30 for 30 running thread

Steak, I actually loved Klosterman on there but I love pretty much everything he does so I'm a bit biased. But I would have been fine with even more of him and less of Wiley.

And they should have had Carlton in a Twins uniform.

 

I found it interesting that Bo refereed to "2 whites guys in his kitchen " when talking about getting recruited. Was he expecting Eddie Robinson.

 

He was with the White Sox that year, no?

 

I don't think he meant anything by it, just that it was a novelty for there to be any white people in his mom's kitchen.

 

I've always said when I win the Lotto, I'm going to open a sports bar called "Last Legs," and hang on the walls all the jerseys of players who retired on the "wrong team," with Dale Murphy's Rockies jersey getting the place of honor over the bar.

 

You should just call it Willie's Place.

 

To his credit, Murphy has openly admitted that he signed with the Rockies in an attempt to get to 400 career home runs. He ended up with 398.

 

Given that Murphy is Mormon it might hurt sales. Customers might feel guilty.

 

My dad tells a story about Bo in high school that he once hit a pop fly to shallow left center and when the ball was caught, Bo was on third base.

I didn't get to see the show and won't get to see the replay unless I acquire a VCR within the next day or so. I'm not sure about the hip thing, but I was always under the impression he was so strong that when he tried to break the tackle, he pulled his hip out of socket. Maybe that's hearsay, but seems logical.

 

So what if Bo doesn't rip his hip out and his career plays out naturally till retirement?

What kinds of stats do you think we're looking at for both sports?

Hall of Famer for both sports?

And whoever mentioned it earlier, I concur: Why not try to make the Olympic archery team?

 

That's the gist of it. But it was also a freak injury in that the major blood vessel to the hip was severed by the bone coming out of joint. That caused blood flow to the hip to cease and the bone/joint to deteriorate to the point that it had to be replaced.

Never seen it so succinctly explained until the 30 for 30.

 

I don't think he's a Pro Football Hall of Famer merely because he would have never played a full season (unless he eventually quit baseball, which I doubt he would have done).

Probably not a Baseball Hall of Famer, either. He was already 28 when he was injured. I'm thinking more of a Ron Gant-type career, though with more stolen bases. (Gant also quit running as much after his own major leg injury, a broken ankle suffered in a dirt bike accident during the 1993-94 offseason).

And even before the catastrophic hip injury, he was the kind of guy who was periodically out of the lineup with hamstring pulls and separated shoulders. So I don't know if he'd have been durable enough to challenge for 500 home runs or other milestones of that type.

Probably makes a bunch of All-Star teams and competes for a home run crown or two. Might eventually win a couple of Gold Gloves.