Comments on: Card of the Week: 2002 Flair #89 Curt Schilling

By: Neil Paine

Neil Paine — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:27:03 +0000

Flair rocked. As a kid, those thicker-stock cards were one of the most awesome things you could get. Of course, packs cost something like $4 for 3 cards, and they were symptomatic of what hurt the sports card industry in the 90s, but man they were sweet at the time. Almost as good as Refractors.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:42:51 +0000

God, they still make baseball cards? Childhood was a long time ago.

By: MrDave

MrDave — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 02:04:31 +0000

Another interesting note about this is that three pitchers (Schilling, Wells, and the immortal Paul Byrd) account for half of the list.

By: DoubleDiamond

DoubleDiamond — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:05:27 +0000

9 of the occurrences in the list (just under half) involve pitchers who have spent some time with the Phillies (Schilling, Byrd, Lieber, Lee, Martinez, and Silva), but none were with the Phillies at the time they accomplished this feat.

By: Seth

Seth — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:33:11 +0000

Specifically notice the presence of the 2005 Twins atop this list. Radke, Santana, and Silva threw a lot of strikes that year and totaled 8 complete games between them that season.

By: Johnny Twisto

Johnny Twisto — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:14:50 +0000

Notice the multiple Twins on the list. That's been a definite focus in Minnesota since even before Gardenhire and Rick Anderson took over. Since 1996, their staffs have finished 1st or 2nd in the AL in fewest BB almost every season, except for a couple years when they were 3rd. I like organizations that have a well-defined philosophy and implement it well.