Never thought I'd say this...

Dude, chillax. Can’t blame the guy for enthusiasm for the world’s greatest pitcher.

I’m sure not! I spam game threads I can’t follow with stuff like this every time Lee pitches.

THE SLEEPY KITTEN IS AWAKE. I REPEAT: THE SLEEPY KITTEN IS AWAKE.

I guess you really like the nickname “Fatnando,” huh.

In Dodger Stadium, with no DH.

There’s a pretty good argument that what Lee has done is actually more impressive.

Fernando was the greatest baseball player I’ve ever seen

Well then I guess you haven’t seen a lot of baseball then.

Not that I necessarily agree with Chuck’s statement, but a little quick on the all out retaliation response, no?

Gee, tom2323, it seems to me that the real reason you don’t post in “forums like this” is that you can’t take a little disagreement. And having met Chuck more than once, I’m pretty sure he’d have said that in person—and I would have, too. Nobody is hiding here more than anyone else — hell, Chuck even posted his cell phone number.

Valenzuela was an All-Star all six of those years and was Top Five in the Cy Young voting in four of them — these facts speak for themselves. But his ERA was slightly below-average in 1983 and not that far above average in 1984 and 1986 — these facts also speak for themselves. And even after that historic, beyond-insane 8-0 start in 1981, he had a below-league-average 3.66 ERA the rest of the way.

You saw what you saw, but the eye doesn’t see everything and doesn’t know everything. There may well be “many things Fernando did on a diamond that no one else could,” as you claim, but for about half that time, one of those things was not consistently preventing runs from scoring in an exceptional, consistent way. And outside of those eight incredible straight games in 1981, little if anything that he did was historic in its excellence.

Tell you what Tommy, just let me know how I can get ahold of you and I’ll be happy to deliver the above quote to you in person and then you can tell me how “cowardly” I am.

Wow….that went downhill quickly. At least there’s one thing everyone agrees on now though…...this is definitely worthy of being a fanpost.

...that bring out the worst in childish human behavior.

was that you being ironical? very clever.

See he doesn’t know me – or any of us for that matter – very well. I’ll be happy to show up at his door and get him out from behind his computer. We all know who the coward is here.

I am beginning to think there is a computer somewhere which writes these comments. They all sounds the same.

I am beginning to think there is a computer somewhere that writes all of these comments. They all sound the same.

..... Hey.

My usupring of another entire person’s image has worked very well for me.