Posts Tagged ‘Mets’
To Albert Pujols fans…
Hope you enjoy him playing for the Cardinals the next two seasons, because I believe he will be the first 300 million dollar man in baseball.
Watch out for the Mets and the Angels to be frontrunners at free agency.
24 Years Ago Today…
Dwight Gooden breaks the season strikeout record for a rookie by whiffing 16 Pirates. Gooden’s total of 251 is six more than Herb Score’s 1955 mark.
Doc K had the world at his fingertips, with a blazing, heavy fastball, and a curveball named “Lord Charles”. Many of very good hitters made many of walks back to the dugout with their bats not even coming close to hitting his pitches.
Such a shame that Gooden succumbed to the disease of alcohol and drugs. I would have liked to have taken my boys to Cooperstown one day and told them stories of him pitching while looking at his plaque for induction.
One reason I Am Against The DH…
I HATE the DH, I always will. I do not look down on players that make a career out of it, or use it as a means to extend their career. The rules are the rules and it is what it is. But something last night happened during the Mets/Marlins game that will not show up in the boxscores or on newsflash.
