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Originally Posted by Halx
Nolan Ryan was amazing, but Greg Maddux thrills me more. Besides, I only said he was my favorite, that doesn't need to meet any of your criteria. I enjoy the delicate nature of Maddux's pitch placement and his overall personality.
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True Maddux does have the finesse Ryan lacked.
Didn't mean anything by it was just trying to add some smack talk and lighten things up for a minute.
It's going to be impossible (next to first person admissions) to truly know who did and who didn't.
I liken this back to the 1919 Black Sox scandal. The difference is back then the teams were reliant on people showing up at the stadiums... now the owners make more money from television, radio, satellite and so on.... none of this is really going to affect them financially, nor many of the players.
It's not like in 1919 when MLB had just fought a heavy battle with the Federal League for fans. MLB has a monopoly on the game, even the minor league teams make the Major League owners money.
So unfortunately as shown not too long ago, baseball can have a tied All Star game because the players don't want to play over 9 innings.... they can cancel the World Series.... they can tarnish the game in every feasible way and yet we, who love the game, end up still going and watching because we love it, irregardless of the tarnish.
I honestly believe MLB could come out tomorrow and say the last 20 years every World Series was fixed and we will continue to fix them...... and we'd still watch.
Same with the NFL, NBA, NCAA Football and Basketball. They hold monopolies, billion dollar contracts and we are a nation that has lost touch with our sense of true right and wrong and all we care about is being "entertained"..... this even shows by what passes for news (Paris Hilton, Britney Spears.... etc).
/ends rant gets off my shoeshine box and runs down to the train station to catch Shoeless Joe and Eddie Cicotte for autographs.