Comments on: And people wonder why I love knuckleballers http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Tue, 21 May 2013 13:15:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105735 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:25:27 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105735 BC – me too, the old PJ of National Lampoon fame, before he became a raving neofascist mudpuppy’s cloaca (now come on – weren’t you getting tired of “chipwich” and “deuschnozzle”?)

]]> By: Gobias Industries http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105692 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:41:46 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105692 Judy Blume anyone? Must just be me.

]]> By: BC http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105682 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:26:29 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105682 Actually I’m more into PJ O’Rourke. Just wanted to stay within genre on my previous comment.

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105667 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:48:39 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105667 I would love to take your bait this morning, but I haven’t eaten breakfast yet. I might re-engage this staggering exposition of kitsch flummery when I’ve had my coffee. Robert Ludlum? Give me a break. I’d take Seicho Matsumoto any day.

]]> By: BC http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105624 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:37:42 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105624 Faulkner is an overrated, overblown blowhard. Gimme some Robert Ludlum any day.

]]> By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105589 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:09:59 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105589

I defy you to name a pitcher who can throw 100 miles per hour who has also read Absalom, Absalom! There are none. Only a knuckleballer. Maybe a couple of wise backup catchers. That’s it.

Not sure if serious* [.jpg] but I think this guy has him beat:
[Ross]Ohlendorf majored in Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. In his senior thesis, Ohlendorf used sabermetrics to demonstrate the return on investment from the Major League Baseball Draft.

*how do you insert pics? i know how to do it with bbcoding, but i’m at a loss with html.

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105576 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:43:17 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105576 Awww, what difference does it really make? Faulkner is just the poor man’s Cormac McCarthy anyway.

]]> By: gravytrain56 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105574 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:27:59 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105574 sorry for the double post.

]]> By: gravytrain56 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105573 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:27:32 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105573 http://defendingthecore.blogspot.com/2011/01/mets-sign-young.html

]]> By: gravytrain56 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105572 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:26:51 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105572 love dickey woukld start him on opening day. Don’tr love the young signing chhttp://defendingthecore.blogspot.com/2011/01/mets-sign-young.htmleck out my blog for why

]]> By: Gobias Industries http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105569 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:50:37 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105569 Aroldis Chapman’s favorite book is sTORI Telling by Tori Spelling.

]]> By: spudchukar http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105567 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:29:53 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105567 Faulkner or Clinton?

]]> By: spudchukar http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105566 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:28:51 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105566 Little tough on old R.A., Gator. When most big-leaguers can’t finish Harry Potter, a literary reference is refreshing. He probably can’t spell Yoknapathawpha either. And it’s pretty cruel to mention “As I Lay Dying” knowing Mets fans are undoubtedly going to read these comments. Still preferred “The Fable”.

]]> By: Utley's Hair http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105563 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:19:36 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105563 That’s not the only thing he did when he was drunk…or so I’ve heard…

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105549 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:40:21 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105549 Dickey has no taste in Faulkner. How he could prefer the relentless verbal sludge of Absalom, Absalom to As I lay Dying or The Sound and the Fury is just beyond me. Bill Clinton memorized Benjy’s soliloquy in college and could recite it verbatim whenever he got drunk at a party. I’ll take that over some knuckleballer who can’t hold his Faulkner any day.

]]> By: Mr. Jason "El Bravo" Heyward http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105544 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:17:38 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105544 The Big Show is indeed a fickle beast. A beast of which Mr. Dickey has since tamed.

]]> By: jgraening http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105543 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:15:49 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105543 Back in 2009, my wife gave me a Twins shirt with RA Dickey’s name and number on the back for our wedding anniversary. He was demoted to Triple-A the next day. I still wear the shirt with pride.

]]> By: billtpa http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105542 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:11:08 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105542 As cool as that was, though, he followed it up with back-to-back tweets where the answer to the question was “consistency.” Not sure what to make of all this.

]]> By: Mr. Jason "El Bravo" Heyward http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/19/and-people-wonder-why-i-love-knuckleballers/comment-page-1/#comment-105539 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:06:42 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=35902#comment-105539 There’s your opening day starter.

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