17 year anniversary of the greatest pitching performance in history!

All I remember is him choking game 7 in the 2003 NCLS.

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

Fuck this juiced up phony..one hit wonder, he fucked the cubs out of 60 plus million.

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Thank you.

Len Kasper actually said his number should be retired.

Wood was good. Cmon guys.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Quiet whistler.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Cmon wtf !! You are one of the few cubs guys I respect their opinion on the club.

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He was good. He wasn't magical. But he was good. 3.50 something era... 10 plus k per 9. You'd take that on your roster every year if you could get it.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

3.50 era in the N.L. as a starter ....not bad .for a #3 ...if you can toss 190 plus innings ..value yes...not noteworthy ..and I am going with your statistics.... Without looking ..he was always hurt ..never great , outside that 20k game n collected way 2 much $

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Like I said he was good. He had a couple nice 200 plus inning seasons in 02 and 03. He was unstoppable in 03 until the game 7.
I'm just not ready to shit on the guy. He was good.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Wood was good.

I remember thinking how cool it was that I could send immediate electronic mail to my friends alerting them to the goings-on at Wrigley. I creatively chose the subject "We've Got Wood".

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You know me like that.

I'll always remember that day. Was playing basketball out in the parking lot of my college apartment complex and someone yelled
that Wood was lighting it up. We watched the last 4 innings.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Without looking it up I know that's not right. He's about 3.70. But he is about ten games over .500 for his career. Never did get his 300 wins though. Never even got his 100.

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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

Yes, they should stop a game in the middle of an inning (preferably against the White Sox) and strip it off the back of the better pitcher who is now wearing it.

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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

Never hit his potential, no doubt about that but that one day he was incredible. Making the ball do crazy things.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

But, could he throw to first?

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He was the greatest pitcher who ever lived who, predictably, got Cubs'd.

I remember the 20k game and some other exciting performances for sure. He was the next Clemens to be. He wasn't. His 162 game averages for 14 year career were 9-8, 3.67 and 172k's. http://www.baseball-reference.com/playe ... ke02.shtml Of course his reliever time skews that with 63 career saves. It is typical of players on teams that are favorites of the fans and get over loved.

Hell he wasn't statistically better than even Jack McDowell. http://www.baseball-reference.com/playe ... ja01.shtml

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Well, he was and he wasn't. He certainly wasn't as good a pitcher as McDowell, but Wood was a special guy. I'm pretty sure that the only guy who struck out more per nine is Randy Johnson. I'm not sure if that's an accolade or an indictment when you consider his overall career. A guy who can strike men out like that has a huge advantage. But Wood managed to squander that advantage a lot of the time. In a way, he's similar to Nolan Ryan- with a much smaller career, of course. Their raw ability far exceeded their skill at pitching a real life ballgame.

And I think that's where the disconnect between my ideas about starting pitchers and the conventional modern wisdom lies. Pitchers are now judged on raw stuff (which is measured largely in Ks and WHIP) rather than game management. The best guys are great at both, but guys like Moyer and Buehrle understand how to pitch a big league ballgame better than Wood or Ryan ever could.

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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

He was a good pitcher that any time would have liked to have on their rotation. He couldn't stay healthy enough grow into being a great or HoF pitcher. That's sad, but it's the way it went down.

You do not retire numbers for "good" players.

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K. Wood 5.2IP 7H 7R 7ER BB4 K6 HR1 112 pitches

Edit: I just watched the home run he hit in Game 7. SON OF A BITCH

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

When Kerry hit that home run I thought that was it, this was the year.

I forgot my lesson learned when Hester ran back the SB opening kickoff years later.

I hate everything.

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- Henry George

You can't score fractions of a run. Why does 3.50 ERA versus 3.70 ERA matter?

wyc...

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Well, think about what you're saying. With a pitcher it's one man. It's a simple average. No different than a batting average. Over enough time it tells you how the player fared against a wide variety of oopponents in a wide variety of situations and conditions.

The average runs scored by a team during a season is quite different. Kerry Wood goes out on a given day and he's probably going to allow three runs and pitch about seven innings. Once in a while he'll throw a 20 K shutout and once in awhile he'll get killed but those are anomalies. He isn't compiling his 3.70 by throwing a shutout one day and allowing seven the next. With a team's offense the performance is all over the place. And that is largely dependent upon the pitchers the team is facing on a given day.

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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

Oh man, I never fell in that trap in game 7. I was excited for the homerun but I knew they were going to lose.

fuck.

You're now arguing against yourself. Congratulations.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Actually, I'm not. Kerry Wood's 3.70 ERA is based mainly on his own performance vs. the men he faces. A team's average runs scored is created against myriad different pitchers. The argument only comes up when someone is apologizing for a shitty losing pitcher using the average amount scored by his team as the reason he cannot defeat opponents with regularity. See Jose Quintana.

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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

The three things besides the obvious fan interference controversy that I remember from that series:
1.) Wood choking game 7
2.) Dusty post-game with his kid on his knee.
3.) Barry Rozner telling us it's over when they went up,3-1.

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

Who, again, was pretty good today.

Kerry Wood's ERA is created against a myriad of different batters.

Fractions of runs are not possible, whether you are a pitcher, batter, or team.

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