Here's a good reason.

You're going to have to explain it to me. I don't get it.

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That's a radar gun circa 1953.

Looks more like the Spanish Inquisition.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

...because none of them have even 1/3 of the soul that old hoss radbourn had.

Old Hoss Radbourn ‏@OldHossRadbourn 10 Dec
My GM named me a "monstrous whoremonger." Meant it kindly. RT @PWSullivan: Hahn calls Eaton a "dirtbag." Only in the best sense of the word.

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Old Hoss had some pretty good seasons. Today his nickname would be Work Hoss Radbourn.

In other words, they probably do throw as hard, but the technology sucked, so 88 MPH may have been 99?

Mike Marshall...excuse me...Doctor Mike Marshall does present some good evidence for throwing more.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

The old timers were slow, white, and bad. That's why.

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Maybe , but so were the "machines" that timed them.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I thought Feller was timed as the fastest pitch along with Nolan Ryan

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Performance enhancing drugs are the real reason.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I believe Nolan Ryan still holds the record for fastest pitch, at 100.8 measured at the plate (as shown in Keyser's pic). Nowadays they measure speeds at the pitcher's release point, which is normally about 10 mph faster than when it crosses home. So Ryan would have been at almost 111 if measured today.

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Used to like watching Nolan. Wasn't Mike Scott or some other Astro a hard thrower?

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Elections have consequences.

I think Scott threw the screwball and dominated LH hitters. He had that one fantastic season with a ton of strikeouts.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Not a screwball. A Vasoline ball.


Nolan Ryan is a jackass

Mike Scott ostensibly threw a splitter along with a good fastball . Believe he was an accused scuffer though. Other notable hard throwing Astros were Larry Dierker and James Rodney Richard.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Yeah I remember Scott now as the splitter that dropped a ton. I vaguely remember it was either the nail file or goop.

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