Warning!! Danger!! Annual Off-topic Baseball Thread '07!! Beware!!

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Meaningless MLB factoid for Chuck.

And here's one for you! Randy Johnson pitched last night for the D'backs. When he faced Julio Franco of the Mets, it was the highest combined age for a pitcher/hitter matchup in the history of MLB. Franco is almost 49 years old and Johnson is almost 44.

Yankees score 11 runs; Sox score 2 runs. Who ended up winning last night?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Yankees score 11 runs; Sox score 2 runs. Who ended up winning last night?

We'd have been OK except for the 2 missed field goals.

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

We'd have been OK except for the 2 missed field goals.

Still laughing this morning...gonna be a long season for the Yanks and the M's with that kind of pitching!!

[mick]

Houston 13 St. Louis 0
		FINAL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Astros 1 0 0 1 5 2 0 4 0 13 14 0 Cardinals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2

[Mark Dexter]

Chien-Ming Wang is apparently working on a perfect game going into the top of the 6th.

Interestingly, if he does end up with a perfect game, the only other time the feat had been accomplished on Cinco de Mayo was by a no-name pitcher named Cy Young who happened to pitch for Boston at the time.

[Mark Dexter]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

And here's one for you! Randy Johnson pitched last night for the D'backs. When he faced Julio Franco of the Mets, it was the highest combined age for a pitcher/hitter matchup in the history of MLB. Franco is almost 49 years old and Johnson is almost 44.

I have to wonder if you're related to the Elias of sports statistics fame.

Also, I've heard from Mets fans that Franco's age isn't quite pinned down.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

And here's one for you! Randy Johnson pitched last night for the D'backs. When he faced Julio Franco of the Mets, it was the highest combined age for a pitcher/hitter matchup in the history of MLB. Franco is almost 49 years old and Johnson is almost 44.

Was that the stat on Espn or did they note that when France hit a homerun, that it was the oldest pitcher/hitter pair for a homerun in MLB history? Of course, both may be true.

[Nevadaref]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/mlb_experts/

Five and Fly: Franco's power is old news

By Tim Brown
Saturday, May 5, 2007 2:58 pm EDT


Julio Franco – 48 years, eight months, 12 days old – homered Friday night off Randy Johnson – 43 years, seven months, 25 days old. That's more than 92 years of ballplayer right there and, unfortunately for Johnson, the fastball Franco hit sort of looked it, considering its left turn signal was on for three miles.
Franco, of course, is the oldest player to hit a home run in the major leagues, a union of gerontology and baseball that began last April 20 and has extended through two more homers, the latest at Chase Field in Phoenix. And now Johnson has a part, the two combining for the oldest home run in history, thrown-and-hit category.

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

And now Johnson has a part, the two combining for the oldest home run in history, thrown-and-hit category.

On SportsCenter, they said the Johnson/Franco pairing was the oldest in regular-season history. Maybe there was a pairing of older players in an old World Series, and this is the oldest pairing to result in a home run.

[M&M Guy]

The Rocket back to the Yankees?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

The Rocket back to the Yankees?

Yup, announced it himself during the seventh inning stretch at the Yankees game.

He's a dickhead, but he's our dickhead.

[Mark Dexter]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Yup, announced it himself during the seventh inning stretch at the Yankees game.

He's a dickhead, but he's our dickhead.

So is Steinbrenner moving Yankee Stadium down to Houston, or is the rocket just going to pitch during Yanks-Rangers series?

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

The Rocket back to the Yankees?

That's gotta be a first -- a rat jumping on to a sinking ship!

This signing simply ensures that Clemens' bust in Cooperstown will have a cap with a dollar sign on it.

(And yes, I stole both those lines from The Sports Guy on espn.com )

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

That's gotta be a first -- a rat jumping on to a sinking ship!

This signing simply ensures that Clemens' bust in Cooperstown will have a cap with a dollar sign on it.

(And yes, I stole both those lines from The Sports Guy on espn.com )

Well, at least you stole the good ones.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

This signing simply ensures that Clemens' bust in Cooperstown will have a cap with a dollar sign on it.

Gee, they love him in NYC though....

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba...ow_ring-1.html

Someone has got Mr. Money figgered out......