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Who was the luckiest professional athlete of all time?
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:38 PM Author: cowgolf Put another way, which pro athlete had the lowest ratio of skill/effort to individual accolades earned? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682036) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:41 PM Author: Retro face diaper Joe Namath (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682051) |
Date: February 21st, 2025 12:40 PM Author: Judas Jones Clothed BBer “Jay” Cutler (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682048) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:20 PM Author: Trumpus Julius Caesar Augustus (TDNW) OP said athlete not some g-string model (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683175) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:40 PM Author: MASE Bo Jackson (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682049) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:40 PM Author: Bob Stinson According to him, Lou Gehrig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682050) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:42 PM Author: Gay Grandpa He was so lucky, he got a disease so rare that that they named it after him. What are the odds. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682053) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:42 PM Author: gedood persoon Lucky that he got it instead of some other disease not named after him (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682056) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:43 PM Author: Retro face diaper (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682057) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:44 PM Author: cowgolf If Cal Ripken Jr contracted a terminal disease would he be considered more lucky? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682061) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:44 PM Author: gedood persoon depends if he got Cal Ripken Jr. disease or some other disease (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682063) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:45 PM Author: cowgolf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682067) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 5:55 PM Author: To be fair (Semi-Retarded) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683112) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 6:43 AM Author: Trump Did Nothing Wrong when he abandoned Ukraine (gunneratttt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684115) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 10:44 PM Author: .,..,.,,.,..,,,.,.,.,..,..,..,.,..,,.,.,.,. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48685824) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 5:55 PM Author: To be fair (Semi-Retarded) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683111) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:01 PM Author: Kenneth Play MFCR *cue reverb sound effect* "Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth." *wipes away a tear* |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:44 PM Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,.., Anna Kournikova is up there. A decent enough player who was hot as fuck and peaked in skill (and looks) during the personality vacuum that popped up post Seles/Graf and before the Williams sisters. Her fame is solely due to impeccable timing and a great ass. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682064) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:46 PM Author: cowgolf She's still one of the hottest women alive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682068) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:46 PM Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,.., She’s in a wheelchair now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682073) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:46 PM Author: cowgolf And? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682080) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:06 PM Author: Idris "Thoughts & Tariffs" Elba (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682410) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:07 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., https://nypost.com/2025/01/29/sports/anna-kournikova-seen-in-wheelchair-in-rare-public-appearance/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682413) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:03 PM Author: Kenneth Play i appreciate the pic but this looks temporary and related to a broken leg or foot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683132) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:49 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, she was a superb doubles player, for whatever that's worth. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682094) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:56 PM Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,.., Her playing doubles with Hingis formed the basis of like 75% of my jerking off in the early 2000s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682116) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:04 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682403) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:03 PM Author: Kenneth Play prestige (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683133) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 8:17 AM Author: kike krispies (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684184) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:05 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., and a top 10 singles player, despite the forcememe that she was terrible bc she never won a singles title. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682407) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:22 PM Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,.., She barely cracked the top 10 during a down period when there weren’t other stars. Lucky. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682661) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:29 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., diego schwartzman cracked the top 10 too. is he lucky? im not sure where you're going with this. lots of good but not truly great players crack the top 10 briefly after good runs. how is she any more lucky than any of them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682690) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:38 PM Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,.., She’s post menopause and in a wheelchair my man she’s not gonna fuck you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682732) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:41 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., how would either or both of those things stop me? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682744) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:26 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, she's odd in that virtually every player who reached her singles ranking (8 iirc) managed to win at least one tournament. so maybe she was unlucky or maybe she didn't have the psychology to win solo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682674) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:32 PM Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,.., IIRC she was very tactical about the tournaments she entered, and ducked and dodged any loaded field that wasn’t a major (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682707) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:37 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., ur literally making shit up. she regularly played all the wta1000's:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kournikova_career_statistics#Singles |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:33 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., yes she's an odd case. she was a top junior singles player. her failure to win a wta singles title is most likely mental midgetry. but that doesn't mean she sucked.
she certainly had talent and at many times proved she didnt suck. check out this tourney where she beat davenport, seles, conchita martinez and sanchez-vicarrio all in the same week:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Lipton_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_singles
she beat all those players and then came up against penis in the finals. that's certainly unlucky. that performance should be good enough to win most tourneys. |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:09 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., you're conflating fame as a celeb versus fame on her tennis prowess. she's less respected as a tennis player bc she was hot and everyone wrongly makes fun of her for being "terrible" bc she never won a singles title. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682415) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 4:06 PM Author: David Lynch's Mistress (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682826) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:45 PM Author: mountain cat Robert Horry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682065) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:46 PM Author: cowgolf I was thinking Horry but he's more of a team accolades guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682076) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:52 PM Author: mountain cat Then Karl malone. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682099) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:26 PM Author: Diamond Dallas Trump he had elite production and was possibly the best player to not win a ring so he doesn't seem lucky to me unless you count playing with stockton as luck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682478) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:49 PM Author: mountain cat Stockton did all the work. He drew in a double team opening up Malone, whipped him a pass and he hit an open mid range or dunk. His career is a complete fraud and i can't even believe people actually think he's on Barkley's level. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682767) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 4:23 PM Author: Diamond Dallas Trump would love to see some malone vs barkley head to head game data
fyi barkley is overrated too |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:05 PM Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,.., Derek Fisher was a PG who couldn’t play PG. Mediocre distributor and poor defender. Ends up in a Phil Jackson offense (which doesnt use a traditional PG) and gets to operate as a pressure release for two of the top 50 players of all time in Shaq and Kobe. He could shoot wide open 3s.
He played for 18 seasons, won 5 rings with the Lakers, and succccccked any time he wasn’t in LA with that offense. If any other team had drafted him he probably wouldn’t have seen a second contract in the league. |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:41 PM Author: mountain cat would love to have seen matt barnes beat the shit out of him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682306) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:24 PM Author: Diamond Dallas Trump i was going to post horry. the counterpoint is that a case could be made that he had the talent and was just lazy and phoned it in during the regular season (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682470) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 5:49 PM Author: hank_scorpio came here to say this, guy was a good player for sure but I can't think of anyone else that just bounced around championship teams like that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683097) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:06 PM Author: Kenneth Play disagree, he was 6'10 and hit 36% of his 3's in the playoffs. i hear what you're saying though, he's lucky that his role was needed and he actually got an opportunity to play for so many top teams (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683140) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:19 PM Author: hank_scorpio he's won more rings than Michael Jordan man, he is very lucky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683174) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 8:35 PM Author: Kenneth Play i hear you, brother. we are focusing on different angles of the question. a talented role player who catches a break and wins the most ever rings, is for me a less "lucky" outcome than a guy like eli manning who had very little talent compared to an average pro athlete (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683444) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:29 PM Author: hank_scorpio dood, actually being the starting qb of two super bowl winning teams is not nearly as lucky as being a role player who had no shot of ever taking a team anywhere and landing in 7 championship teams (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683557) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 11:57 AM Author: Kenneth Play eli didn't carry the team anywhere; he was surrounded by talent. he was *just* good enough to keep the train running. agree that QB is a key position, and horry was a role player position. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684448) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:46 PM Author: .,..,.,.;,.,,:.,.,::,...,..,:,..;,.., Sam Bradford comes to mind. $130M career earnings over 8 years.
Brady also bc he could have easily just never gotten a window |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:46 PM Author: mountain cat Novak Djokovic. Sucked until fed and lance were shot then cleaned up during a historically weak period in tennis who no true challengers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682082) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:48 PM Author: cowgolf Federer peaked in a historically weaker era than anyone, no? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682090) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:06 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., yes, absolutely (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682411) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:05 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., sup roger?
this is such flame |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 8:17 AM Author: kike krispies Wait who got shot?? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684185) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:53 PM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, Eli Manning has a great case for this. He's going to get in the HOF and is a 2x Super Bowl MVP and a legend for beating Tom Brady twice.
But if it weren't for 2 ridiculous catches, he'd have 0 Super Bowl wins, 0 great teams (his super bowl teams had a 10-6 and 9-7 record), a career .500 record, and only ever led the league in INTs. |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:55 PM Author: Bob Stinson Excellent answer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682109) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:14 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., yeah not sure how this isn't /thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682434) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:22 PM Author: Trumpus Julius Caesar Augustus (TDNW) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683180) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:57 PM Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,.., (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682120) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:09 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682174) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:35 PM Author: LathamTouchedMe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682274) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:43 PM Author: internet g0y (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682313) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:55 PM Author: mountain cat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682381) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:10 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682419) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:29 PM Author: Candy Ride Even without the lucky Super Bowl wins he was still a franchise QB for 15 years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682693) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 6:53 AM Author: Trump Did Nothing Wrong when he abandoned Ukraine (gunneratttt) what is your point here? any athlete in this discussion would have to have played the game for a while. being a professional athlete is a necessary condition, so pointing out that he held onto his job for 15 years isn't particularly relevant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684120) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:06 PM Author: Kenneth Play cr, it's kind of absurd to put him into the HOF. Why don't they put Joe Flacco in there too then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683142) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:25 AM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (🇺🇸 🇵🇱) Nah. He deserves HOF status *because* of luck. It's a huge component of the game. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48685976) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 6:07 AM Author: Leo Frank's Orphanage (FAGGOTCHIPPER / Hegemon) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684106) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 6:42 AM Author: Trump Did Nothing Wrong when he abandoned Ukraine (gunneratttt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684114) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:24 AM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (🇺🇸 🇵🇱) Ran here to suggest Eli, despite being a huge giants fan. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48685974) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:24 AM Author: but at what cost (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48685975) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 12:57 PM Author: Ass Sunstein Robin Ventura, he's lucky to be alive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682123) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:10 PM Author: Henry Wadsworth Longbutt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682177) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 6:51 AM Author: Wilbur Mercer, permanently embarrassed millionaire (Safari) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684119) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:06 PM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, Throwing out a couple of more names:
Madison Bumgarner - he's actually got better regular season stats than i remember, but i think you could argue he was lucky to have his best stretches appear in the World Series
Matt Flynn - started last game for Green Bay, ran up the score against an awful Detroit team, and got himself a $20 mm contract (a lot at the time) from Seattle...
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:23 PM Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,.., Flynn is a really good one. That contract was based on more than the one game though - he had also looked amazing for several preseasons in a row and was widely thought of as being starter-ready but for being behind Aaron Rodgers.
Turns out he just knew how to flex on backups. He couldn’t even beat out Terrelle Pryor in Oakland. |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:35 PM Author: ,...,.,.,.;,.;,.;.,..,.;,...,.,,.,;,.,.;,., A hilarious follow-up to this is that he went to Seattle and sucked, went to Oakland and sucked, but then when Rodgers got hurt in 2013 both of their backups were horrible, so they just brought Flynn back and he was good again and got them into the playoffs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683212) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:10 PM Author: Henry Wadsworth Longbutt Not magic johnson (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682175) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:18 PM Author: .;:..;:.;.:.;.,,,..,.:,.;....;,;;;..;,..,,.,,...., Lebron. Jumps from superteam to superteam to win championships. Lebron stans ignore his abysmal +/- ratio and poor defense during his later years. Takes way too many plays off and gets his stats on bottom feeding teams (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682208) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:40 PM Author: 718-662-5970 Lebron is the example of something else. He has natural gifts that are probably the highest in NBA history. So his giftedness:accolades ratio is nothing outrageous.
Matter of fact, it probably goes the other way. He should have won so much more, and closed the argument on GOAT persuasively. Jordan with Lebron's body would have won 10 championships
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:44 PM Author: internet g0y probably 4 or 5 guys on the 90s bulls who could qualify (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682318) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:45 PM Author: 718-662-5970 i used to chuckle thinking about Ron Harper playing some "guess this celebrity" game:
1. Im a black NBA champion
2. I play for the Chicago Bulls
3. Im a 2 guard
4. I shave my head totally bald
Guess who I am! |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 5:53 PM Author: internet g0y Im using this now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683104) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 1:45 PM Author: ,.,.,.,........,....,,,.. Dwight Howard or Kwame Brown. Egregiously bad, just got max contracts by being tall and having gym rat bodies (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682323) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:11 PM Author: mountain cat The Dwight Howard hate is such retarded flame. Guy put up MVP level numbers for like 5 or 6 seasons and was DPOY 3 consecutive years. He's a lock for the HOF.
He was extremely effective. He gets shit on now for a few reasons: 1) shaq doesn't like him 2) offensive game lacked aesthetics 3) couldn't make free throws 4) lame personality. |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:18 PM Author: ,.,.,.,........,....,,,.. Now do kwame brown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682449) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:19 PM Author: ,.,.,.,........,....,,,.. Also Kobe hated him. If you were a fan of the lakers then you hated him. He didn’t do shit for years and cost a ton of trade assets. As soon as we had gasol we were suddenly good again. Guy did nothing with his physical assets, just totally overrated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682452) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:17 PM Author: mountain cat Here's the thing. Dwight was so physically gifted that he was a man amongst boys as soon as he entered the league as a teenager. He's also kind of dumb and lazy, so he didn't do anything other than stay in shape to continue to be a dominant NBA player not realizing that maybe he should diversify his offensive arsenal.
Then he got injured (before going to LA) and his physical prowess diminished and he didn't have the skills to pivot his game to still be as effective into his 30s like Shaq, Kareem or Dream. Since he came into the league straight out of HS, he still had almost a decade of all nba level seasons. |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:13 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., lots of golfers come to mind, particularly in the post-tiger vacuum:
paddy harrington is a 3x slam winner. c'mon man. |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:19 PM Author: ,.,.,.,........,....,,,.. Golf is a bad example. You have to grind to get good. Not exactly the definition of lucky… (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682455) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:23 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., you have to grind in most individual sports, but golf has lots of inherent randomness. golf majors are way more random than, say, tennis. plus the fact that all the 4 majors are in like a 2.5 month period means that someone peaking at the right time can get lucky and rack up several. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682466) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:27 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Paddy made huge use of square grooves which were then banned. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682679) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 5:27 PM Author: Brother Peter Dimond partially agree. hard to call padraig lucky to win. he was the best those weeks. he also prepared for those british opens differently than other players which worked out obviously so seems smart rather than lucky.
otoh the two in ‘08 were when tiger was out after breaking his leg or whatever at the us open he won at torrey pines. i suppose that’s lucky the same way chris dimarco was unlucky in that he might have a masters and british open if tiger was injured when he had solo 2nds in those |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:26 PM Author: .,..,.,.;,.,,:.,.,::,...,..,:,..;,.., Reteif Goosen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683552) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:44 AM Author: Brother Peter Dimond ? he was great in majors, bunch of top tens. twice runner up at the masters. a couple 54 hole leads he didn’t convert. he was in contention a lot, won some other tournaments too. and this was back when tiger was in his prime as were a lot of other really good players. those two us opens were not out of nowhere.
better “lucky” two time us open winner answer would be andy north. only one other tour win. he wouldn’t even have won the second open in 85 by todays rules and it’s debatable that the two shot penalty assessed to denis watson(who finished a shot back) was correct in the first place |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 2:22 PM Author: mountain cat Charles Martin
Totally unremarkable fighter who got to be heavyweight champ of the world.
In 2015, after beating Wlad Klitschko, Tyson Fury was ordered to fight Vyacheslav Glazkov to defend his IBF World Title. Fury instead vacated the belt. Glazkov was then ordered to fight Charles Martin for the vacant belt. In the 3rd round, Glazkov slipped and tore his ACL preventing him from continuing and resulting in a TKO victory for Martin who then was KOd in his next fight against Anthony Joshua. |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:28 PM Author: Candy Ride Tim Wakefield RIP. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682686) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:33 PM Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III I don’t think that he played pro, but someone like Neil Fingleton if we can count a successful college career. Just absurd genetic outlier tailor made for a particular sport, but absolutely no talent at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682708) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:47 PM Author: intranet guy Given that a knuckleball is an inherently random pitch, wouldn’t the best knuckleballers (like Wakefield) be the best possible technical answer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682763) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:27 AM Author: sealclubber it doesn't take luck to throw world class knuckleballs, dipshit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48685977) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:49 PM Author: David Poaster Wallace If we are talking total comp, Kirk Cousins rode a string of franchise tags and short-term contracts to net >$300M off a career with an 0-2 playoff record. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682766) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 5:12 PM Author: gedood persoon ljl wowza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683007) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:50 PM Author: potluck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683608) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 5:24 AM Author: Trumpus Julius Caesar Augustus (TDNW) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684097) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 3:59 PM Author: .,,.....,;,;,.,:,,:,,.:,:;::.,,.,:,.,.::.:.,:.::,. OJ Simp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682803) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 4:11 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., Michael Chang. Total fluke a 5’7 oriental 17 year old won Roland garros defeating edberg and Lendl. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48682832) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:01 PM Author: cowgolf Chang is not even close to being the WORST one slam wonder
He reached #2 in '96 and beat Prime Agassi 1.0 in 2 major semis |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:10 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., agreed. i didnt say he's the worst. and he's not even close to the worst. he just got extremely lucky somehow destroying a tough field. and 17yo's usually dont win slams.
i'm just saying his RG title is extremely lucky given the tough field he faced |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:17 PM Author: cowgolf Gastón Gaudio never sniffed a grand slam until 2004 RG when he had an insanely easy draw after Federer's shock upset, only faced 2 barely seeded players until the Finals, then he was getting his ass kicked and down 2 sets to 0, only came back because opponent happened to be his best friend who probably felt bad kicking the shit out of him (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683166) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 8:18 AM Author: kike krispies That was an amazing final, one of the GOATS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684186) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 5:46 PM Author: .,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,... Rich Gannon also jumps to mind. He was a career backup who suddenly became a Pro Bowler and one-time MVP at almost exactly the same time that he got to throw the ball to Jerry Rice. Now that you mention it, Joe Montana and Steve Young could also be part of this conversation for the same reason, but Gannon was far more egregious. Eli Manning is still a better pick, though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683091) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 5:57 PM Author: Retro face diaper
Montana was in the right place at the right time and was the right kind of QB to run the west coast offense, which took some years for defensive coordinators to solidify schemes and obtain players to effectively deal with.
You could also say that Rice, who was not incredibly fast, benefitted more than a little by catching balls from Montana and Young.
They both benefitted from having dudes like Ronnie Lott murdering people on a weekly basis. |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 6:29 PM Author: Brother Peter Dimond gannon was also unlucky though. he lost people magazine’s “sexiest athlete” that he was supposed to win when the photographer took pics of elvis grbac (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683193) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 8:38 PM Author: Retro face diaper (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683453) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 5:53 PM Author: state your IQ before I engage you further Chris Davis got like $10 million per hit after signing that monster contract (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683105) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 8:43 PM Author: internet dude It's Tom Brady. Based on his individual talent, skill and efforts, he doesn't even belong in the HOF, but he has 7 rings because of the SYSTEM so people act like he's the GOAT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683468) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:40 PM Author: Retro face diaper Retarded take (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48683581) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:28 AM Author: sealclubber (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48685979) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 10:55 AM Author: He flexed his right muscle. He won a Super Bowl without Belichick (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684349) |
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Date: February 21st, 2025 9:49 PM Author: potluck argument to be made for B.D. Nick Foles
probably shouldn’t have gotten serious consideration as a starting qb but was immediately playing behind an injury-prone Vick. around the time he’s headed to the trash heap early career, chip kelly comes on and has some gimmicky shit that helps Foles look like maybe he’s great. has that 7 td game, just a few games where he looks like he has promise. he actually sucks but just enough notoriety to keep getting qb2 gigs.
then inexplicably goes on an insane run in the playoffs after wentz goes down. remember, foles looked like absolute shit in that regular season. super bowl comes, philly special, unsustainable throw after unsustainable throw, beats brady & gets SB MVP. forever a hero, immortalized for that one run. also got him paid (and he went right back to being sps)
great thread btw |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 6:57 AM Author: Trump Did Nothing Wrong when he abandoned Ukraine (gunneratttt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684123) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 8:19 AM Author: kike krispies Derek Jeter
Very good player, but his megafame had a lot more to do with circumstances than individual achievements |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 10:13 AM Author: Voodoo Child You’re right. 3,500 hits and 70 career WAR is NBD. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684285) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 10:36 AM Author: polka champ Hits are nbd, if you can’t hit homers you’re a twink
WAR is the epitome of the pencil neck lib shit that ruined baseball
Htmfh |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 3:50 PM Author: Voodoo Child (guy who thinks Ty Cobb was a twink) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48685009) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 1:06 PM Author: Titan Uranus Deadball era (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48686789) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 10:52 AM Author: wait till biggus dickus hears of this Paul Molitor has very similar stats, higher WAR, and was rightly a first ballot HOF, but played in Milwaukee and so only got 85% vote and obviously not globally sucked off daily with RE2PECT glocap campaign (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684345) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 3:33 PM Author: Voodoo Child Molitor was an amazing hitter, but also spent half his career as a DH. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684964) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 11:36 AM Author: Candy Ride (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684418) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 10:42 PM Author: mountain cat Jeter’s level of individual talent did not warrant a season long farewell tour and almost unanimous HOF induction.
People go too far and try to say he was a bad baseball player. It’s absurd. But he has GOAT level accolades and was never close to being the best player in the league in any season. A lot of this is purely from being on a historically great yankees team. |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 1:44 AM Author: Voodoo Child Jeter had three top-5 finishes for the MVP. He was the runner-up in 2006 when he lost to Justin Morneau (lmao). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48686012) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:47 PM Author: mountain cat 3 top 5 finishes i think. but you are right, i went a bit too far saying he was never close to being the best player in the league when clearly he was right up there for a few years and had a lengthy and consistent career.
Maybe his objective stats plus his intangibles like leadership and clutch moments make his deification reasonable. |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:16 AM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., yanks/gints fan here, but jeter and eli both are itt for a reason (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48685964) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 10:54 AM Author: He flexed his right muscle. The golfer Michael Campbell has to be one of the flukiest major championship winners of all time.
Looking at his major championship results is pretty funny.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Campbell |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 10:50 PM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., hes not close to the worst golfer to win a slam.
T3, T5, T6 and T12 at other slams
rich beem never even had another slam top 10 |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:03 AM Author: Kenneth Play wow
Beem turned professional in 1994. His early career was broken up by a spell in Seattle selling car stereos and cell phones. He later regained interest after J. P. Hayes won the 1998 Buick Classic [1]. -- [wins 2002 pga championship over tiger] -- Until this win, Beem was best known for the book Bud, Sweat and Tees: A Walk on the Wild Side of the PGA Tour by Alan Shipnuck, which profiled his rookie year on the PGA Tour and the often wild lifestyle of him and his caddie, Steve Duplantis. |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:15 AM Author: ...,,..;...,,..,..,...,,,;.., (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48685962) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:53 AM Author: Brother Peter Dimond beem was 180. i’ve used a scotty putter for over 20 years but the last one i bought before that was one of those goofy STX things he used to win the PGA. think i’ll pull it out tomorrow and roll a few (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48685992) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:51 AM Author: Brother Peter Dimond cr campbell was touted as the next great player after that third place behind daly and rocca at st. andrews in 95. there was even some ridiculous nike commercial iirc
he had some crazy ups and downs and then just totally lost it eventually. kinda like what happens with duval but DD was a pretty good #1 for a while |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 3:37 PM Author: .,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,... Am I the first one to say Tim Tebow? At one point, something like 40% of football fans believed that his success in the NFL was due to divine intervention when you look at the number of games he won despite the obvious lack of talent. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48684977) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2025 9:20 PM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, I think Tebow was unlucky in a lot of ways.
He led his team to the playoffs, won a playoff game, then lost to Tom Brady (who hasn't). He's annouced as the presumptive starter for the next year, but the Broncos sign Peyton Manning - and then he's traded never to really get a shot at QB agai.
Yeah he couldn't throw - but neither could Lamar Jackson or Jalen Hurts. Seems like he might've gotten more of an opportunity to run a 2025 style offense and he came 10 years too soon. |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:30 AM Author: sealclubber larry johnson "In 1993, he recorded 63 tackles and 11 passes defensed (tied for second on the team). In 1994, he tallied 57 tackles, 4 interceptions (third on the team) and 12 passes defensed (tied for third on the team). The 1995 season would be a great season for Brown, recording six interceptions, returning two of them for touchdowns and recording 47 tackles, en route to the Cowboys reaching and winning Super Bowl XXX, in which he earned MVP honors with two second half interceptions, which the Cowboys converted into two touchdowns to prevent a Steelers comeback.[4]
Oakland Raiders Brown became a free agent immediately after his Super Bowl MVP performance and used his award as leverage to sign a lucrative contract (five years, $12.5 million with $3.5 million guaranteed) with the Oakland Raiders on February 20, 1996.[5] In 1997, he was demoted to a backup role and suspended four weeks by the team for "conduct detrimental to the team".[6] On June 3, 1998, he was waived after being a disappointment and playing only 12 games (one start) in two years for the Raiders.[7] Brown is believed to be one of the NFL's biggest free agent busts in NFL history." his two superbowl interceptions had nothing to do with skill and everything to do with luck |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 1:08 PM Author: Diane Rehm talking dirty (🐿️ ) Michelle Wie (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48686798) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 2:45 PM Author: Mike Piazza taking cuts on the beach (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5683988&forum_id=2#48687126) |