Old Hoss Radbourn on Twitter

[NAHSTE]

That's right....

OLD HOSS RADBOURN. ON TWITTER.

Some really great stuff:

http://twitter.com/#!/OldHossRadbourn

Also, saying "it's the Union that's the enemy" in my day meant you were a deuced secessionist.

Down with BYU! I can not stand cultures that encourage practices dissimilar from my own. This was my excuse for killing many red men.

The new opposable thumb will really help J. Lackey in his quest to open a can of beer with a deer femur.

The major flaw with today's Spring Training: not enough stabbings. Blood-letting is a skill that must be honed, lest it be lost.

I well remember my spring training schedule: Wake. Whisky. Throw CG. Snack. "Nooner." Cheroot. Throw CG. Nap. Throw CG. Carouse. Repeat.

W. Mo Pena is one of those players I'm pretty sure I could have struck out on two pitches.

Two hits thus far given up by T. Lincecum. I predict a 2W, 29L season for the lad.

Myself a superstar, I would appreciate it if you all stopped sullying this term by applying it to C. Bosh

 

[FirstTimer]

Ummmmm awesome beyond words.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

This is gold. Its like an extended version of his baseballreference adspace quote.

Id thank this a million times if I could.

 

[NAHSTE]

Two more great ones:

An injured team mate was once instructed to hit off a tee when rehabilitating. He immediately died of shame.

Red Sox 1B A. Gonzalez hit off a tee this morning. Coming up this afternoon: some knitting, a tofu salad, tea with the gals.

And I just checked out the adspace on his baseball-reference page. Amazing.

Gaze below at the statistical flibberdigab that supposedly represent the greatness that was my career. But these numbers are useless: there are no columns for pints consumed, harlots bedded, or blades brandished.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I DIED

"This D.Gooden "Celebrity Rehab" news is almost as shocking as W.H. Taft's appearance on the program for his addiction to Hamburg Steaks"

The Wily Mo Pena one from the OP is also gold.

 

[FirstTimer]

I'm strongly considering getting a twitter just to follow this guy.

 

[NAHSTE]

I was so against Twitter for so long but since diving in head first it's actually a pretty great medium. And yeah W2B, the Taft/Hamburg steaks tweet almost made it into my OP. I wanted to save a few good ones for everyone else.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

There was nothing quite like striking out a hitter after working him to a gentlemanly 7-2 count.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

In my day players "popped greenies" all the time. This of course referred to assaulting irishmen.

 

[FedEx227]

I was so against Twitter for so long but since diving in head first it's actually a pretty great medium. And yeah W2B, the Taft/Hamburg steaks tweet almost made it into my OP. I wanted to save a few good ones for everyone else.

How can one follow NAHSTE?

 

[NAHSTE]

How can one follow NAHSTE?

There used to be a link in my sig, but my name is just my full legal name. (LukeMayeux)

 

[NAHSTE]

As many of you have astutely pointed out, the best player in "MLB® 1885 The Show™" was of course J. Moyer.

 

[dave]

Chris Jericho can be funny on his Twitter account.

 

[NAHSTE]

I assume that after J. Verlander's meager 114-pitch game of catch yesterday he is ready to throw both ends of a double-header today.

Ah, Opening Day. In 1885 I hit for the cycle: threw a CG, rogered a 'mate's wife, burnt down the bull pen, stabbed an opponent. #nostalgia

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

"Doubles are spawned in the batters box." I am done. Thanks, T. McCarver. I just tried to kill myself, and I'm already dead.

If my skipper pulled me with a 7-4 lead in the bottom of the 5th I would poison him and his entire clan.

This fellow who ate J. Chamberlain is not throwing well.

My plan to dominate my fantasy base ball league by drafting one pitcher and starting him every day appears, in retrospect, to be faulty.

K. Farnsworth earned a save. Coincidentally, I just observed the birth of a two-headed calf and a river turn into blood.

In my day, of course, a pitcher took his own life if the "suicide squeeze" was successfully employed against him.

The Red Sox are 0-3 and have been outscored 26-11. They hold 7th place in their Bristol, CT PR firm's recent "Power Rankings."

Faugh! This M. Holliday is soft. I once removed my appendix between innings. It was fine: I was just being cautious. CG. Struck out 15.

 

[Tailback U]

I don't know who this guy is but he sounds pretty awesome.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I don't know who this guy is but he sounds pretty awesome.

A surly, crude, mean SOB who was quite possibly the toughest player to ever play the game.

In 1884, the other P for Providence quit the team, in the middle of a pennant race no less, because he hated Radbourn. No worries. Radbourn just said "fuck it" and pitched the rest of the games himself. His final line?

73 GS, 73 CG's. 59-12, 1.38 ERA. 678 IP, 441 K, 98 BB.

This comng off a 1883 campaign where he won 48 games.

Old Hoss Radbourn, hall of famer, tweeter, and bad ass motherfucker.

 

[SethMode]

Hoss is on the top left, flicking off the camera man, naturally.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

So A. Chapman can throw over 100 MPH. Bah! Any lout can throw heat. A true craftsman can get outs with a 45 MPH palm ball and some gumption.

Doc Hoss has diagnosed what is wrong with J. Peavy. He has a bad case of no longer playing in Petco.

The Nationals and Brewers are having a true double-header tomorrow! I am sure the starters are fighting over who gets to start both games.

 

[NAHSTE]

Six runs, eh, "ace" J. Verlander? Well, fret not. I, too, once gave up six runs. Of course, it was a 73-inning game.