MLB '10: The Show - Joe Mauer Interview (Gameinformer)

[CubFan23]

Why couldn't the Twins have taken Mark Prior instead of Mauer?!

[jetercanoturn2]

Quote: Originally Posted by CubFan23

Why couldn't the Twins have taken Mark Prior instead of Mauer?!

Why did the Cubs go after Milton Bradley? Ouch

[brewersfan84]

Quote: Originally Posted by EnigmaNemesis

Ichiro is definitely the best contact hitter in all of baseball, and can be argued in a very tiny select list of best of all time. And take that from a Red Sox fan who knows full well of a one Ted Williams.

Are you even old enough to say you saw Teddy play?

Back on the topic of this post(some ppl need to stay on point)... Thanks for sharing this tid-bit

[EnigmaNemesis]

Quote: Originally Posted by brewersfan84

Are you even old enough to say you saw Teddy play?

What does that have to do with anything other than to be argumentative?

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by EnigmaNemesis

Ichiro is definitely the best contact hitter in all of baseball, and can be argued in a very tiny select list of best of all time. And take that from a Red Sox fan who knows full well of a one Ted Williams.

Sorry...NO WAY.

You may hate him...but this belongs to Ty Cobb....
.366 lifetime BA(over 24 seasons!)
11 batting titles(including losing in '22 with a .401 average!!)
Led the league in hits 8 times...
Had over 200 hits 8 times(156 games per season...not 162)
and after getting the regular starting position...his 3rd season never batted under .325(until his final season... .323)
Batted over .400three times(including the record .420).... .390..... .382.... 380+ quite a few times....uggh...do I need to go on?
Oh...yeah....was stealing 70/80/90 bases regularly.
The man was a MACHINE.

M.K.
Knight165

[Scottdau]

Quote: Originally Posted by metsman8669

Ichiro is obviously one of the best players in baseball...but to me there is no comparison. Mauer's a catcher and what that guy does from such a grueling position is almost unreal.

If Ich was the same age I would take him over Mauer. Using your same logic who will hold up longer?

[S2S]

Knight is spot on. People talk about Pete Rose diving into bases. Cobb was a beast you didn't want to see diving towards you on the basepaths. Not to mention, I think Cobb pulled a spectator out of the stands one time and hit him. :/



On May 15, 1912, Cobb assaulted a heckler, Claude Lueker, in the stands in New York. Lueker and Cobb had traded insults with each other through the first three innings, and the situation climaxed when Lueker called Cobb a "half-******." Cobb, in his discussion of the incident (My Life in Baseball: The True Record, Ty Cobb and Al Stump, Doubleday, 1961, pp. 131–135), avoided such explicit words, but alluded to it by saying the man was "reflecting on my mother's color and morals." Cobb stated in the book that he warned Highlanders manager Harry Wolverton that if something wasn't done about the man, there would be trouble. No action was taken. At the end of the sixth inning, after being challenged by teammates Sam Crawford and Jim Delahanty to do something about it, Cobb climbed into the stands and attacked Lueker, who it turns out was handicapped (he had lost all of one hand and three fingers on his other hand in an industrial accident). When onlookers shouted at Cobb to stop because the man had no hands, Cobb reportedly replied, "I don't care if he has no feet!"<sup>[43]


He was a beast.</sup>

[Scottdau]

OK that is funny. GI Joe.