Saturday, January 29, 2011

The Last Man To Win 30 Games




7 comments:

  1. Oh dear GOD. I wonder if he can still slam a case of Pepsi a day, or if da 'Beetus done whipped his ass.

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  2. magnificent

    also, the first time I realized pitcher wins were sort of bullshit (or at least not the whole story, I guess you could say more charitably) was when Bob Welch had 27. there is absolutely nothing wrong with Bob Welch, obviously, other than beating the Blue Jays in the 89ALCS, but it was like, lol ok.

    finally, if you have not read the section of Denny McLain's wikipedia entry called "downfall of mclain's mlb career" then YOU MUST:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_McLain

    "McLain’s descent into his gambling obsession was further precipitated by an offhand remark made during an interview: that he drank about a case of Pepsi a day."

    That sentence is at least 7 WAR.

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  3. oh shit sorry Harpo didn't see you there homie

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  4. Uh. . . . . is it BAD to drink that much Pepsi . . ..

    Also when I was a younger man, much younger, Denny had a sports talk show on the station (I want to say ABC) that we got out of Detroit. I always felt he was off putting.

    Also also thanks to that station I know alot about late 80's Pistons Basketball and early 90's Wayne Fontes Detroit Lions.

    COOL

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  5. Yeah, I was writing an article on disgraced athletes for Heavy a while back before they had us all e-killed and I included Denny McLain, and in my half-assed research, I came across Denny's wikipedia entry and GODDAMN. I mean, you can be pretty aware of the lololol nature of the man's life and career, but you just don't get the full impact until you see it all laid out for you all at once.

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  6. Denny McLain is like . . . Kenny Powers raised to the (kenny) power(s) of Kenny Powers

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  7. Even the paragraph where you start out like "oh shit, his daughter died in a car accident, shit . . ." by the end of that same paragraph he's looting a pension fund and going to prison.

    Imagine, though, how good it must have felt to just be fucking striking cats out and coming back to the dugout and drinking a whole Pepsi and then heading out and just fucking DOING IT AGAIN IMAGINE IT.

    I also love how the craziest shit you've ever read ends with the simple statement that Denny McLain was out of professional baseball by the age of 29.

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