Wood's 20 K's more "Perfect" Than Humber

[ChiSoxGirl]

Originally Posted by DumpJerry

You're a Mandated Reporter. You know what needs to be done......1-800-25-ABUSE.

[DrCrawdad]

The Sox win the '05 World Series, how do many Cubbie Clowns respond? Denigrate and make it about them. They tried to denigrate it by saying the Sox cheated then by going on and on about TV ratings. Then during the Sox World Championship parade they said about how much bigger and better it would be IF the Cubbies had won.

Buehrle's Perfect Game. Cubbie Clowns response? Once again denigrate it and then make it about them (see this moron's commentary).

And now Humber has a Perfect Game. How do Cubbie Clowns respond? Denigrate and make it about them.

We regularly hear from Cubbie Clowns that Sox fans have a "chip on their shoulder" a "little brother complex" and other pseudo-psycho babble. What explains their perpetual need to put-down Sox accomplishments and their constant need to make it about them? Insecurity? Delusions of grandeur?

Buehrle’s game in 2009, like most good Buehrle games, sort of snuck up on you. Between watching it in an empty restaurant as I worked a day shift of delivering pizzas and listening to it on and off on the car radio, I didn’t realize he was perfect until after the 6th inning.

Nothing wrong with delivering pizzas but imagine the response if it were a Sox fan slamming the Cubbies and revealing that they had been a pizza delivery guy...

[C-Dawg]

Originally Posted by ChiSoxGirl

One kid (a Cub fan) brought up Humber's perfect game and tried to tell me the only reason the perfecto happened was because Seattle is such a bad team.

The Cub fans here at the office all tried to make little of the perfect game due to the dropped third strike. To them it was either a) ball four or b) should have been safe at 1st had he run. In other words, in their own little worlds, it shouldn't have been considered a perfect game. A "fake" perfect game.

[SOXPHILE]

Originally Posted by beasly213

I don't even know why we're talking about this guys column. He is just a regular guy who happened to win a contest the score was running to be a blogger for their website. And I wouldn't be surprised if the only reason he won was because he's a regular caller on the B&B show as Ten Foot Midget.

I was just going to post the same thing. He used to always call in to the "Who You Crappin ?" segment each Thursday, and do a long winded diatrabe, full of big words to try and impress Bernstein and show how just ever so smart he was. One of the most annoying callers in a segment full of the same, regular annyoing callers. Like Bernstein, always struck me as an insufferable, psuedo-intelletual jackass.

[ChiSoxGirl]

Originally Posted by C-Dawg

The Cub fans here at the office all tried to make little of the perfect game due to the dropped third strike. To them it was either a) ball four or b) should have been safe at 1st had he run. In other words, in their own little worlds, it shouldn't have been considered a perfect game. A "fake" perfect game.

Sometimes their envy of the Sox and their accomplishments is sickening.

Before Spring Break, I assigned a persuasive paper to my seventh graders, which was due last week and I began grading them on Monday night. Last night, I ran into a paper titled, "Why the Cubs are better than the Sox." According to this student, "The Cubs have the pizzazz that the Sox don't." Some of the reasons the student listed for the Cubs being better than the Sox were downright mistifying-- they had Ron Santo, they had more famous players (listing Billy Williams, Ernie Banks, Santo, Ryne Sandberg, Greg Maddux, Kerry Wood and Derrek Lee), their ballpark is better (because it holds concerts and is closer than "Cellular Field") and because the Cubs have more Division Championships and World Series appearances than the Sox. Um... OK.

[Risk]

Originally Posted by ChiSoxGirl

Sometimes their envy of the Sox and their accomplishments is sickening.

Before Spring Break, I assigned a persuasive paper to my seventh graders, which was due last week and I began grading them on Monday night. Last night, I ran into a paper titled, "Why the Cubs are better than the Sox." According to this student, "The Cubs have the pizzazz that the Sox don't." Some of the reasons the student listed for the Cubs being better than the Sox were downright mistifying-- they had Ron Santo, they had more famous players (listing Billy Williams, Ernie Banks, Santo, Ryne Sandberg, Greg Maddux, Kerry Wood and Derrek Lee), their ballpark is better (because it holds concerts and is closer than "Cellular Field") and because the Cubs have more Division Championships and World Series appearances than the Sox. Um... OK.

Give the student an F. Sadly though, that student's arguments are probably on the same level as most Cub fans.

Risk

[Golden Sox]

Did anybody notice when the steroid testing began Kerry Wood lost over 30 pounds. It amazes me how they have built Wood up after one good performance. Because of his 20 K performance he has made over $70 Million Dollars in his career. They keep paying him big money even though hes won a few more games than what he has lost. In addition to that, they keep throwing money at him even though he's been on the DL 16 times.

[pythons007]

I just don't get it. On a down day where neither team is playing and there is nothing to report, compare away. However, if you're going to do it have 2 separate writers give his take to why one is better than the other (i.e. writer A gives his take on why Wood's performance is better and writer B gives his take on why Humber's performance is better).

Don't give a one sided take 2-3 days after perfection. Let the guy experience and enjoy the performance!

Not only that, Wood isn't the only 20K game. Anyone remember 2 300W pitchers, in Roger Clemens and Randy Johnson? Yeah, they did that too. That is where this comparison should start and end, with these 3 guys. Compare their games with one another. Compare other perfect games with other perfect games.

Humber/Buehrle 27 up and 27 down. Wood 29 up 27 down. Yeah, just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[TheOldRoman]

Originally Posted by Frater Perdurabo

Classic compensation for a well-deserved inferiority complex.

Yep, a predictably pathetic display from the fanbase that boasts their mythical attendance trophies, which had taken to the airwaves and print to spew their jealousy anytime the Sox have accomplished anything. "Our pitcher was better" is nnother case of the Cubbie clowns pouting, "my dad can beat up your dad!"

[tstrike2000]

Yes, everyone knows a gabillion times over that Kerry Wood had one of the greatest pitching days ever by an MLB pitcher with his 20 K performance. And yes, we know aside from Wood and Cone, the only other MLB pitchers to have 19 or 20 K's in a game are hall of famers. Ahh, but Wood won't make the HOF because of injury. Or it could also be because he's never had an ERA under 3.00, never won more than 14 games in a season, or ever won a Cy Young Award.

I don't know why some of these morons, hate the Sox or not, can't just congratulate Phil Humber on an amazing accomplishment instead of comparing it to their walking science experiment of a pitcher. Especially from a game that happened 14 years ago.

The next pointless blog entry from these people will be how baseball had a conspiracy against the 1969 Cubs that in turn helped the '69 Miracle Mets win the World Series.

[Smokey Burg]

Well of course, Kerry Woods 20 K game is more important! Fisrt off, its because he was with the CUBS! Second, after that game the CUBS! went on to dominate the National League and have won every World Series since! And have become the most popular team in baseball hsitory, leading the leagues in attendance and merchandise sales and promotions! Now whenever anybody thinks about baseball, the first word to come to mind is CUBS!

[TommyJohn]

It's pointless to get worked up over what these dopes have to say. First, Kaplan pulled this BS three years ago to start a fight. He had to make a day of White Sox achievement all about the Cubs, and he succeeded. People on this board were even sniping at each other about it. So congrats to Dave Kaplan. He has demonstrated once and for all that asshats go far in life. And really, where did this dope get the idea for the blog entry? From what Kaplan pulled 3 years ago, of course. Funny how we didn't get the same arguments from them when Halladay or Braden pitched their perfect games. Although, if Humber had lost his perfecto on the final pitch, with the ump calling ball four, I've no doubt that Kaplan or some other joke would have said that Milt Pappas' near-perfect game was more impressive.

One thing I'd like to point out-can you imagine if the shoe was on the other foot? Imagine that all of Chicago is basking in the glow that only a Cubbie perfect game can provide (although ALL Cubbie games are perfect) and disgruntled Sox fans said that "so-and-so was more impressive" or "winning the World Series was better." What do you think we would hear? "Quit living in the past!" And some would, I'm sure, dismiss us as lowlife morons. Hell, some on this board would dismiss us as lowlife morons.

[TheVulture]

Originally Posted by RedHeadPaleHoser

So says Tim Baffoe.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/04/...-than-perfect/

That's just mainstream media sanctioned trolling there.

[DrCrawdad]

Originally Posted by TommyJohn

...First, Kaplan pulled this BS three years ago to start a fight. He had to make a day of White Sox achievement all about the Cubs, and he succeeded. People on this board were even sniping at each other about it. So congrats to Dave Kaplan. He has demonstrated once and for all that asshats go far in life. And really, where did this dope get the idea for the blog entry? From what Kaplan pulled 3 years ago, of course. Funny how we didn't get the same arguments from them when Halladay or Braden pitched their perfect games. Although, if Humber had lost his perfecto on the final pitch, with the ump calling ball four, I've no doubt that Kaplan or some other joke would have said that Milt Pappas' near-perfect game was more impressive.

One thing I'd like to point out-can you imagine if the shoe was on the other foot? Imagine that all of Chicago is basking in the glow that only a Cubbie perfect game can provide (although ALL Cubbie games are perfect) and disgruntled Sox fans said that "so-and-so was more impressive" or "winning the World Series was better." What do you think we would hear? "Quit living in the past!" And some would, I'm sure, dismiss us as lowlife morons. Hell, some on this board would dismiss us as lowlife morons.

AMEN!

Originally Posted by TheOldRoman

Yep, a predictably pathetic display from the fanbase ... spew their jealousy anytime the Sox have accomplished anything. "Our pitcher was better" is another case of the Cubbie clowns pouting, "my dad can beat up your dad!"

AMEN!

Originally Posted by C-Dawg

The Cub fans here at the office all tried to make little of the perfect game due to the dropped third strike. To them it was either a) ball four or b) should have been safe at 1st had he run. In other words, in their own little worlds, it shouldn't have been considered a perfect game. A "fake" perfect game.

AMEN!

That's what I'm talking about!

[Frontman]

I highly doubt Boers and Bernsie will allow their guy to be thrown under the bus, but I had to send in a "Who You Crappin?" on Baffoe on this one.

I'll post it up here if it doesn't get on the air.