Fernando Valenzuela has died

[GOHOX69]

Who remembers Steve Sax? 😉

 

[GOHOX69]

Well i never got any facts about him in any other thread. All I got was obsession for the orange man. You’d think a color person wouldn’t care so much about another person being of a different color.

You're a fking idiot.

 

[hawkeye54545]

Who remembers Steve Sax? 😉

He had a case of Mackey Sasser disease before Mackey Sasser did.

 

[HawkMachine]

I don't watch baseball anymore but when I was a kid I never missed a game.

How can you not like this guy?

Legend.

 

[fezzador]

Not even the coolest on the Dodgers.

Nomo's windup > Fernando's windup

Nomo's windup isn't even the coolest in Los Angeles.

Johnny Cueto's windup > Nomo's

 

[wausauhawk]

Well i never got any facts about him in any other thread. All I got was obsession for the orange man. You’d think a color person wouldn’t care so much about another person being of a different color.

And yet you come into a non-politics thread & make fun of someone. So who's the obsessed one?

 

[IAFB2021Champs]

And yet you come into a non-politics thread & make fun of someone. So who's the obsessed one?

I guess I could make a gohox69 is racist thread everyday instead if that makes it better.

 

[Franisdaman]

too young

they mention health issues

cancer?

 

[lucas80]

Who remembers Steve Sax? 😉

One of the best Simpsons cameos, ever.

 

[lucas80]

Well i never got any facts about him in any other thread. All I got was obsession for the orange man. You’d think a color person wouldn’t care so much about another person being of a different color.

You don't seem okay.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

You don't seem okay.

I had started thinking he was elderly and was going through some stuff, so was considering cutting him some slack. Weird, awkward posting style, lots of spelling and grammatical errors, etc.

But a few days ago he mentioned he was 40. So, not elderly, not new to social media, not riddled with dementia…just a dumbass.

 

[UI2390]

Somewhere in my parents storage shed are the Fernando rookie cards that were part of my Topps and Fleer complete sets. Forever young.

I have them and they are in a card binder I have had since I was a kid in the early 80's. I have no idea what their value is and I've never considered selling any card that I have.

 

[IAFB2021Champs]

You don't seem okay.

 

[IAFB2021Champs]

I had started thinking he was elderly and was going through some stuff, so was considering cutting him some slack. Weird, awkward posting style, lots of spelling and grammatical errors, etc.

But a few days ago he mentioned he was 40. So, not elderly, not new to social media, not riddled with dementia…just a dumbass.

Typical response from your group. Go to grammar errors because they are the only thing you can go to. For the millionth time, who gives a shit about grammar errors on a message board. I can’t imagine how fun life is for you when you have to nitpick the way someone says or types something.

 

[RushProbst]

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The 20-year-old won the clinching Game 5 of the NLCS in Montreal, then four days later threw a complete game to beat the Yankees in Game 3 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium, gutting through nine hits and seven walks allowed to finish the one-run win, throwing 147 pitches.

Baller.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Typical response from your group. Go to grammar errors because they are the only thing you can go to. For the millionth time, who gives a shit about grammar errors on a message board. I can’t imagine how fun life is for you when you have to nitpick the way someone says or types something.

Oh buddy, it’s so much more than grammatical errors.

Anyway, sorry to discuss in this thread.

 

[hawkmart]

Hearing about this triggered memories about a baseball TV show I used to watch as a kid where the Dodgers were prominently featured but do not remember the name of it, or if I'm making 💩 up in my old age.

 

[hawkirugged17]

Hearing about this triggered memories about a baseball TV show I used to watch as a kid where the Dodgers were prominently featured but do not remember the name of it, or if I'm making 💩 up in my old age.

Probably not what you are looking for, but it always makes me smile.

 

[hawkirugged17]

 

[jasonrann]

Who remembers Steve Sax? 😉

 

[UI2390]

Hearing about this triggered memories about a baseball TV show I used to watch as a kid where the Dodgers were prominently featured but do not remember the name of it, or if I'm making 💩 up in my old age.

The Baseball Bunch? It was on Saturday mornings and Tommy Lasorda was on it each week. I used to get up early to watch it.

 

[hawkmart]

The Baseball Bunch? It was on Saturday mornings and Tommy Lasorda was on it each week. I used to get up early to watch it.

Ah, yup that's it. Just looked up clips on Youtube.

 

[UI2390]

Ah, yup that's it. Just looked up clips on Youtube.

I loved that show.

 

[TJ8869]

Just thinking back this morning about the hysteria that Fernando created in 1981, and his first few seasons. It wasn't quite to the level of the Beatles, but it was a circus everywhere he went.

He was a great story at a time when baseball needed a great story to drown out the negative press from the strike.

To this day, aside from Rose not being in the Hall, not many things piss off old Reds fans more than the fact that they had the best record in the entire league that year but didn’t even make the playoffs.

 

[stillh8unlv]

Watched ESPN 30 for 30 Fernandomania in his honor last night

Lotta great memories from when I used to follow baseball religiously

 

[hawkirugged17]

 

[hawkirugged17]