Tony Gwynn.

[mvscal]

Bummer. He was a class act and great player.

RIP

[War Wagon]

One of the best hitters I've ever watched along with Rod Carew and George Brett.

RIP

[Bucmonkey]

lol mv, just lol.

[BSmack]

So Sam, you're saying Tony Gwynn could hit?

[smackaholic]

lol mv, just lol.

????

Do you find it humorous that MV would have anything good to say about a balck dude?

He had done so before. He doesn't have a problem with blacks. He has a problem with niqqers.

Tony Gwynn was decidedly not a niqqer. Appeared to be a genuinely good dude.

RIP

[Smackie Chan]

Tony Gwynn was decidedly not a niqqer.

He didn't speak like one.

[smackaholic]

Tony was quite possibly the whitest sounding dude in history. He made Mit Romney sound like snoop dog.

[Smackie Chan]

Tony was quite possibly the whitest sounding dude in history.

Or Gus Johnson.

[Wolfman]

How about this guy. One of the best set of pipes in sportscasting.

[Mikey]

Gwynn had 287 plate appearances against Maddux, Smoltz and Glavine, and he struck out three times. He was also 101 for 265. That's .381 against those 3 badasses.

He never struck out against Maddux in I think 94 plate appearances.

Very sad day here. He was truly a great player and a great person.

[The Seer]

How about this guy. One of the best set of pipes in sportscasting.

Not that I'm old or anything but I used to watch Irv play CB with the LA Rams along with his counterpart Clancy Williams.

[BSmack]

I am mourning the loss of all those Ricky Henderson stories.

[Moving Sale]

Bummer. He was a class act and great player.

RIP

Poor missa Candie. One of your house mvscals die? Well just get on down to the mvscal auction and buys yourself a brand new one.

[BSmack]

Poor missa Candie. One of your house mvscals die? Well just get on down to the mvscal auction and buys yourself a brand new one.

Real smart comparing mv to a character played by Leo DiCaprio. You know he doesn't care that people call him racist. What satisfaction to you plan to get out of that tactic? Masturbatory? You're one sick dude getting off like that.

[jiminphilly]

RIP TG. Pure class on and off the field.

It's a shame his hitting genes didn't pass down to his son though. Gwynn Jr. flat out sucks.

[Moving Sale]

Real smart comparing mv to a character played by Leo DiCaprio.

Ofailurecal is just playing a character himself so why not?

You know he doesn't care that people call him a racist.

So your take is I shouldn't waste my time because he is a sociopath?

[mvscal]

Remind me again who shat all over this thread with gratuitous racial bullshit?

Keep it classy, minitard.

[Moving Sale]

It's a smack board nancy. Go cry someplace else.

[Smackie Chan]

Great piece:

http://deadspin.com/i-was-tony-gwynns-b ... 1592123043

Shows what a genuinely nice guy Gwynn was.

Great article.

[smackaholic]

Cancer is a real asshole. So many complete shitbags in the league and it picks tony's number.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

It's baseball.

Nobody gives a shit.

[War Wagon]

Baseball is very much worth giving a shit about.

You meant soccer.

[poptart]

bowling > girls slow-pitch softball > MLB > soccer > jokball

[Smackie Chan]

Baseball is very much worth giving a shit about.

Yes. Yes it is.

[BSmack]

Baseball died in 1994. I still enjoy a game or two when I can do it. But giving a shit what millionaires playing a game do is reserved for football Sundays. And even that is losing its luster for me.

[poptart]

Ditto to that, Bri.

There is a litany of reasons for the decline in appeal of pro sports, but... money, over-saturation, and... TWITTER are among them.

Back in the day it was somewhat possible for us fans to project a positive character upon our "heroes" in our minds -- because we were much more ignorant as to their true and full personality.
We could still rationally cheer for them.

Sure, we'd get snippets and peeks here and there and we would learn some things about them -- and we might have some ideas about who the complete assheads were.
But NOW, these jackoffs have many multiple avenues and opportunities to show us how ignorant, pathetic, unlikable, and sometimes sociopathic they truly are.


Btw, Tony Gwynn was a guy a parent could have suggested his athletic son emulate.

Except perhaps for the excess "goo" he larded around.
But I guess he was just big boned.


That last phrase excited Moving Bowel.

[Screw_Michigan]

TWITTER

Bullshit.

Though you were right on the oversaturation of money. Millions is one thing, but hundreds of millions is another. But I guess they were saying the same thing in the late 80s as well.

[poptart]

My "TWITTER" addition there is a symbolic.

It represents the overall plethora of avenues which are now available for overpaid dullards to demonstrate their unpleasant character.

I liked it much better when ignorant players were seen and not heard.


When I want to hear (or read) something, I want it to come from the intelligent and enlightened Jew in the broadcast booth or press room.

:wink:

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Baseball died in 1994. I still enjoy a game or two when I can do it. But giving a shit what millionaires playing a game do is reserved for football Sundays.

So you have no problem watching thugs, felons, murderers and rapists, but labor disputes are where you draw the line. Sounds reasonable.

[Python]

So you have no problem watching thugs, felons, murderers and rapists.

SEC! SEC!

Wait...crap.

[BSmack]

So you have no problem watching thugs, felons, murderers and rapists, but labor disputes are where you draw the line. Sounds reasonable.

I enjoy the game of football, it takes one or two days a week of my time. The labor dispute made me realize what it was like NOT watching baseball for 6 months a year 7 days a week. And it wasn't that bad. So I stopped caring. It was dead to me.

[Screw_Michigan]

So it took a labor dispute for you to realize watching baseball every day for eight months a year was a bad idea?

I forget, you're in Crapchester, so your entertainment options are limited.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

So it took a labor dispute for you to realize watching baseball every day for eight months a year was a bad idea?

Yeah, that take reeks of bullshit. Some fringe fans may have quit after the strike, but probably not people who were invested to the point of watching daily from April through September. Either Bsmack is lying or he was incredibly bored.

We as humans like to talk a good game, but we don't quit sports for those reasons. If we don't watch something, it's just cuz we don't give a shit.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Either Bsmack is lying or he was incredibly bored.

He can be both, you know.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

He can be both, you know.

I'd put 15 bucks on it...

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

BTW, it's not too late to jump on the bandwagon of your first place Blue Jays...

[BSmack]

So it took a labor dispute for you to realize watching baseball every day for eight months a year was a bad idea?

Watching and following. The whose up, whose down of reading stats, and watching games. BTW, I said 6 months. Though I'm sure they'll eventually have an 8 month season and half the teams making the playoffs.

I forget, you're in Crapchester, so your entertainment options are limited.

When it comes to big league games on TV in 1994, hell yea it was. Braves, Yanks, Mets. That's about it. Oh yea, and the Chicago teams who almost always sucked anyway and had shitty ass drunks as announcers.