{"id":308,"date":"2009-05-10T13:04:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=308"},"modified":"2009-05-10T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T18:23:00","slug":"more-ridiculous-statistics-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"More Ridiculous Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

1). Johan Santana has given up less than <\/em>2 earned runs in his last 12 starts<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay, this is absurd.\u00a0 The best pitcher on the planet is just ridiculous.\u00a0 Granted he doesn’t throw complete games, but still imagine knowing that every five days, your team is only going to need 2 runs and a bullpen to win a game.\u00a0 Plus, with the 1-0 win over the Phils earlier this week, he now has six 1-0 wins in his career, which is pretty good, but nothing compared to…<\/p>\n

2). Walter Johnson won THIRTY-FIVE 1-0 games in his career.<\/strong>\u00a0 THIRTY-FIVE!!!\u00a0 I think that the 1-0 game is the best game a pitcher can throw because he has to be on for every pitch.\u00a0 Though it was a much different era, it is hard to say that there has ever been a pitcher as dominant as the Big Train, regardless of era.<\/p>\n

3).\u00a0 If you were to look at a list of the top ten home run hitters since 1980, you will see SEVEN of them lied and were directly linked to steroid usage.<\/strong>\u00a0 The top 10 home run hitters since 1980 are, as follows:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Barry Bonds – About to go on trial for lying to a grand jury about his steroid usage<\/li>\n
  2. Ken Griffey, Jr.<\/li>\n
  3. Sammy Sosa – All of a sudden forgot how to speak English to avoid either admitting steroid usage or perjuring himself to Congress<\/li>\n
  4. Mark McGwire – “Didn’t talk about his past” steroid usage.<\/li>\n
  5. Rafael Palmeiro – Wagged his finger in denial and then got caught and suspended<\/li>\n
  6. Alex Rodriguez – Lied to Katie Curic about his steroid usage, then his failed test came out<\/li>\n
  7. Jim Thome<\/li>\n
  8. Manny Ramirez – Claims to have a sexual disorder for which he was prescribed a female ovulary medication, also used to end a steroid cycle<\/li>\n
  9. Frank Thomas<\/li>\n
  10. Gary Sheffield – Claims to have never taken steroids, yet was named in the Mitchell Report<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This is actually much more sad than it is ridiculous.\u00a0 What is does do, however, is really accentuate the great careers of [apparently] clean sluggers Griffey, Thome, and Thomas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    1). Johan Santana has given up less than 2 earned runs in his last 12 starts.\u00a0 Okay, this is absurd.\u00a0 The best pitcher on the planet is just ridiculous.\u00a0 Granted he doesn’t throw complete games, but still imagine knowing that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,324],"tags":[57,20,598,599,597,72,596,314,294,600,295,95,595],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-ridiculous-statistics","tag-alex-rodriguez","tag-barry-bonds","tag-frank-thomas","tag-gary-sheffield","tag-jim-thome","tag-johan-santana","tag-ken-griffey-jr","tag-manny-ramirez","tag-mark-mcgwire","tag-rafael-palmeiro","tag-sammy-sosa","tag-steroids","tag-walter-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}