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[TwentyThirtyFive]

100 years is not that long. Nor is 500 for that matter. Just think of where we were in the early 1500s

[Old Man]

IMO, Gibson had the best single year ever for a pitcher.

Check out 1968.

304 IP 

1.12 ERA

.85 WHIP

just 198 hits allowed and only 62 walks.

 

RIP Bob....an incredible competitor on the mound.

He started 34, had 28 complete games and 13 shutouts, and his 1969 season was pretty darn good too.

 

One of the reasons, they change the mound height.

 

What an incredible pitcher.

[TwentyThirtyFive]

IMO, Gibson had the best single year ever for a pitcher.
Check out 1968.
304 IP
1.12 ERA
.85 WHIP
just 198 hits allowed and only 62 walks.

RIP Bob....an incredible competitor on the mound.

Pedro Martinez's 2000 was better but thats to take nothing away from how great his 68 season was

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Btw Curt Schilling has the same ERA+ as Gibson. Completely political why that guy isn't in the HOF and it needs to be rectified. Anyway, Gibson is clearly a HOF caliber pitcher but I always assumed he was more inner circle than the stats show.

[Nigel Tufnel]

I think a big part of Gibson's legend came from the 1964, 1967, and 1968 World Series.  He pitched games 1, 4, and 7 in each of them.

 

9 starts, 81 innings, 92 SO, 1.89 ERA, 0.889 WHIP, 7-2 record.  He went 3-0 in 1967, and he won game 7 in 1964, ending the 45 year Yankee dynasty.

[Old Man]

Btw Curt Schilling has the same ERA+ as Gibson. Completely political why that guy isn't in the HOF and it needs to be rectified. Anyway, Gibson is clearly a HOF caliber pitcher but I always assumed he was more inner circle than the stats show.

ERA is not the only criteria to value a pitcher.

 

Curt Schilling never got close to a 1.12 ERA, while a very respectable pitcher.

 

Ive seen both pitch.

 

Schilling could be nasty and is a HOF pitcher and I agree his omission is because of who he is.

 

To me, Gibson was heads and tails better than Schilling. IMO

 

Gibby probably goes in my book, top 5 or maybe top of all time. Schilling is probably lower end towards 100. IMO

[Old Man]

I think a big part of Gibson's legend came from the 1964, 1967, and 1968 World Series.  He pitched games 1, 4, and 7 in each of them.

 

9 starts, 81 innings, 92 SO, 1.89 ERA, 0.889 WHIP, 7-2 record.  He went 3-0 in 1967, and he won game 7 in 1964, ending the 45 year Yankee dynasty.

I get hung up on his 28 CG out of 34 and 13 Shutouts.

 

Today pitchers cant even do one a year.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Eddie Van Halen.

[russsnyder]

Eddie Van Halen.

 

 Ouch,

[russsnyder]

John Tyler was the 10th president (and another grandson is still living).

 

Michael Beschloss@BeschlossDC·59m

 

Grandson of President John Tyler—Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr.—has died at age 95.

 

 Interesting story about John Tyler is that he passed away while serving in the Confederate House of Representatives.

 

 He was buried with his casket draped in a Confederate flag and with full honors.

 

 He is the only President to be buried with a foreign flag on his casket and with the honors of a foreign government.

[Old Man]

Johnny Nash also passed away.

 

https://www.tmz.com/...ee-clearly-now/

 

 

Been a tough week on music legends.

 

I think this makes 5.

[Mike B]

The Dean of Baltimore Sports Media, Vince Bagli passed away this morning.

 

I have met and talked to Vince a number of times down through the years.  A really nice guy.

 

RIP Vince!  It has been a pleasure.

[Mark Carver]

[Mike B]

Dan Connolly does a great tribute to Vince.

 

https://theathletic....ltimore-sports/

[24fps]

Whitey Ford passed away.  It's a bad year for great pitchers.

[Mike B]

Whitey Ford passed away.  It's a bad year for great pitchers.

It has been a bad year for everything.  2020 can not be over soon enough.  

[Mike B]

Whitey Ford passed away.  It's a bad year for great pitchers.

5 members of the Baseball HOF. so far this year.  Ford, Seaver, Brock, Gibson and Baltimore's own Al Kaline.

[Nigel Tufnel]

Ugh, now it's 6.

 

 

 

Ken Rosenthal@Ken_Rosenthal·15m

 

RIP Joe Morgan. Al Kaline, Tom Seaver, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Whitey Ford and now Joe. The loss of each is absolutely crushing.

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Joe Morgan. Damn!!!. Disastrous year for the HOFers.

[BSLChrisStoner]

Know people hated Morgan on Sunday Night Baseball...  but him and Miller was the last time that felt like a premier event imo.