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@JackMcPher95405 @nut_history That's a very significant offensive edge for Williams. Mays's defense and baserunnung may make up for it or slightly more, but it's not at all clear that it does.

@FunFunGamesFun @nut_history When you add defense and base running, I think it’s pretty clear. Williams was the better pilot though.

@Patton6606Chuck @JShalooby @nut_history Actually, it doesn't. Williams had 1 WAR every 18.82 games, and Mays had 1 every 19.24 games.

@FunFunGamesFun @JShalooby @nut_history A statistical comparison of the MLB careers of Mays and Ted decisively disproves your opinion.

@AJWTheology "On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time, you go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime."

We often debate the best opening line in a book—Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina, 1984, etc—but what’s the best opening line in a song? I nominate Paul Simon: “A man walks down the street and says, ‘Why am I so soft in the middle now, when the rest of my life is so hard?’”

@JackMcPher95405 @nut_history Not clear that Mays was a better player. He was better at the other-than-hitting stuff, but .174 OPS is a lot to make up.

@nut_history Ted Williams was a better hitter. Mays was the better player. There is more to baseball than just hitting.

@Patton6606Chuck @JShalooby @nut_history It's not a matter of performance credit. Mays had the better career due to more playing time, but they're effectively equal on a rate basis. You're not getting a (much if at all) better player with Mays; you're getting one who was avoht as good and played more.

@JShalooby @nut_history Every military service member deserves recognition for their service. However, military personnel cannot receive performance credit in their previous or subsequent athletic endeavors. Allowing emotions to override factual participation is erroneous. It is merely your opinion.

@VintageRockN_85 Perfect Strangers

“Choose 1” Masterpiece Track #RockandRollwillneverdie •Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple •Bell Bottom Blues - Dominos •Still Loving You - Scorpions •Heart Of Gold - Neil Young •Thunder Road - The Boss •Back In The Saddle - Aerosmith

@JVMonte2 Iron Maiden through Powerslave CCR Green River through Cosmo's Factory Styx Grand Illusion to Paradise Theater Metallica Kill 'em All through Puppets. Any run in the Doors through Morrison Hotel

What is the best 3-5 consecutive album run by a band or artist?

@EricsElectrons I have, but I've also seen how defensive linemen try to get to the QB, and that ain't it.

@FunFunGamesFun Have you seen a sumo match? They are fast and quick on their feet too.

For years I've wondered why football coaches don't study and implement techniques of sumo wrestlers and other combat sports to teach how to be more effective on the field. It seems logical to me.

@MyTubeClone @chess_feed Yup...and then the queen goes right back where it started.

@FunFunGamesFun @chess_feed Forced to move h5.

White to move, mate in 2!

@DaveMacLachlan1 Long Train Running.

What's a song by The Doobie Brothers that you really like? (Specific song titles only please).

Wow RIP Michelle Trachtenburg. Way too young.

@TheExtremeMusi1 Solo, I prefer Hagar. With VH, Roth all the way.

Settle a bet for me. David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar ???

@CV67Catapult @Jimfrombaseball I'd trade 2020s baseball to have 1970s baseball back in a heartbeat.

@FunFunGamesFun @Jimfrombaseball All fair. The 70's were fun,.... baseball and disco.😎

"Reggie Jackson couldn't shine Willie Mays' shoes. He never hit .300, he's a butcher in the outfield and he's got a big mouth. What does he make, $8,000 week? I wouldn't pay him $8 a week. He's a bum." Mgr. Leo Durocher

@CV67Catapult @Jimfrombaseball I feel for Chambliss...I'd want the HR for my team, but I wouldn't want the adjacent locker!

@CV67Catapult @Jimfrombaseball Definitely not going to take the other side of "He was a jerk!" Lol I'm just saying that the man could play (unlike Durocher, who was also a jerk!) Not sure about the bad for baseball...he generated a lot of interest/excitement in the 70s.

@BJohnso96855199 @JohnnyWhales3 @Jimfrombaseball Or alternatively 14-time All-Star Reggie Jackson. You have to play pretty well to stay in the league long enough to strike out that many times. Kind of like all-time interception leader Brett Favre.

@FunFunGamesFun @JohnnyWhales3 @Jimfrombaseball all time strikeout leader Reggie Jackson

@JohnnyWhales3 @Jimfrombaseball And yet his teams won. As Durocher himself pointed out, being liked and being a good player are 2 different things ("Nice guys finish last.") The irony is, it was Durocher who was barely good enough to play in the majors, and who managed forever and won 1 ring.

@FunFunGamesFun @Jimfrombaseball Maybe “bum” is too strong. But Reggie rubbed people the wrong way all the way back to Oakland. Steinbrenner and Charlie Finley loved it. Leo Durocher, Billy Martin, Earl Weaver, and Dick Williams didn’t. It’s what it is.

@CV67Catapult @Jimfrombaseball Chambliss was a nice player, but he was no Reggie Jackson, and the only time he won rings was when Reggie was on his team.

@CV67Catapult @Jimfrombaseball He was also 36 when they traded him. And the year he left, the Angels won their division after finishing 5th the previous year; the Yankees went sub .500 after appearing in 3 World Series in 5 years while Reggie was there. They didn't make it back to the WS for 15 years