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Post by Cambridge on Jul 5, 2007 9:18:01 GMT -5
[EDIT--Moved from Jeff to Sonics Thread]
With a number like 22, it's time to start the nickname "double-duece", "double-double", "double-down" or "double-trouble".
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Post by bubbrubbhoya on Jul 5, 2007 10:38:40 GMT -5
[EDIT--Moved from Jeff to Sonics Thread] With a number like 22, it's time to start the nickname "double-duece", "double-double", "double-down" or "double-trouble". I prefer Jeff "Two Swans Swimming in a Row" Green. Fans of the popular American pastime Bingo will recognize this as the proper way to identify I-22. |
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Post by bubbrubbhoya on Jul 5, 2007 11:44:57 GMT -5
SI.com has just released a list of the best athletes for each number. Emmitt Smith is the current king of #22, followed by Elgin Baylor. It's gonna be tough deposing Emmitt, but let's hope Jeff makes a run at it when the list is republished in 15 years. Patrick Ewing could only muster a "Worthy of Consideration" at #33, but his category was pretty tough, to say the least: Kareem and Larry Legend were OK. tinyurl.com/33z4dyOf course, Thurman Thomas isn't even mentioned at #34, so this list should be taken with a large grain of salt. |
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Post by Boz on Jul 5, 2007 12:57:49 GMT -5
SI.com has just released a list of the best athletes for each number. Emmitt Smith is the current king of #22, followed by Elgin Baylor. It's gonna be tough deposing Emmitt, but let's hope Jeff makes a run at it when the list is republished in 15 years. Patrick Ewing could only muster a "Worthy of Consideration" at #33, but his category was pretty tough, to say the least: Kareem and Larry Legend were OK. tinyurl.com/33z4dyOf course, Thurman Thomas isn't even mentioned at #34, so this list should be taken with a large grain of salt. As with any list, this one Editedes me off. But I'm sure that's what they wanted, so I fell right into their cunning little scheme. At least they got #4 right. Gimme a break though. Red Grange over Ray Bourque. Who the hell is Red Frickin' Grange anyway? Does anyone really remember what number he wore? |
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Jul 5, 2007 13:05:01 GMT -5
well they got numer 8 and number 10 right. As soon as i started reading the list I said if number 10 isn't a soccer player then it's a terrible list. so at least they got that right. so now it's just a bad list. but it's not a terrible list.
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Post by hoyastrong on Jul 5, 2007 13:14:16 GMT -5
They have a friggin HORSE at #2 over the best shortstop of all time, Derek Jeter?? And John Elway over THE MICK at #7 Puhh-lease! I know my Yankee fanship may be slightly biased, but gimmie a break.
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Post by RDF on Jul 5, 2007 13:19:03 GMT -5
They have a friggin HORSE at #2 over the best shortstop of all time, Derek Jeter?? Puhh-lease! Jeter aside, how does a HORSE take precedent over a human being? For goodness sake, I hope this gets revisited at some time. Jeter, Moses Malone, Deion Sanders/Charles Woodson in college, there are options out there over a damn horse--especially one that doesn't even talk.  |
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Post by mapei on Jul 5, 2007 13:34:42 GMT -5
No different than the race cars.
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Post by SFHoya99 on Jul 5, 2007 13:39:26 GMT -5
They have a friggin HORSE at #2 over the best shortstop of all time, Derek Jeter?? And John Elway over THE MICK at #7 Puhh-lease! I know my Yankee fanship may be slightly biased, but gimmie a break. Derek Jeter is not the greatest shortstop of all time. |
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Post by Cambridge on Jul 5, 2007 13:45:40 GMT -5
They have a friggin HORSE at #2 over the best shortstop of all time, Derek Jeter?? And John Elway over THE MICK at #7 Puhh-lease! I know my Yankee fanship may be slightly biased, but gimmie a break. Best shortstop of all-time? I suppose if you like your shortstops as rangeless defenders... |
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Post by Cambridge on Jul 5, 2007 13:48:20 GMT -5
PS. the correct answer is Honus Wagner
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Post by WilsonBlvdHoya on Jul 5, 2007 14:17:53 GMT -5
Secretariat, as an athlete mind you, deserves the honor. What ticked me off was #1....Warren Moon (given his, ahem, stellar CFL career) over arguably the greatest all-around basketball player of all-time Oscar Robertson?!??!??!? SI's writers clearly hitting the crack pipe when they looked at #1 jerseys.....
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Post by hoyastrong on Jul 5, 2007 14:58:27 GMT -5
They have a friggin HORSE at #2 over the best shortstop of all time, Derek Jeter?? And John Elway over THE MICK at #7 Puhh-lease! I know my Yankee fanship may be slightly biased, but gimmie a break. Best shortstop of all-time? I suppose if you like your shortstops as rangeless defenders... Rangeless defender??? HA! Apparently you have been watching way too much basketball, because clearly you haven't ever seen any truly good baseball. P.S. Horses are not athletes. They are horses. Any living being that can be euthanized when it becomes worthless and turned into glue cannot be labeled a real athlete. P.P.S. Since I'm not a dinosaur, I had to look it up. Honus Wagner only won 1 World Series. Derek has 4...and counting (not this year though, I'm not that blinded). 4>1...the end |
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Post by SFHoya99 on Jul 5, 2007 15:12:49 GMT -5
Hoyastrong quickly establishing himself as the Skip Bayless of Hoyatalk...
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Post by FormerHoya on Jul 5, 2007 15:20:02 GMT -5
Is Hoyastrong making joke arguments?
I agree about horses not being athletes (Secratariat over Walter Payton in ESPN's "Sportcentury" or whatever it was called, sparked vicious debates in my Village A apartment my senior year), but Jeter's championships somehow making him the best of all time?
Next he'll be saying that the best measure of a pitcher is W-L.
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Jul 5, 2007 15:23:46 GMT -5
Hoyastrong quickly establishing himself as the Skip Bayless of Hoyatalk... Jeter is the best hitting, average fielding shortstop I've ever seen. Whatever that's worth. |
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Post by superan on Jul 5, 2007 15:32:09 GMT -5
green had a #22 jersey at the press conference about his contract.
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Post by TBird41 on Jul 5, 2007 15:36:34 GMT -5
Best shortstop of all-time? I suppose if you like your shortstops as rangeless defenders... Rangeless defender??? HA! Apparently you have been watching way too much basketball, because clearly you haven't ever seen any truly good baseball. P.S. Horses are not athletes. They are horses. Any living being that can be euthanized when it becomes worthless and turned into glue cannot be labeled a real athlete. P.P.S. Since I'm not a dinosaur, I had to look it up. Honus Wagner only won 1 World Series. Derek has 4...and counting (not this year though, I'm not that blinded). 4>1...the end By your logic, Phil Rizzuto and Frankie Crosetti are better than Jeter, since 8>4. Though, neither of them needed to jump to throw the ball, nor did either of them ever run face first into the bleachers after catching a pop up in fair territory, so that probably detracts from their candidacies, right Skip? |
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Post by hoyasexy on Jul 5, 2007 17:47:05 GMT -5
By your logic, Phil Rizzuto and Frankie Crosetti are better than Jeter . . . and Robert Horry is the best non-Celtic ever to play in the NBA. |
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Post by hoyastrong on Jul 5, 2007 19:33:58 GMT -5
neither of them needed to jump to throw the ball, nor did either of them ever run face first into the bleachers after catching a pop up in fair territory, so that probably detracts from their candidacies, right Skip? LOL! He has to jump to throw the ball because of the pre-a-rod (who hasn't been that much better) vacancy at 3rd that he has always had to cover by himself. And clearly you never really saw that dive into the seats because the ball was a good 6 or 7 feet behind the first row...hardly close to fair territory. It's alright, I'll give all you yankee-haters your place in the shade, what with your decades of perpetual mediocrity, you deserve it! And btw, Skip Bayless is the man. |
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