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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Perhaps the best of his generation, right up there with Pedro anyway.

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  • fandangofandango Posts: 2,622 ✭
    one more win!

    Good guy triumphs over bad guy!

    Fandango beating down Dizzle !

    a true Classic!!
  • DES1984DES1984 Posts: 404
    Just a class act....a nice guy and a great pitcher. I wonder who he will be inducted into the hall of fame in, braves or cubs?
  • ElemenopeoElemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭


    << <i>one more win!

    Good guy triumphs over bad guy!

    Fandango beating down Dizzle !

    a true Classic!! >>



    I've no idea what you're talking about, but I'm sure it's a jackass thing to say. I'm sure the OP intended this thread to be about Maddux, a true class act, and not you.

  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    I would think Braves no?


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    yeah I have no idea what Scott is talking about either.


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  • bigwillibigwilli Posts: 910
    Being a Braves fan i truly enjoyed watching Greg pitch . He proved that you dont have to be a power pitcher to
    be a great pitcher . Great guy and class act.

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  • BunchOBullBunchOBull Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭
    His great years were with the Braves...and being my hometown team, I hope he's enshrined with a tomahawk in his hand.

    He was certainly a class act on the field and with his work ethic, but not always a "nice guy." He would frequently ignore the requests of children for autographs in the parking lot, actually walking right past the kids without any acknowledgement whatsoever (I was one of those children on several occasions). I went to paid autograph signings at which he'd get a bug up his butt and absolutely refuse to sign anything, though that's what he was there for. I have a soft spot in my sports heart for him, but he was really a pain in the rear sometimes.
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  • leathtechleathtech Posts: 3,191 ✭
    Big time cubs fan and it was a sad day when Greg left but it probably helped his career numbers... no question about it - he goes into the Hall as a Brave.
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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    His brother was way better.

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  • gosteelersgosteelers Posts: 2,668 ✭✭✭
    His 1995 season was just unbelievable:

    G GS W L S CG SHO IP H R ER HR BB SO ERA WHIP BAA
    1995 ATL 28 28 19 2 0 10 3 209.2 147 39 38 8 23 181 1.63 0.81 .197

    The hits to IPs, BBs, ERA, WHIP, and BAA numbers are just unbelievable.
  • ROCKDJRWROCKDJRW Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭


    << <i>His brother was way better. >>


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  • IchiroDeportedIchiroDeported Posts: 1,610 ✭
    not tito, Jermaine.
  • EstilEstil Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    So I guess he'll be in the HOF class of '14, right?

    EDIT: Sorry, make that 2014.
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  • MBMiller25MBMiller25 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭
    Uhhhhhh Yea!
  • fur72fur72 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭
    Its unreal to see him retire. I am getting old.

    When he left Chicago I hated him for leaving and actually boo'ed him at the season opener at Wrigley. All things changed after I read Rynos book. Cub management was so bad at the time. Maddux turned down more money from the Yanks and Braves and wanted to remain a Cub. He just wanted a no trade clause in his contract. The cubs would not give it to him. I think the Cubs did him a favor. He is a true class act that will be missed.
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  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maddux is a class act all the way!!!

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  • kingraider75kingraider75 Posts: 1,500 ✭✭
    If he stayed with the Cubs, would they have won a World Series??? Might have been that front of the rotation linchpin they sorely needed.

    He should go in as a Brave. Anyone want a 1987 Topps Traded set?? Neat item now.
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  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    Right up there with Warren Spahn as the two smartest pitchers ever to take the mound. And had so many insightful things to say about the craft:
    "The secret of pitching is to make strikes look like balls, and balls look like strikes."
    "The tougher the situation, the softer you throw."
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