RIP Eric Gregg.

So you’re saying that while umpires gave Maddux the outside corner they gave the inside corner call to Pedro?

Then there was Tom Glavine, who pitched with an outside corner that extended into the batter’s box. Messner, the southern German, er northern Italian

Yep. And they both had ridiculously great peak years

known as Carradining

So you’re saying that while umpires gave Maddux the outside corner they gave the inside corner call to Pedro?

I think they both knew how to pitch to an area where they were gonna the calls they wanted.

pretty sure there are more recent examples than messner

The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner is my favorite Ben Folds album.

There are. He was just the first to do it solo and without oxygen.

He was Maddux’d.

So you’re saying that while umpires gave Maddux the outside corner they gave the inside corner call to Pedro?

he was a smart pitcher

He was Maddux’d.

My friend, call him Carl

What, Reba’s too good for you?

Is that even possible?

Yes it is.

dudes who climb everest-type peaks without oxygen

Is that even possible?

/sort of on topic

I think he’s holding a martini shaker

You can make it happen if you want: http://bicycle-gifts.com/poster.htm

I want that hanging over my desk.

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That’s a given, I just meant that it was novel for that whole generation of hitters to face somebody playing the chin music on basically every at bat.

Yep – mostly caffeine like stimulants and precursors to adderal. But no one dominated like him – doping or no doping.

He played at a time when nobody else hit the inside of the strike zone the same way he did so he was a smart pitcher

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