Author Topic: The Greatest Athlete Ever (Read 14743 times)

Mussolini · « **Reply #100 on:** July 20, 2009, 06:28:51 PM »

Cricket isnt even a real sport, its played by a bunch of third world countries.

whateva · « **Reply #101 on:** July 20, 2009, 06:35:58 PM »

Quote from: Mussolini on July 20, 2009, 06:28:51 PM

Cricket isnt even a real sport, its played by a bunch of third world countries.

Go back to rehab.

regmac · « **Reply #102 on:** July 20, 2009, 06:38:36 PM »

Quote from: lax on July 20, 2009, 04:58:28 PM

Oscar and Mayweather (yet another great athlete) did the same at the lighter weight classes...add Manny and Sugar Shane. Roy was great, he just had no one to fight for about 5 yrs in a row.

bodybuilder1234 · « **Reply #103 on:** July 20, 2009, 06:40:43 PM »

Quote from: db2431 on July 20, 2009, 04:41:23 PM

Then he fought some real opposition instead of garbagemen and policeman and got his ass handed to him multiple times.

oh right because Tarver is far superiour to Bernard Hopkins and James toney?

A prime Roy Jones was one of the best P4P boxers of all time period

regmac · « **Reply #104 on:** July 20, 2009, 06:48:51 PM »

Quote from: bodybuilder1234 on July 20, 2009, 06:40:43 PM

oh right because Tarver is far superiour to Bernard Hopkins and James toney?

A prime Roy Jones was one of the best P4P boxers of all time period

Be glad our granparents aren't on here...or we'd hear about Marciono, Ali, Joe Louis and their version of Sugar Ray!!!!

chris2489 · « **Reply #105 on:** July 20, 2009, 07:11:58 PM »

Mussolini · « **Reply #106 on:** July 20, 2009, 07:14:10 PM »

Quote from: whateva on July 20, 2009, 06:35:58 PM

Go back to rehab.

If I feel the cravings again I will, but as of right now I have been sober since nov 4th 2008.

still cheating and entering natural bodybuilding shows when you were exposed as a 15 year juicer?

Mussolini · « **Reply #107 on:** July 20, 2009, 07:15:04 PM »

I guess for a gook like yourself 135 lbs is big though.

WOOO · « **Reply #108 on:** July 20, 2009, 07:17:57 PM »

whateva · « **Reply #109 on:** July 20, 2009, 07:40:47 PM »

Quote from: Mussolini on July 20, 2009, 07:14:10 PM

when you were exposed as a 15 year juicer?

Mussolini · « **Reply #110 on:** July 20, 2009, 07:46:40 PM »

Quote from: whateva on July 20, 2009, 07:40:47 PM

You forget I was around when after the first mr getbig, Adonis exposed you as a fraud and proved you had been posting on steroid websites for years?

The_Punisher · « **Reply #111 on:** July 20, 2009, 07:48:01 PM »

Quote from: bodybuilder1234 on July 20, 2009, 02:50:38 PM

Kevin Levrone cuz he could ran track

Didn't Levrone win the 100m sprint at the 2008 beijing Olympics?

?........hahahahhaha

whateva · « **Reply #112 on:** July 20, 2009, 07:51:15 PM »

Quote from: Mussolini on July 20, 2009, 07:46:40 PM

You forget I was around when after the first mr getbig, Adonis exposed you as a fraud and proved you had been posting on steroid websites for years?

PANDAEMONIUM · « **Reply #113 on:** July 20, 2009, 07:58:15 PM »

Quote from: snx on July 20, 2009, 07:56:50 PM

The Mick was great, but guys like Foxx, Lou G, and the Splendid Splinter were better ballers. All of em.

I don't know about J.F., but I'll definitely give ya Lou and Ted. T.W. is one of my fav ball players ever, and "the best damn hitter who ever lived"

Mussolini · « **Reply #114 on:** July 20, 2009, 08:04:24 PM »

Quote from: whateva on July 20, 2009, 07:51:15 PM

You evolved from dirt, and no matter how hard you train and juice you still weigh 135 lbs. You must be proud, now get back to your cricket game.

Typical gook, no appreciation for hockey.

TechnoViking · « **Reply #115 on:** July 20, 2009, 08:04:53 PM »

Kareem Abdul Jabbar was once asked who was the best player he ever seen...After a long pause, he state that EARL "THE GOAT" MANIGAULT was the best player to ever play the game...The was barely over 6 feet tall but could jump up and grab quarters off the top of backboards...He schooled any pro that ever dared play around with him...Yet he never left the playground...

Earl "The Goat(greatest of all time)" Manigault...

Google his name...He was the best pure athlete to ever touch a basketball...Dr. Jay himself didn't want any part of "the goat" and was in owe of him...

http://www.hoopsusa.com/frm_story.cfm?a=407

The Goat had a 52inch vertical...In fucking sane

PANDAEMONIUM · « **Reply #116 on:** July 20, 2009, 08:06:29 PM »

Quote from: snx on July 20, 2009, 08:02:00 PM

Both Foxx and Mick loved the bottle though, didn't they?

Now that you mention it, I think Foxx did have some alkie problems. Have you ever seen the movie "61*" about the chase in '61 for Ruth's single season HR record? From what I've read about the "backstage" antics with Mickey's and Whitey Ford's drinking-stripper binges, that movie was pretty accurate.

regmac · « **Reply #117 on:** July 20, 2009, 08:13:35 PM »

Quote from: The_Punisher on July 20, 2009, 07:48:01 PM

Didn't Levrone win the 100m sprint at the 2008 beijing Olympics??........hahahahhaha

No but he unofficially lost to a guy on more juice than him though. Tim Montgomery.

PANDAEMONIUM · « **Reply #118 on:** July 20, 2009, 08:16:24 PM »

Quote from: snx on July 20, 2009, 08:10:29 PM

Yeah -- seen the flick a few times. I heard it was pretty accurate too. There weren't any bigger stars than Mantle in those days.

If you can remember watching "A League of their own", with Tom Hanks, you should know that Tom's character is based on Jimmie Foxx.

What a time that would have been to be a ball player. You were pretty much god on earth in those days if you were Mantle or Dimaggio.

Ya know, I never saw the hype behind Dimaggio. Definitely a first-class ballplayer, and kind of a baseball senior statesman in his day, even though he was a recluse, BUT why all the hype about his 56-game hitting streak as being one of the greatest feats in baseball history? Sure, it takes consistency to do that, but it takes even more consistency to bat .406 over the course of a whole season. Thoughts?

Army of One · « **Reply #119 on:** July 20, 2009, 08:31:47 PM »

Quote from: bodybuilder1234 on July 20, 2009, 06:40:43 PM

oh right because Tarver is far superiour to Bernard Hopkins and James toney?

A prime Roy Jones was one of the best P4P boxers of all time period

Hopkins wasnt half the boxer he is now back then.Toney was always overrated.Jones could look good against tomato cans, ill give him that.

PANDAEMONIUM · « **Reply #120 on:** July 20, 2009, 08:37:56 PM »

Quote from: snx on July 20, 2009, 08:29:07 PM

But no, hitting .406 is way harder than 56 straight games. Someone today will come along and break 56 games. No one today will ever hit .400 again. And to be one of the most formidable power hitters of all time, and hit .400 -- that make Teddy Ballgame the best hitter ever in my book. Maybe not my favorite, but if I had to pick only one hitter to play on my team, it'd Ted Williams every single time.

Breaking .400 -- It's as untouchable as Hack Wilson's 190+ RBI season.

Totally agreed. I'm glad there's a fellow baseball buff here. What impresses me the most about Williams is that he hit that .406 in, what, his third season as a major leaguer, and I believe at the age of 23? Unreal. You're right, no one will ever touch that. Tony Gwynn got near it back in the 80s, and Brett did, too. But with pitching becoming more and more scientific nowadays, with these guys studying tapes of hitters at the plate, and lots of other factors...if anyone can break .400 again, he will be a god among men, more so than Williams was.

PANDAEMONIUM · « **Reply #121 on:** July 20, 2009, 09:06:58 PM »

Quote from: snx on July 20, 2009, 08:49:29 PM

Gwynn and Brett were close, but could either of them put up the power numbers Williams did? Nope.

But I agree -- if you hit .400 today, that's something compared to .400 in the 40's. Three pitchers per game. All your weaknesses as a hitter on video and studied by every pitcher in the opposing pen.

But still, the only man playing today who I would have hit .400 and (if he stayed consistent) mention in the same breath as Williams would have to be Pujols. And I'm stretching. He's the closest thing to Teddy Ballgame as we'll get today. This year, he might very well hit more homeruns than strikeout. That hasn't been done in a long, long time. But even still, I don't think Pujols has a .400 season in him. No one in today's current crop does.

Even if a guy like Ichiro did it, it would still be by a guy who more closely resembles the slap hitting style of Cobb, and not the hammering style of Williams. Although Ichiro couldn't lace up Cobb's cleats on his best day.

I tell ya, Pujols is the most underrated player today, probably because he's not playing for a big market team, at least not big market like the Yankees. A-Rod (oh brother) is a hack compared to Pujols. An all around superb player, a great natural hitter for average, a power hitter, and unlike A-Rod, not a complete asshole. I've bought triplicates of his rookie cards.

divcom · « **Reply #122 on:** July 20, 2009, 10:38:05 PM »

yummy.

MP · « **Reply #123 on:** July 20, 2009, 10:38:11 PM »

Quote from: chris2489 on July 20, 2009, 07:11:58 PM

That was a great fuckin' vid.

Tough to name the greatest ever, but two other names that should be kicked around -- Lance Armstrong and Walter Payton.

Palpatine Q · « **Reply #124 on:** July 20, 2009, 10:52:01 PM »

Quote from: Mussolini on July 20, 2009, 07:14:10 PM

If I feel the cravings again I will, but as of right now I have been sober since nov 4th 2008.

still cheating and entering natural bodybuilding shows when you were exposed as a 15 year juicer?

Wow that's fucked up....I'm clean since Nov 9th 2008