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[-] sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Pasted from an earlier comment:

through the magic of Google Groups we can even laugh at sports fans' forgotten shit takes they posted to Usenet 40(!) years ago:

[-] electric@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Reading that feels about as alien as legalese to me. Googled that Nolan guy though and he is in his 70s. What a vintage rant. Is that beef joke that old???

[-] sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, "Where's the beef" is from 1984 (the year).
In case you care, here's a translation of that guy's point: he was trying to make the case that the Mets made a good decision in letting go of the pitcher Nolan Ryan. His reasoning is that Ryan was personally very effective at striking out batters on the other team, but that Ryan's team still lost about half the games he pitched. He goes on to say that getting a lot of strikeouts doesn't matter. We now know, and many knew back in the 1980s, that a pitcher's win/loss record is basically irrelevant, because you're judging one guy's performance based on how well the other 8+ dudes on his team do. Also, strikeouts are very important. He got it totally and completely wrong, Nolan Ryan is in the top 10 of best pitchers of all time, and the Mets haven't won the world series since 1986 anyway so it's not like they substantially upgraded when they got rid of him. Basically, imagine somebody saying Natalie Portman is a mediocre actress just because the Star Wars prequels were bad.