In article <8lzmj.71$e46.18@trnddc04>, Brick says...
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>Your statement says that all professional baseball and football players make
>faultless routine plays almost 100% of the time. You have to be joking or
>at least horribly mislead. What actually happens is that about 10% or so
>of the players make faultless plays almost 100% of the time and just two
>or three outstanding individuals consistently make great plays. That's why
>the names of Lou Gehrig, Willy Mays, Ted Williams and Babe Ruth stand
>out in everyone's memory and the thousands of rank and file players are
>long forgotten. Who remembers Johnny Loujac, the most feared college
>quarterback of the '50's. He was just a college boy, certainly not a
>professional. And then there were the "Four Horsemen", neither were
>they professionals.
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I'm a big baseball fan. According to the MLB Fielding Statistics, even the worst
fielding team had a percentage of .977 in 2007.

See:

http://tinyurl.com/ytu2lw

The worst fielding team makes the routine and/or amazing play 97.7% of the time.

I'm a SF Giants fan 8-( and watching Omar Vizquel play shortstop is a thing of
beauty. He consistently makes almost all of the routine plays (well in excess of
the average 97.7%) and shows up on ESPN highlights consistently with his amazing
plays. He may make the HOF someday--time will tell.

Willie Mays was the most complete ballplayer I've ever seen--and my childhood
hero. One of his amazing traits was the ability to know where a ball was going
to land as it left the bat. He would simply run to that spot, and then make the
catch. This ability allowed him to make plays look routine that other fielders
wouldn't have even been close to making.

Jerry Rice of 49ers fame had the same ability. He knew where the ball was going
to land, and would run to that spot and catch the football. This trait gave him
an enormous advantage over the defender who was trying to watch Rice and the
football at the same time.

As far as my BBQing goes, all is well. Yesterday, I smoked 2 boneless pork
shoulders for about 11 hours and they turned out great! I'm smoking some St.
Louis ribs for Super Bowl Sunday's party, and will also have sausages ready to
eat.

Mark
"Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't"





ttp://tinyurl.com/ytu2lw
That means that 97.7% of the time they make the routine and/or amazing play. I'm
a SF Giants fan 8-( and watching Omar Vizquel play shortstop is a thing of
beauty. He consistently makes almost all of the routine plays (well in excess of
97%) and shows up on ESPN highlights consistently with his amazing plays.

Willie Mays was the most complete ballplayer I've ever seen. One of his amazing
feats was the ability to know where a ball was going to land as it left the bat.
He would simply run to that spot, and then make the catch.

Jerry Rice of 49ers fame had the same ability. He knew where the ball was going
to land, and would run to that spot and catch the football.