When The Old Man was a boy, they didn't have funny. They walked barefoot, uphill both ways, for miles just to get to stoic. And they liked it. And they were grateful for bleeding feet and being stoic. And when it was snowing, they would wrap baked potatoes to their feet to keep them from freezing during the walk to school. Then, they would eat those baked potatoes for lunch. On the way home, they would have to run home as fast as they could, barefoot in the snow, because they ate their "baked potato shoes" for lunch.
I have said it before there aren't many individuals that could have made it yesteryear... It all comes down to the almighty dollar bill ya'll. Back then they didnt get paid squat compared to the salaries of today. So they played through minor injuries and the such...Now with guaranteed money teams will let players sit when they get hurt so as to not chance losing them for 15-60 games or worse yet the season, while still having to pay them fat cash. So players are somewhat softer these days. Take Chipper Jones for example, he was on fire all season till he bruised his thumbs in a collision. He ended up being off and on for a week, then gone for like 2 weeks. He had them take MRI's on it and there was no damage. He came back for almost 2 weeks and He then missed another game with a groin pull and it was reported he might go on the DL again...now he didnt, but that is because Smoltz made a big stink talking to the media, the team was on a slide, they hadnt been scoring any runs, challenged Chipper indirectly...you know that old hat... Not to pick on him Chipper directly, just trying to use an example for what goes on compared to back then when players needed off-season jobs to pay da billz.
Damn that has got to hurt, pulling your groin while you have two bruised thumbs. What did he use? And they were grateful for bleeding feet and being stoic. Beautiful JG, I loved it.
So they played through minor injuries and the such I think it's great you don't have any evidence for this claim. And that you would argue from the specific to the generic with Chipper Jones. If we're accepting single player empirical evidence, how do you square your claims with a guy like Johnny Damon, who refuses to come out of the line-up even when he was four displaced ribs? Plus a change, plus c'est la mme chose.
I think it's great you don't have any evidence for this claim. In fact, after I read, "Back then they didnt get paid squat compared to the salaries of today", my first thought was the opposite conclusion: that, quite likely, if the being-paid-squat players of yore started getting minor injuries, they shrugged and went off to work at the factory where they'd at least make a good steady paycheck; whereas today, players are motivated by the prospect of a huge salary to subject their bodies to incredible amounts of abuse.
I think the pitchers are lasting later into their lives because they're all signing contracts that start in June. Grum's list of reasons covers a good deal of it in my view. I would add to that the previously discussed shortened workload of all pitchers, plus the desired pursuit of statistical milestones that now take a lot longer because of the shortened workload. On edit: and it occurs to me now that free agency dangles the carrot of getting just one more World Series appearance -- pitchers in previous eras didn't have as easy a time picking which team they wanted to play for.
Let me tell you about a pitcher by the name Warren Spahn remember him? Well he served in WWII and a remember a story about him in Germany throwing a grenade into the German forces. And you punk kids today throwing grenades in Afghanistan and Iraq will never be as good as grenade throwers were back in the good ol' days! Now get off my lawn!
And you punk kids today throwing grenades in Afghanistan and Iraq will never be as good as grenade throwers were back in the good ol' days! Now get off my lawn! You guys are brutal. Funny stuff.
And you punk kids today throwing grenades in Afghanistan and Iraq will never be as good as grenade throwers were back in the good ol' days! You have to admit the improvements in equipment have made it easier to be a decent grenade tosser.
You have to admit the improvements in equipment have made it easier to be a decent grenade tosser. Well that and steroids. for miles just to get to stoic. Awesome.
Damned juiced-up grenade throwers anyhoo!!
That's "grenadiers", THX. If you weren't such a damn wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper, you'd know that.
Garsh, ah jus' don' know nuthin' 'bout no fancy book learnin'.
So they played through minor injuries and the such. And we all know how well that works out for everyone who tries it...
Either way, those sissy modern pitchers went 3-1 against the panty-waist hitters they faced.
