Mike Scott in AL Ruth Game
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@ItsaCanesthing said in Mike Scott in AL Ruth Game:
This is more for the older guys on this board. Basically anyone that actually saw Mike Scott pitch.
Don't you find it weird seeing Mike Scott on the AL squad?
Growing up he was on that great Astros team in 1986 in the NL.
He was so good that year, that the 86 Mets, one of the best teams in the last 40 years, treated game 6 of the NLCS as a game 7 because they KNEW they were not going to beat Scott in the Astro Dome in Game 7.For me Mike Scott will always be an NL great (Along with Biggio and Bagwell)
I was thinking the same thing about Biggio, Bagwell, and Oswalt (in the ALW game).
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@pinola7223 said in Mike Scott in AL Ruth Game:
@ItsaCanesthing said in Mike Scott in AL Ruth Game:
@pinola7223 said in Mike Scott in AL Ruth Game:
I have thought this about the Live Series Awards cards. When I first saw Scott on the mound in that AL game I was scratching my head. I just don't think of him as an AL guy. Part of the weirdness of the Astros and Brewers swapping spots.
Have you also thought about how the Astros have a history of cheating?
Mike Scott's splitter had so much movement on it that they were always checking him for an Emory board or sandpaper. I remember that Keith Hernandez and Gary Carter were so befuddled by Scott's splitter that they were convinced that he was scuffing the baseball.
And we all know what the cheating Astros did these last few years.
Joe Niekro was on that team with Scott, and was famously caught with an emory board in his pocket.
They had a hack of a staff with Scott, Ryan, Knepper and Deshaides (4 man rotations in the 80's)
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Yes, I always find it odd seeing Astro legends for AL stuff in this game. Biggio is the AL collection reward for god sakes.
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He was so great that year by literally cheating and doing illegal things to baseballs....but he is an astro so we shouldn't expect much better. All kidding aside even as a younger fan it feels weird seeing the astros in the AL when all these astro greats were in the NL and probably one of the things I will always remember growing up is that Pujols home run off Lidge that fittingly went to the moon.
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@wynsanity318 said in Mike Scott in AL Ruth Game:
He was so great that year by literally cheating and doing illegal things to baseballs....but he is an astro so we shouldn't expect much better. All kidding aside even as a younger fan it feels weird seeing the astros in the AL when all these astro greats were in the NL and probably one of the things I will always remember growing up is that Pujols home run off Lidge that fittingly went to the moon.
Lidge and Berkman need to be in this game. Caminiti too, though his best years were in SD. The more power hitting switch hitters the better.
Edit: Todd Hundley would be endgame.
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I will always remember growing up is that Pujols home run off Lidge that fittingly went to the moon.
That ball just sailed past Saturn, on its way out of the solar system.
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@ItsaCanesthing said in Mike Scott in AL Ruth Game:
This is more for the older guys on this board. Basically anyone that actually saw Mike Scott pitch.
Don't you find it weird seeing Mike Scott on the AL squad?
Growing up he was on that great Astros team in 1986 in the NL.
He was so good that year, that the 86 Mets, one of the best teams in the last 40 years, treated game 6 of the NLCS as a game 7 because they KNEW they were not going to beat Scott in the Astro Dome in Game 7.For me Mike Scott will always be an NL great (Along with Biggio and Bagwell)
Who are you calling old? Me? Yes... I'm old - 56. And I do remember the good old days of the Astros in the NL. I spent a lot of time as a kid in the 1970's going to Red Sox games and watching them play the Brewers (AL for you millennials).
On a side note... I was at the game on May 25, 1975 when Carl Yazstremski was called out on strikes, crouched down and covered home plate with dirt. Old school!
I can hear all you young-uns now... "OK Boomer".
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Biggio as the AL collection reward always irked me. He literally never played a game in the AL
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I still find it weird that they moved they brewers to the NL and the astros to the AL.
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@ItsaCanesthing said in Mike Scott in AL Ruth Game:
I will always remember growing up is that Pujols home run off Lidge that fittingly went to the moon.
That ball just sailed past Saturn, on its way out of the solar system.
I remember the camera picking up Pettitte in the dugout mouthing "WOW" after that shot.
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@x-Alec_J-x said in Mike Scott in AL Ruth Game:
I still find it weird that they moved they brewers to the NL and the astros to the AL.
It was a Bud Selig thing. He grew up rooting for the Milwaukee Braves.
He also preferred the NL game to the AL game. -
I remember buying wiiffle balls that came in a box with Mike Scott’s picture and instructions presumably from him on how to get movement on your wiffle ball pitches.
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