Posted By:
jay behrensI can't claim to ahve seen Koufax pitch, but I do know, taht as I have mentioned before, to be an all-time great, you have to do it for your whole career ala Matty, Johnson, Grove, Alexander, etc. Koufax didn't do this. He is one of, if not the greatest peak value pitchers in history, but not thing more.
I don't have a problem with putting supernovas like Koufax in. Thing that bothers me is that the same people that think Koufax belongs even though his career was cut short are almost always the same people taht don't think Puckett and others of similar plight belong. I also think personally, I put Mantle in the same catagory as Koufax in that I never saw either play but have to hear the constant fawning of fans that treat them as some sort of god and greater than they really were. Not that I'm saying there aren't great, jsut overblown.
Jay
I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Wierd, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff. And I want in.