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Old knuckleballer cracks first All-Star team
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Posted on 07/06/2009 12:09:33 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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Look at that grip.
I wish, oh HOW I WISH, I could learn to throw a knuckleball better than anyone. Of course, I guess that’s the desire of a lot of 30-something men out there.
To: Artemis Webb
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posted on
07/06/2009 12:13:31 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
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To: Arkansas Toothpick
The Neikro brothers were good knuckleballers. Watch some old video of them. I loved watching Phil warm up or just mess around in the bullpen at Atlanta-Fulton county Stadium. Good times! Bad team though.
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posted on
07/06/2009 12:16:14 PM PDT
by
aliquando
(A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
To: Artemis Webb
Really glad for Wake.
He is one of the really good guys in baseball.
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posted on
07/06/2009 12:18:30 PM PDT
by
WoodstockCat
(General Honore: "The storm gets a vote... We're not stuck on stupid.")
To: Artemis Webb
A good guy on and off the field gets a chance to partake in the All-Star game. Meanwhile cheaters A-Rod and Manny are home. Something feels right about that state of affairs.
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posted on
07/06/2009 12:19:05 PM PDT
by
misterrob
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To: Artemis Webb
I remember when one of the Niekro brothers (I think it was Phil) pitched in an All-Star game. The catcher had a hell of a time working with him -- I think there were two or three passed balls in the inning he worked, just because the ball moved around so strangely.
Should be interesting to see how Wakefield's catcher fares.
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posted on
07/06/2009 12:20:49 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: aliquando
Wasn't Dale Murphy with the Braves at the same time Phil Neikro was? I met Murphy at a mall food court in the early 90’s. I just wanted to shake his hand, I was like a kid, embarrassed by my excitement. I'll never forget it.
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To: Artemis Webb
Yes, Murph came up in the late 70’s and was with the club until 89 I think. Great guy! He would always sighn autographs at the stadium.
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posted on
07/06/2009 12:24:27 PM PDT
by
aliquando
(A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
To: Artemis Webb
in another sterling example of the sort of baseball geniuses who have been running the Pittsburgh Pirates, they determined that Wakefield was washed-up and sent him packing...in 1994! They have not smelled .500 since. Good for ya, Timmy!
To: misterrob
"A good guy on and off the field gets a chance to partake in the All-Star game. Meanwhile cheaters A-Rod and Manny are home. Something feels right about that state of affairs." I wish that was true of things beyond baseball...but thank God for baseball.
To: Artemis Webb
Until you’ve actually thrown a knuckleball, the way it’s supposed to be thrown, it’s hard to have an appreciation of just how amazingly weird it looks in flight.
I was a pitcher in my younger days, and have perhaps thrown a dozen or fewer “perfect” knuckleballs (out of hundreds of attempts), but I’ll never forget what it looks like. Your jaw drops because it’s hard to believe what your eyes have just seen. I never had to try to hit a good knuckleball pitcher.
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posted on
07/06/2009 12:28:31 PM PDT
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MarineBrat
(The New York Times is a Communist Kamikaze.)
To: Artemis Webb
Watching his pitches in slow motion is really awesome, and, if he pitches in the All-Star Game, his catcher is really going to be “in hell”.
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posted on
07/06/2009 12:32:01 PM PDT
by
johnthebaptistmoore
(Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
To: Arkansas Toothpick
“It Happens Every Spring”
(Though Kelly was a cheat.)
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posted on
07/06/2009 12:34:48 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: aliquando
There was a famous incident of Dale Murphy losing his temper in the late 80’s. Murphy was known for being a very straight arrow (he was a devout Mormon). A fan was yelling a constant stream of profanity right above the Braves dugout. This went on for some time and finally Dale Murphy popped out, red faced and huge neck veins bulging. He pointed right at the foul mouthed fan and told him to shut up, which the fan did until security came and hauled him away.
To: Artemis Webb
I remember Phil Niekro being on a few All-Star teams but didn’t get to pitch in the game because no one on the roster could catch his knuckleball.
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posted on
07/06/2009 12:37:12 PM PDT
by
Ticonderoga34
(Liberals are hypocrites and phonies. Associate with them at your own risk.)
To: Artemis Webb
There was a famous incident of Dale Murphy losing his temper in the late 80s. Murphy was known for being a very straight arrow (he was a devout Mormon). A fan was yelling a constant stream of profanity right above the Braves dugout. This went on for some time and finally Dale Murphy popped out, red faced and huge neck veins bulging. He pointed right at the foul mouthed fan and told him to shut up, which the fan did until security came and hauled him away.
I remember that incident. Murphy was upset because the unruly fan was yelling profanities within earshot of kids in the stands.
Even when he lost his temper, Dale Murphy was still a straight arrow.
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posted on
07/06/2009 12:40:54 PM PDT
by
Ticonderoga34
(Liberals are hypocrites and phonies. Associate with them at your own risk.)
To: zert_28
I can't remember if it was Joe Garagiola or Bob Uecker who said that the correct way to catch a knukleball was to “jump out of the way, let it roll to the backstop then pick it up”.
To: MarineBrat
[I was a pitcher in my younger days, and have perhaps thrown a dozen or fewer perfect knuckleballs (out of hundreds of attempts), but Ill never forget what it looks like. Your jaw drops because its hard to believe what your eyes have just seen. I never had to try to hit a good knuckleball pitcher.]
I used to help train my younger brother in high school,he was really pretty good. A good knuckleball is a sight to behold, a bad one sails over the fence.
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posted on
07/06/2009 12:43:24 PM PDT
by
FastCoyote
(I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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