Did anyone hear this interview?

Milt Pappas has to be the most bitter person I have ever heard. Is he truly that consumed with rage and hate over something that happened 34 years ago?

Also, wasn't his wife murdered? You would think he might have moved on by now.

Undeniably troubling.

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Every single interview I hear with him is identical, and has been for as long as I can remember. I wish they all would stop giving this bitter old man air time. It's NOT good radio.

Didn't hear it, but let me guess: "Bruce Froemming cheated me out of a perfect game with that call in 1972." "These pitchers today are all soft. In my day, we'd pitch 'til our arms fell off." "My stats are as good as a lot of the guys in the Hall of Fame."

How do I know if I didn't hear it? Like you said, he's been doing basically the same interview for three decades. I guess they think we can never get enough of the musings of a Milt Pappas.

Oh, and let me add one thing to the above -- he made some reference at some point in the interview to being Greek. Correct?

That is frighteningly accurate. I'm not kidding. I mean 100% dead on.

My compliments to you, Sir.

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Pappas is so mature, calling Froemming "fat."
What a whiner he is!
He says that Froemming should have given him the perfecto so Froemming could have told people he called a perfect game. Maybe Pappas should have thrown a strike instead of nibbling the corners with his last three pitches instead. Maybe he should blame the batter for not swinging and missing intentionally so he could have told people he was the last batter in a perfect game.
Read Leo Durocher's book, "Nice Guys Finish Last." Leo said that Milt was a pitcher who would never want to come out of a game if they were behind, but always asked to be pulled if he was up after five innings, securing himself only the chance of a "W" and no "L."
There's a team player!

We always here about the players of yester year and how great they were and what team guys they all were.

This guy doesn't regret being on losing teams. The only thing he regrets is not getting that perfect game.

This proves my point. There were assholes in 1910, 1920, 1950, and so on. Every generation has selfish players and every generation has jerks.

And Frank Thomas was both.

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Homer: "Asleep at the switch"? I wasn't asleep, I was drunk!
Bart: I believe you, Dad.

Not really that difficult to do. Pappas does that in EVERY radio interview, no matter when or whom he's talking with. He's been doing that since I first heard his gripes. The radio hosts usually egg him on and get him going, and get a chuckle out of it. I just think he's a pathetic, old, spiteful man who has nothing better than to stew over the past that can't be changed.

Froemming isn't a peach, himself, so I have heard, but how long can you hold a grudge for something YOU had control over? Today, he actually compared his lifetime record to Don Drysdale. Priceless. Does he win Douchebag of the Week?

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Being somewhat of a newcomer to the area, this is the first time I have heard this man interviewed. If he says the same thing every time, I have to question the wisdom of having him on the air. A spiteful, bitter old man doesn't exactly make good radio. I guess the local hosts use him as a sort of running gag. Sort of a pathetic running gag.

Don Drysdale? Wow.

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Tell me about it; we've been putting up with Murph's bullshit for years.

But, it also describes Terry Boers to a tee too--and I, of course, can never ever get enough of the Diddly....So it CAN be good radio

see but the Diddler can be bitter on more than one thing.

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I didnt even hear the interview and didnt know he was on the air. But when I logged into this forum and saw his name as one of the topics, I pretty much knew what this thread was going to be about.

Pappas is a broken record. 20 years ago I heard this old dumbass saying the same thing he does now.

Also he wasn't that great a pitcher.

I've actually never even heard of this guy--someone give me an update on his sad-sack story please?

There is an almost identical interview here.

He was the last Cubs pitcher to throw a no-hitter, and if it weren't for a couple of questionable balls called that turned into a walk, it would have been a perfect game. He still blames the umpire and everyone else for not getting the perfect game.




This jerk even goes to the extent to root against Cubs pitchers if they are close to throwing a no-no, because he doesn't want his record smudged. Throw his ass in the "over the cliff while on fire" bus with the 1972 Miami Dolphins who pop open champagne everytime the last undefeated NFL team loses a game.

Why stop at Don Drysdale? This Pappas creep has 44 more career wins than Sandy Koufax. Clearly, Milt was a better pitcher than the great Koufax, right?

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Stoney - My LSD-riddled brain cells tell me that his wife accidentally drowned in a car accident when she somehow drove into a retention pond & they didn't find her body & car for FIVE YEARS.

Yeah - she apparently turned into the fire station driveway but didn't make the driveway's curves - went 35 mph into the retention pond next door. The firefighters were playing with an RC boat (which sank), dove in to get the boat, found her car.

There was a mass murderer back in the early 80s who said he would lead police to the body but never did.