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Stairway to Polo

Edgy MD Nov 07 2011 09:42 AM

From this IGT. A little historical perspective on Timmeh's Freak Show: Lincecum had a 96 game score -- a metric created by Bill James to determine a pitcher's dominance in a particular game ... The next-closest was Christy Mathewson's 86 for the New York Giants in Game 3 of the 1905 World Series (four-hit shutout, eight strikeouts). There's something about that statement that is both awe-inspiring and absurd. Christy Mathewson, three shutout victories in that very same World Series, the one New York Giant player whose name still resonates as emblematic of the city's first great professional athletic powerhouse -- still standing after everything else from that era has been long demolished or forgotten (sort of like the John T. Brush Stairway) ... 373 lifetime victories ... America's first sports hero ... the pitcher to whom Tom Seaver was compared for both talent and intelligence when came up ... the frigging Christian Gentleman ... ...and along comes this kid with the hair and the motion and the strikeouts and, by some measure, he exceeds Christy Mathewson in a Giants uniform 105 years later. Wow. The Brush Stairway is making the biggest comeback since Fernando Tatis.

G-Fafif Nov 07 2011 12:34 PM Re: Stairway to Polo