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Topic	Sports Discussion Topic #176: Welcome back to another edition of the Sports Topi
TyVulpine 05/26/18 9:34:24 AM #392:	CaptainHammer posted... That's just dumb. I've looked at his stats before and I can't really contextualize them too well but I remember comparing him year to year to like Sidney Crosby or whoever I knew to be good at the time and thinking like oh he had 8x as many goals as Crosby does when he was his age. In baseball it's all completely disputed all the time. There are too many factors that get people riled up (PEDs primarily but Ruth didn't play against non whites for example) but the one thing I can think of is that Pedro Martinez at his peak was the best pitcher who ever lived. You'll get some love for peak Sandy Koufax and Kershaw had momentum for a minute there but really Pedro is the only reasonable stance to take for GOAT peak No, Walter Johnson is the GOAT for baseball. 110 shutouts (a record that still stands), 417 wins (second-most all-time), 2.17 ERA (12th lowest all-time), 3,508 strikeouts (a record that stood for 55 years until Nolan Ryan broke it, and is now 8th all-time), 3 time Triple Crown winner. And he played for a team that was known for mediocrity. If he had played for Boston or the Yankees, he might have surpassed Cy Young for career wins. And he was a power-pitcher that threw sidearmed. --- Fall down, go boom... Life is like a box of chocolates. Most of it is crap. <cite>TyVulpine posted [p:902011129] in Sports Dis... [t:76607430]...</cite> <quote><cite>CaptainHammer posted...</cite> <quote>That's just dumb. I've looked at his stats before and I can't really contextualize them too well but I remember comparing him year to year to like Sidney Crosby or whoever I knew to be good at the time and thinking like oh he had 8x as many goals as Crosby does when he was his age. In baseball it's all completely disputed all the time. There are too many factors that get people riled up (PEDs primarily but Ruth didn't play against non whites for example) but the one thing I can think of is that Pedro Martinez at his peak was the best pitcher who ever lived. You'll get some love for peak Sandy Koufax and Kershaw had momentum for a minute there but really Pedro is the only reasonable stance to take for GOAT peak</quote> No, Walter Johnson is the GOAT for baseball. 110 shutouts (a record that still stands), 417 wins (second-most all-time), 2.17 ERA (12th lowest all-time), 3,508 strikeouts (a record that stood for 55 years until Nolan Ryan broke it, and is now 8th all-time), 3 time Triple Crown winner. And he played for a team that was known for mediocrity. If he had played for Boston or the Yankees, he might have surpassed Cy Young for career wins. And he was a power-pitcher that threw sidearmed. --- Fall down, go boom... Life is like a box of chocolates. Most of it is crap.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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