Fernando Valenzuela

[The Prowler]

Honestly, one of the Los Angeles Dodgers greats passes away and you people do not pay him tribute.

It is disgusting to me.

Is it because he was Mexican? Are you all so bigoted against Mexicans?


Anyways...

From one highly decorated baseball player to another...



To You El Toro!



Today, we share THE BELT!!!!

 

[Larry Loungelizard]

RIP

 

[Admin.]

He was a rock star in his day RIP, even if Refrigerator wasn’t your real name.

 

[Joe]

Honestly, one of the Los Angeles Dodgers greats passes away and you people do not pay him tribute.

Yeah I remember him Lex @The Prowler.

He was good but compared to some other great pitchers, just so-so.

His stats:

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Valenzuela only won 20 games in a season just once in his career.

Contrast this to some pitchers who did close to or exceeded 10 seasons of this even during the post WWII difficult fully integrated Major leagues.

Perhaps his significance was that he represented the Mexican American community in the US.

Interesting is unlike other Republican politicians Ronald Reagan courted the Latino community, met with Valenzuela & they helped return him massive majorities to the White House.

 

[Lily]

 

[The Prowler]

They should get their money back for that awful depiction of El Toro pitching. He was not that thin in his entire life. He had the giant Mexican noggin too. Like "someone" around here.....

 

[Lily]

You can't quit me. It's LILY, LILY, LILY day in and day out, all day long.

NO, I do not like you. No, I will not ever like you. You are not my type. You're an ugly, bald douchebag. A face that apparently not even a mother could love.

 

[The Prowler]

Weirdo stalker fat lady is imagining things as I clearly did not mention her name.

It is like she cannot handle being ignored.

 

[Lily]

El Pelon Pendejo replied right to my post.

DERP DERP DERPY DERP

 

[The Prowler]

Weirdo stalker lady is posting in my thread.

 

[Lily]

 

[The Prowler]

^ Stalker lady.

 

[Lily]

When you're bald and full of shit.

 

[The Prowler]

Trivia Time


How many HBP was El Toro responsible for?

 

[Joe]

They should get their money back for that awful depiction of El Toro pitching. He was not that thin in his entire life. He had the giant Mexican noggin too. Like "someone" around here.....

Hey Lex @The Prowler back on topic here….

I think arguably the greatest pitcher of all time was a White Guy named Denny McLain.



However he likely will never get that recognition because of time spent in prison.

But when I was as a Kid he was all the rage. He defeated some very good pitchers including his outstanding rival Bob Gibson

McLain was the last pitcher in the majors to win 30 games. McLain carried an entire team on his pitching arm. The Tigers also won the World Series that year

This is unlikely to be attained in AL or NL ever again

 

[The New Holliday]

WoW!

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Fernando Valenzuela’s cause of death has been determined after the Dodgers legend

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.

According to his death certificate, the broadcaster and former pitcher died due to decompensated alcoholic cirrhosis and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis cirrhosis.

The document obtained by

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also notes that another probable contributor to Valenzuela’s death was that he suffered from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain disorder. Symptoms of the disease can include severe mental deterioration and dementia as well as involuntary muscle jerks.

 

[AnnaConda]

Trivia Time


How many HBP was El Toro responsible for?

You should beat your meat with the other hand…..even things out

 

[The New Holliday]

I think arguably the greatest pitcher of all time was a White Guy named Denny McLain.

Joe, He had 2 very good years - '68, '69. 55 and 15 and low ERA. Other than that he was a .500 pitcher and with an era somewhere around 4. Also, remember that the year when Detroit went to the series and won it was his stable mate who won 3 games - Mickey Lolich, who was a far more steady performer over the course of his career.