<![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @HockeyMountain: Exactly my reaction. If that happened today, it would immediately go to 2 talking heads arguing about whether this was THE BEST PERFORMANCE EVER or not.

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]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> I was a young lad of 10 at the time, I can remember sitting in my room and watching the last two innings. I still subconsciously hate Craig Biggio for getting that groundout in the 9th. I'm pretty sure that season is going to be the highlight of my life as a Cubs fan, young and oblivious to the harsh truths of failure.

stuckintheivy

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @brendanm14: Holy crap, I was doing the exact same thing.

williamzabka

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> I was impressed with the trifecta of #34 NBA shirts (at the 1:25 mark)

Lakers (O'Neal), Rockets (Hakeem), and Suns (Barkley)

BigTDog

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @The Count of Monte Fisto:

Brant Brown and Alex Gonzalez also come to mind.

I actually remember where I was 10 years ago today....drinking beer in my dorm room watching the game....good times....and now I am old.

brendanm14

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @racistmascot_inc: & he lost!

GO MILWAUKEE BRAVES.

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Mr. Marinovich: Dave Stieb didn't even win 200 games!

The next guy were going to be having this argument about is Mike Mussina. Even though he has slightly better numbers, I think he's going to end up like Morris and be just short.

Juancho

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> 10 years? Holy crap, I am old.

Watched that game in The Sporting News "online newsroom."

Jen P

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Fuckin' Orie.

/Me when I was 14.

2ndBase

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @A Pimp Named DaveR: I'm pretty sure Bill James is a good sabermatician and realizes the points you make (as do I - plenty o' stats in my background).

I posted the link because you questioned Will's assertion that the game was the greatest pitched ever, as if it were blashemy. It may or may not be, but it certainly belongs in the discussion.

Dead Wrestlers Society

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Stev D: Save what you can my friend, save what you can. Apologies to John Lovitz, but my goodness, would that fifth season of NewsRadio have been epic, especially if Bill had been there to get blissed out with Jimmy and Dave on Joe's massive homemade white noise machine.

Yostal

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @A Pimp Named DaveR: Why does Clemens doing it twice have any bearing on whether or not it was the greatest singular pitching performance?

Dirka Dirka

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Juancho:

Eh, I think the Hall is diluted enough, so I'm not a huge fan of Morris' 3.90 career ERA. Plus, I don't like the crazy arguments that (most of) his supporters use, like "he pitched to the score" (which, upon investigation through retrosheet, wasn't really true) to try and explain away his ERA.

He had a great career, but there are guys I'd put in before him, and not just Blyleven.

racistmascot_inc

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Also making me feel old: It has been 793 years since the Magna Carta was issued.

amorphous

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Juancho: Put Dave Stieb and Blyleven in and I will consider Morris.

Mr. Marinovich

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @1976 Oakland Raiders:

Seinfeld went off the air in 1998. Even then, cell phones weren't the most common item. The Chinese Restaurant episode aired in 1991. The only cell phones available were of the humongous Zack Morris type. So no, that solution would not have been possible.

Tightlines

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> I stood in the bar of the DFW Airport Marriott and watched each and everyone of the strikeouts in amazement. I thought he was the real deal. I thought things were going to change. I will go cry now.

J-No

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Juancho:
Morris And Blyleven! That's a ticket I could get behind.


1976 Oakland Raiders

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> what a shitty day to be Shane Reynolds, huh?

Thundercracker

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Dead Wrestlers Society: According to A METRIC developed by Bill James it was. But that doesn't mean James thinks it was the best performance by a pitcher ever.

For example, if Wood puts up those numbers against both a team composed solely of the worst offensive players in MLB history and a team composed of the best offensive players in MLB history, he'd get the exact same Game Score for both starts. But one start would CLEARLY be a vastly better pitching peformance, notwithstanding the equality of the game score.

Good sabremetricians realize both the strengths AND the limitations of statistical analysis...

A Pimp Named DaveR

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Yinka Double Dare: But most pitchers won't come anywhere near 250+ wins.

I also think Blyleven should be in there too, so what do I know?

Juancho

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Until he strkes out 27 batters on 81 pitches, I won't be impressed.

/Steve Nebraska'd

BigRicks

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Trenton Makes The World Takes: And Deadspin's version of the rickroll is born.

Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @racistmascot_inc: I was thinking more for the 254 wins and an ERA under 4. '91 was the crowning achievement.

Fun fact: on the day of his perfect game, Don Larsen's wife filed for divorce.

Juancho

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Juancho: How that guy is not in the Hall, I will never know.

Well, we can probably start with the 3.90 career ERA, only 5% better than league average during his career.

Yinka Double Dare

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> So many of Seinfeld's crazy situations could've been solved if they only had a cell phone. Remember George at the Chinese restaurant? And all the other ones?

Now that I think of it, the entire premise of the sitcom is negated by the posession of cellphones. No wonder reality TV is so popular, no one can think of a good situation for sitcoms that couldn't be resolved with a good old fashioned cell phone

1976 Oakland Raiders

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @shea_guevara: It's too bad the league apparently contracted the rest of the league since then.

HockeyMountain

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @HockeyMountain: Also, the highlights were from a game that didn't involve the Yankees or Red Sox, and yet lasted longer than 9 seconds.

shea_guevara

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> I cried, and I'm only 20. What a long, strange trip it's been.

[www.theonion.com]

DontPracticeRenteria

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Good thing they had Mark Prior in the chute for when Wood got sidelined by injuries. They never would've won all those World Series' without him.

Marth

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> So I guess we've got to wait at least 89 more years to see another Cub pitcher perform like that?

FiddlingWhileJimRomeBurns

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Juancho:

If we're putting people into the Hall for one game, then Don Larsen has a few choice words for you.

racistmascot_inc

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Juancho: close html tag, numbnuts.

Juancho

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> 1998 Kerry Wood, if you can hear me- warn Phil Hartman!!!!

Oh yeah, and the 9/11 thing, the tsunami and the disastrous presidency of GWB...But Phil Hartman is the main thing.

Stev D

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Even better than the performance:

Rich Eisen letting the performance dominate the highlight, and ESPN didn't fuck it up with a bottom scroll, sponsors, and 5 minutes of Steve Phillips jibberish about Wood's "stuff"

Man those were the days huh?

HockeyMountain

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @shea_guevara: My choice is Jack Morris, game 7 of the 1991 World Series. Complete game shutout, 10 innings, in a 1-run ballgame.

How that guy is not in the Hall, I will never know.

Juancho

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Stay Away From Oprah: Mark Prior "Existing Condition," apparently.

RonZookonRedBull

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Any appearance of Mickey Morandini, however brief, makes my day.

Tightlines

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Lady Andrea: "Hey Orie, don't give me this olé bullshit."

thetaxman

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance...:

I'm still taking Harvey Haddix's 12 perfect innings. His final line is still ridiculous:

12 2/3 IP, 1 un-earned run, 1 hit, 1 intentional walk, 8 Ks

racistmascot_inc

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @strong like bull smart like tractor:

/already wearing Depends
//shits Depends


Whitey Fisk

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Ha tink Will is becoming French-Canadian. 10 year since Seinfeld went hoff de hair? Dat show was ilarious!

SportsCentre

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> No telling where Grace was fixing to haul that country bumpkin.

Maybe Mexico.

Maybe the moon.

But one thing was for certain, lots of beer would be downed and slumpbusters would be served.

The Diesel

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Getting old really pisses the shit out of me.

Agamemnon Busmalis

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> What makes it more impressive is that Derek Bell wasn't even in shutdown mode yet.

thetaxman

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Yellow Tail Swine: @The Count of Monte Fisto: @LosOsosdeChicago: yeah, that guy should pretty much be beaten to death. Just for that play. What a douche.

Lady Andrea

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> I'm still getting over the it's been 10 years thing.

/I am the Assman
//shits pants


Dany Heatley Speedwagon

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> And I mean what is the deal with the "E" in "ESPN"? Are they expecting me to believe that tractor pulls and rodeo at 2 AM is entertainment? What's the deal with that?

/Sein'd, circa '98

FredGarvin

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> This is also the 10th anniversary of that time I drank too many beers and threw up.

So is tomorrow.

Carmen McFanzone

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Suss--: Not to mention Pokemon and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire hysteria.

Stay Away From Oprah

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> A Rich Eisen sighting!
/doesnt get NFL network


Bunkie Perkins

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @A Pimp Named DaveR: "Roger did it twice."

What is "Just About Every Living Thing in North America," Alex?

RonZookonRedBull

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Trenton Makes The World Takes: I have no idea why that image was posted with my comment. Please ignore.

Trenton Makes The World Takes

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Arriaga_II: Only until she wanted to split up.

/waves, leaves

StevieY19

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Fucking Kevin Orie. I'm still bitter.

LosOsosdeChicago

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> E5

BigTenObsession

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Yellow Tail Swine: Forever and ever, Amen.

TheStarterWife

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @A Pimp Named DaveR: It's the combination of a twenty strikeouts performance & one-hitter that does it. Regardless month, day, year, & rival, it's pretty impressive. I imagine only Nolan Ryan &/or Walter Johnson ever came close to something congruent.

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Just putting this in perspective -- next year will be the 10th anniversarty of WHAZZZUUUUUUP.

Matt Sussman

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> No truth to the rumor that after the game he went on a date with an embryonic Miley Cyrus, however.

Arriaga_II

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> "Mind if I crash at your place?"

Chamomiles Davis

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> The Astros seemed really sluggish - as if their uniforms were really heavy. What were they wearing? Cotton?

Paul Zuvella

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @A Pimp Named DaveR: according to Bill James, it was.

[en.wikipedia.org]

Dead Wrestlers Society

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Trenton Makes The World Takes: Thanks, but if it wasn't written by W.C. Heinz, I don't want to read it.

Yellow Tail Swine

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> It's also 54 years ago today that Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile barrier.

What history forgets is that he did it using a rudimentary PED made from cod liver oil, the sweat of an Italian and Shredded Wheat.

Gourmet Spud

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Kerry Wood is at least the second-most disappointing Cubs pitcher of the last 10 years. There's really no argument.

Barry Lutz

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Can you really consider Seinfeld off the air? There's like 17 episodes on per day.

/not that there's anything wrong with that

Spectacular Sam

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Brazil Thrill's Shot Was Blocked By KG: +1. That made me laugh harder than it should have.

Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Harvey Haddix scoffs at that game, then cries because of the 13th inning.

racistmascot_inc

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Looks like I picked the wrong week to go off the hair.

heyzeus

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Brazil Thrill's Shot Was Blocked By KG: Do you know what Kerry Wood used to keep his arm warmed-up between innings?

Butter.

Weed Against Speed

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> I was at the game later that year when Clemens struck out 18 KC Royals, and in spite of all of the ridiculous crap that OldLOL has been through since then that's turned him into a walking punchline, that was still the most incredible ballgame I've ever witnessed in person.

And Jesus Christ, that was ten years ago. I too am old.

Avoid the Clap, Jimmy Dugan

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]>

Someone once wrote an interesting piece of journalism about Kerry Wood

[www.nytimes.com]

Trenton Makes The World Takes

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @A Pimp Named DaveR: I think Pedro's 10 inning near-perfect game would have to be up there, too (9 perfect innings, 1 hit in the 10th).

Or Tom Seaver striking out 19 in 1970, including the last 10 men he faced.

/additional $0.02

shea_guevara

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Nice Sandy Martinez sighting, by the way.

PeteJayhawk

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Brazil Thrill's Shot Was Blocked By KG: "And what about Mark Prior? Was his name Matt or Mike before? Mark prior to what?"

Stay Away From Oprah

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Brazil Thrill's Shot Was Blocked By KG: Why is their manager named Dusty Baker? He doesn't look all that dusty... and I know for a fact he isn't a baker, either.

Yellow Tail Swine

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> The last breaking ball, on the 20th K, is just retarded.

Mr. Marinovich

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @The Count of Monte Fisto: Just took my post away from me, it definitely needed the hometown scoring of an error on that play

CubsDynasty

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @xhack: and excessive jheri curl.

-pascual perez

"If the Cubs ever do make a World Series"
(reflexive snort)


Johnny LaRue

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> "And what's the deal with Kerry Wood? His arm's not made of oak, so why isn't he named Kerry Fleshandbones? What's the deal with that?"

-Seinfeld'ed

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> So, was Julia Louis-Dreyfuss shaven or unshaven during Seinfeld?

Weed Against Speed

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> I read an interview the other day where Wood says friends call him up and tell him when the game is on ESPN Classic or something, and he still can't get over how big the strike zone was that day.

The guy made his whole career off that game, damn.

Juancho

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> It's not so hard to believe Seinfeld went off the air 10 years ago when you check out Jerry's ridiculous outfits (note: outfits still fashionable in Boston).

Doyle McPoyle

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> What's the deal with being on the hair?

Spanish Necktie

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Kevin Orie is a dick.

Yellow Tail Swine

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @Lady Andrea: Kevin Orie. Want to see a Cubs fan's eye twitch uncontrollably? Mention his name.

/eye twitches

The Count of Monte Fisto

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> {"Seinfeld" went off the hair}

While it has gotten noticeably thinner, I wouldn't rule out a Bosley-aided comeback attempt.

BillyBeanesMoneyBlanket

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @A Pimp Named DaveR: Clemens and Pedro are disqualified from this conversation because they cheated, using steroids and midget voodoo, respectively.

xhack

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @ArkansasFred: Brian Blair is punk fag.

/Iron Sheik'd

HebrewHammer

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Greatest game ever pitched.

The Count of Monte Fisto

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> You really start to understand why James Dean stopped at three films.

Jefferson Short Bus

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Today also marks the 75th anniversary of Julio Franco's Major League debut.

the earl of weaver

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> I can't turn on the sound, who flubbed that play? What an asshole.

Lady Andrea

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Ten years??

/begins pricing Depends
//shits pants


strong like bull smart like tractor

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> @The Count of Monte Fisto: Being addicted to smoking cat hair is no joke, and I for one applaud Jerry for conquering his demons.

Bobby_Big_Wheel

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> At that game, a sprite Steve Bartman accidentally shot a laser pointer in Kevin Orie's eyes right before he botched the grounder.

HebrewHammer

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> perhaps the greatest pitching performance ever

I don't think I'd go that far.

(1) Roger did it twice.
(2) Pedro 1-hitting the Yankees at Yankee Stadium in a pennant run is, IMHO, more impressive as a pitching performance than Wood getting his stuff-mojo going in overdrive against a decent-but-not-spectacular Astros team in a relatively non-stressful game.

Just my $.02


A Pimp Named DaveR

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Where's the bumpin' music? Where are the CG explosions? Where's the ticker? Where's the promo for Who's Now?

Man, SportsCenter used to suck.

1980 David Bowie From The Music Video Ashes To Ashes

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> B. Brian Blair and Jim Brunzell would have gone back to back on Wood.

ArkansasFred

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> At the mere mention of this, Kerry Wood's arm imploded

Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> In mind Seinfeld will always be on the hair.

The Count of Monte Fisto

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Cub-bies?

Afino

]]> <![CDATA[Ten Years Since Wood's Amazing Game]]> Kerry Wood appreciates your associating him with Clemens this week.

Carmen McFanzone

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