THE 107 MPH MAN: Michael Kopech's quest to be the hardest thrower of all time.

Scott Miller
National MLB Columnist
March 15, 2017

TYLER, Texas — To the classic Bull Durham scene in which we learn candlesticks make nice wedding gifts, add this: Trailer hitches make awesome Christmas presents.

It's true.

I am in a rental car trailing The Most Interesting Prospect in Baseball to a health-food restaurant for lunch. He has just finished a three-hour-plus workout at his gym, Accelerate Performance Enhancement Center, with a small group of fellow baseball players. It is late January, and in case I lose the gargantuan black Hummer H3 or confuse it with another on the road, I keep my eyes glued to a trailer hitch with the Chicago White Sox logo on it.

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He is going to end up with shoulder or elbow surgery if this is his goal at the tender age of 20.

This goof is the real life Nuke LaLoosh.

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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 Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Lift hard throw hard

He's the reincarnation of Bart Johnson!

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

hmmmm...

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

by the way, there isn't a much douchier car on the road than the Hummer, maybe Land Rover but nothing surpassed that original military vehicle style Hummer

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

Yeah he is. Maybe he's a supposed to be a character or something, but he seems slightly d-baggy.

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Hummer H2.

I include all Hummer and Land Rover products in my original assessment. Land Rover is really just the female driver's version of Hummer anyway.

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

Defenders are cool no way around it.

There is something about riding in a Defender that makes you want to put on some beige short shorts, grab your FAL and just look into the distance as you glide across the plains with 5 of your pals.

My neighbor has two Hummers, a huge one and a smaller one. They are pretty obnoxious for suburban/city driving.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Are Hummers even in production anymore?

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Not since 2010, according to wiki.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

is george bell still alive to give him a nice gas station job after he "Flames out" of MLB?

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Kopech in now against the Cubbies, just throwing gas. What the hell is this sepia filter on everything?

Also, Hawk sounds bad. Like, can't-make-it-through-the-season bad. Good.

Avi in mid season form

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That announcement that he was cutting way back next year kind of came out of the blue. Hope he's O.K.

And could Farmio be any more weird? I had the game on in the car and the Sox got two hits and he was yelling like it was Game 7 of the World Series. That guy is odd.

I don't. I'm not going so far as to wish death on him, but fuck him, whatever has to happen to get him out of the booth, good. Guy has sucked the life out of thousands of hours of baseball broadcasts because he's a pissy little bitch, and I'm sick of this organization's allegiance to a slack-jawed homer. He is solely responsible for one of the worst baseball broadcasts in the business, and has been for more than a decade.

He cut back last year and is further cutting back now.

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

I don't fucking care if this idiot can throw 107 if he can't do it for strikes.

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I would rather hear the old man baseball stories that the vanilla talk from guys like Len Kasper.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Hawk is terrible, but I actually hate listen to see/hear him get upset. I liked Kasper with Brenley, but the current broadcast tandem isn't enjoyable. I've soured on Kasper quite a bit.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Kasper and Hawk both suck, it's just a different kind of suck. I've never liked either and it was tolerable with Brenly but JD blows as much as Len..it's a real tough listen.

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