Formerly_Medford
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Prior’s shoulder looked like a bomb had gone off inside it.
Then you add on his collision with Marcus Giles and taking a 100 mph liner right off his pitching elbow…
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What if....players?
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Then you add on his collision with Marcus Giles and taking a 100 mph liner right off his pitching elbow…
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Dupree is the guy that really comes to mind. He got mixed up with the wrong advisor(s) in HS and college, and then the horrendous knee injury. True testament to him for coming back, making an NFL roster and getting those few carries with the Rams. A healthy Dupree was a world beater. His HS film was something else, as was that Fiesta Bowl performance. I shutter to think of the # of records that he could have broken.
Herschel Walker is another guy. If not USFL and they used him right in the NFL, he could have broke tons of records.
Earl Campbell was a unicorn, but this running style was not for the long haul. He did have a special short career like TD. I'm glad that they both made the HOF.
Talk about a great career after a knee injury, Joe Nameth was very special and did some great things, but he would have been an all-time Great sans the knee injury.
In baseball, Steve Howe and J.R. Richard. In Howe I had never seen a such a hard-throwing lefty. Another one did not come along until Billy Wagner 17 years later. JR Richard's career sadly ended due to a stroke.
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Here’s the thing with Daly: he made the choice to be a fat slob. With a lot of these other players, they had an injury or weird health circumstances that impacted their trajectory. For Daly, it was all self imposed.
I'm not in agreement with respect to alcoholism. Very few of us have never drank, drank to excess or binge drank in our lives. But most of us were fortunate enough to not have that gene that caused those choices to result in anything worse than a hangover.
I'm mixed on this one. I agree some have a crazy addict button that is virtually impossible to supress when exposed to the toxin for which they are hard-wired. Some also just say **** it - I like it, consequences be damned.
I couldn't tell you what % fit in each category.
The genetic connection is now medically proven fact. It is absolutely not just a matter of willpower.
Combined with that though there also tends to be a culture in families that normalizes use of the addictive substance be it alcohol or other drugs. What others on the outside see as problems people in the family think of as regular parts of life. Lose a job because of missing work or showing up under the influence, well that happened to dad and my uncles, get arrested for public intoxication, for DUI, etc., well what's wrong with having a good time. This stuff goes back in the family as long as anyone can remember. They even tend to marry into other families where it is also the norm.
This does't excuse people from their actions and from continuing their addictions but when we ask why somebody doesn't realize their behavior and change it often isn't as easy as we think it is. Having spent my career working with a lot of kids out of these exact situations it's very hard to escape when that escape means accepting that everything you grew up thinking was right, including you, isn't.
Truth, I would take Bo any day over Boz, but I was a fan of Boz and his a$$hole attitude.
Saw JR Richard pitch in the Astrodome back in the day. Dude threw hard. I am friends with a guy who caught him in the minors. Said he threw harder than anybody he ever saw and was a nightmare to hit/catch because it seemed the ball left his hand 53' from the plate due to his height and reach.
BuffLuke80
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He's one I mentioned, his injury was not something you see often. It was something called avascular necrosis or some shvt. Something about the blood flow being cut off to the bone. And, yes, I looked it up. If we have anybody besides fvcking lawyers, maybe y'all could explain that.
It said something about a chip off his hip floating around as well. Maybe they just didn't know enough at the time, Idk?
BuffLuke80
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Good call on that one. I saw that short movie about Jackie Robinson and somebody acted as Satchel. I've seen the man act before, but his name escapes me.
How about if Maddux threw for the cubs like he did for the braves.
It’s just weird to see him normal, and even a little funny, in those Fansville commercials.
I could be way off, but from what I remember, at the time because his muscles were so big and strong, they couldnt support this hip in a way that allowed blood flow - the muscle kept pulling the brace out of place.He's one I mentioned, his injury was not something you see often. It was something called avascular necrosis or some shvt. Something about the blood flow being cut off to the bone. And, yes, I looked it up. If we have anybody besides fvcking lawyers, maybe y'all could explain that.
Didn't he win a Cy Young in Chicago?
He did. Then 3 consecutive with Atlanta.
He also had a knack for making a quick buck.
First time he was playing against the Broncos he had a bunch of t-shirts printed up. Trademarked and copyrighted what was on them. Had them ready to ship to shops and customers in Colorado.
Then he gives an interview where he just goes off on how Elway is an overrated quarterback, and how he's going to light him up in the game - exactly the sort of thing that would piss off Broncos fans.
The tshirts he already had ready: "Boz-busters" Basically orange and blue declarations of hate for himself.
Honestly kinda brilliant - with on-demand printing and social media, he would really clean up today.
Lots of worthy answers in this thread. As a Colorado sports fan, it's hard for me to say anyone but TD because of his injury, or Peter Forsberg if he had been able to stay healthy (and unfortunately, I think we may be adding Landeskog to this list).
I would like to know how Michael Jordan's career would have turned out if he hadn't taken off essentially 4 seasons. Are there career records, like Gretzky's points record, that he could have essentially put out of reach forever if he would have played those 4 seasons, and/or played with a better team than the Wizards at the end?
I don't know, like with Ricky Williams, I think Andrew Luck was always destined to leave the game early. I definitely got that impression from that ESPN article a few years ago:
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I would like to know how Michael Jordan's career would have turned out if he hadn't taken off essentially 4 seasons. Are there career records, like Gretzky's points record, that he could have essentially put out of reach forever if he would have played those 4 seasons, and/or played with a better team than the Wizards at the end?
I don't know, like with Ricky Williams, I think Andrew Luck was always destined to leave the game early. I definitely got that impression from that ESPN article a few years ago:
Andrew Luck finally reveals why he walked away from the NFL
The former Colts QB was on a Hall of Fame track, but a harsh look in the mirror pushed him toward another path.
I'm confused. He won his first Cy Young with the Cubs, before going to the Braves in FA. His second Cubs stint was about as expected given his age, and was still a solid option.
BuffLuke80
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I know a few I forgot, Josh Gibson and Steve Prefontaine. Plenty of others I'm sure.
And then the Broncos won the game.
The 30 for 30 on him was good. Nice to see that that the OU family welcomed him back after his disparaging comments about Oklahoma. And I have to admit the "National Communists Against Athletes" t-shirt was pretty good