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Gosling		2012-05-07 07:59:01 PM

bgddy24601: Gosling: VvonderJesus: I'm saying if you look at all the previous no-hitter pitchers, nobody has had a better chance to repeat than Weaver. Yes, Vander Meer did it, but if we were to assign a probability of any pitcher throwing another no-hitter consecutive with their first, Weaver would have the highest chance of doing it.

/that doesn't help explain it much better
//the twins suck, is what I'm getting at

I still say Vander Meer is more likely. First night game at Ebbets, the batters had a hard time picking up the flight of the ball as it came out of Vander Meer's hand. On another day, Vander Meer would have gotten clobbered. He needed his defense to bail him out several times, he walked the bases full in the 9th, gave up eight walks and seven hits. His second no-hitter was a Francisco Liriano-type no-hitter. (The Reds won 6-0 because the Dodgers pitchers just kinda sucked. The Brooklyn starter, Max Butcher, had a 95-106 record over his career and got traded to the Phillies later in the 1938 season.)

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...AAAACCK HOW THE HELL DID I MISS THAT ONE

(I found where I got the seven. It was seven strikeouts. Not seven hits. I'm a ditz.)

Taima		2012-05-07 09:40:29 PM

Surprised there is a team worse than the Padres.

/when does football season start?
/might as well start following the Mariners.

neuroflare		2012-05-07 09:55:09 PM

Taima: Surprised there is a team worse than the Padres.

/when does football season start?
/might as well start following the Mariners.

You must really hate yourself

DrippinBalls		2012-05-08 07:22:21 AM

Le Grand Inquisitor
The Giant's will crush the Dodgers and move even closer to dominating the NL West. Book it, done

Not a snowball's chance in gayland.

/Go Tribe.

pag1107		2012-05-08 08:36:51 AM

groppet: SlothB77: The 2005 Orioles started the season 42-28. They finished 74-88. They spent 62 days in first place in the AL East that season.

Yeah that was when they had that post all star break meltdown. Still got plenty of season left.

Theory popular around here is that the whole team was juicing, Palmeiro got caught and they all had to get off the sauce just before the break. Lee Mazzilli, who'd been mentioned on the short list for manager of the year, got shown the door very quickly, leading to speculation he was in on it.

4NTLRZ		2012-05-08 10:29:06 AM

balki1867: thecpt: Wise_Guy: thecpt:.....But the O's are doing damage to everybody else including teams that always walk all over them in the AL East... The O's and Jays are respectively, 14-8 and 15-8 if you don't count the games where they played each other. Not too shabby.

And if you also don't count games where the O's give up two touchdowns.

FARK in FL		2012-05-08 11:11:55 AM

/that is all
/always have been; always will be a Cubs fan

dywed88		2012-05-08 03:10:14 PM

I love Cubs fans. One of the few things that don't make me feel sad to be a Jay's fan.

Rising From Ashes		2012-05-10 03:11:57 PM

FARK in FL: [rotations.files.wordpress.com image 640x480]

/that is all
/always have been; always will be a Cubs fan

My condolences

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