He was good for that stretch. Hit in the leadoff position and was doing pretty well there. I wonder if he would have fallen off as the season progressed. I just remember him coming up around 2001 and into 2002 and he was swinging at everything. Looking back at his statline, it is pretty scary. In 2002 he had 142 strikeouts and 19 walks. With Wood it was six solid innings where he would dominate, but it was always the first or fifth inning where he would lose his control a bit and lose the game. You know the talent was there, you could see it. When I look back at what Wood accomplished given this, I am very disappointed.

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Yeah, and he never really got it back after the injury that year. Its all Dusty's fault. He left him on the field during a blowout.

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I burned a Cub ticket connection that day. A friend who used to take me to games all the time invited me and we were sitting right down along the first base line. It was Woody Williams vs. Prior. The Cardinals kicked the shit out of Prior and Woody Williams looked like Cy Young. Near the end of the game Patterson hurt his knee running to first. I couldn't hold it in anymore. I just started laughing my ass off. Then all the Cubs fans started filing out in the eighth inning. I started saying, "There they go. The best fans in baseball." The guy who took me was pouting. He's never invited me to a game again.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Prior gave up 4 runs in 7 innings and struck out 11

I was there that day, too. I saw you, you jerk!

That was an ass-kicking against Prior in those days.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

I know. Im still sick. I immediately thought "He didnt get lit up!!" and that he Beat Woody Williams in the double header during the 5 game series they had in Sep


Fuckin Prior

The wife and I were at that game too.

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Make that 22.

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Mike and Mike were debating whether or not the Kerry Wood game was better than any Perfect game.

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Smart people.

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You are on the same side as Mike Golic. Let that sink in for a moment.

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There have been more perfect games in the last two years than 20 Strikeout games in the history of baseball.

Well, I was hit in the head repeatedly as a child.

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Tim Kurkjian today on Sportcenter was asked if Matt Cain's pitching performance was the greatest ever. He said that Kerry Wood's 20 strikeout performance is the greatest he had ever seen.

He was wrong.

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Apparently I missed this thread the first time around. I think JORR's reply here nicely sums up the debate.

It's simple really(I just wanted to be like the 12th guy in the thread to say that):

If you think Wood's game is better, you value stats and probabilities primarily over everything else in sports, and pretty much think of athletes as cyborgs, devoid of human emotion. Since RPB admittedly thinks Bill James knows more about baseball than anyone who's ever lived, it makes sense he's in this group.

If you think a perfect game is better - you value results over hypotheticals, but ironically probably have a more abstract view of sports than the other group. You realize that the building pressure of a perfect game the last few innings is far and away harder to deal with than anything Wood had to deal with on a May afternoon.


Rick did destroy the fallable Game Score argument in this thread though.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

But 312 is on our side.... I'm torn...

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul