and Tony were doing Game of the Week. Which should not be surprising because MLB has an ancient core fan base. (Full disclosure, I’m pushing 70.)

Votto is the poster boy for the kind of hitter that’s going to get in moving forward. Raw hit totals are irrelevant, you’re going to have to have some pop and a great on-base percentage.

As far as pitchers, there will never be another 300-game winner, 250-game winners are going to be a rarity and 200-game winners are going to be few and far between. So should Cooperstown shut the doors to pitchers because they don’t meet the HoF criteria of 50 or 60 years ago?

What fans don’t understand is that the people who control the Hall of Fame … and it belongs to a family in Cooperstown, not to MLB or the fans, it’s a private organization … want the flood gates open, they want new people coming in every year because if they don’t have a big induction ceremony every year it’s devastating to the economy there.

Hocevar attends the Met Gala ... white-tie affair ... getting up in the world ... wore his dad's watch as a tribute.

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Win the next game on our schedule week to week. I’m serious, not being flippant. That’s really the only standard that counts because if we do that, everything else will take care of itself.

The problem is most all coaches are his clients.

Cutting and pasting from a Facebook post that condenses it better than wire reports although it’s all over the wires:

The legal battle between Joe Gibbs Racing and Spire Motorsports just took a dramatic turn. JGR has filed to amend its lawsuit against former employee Chris Gabehart and Spire, explicitly citing Carson Hocevar’s maiden Cup win at Talladega as evidence of "unfair competitive harm."

JGR claims that Spire’s sudden "transformation" from a backmarker to a race-winning organization is directly linked to Gabehart’s arrival. The lawsuit alleges that Gabehart, who was previously Denny Hamlin’s crew chief and JGR's Director of Competition, misappropriated sensitive trade secrets and confidential information to help Spire make an "implausible single-season competitive leap."

:rolleyes:

Ty had a lengthy secret meeting with McVay before the draft.

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As a lover of 1960s girl group music, this one stings.

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