I like the stories of him telling guys in the dugout to be aware that a foul ball is coming their way in three pitches and being right.
My favorite thing about his style is the way that he went after guys when it was 0-2. Fuck that "waste a pitch" mentality.
he told the one about how he called a game for Bruce Chen from the dugout, he threw 8 innings and gave up 1 run. that one gets better with age too because at the time Chen was supposed to be a star prospect and in retrospect he was below replacement level.
When they played together on the Cubs, Mark Grace once noticed Maddux walking around the pitching mound in a very strained, uncomfortable manner. Fearing his teammate was hurt, Grace approached the mound, only to find Maddux in an state of obvious physical excitement, the kind normally reserved for passionate endeavors.
“Man, you really do love to pitch,” Grace marveled.
Cousin Sal on PMT was really fucking weird. Like he kind of went into some of his bits and Big Cat & PFT didn't sell them at all. Big Cat seemed to genuinely like him though. I enjoyed them busting out "What's the Spread?" (I don't think Sal thought it was funny at all). The best part, however was:
Cousin Sal on PMT was really fucking weird. Like he kind of went into some of his bits and Big Cat & PFT didn't sell them at all. Big Cat seemed to genuinely like him though. I enjoyed them busting out "What's the Spread?" (I don't think Sal thought it was funny at all). The best part, however was:
Cousin Sal on PMT was really fucking weird. Like he kind of went into some of his bits and Big Cat & PFT didn't sell them at all. Big Cat seemed to genuinely like him though. I enjoyed them busting out "What's the Spread?" (I don't think Sal thought it was funny at all). The best part, however was:
Can't believe "jose throws the fight" wasn't obvious in retrospect. I enjoyed the whole thing immensely though.
Was this like an “everybody’s in on it” thing? Or did Canseco just bitch out?
Idk. To me it looked like Jose did it on his own. Since the rumor is he's broke and barstool paid him a big appearance fee...my guess is he tried to pump his odds prefight and then told his creditors to bet on Billy.
Billy did berserker him as soon as the fight started though, and Jose might just be an idiot who would accept a fight with a torn rotator cuff just for the fee. Anyway, all Jose either way, I don't think portnoy is dumb enough to fuck his company up on a bottom-tier "boxing" match-fixing scandal.