[Ridiculous Stats] Any Sport, Any Country, Any Century

Edwin Moses won 107 consecutive finals in the 400 meter hurdes (122 races overall). He did this because he was the first man to ever learn to do 13 steps between hurdles, not only because of his longer stride but also his ability to alternate the jumping leg.

This undefeated streak spanned 9 years.

 

This is not the article I cited earlier, I'll find it shorltly...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-plan-to-speed-up-baseball-1427996693

 

There's also this:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybr...s-down-nearly-10-minutes-due-to-rule-changes/

 

Randy Johnson, 1 career disintegrated bird.

 

Dave Winfield almost got thrown in jail for the same.

 

Michael Johnson holds the WR for 400m spanning 16 years. He has 9 of the fastest 12 times ever recorded. Before him, Butch Reynolds held the WR for 11 yrs, and most say he was on PEDs, because his second fastest personal best was over .6 seconds slower, 33rd fastest in history. How can a guy go from 43.91 to 43.29 in one year? And never do better than 43.91 again. By comparison, Johnson had 16 times faster than 43.91. And Johnson is one of the biggest proponents of testing in Track n Field history.

Disregarding Butch Reynolds questionable time in '88, Micheal Johnson has the three best times ever recorded. His WR is .28 faster than Jeremy Wariner's fastest, and .42 faster than Quincy Watts 3rd best time.

On top of that, Michael Johnson also held the 200m WR for 9 years until Usain Bolt broke it.

So, Johnson held the 200m and 400m WR at the same time for 9 years.

 

[edits] oops, 14 minutes looking for the video of Winfield, so was late on the Randy Johnson's fastball explodes a Bird

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http://www.thestar.com/news/insight...n_stadium_30_years_later_an_oral_history.html

 

Those are articles about the rules changes to speed up the game. That is not the same as the MLB Official Rules defining "Dead Ball" time.

The writers are not describing the rules of when the ball is live vs Dead Ball. Thus, they are erroneously measuring the time of "play." The ball is live whenever there is a runner on base, unless it is a Dead Ball situation...primary examples are when the ball in the stands or a time out is called.

It appears they are only measuring when the ball is in flight during a pitch or hit and the running during the hit. That's not a proper description of Live Ball time. For instance, the hidden ball trick to tag a player off base requires the pitcher to NOT be on the mound/rubber.

Hell, we can even do math on when the batter is in the box. Let's say both pitchers throw two 100 pitch perfect games...no runners. If we say the batter is in the box for 5 seconds before each pitch, that is 33 minutes of the batter being in the box, right there.

 

Ok Rice guy, you win for now.

I'm watching a game.

 

Gretzky has more career assists than any other player has points (assists + goals). I could probably list 100 stats by Gretzky that will never be broke.

 

Fernando Valenzuela's 5 shutouts in his first 8 games started, rookie season.

 

Orel Hershiser breaking Don Drysdale's 23-year 58 consecutive shutout innings with 59 in the post pitcher era. That was 5 shutouts in a row to end the Dodger's title 1988 season, and should have been 6 in a row, but the inept Dodger offense (sans Kirk Gibson) took a 0-0 game into the 10 inning and Lasorda sat down Orel after that.

Orel preceded to pitch two more shutouts in the post-season.

 

Orel Hersheiser's scoreless inning streak. His final 6 starts of the '88 season:

9IP, 9IP, 9IP, 9IP, 9IP, 10IP, zero runs.

He also pitched 3 CG right before that, 27IP, 4ER.

 

see my last post after Fernando. I tell those two together.

He also threw a shutout in Game 7 vs the Mets, who the Dodgers had no business beating. He then threw a shutout against the As as well. That was a Miracle team of Orel and Kirk Gibson, which ironically was the same year Bull Durham, Field of Dreams and The Natural came out as a baseball comeback post strike. Kirk was The Natural.

 

**** the Mets.

 

Do you realize how high of a number 18 minutes of playing time is for baseball? There is zero chance that's accurate…unless they followed games that scored 15+ runs, then maaaaybeee. Unless they are timing every little random movement, like a foul ball, then it doesn't make sense.

 

Argue with these guys, leave me the **** out of it:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323740804578597932341903720

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-b...-games-average-less-18-minutes-183618164.html

 

Your info is wrong. You are misusing the definition of when the ball is in play.

I've already explained this. Please read my comments to you already, above.

You can't redefine when the ball is in play vs a dead ball, just to make a point. MLB Official Rules do not agree with you. But, go ahead, if you want to say the ball is not live until it leaves the pitcher's hand, go at it. But that is not the definition of Ball in Play vs Dead Ball in baseball, sorry.

We should probably take this argument (which I will win) to the Other Sports forum, so you don't get embarrassed.

 

Then the numbers need to be changed for football as well…because when the QB is calling the plays to his teammates in the huddle, then that counts as "live" action. After all, the play clock is ticking, so that counts, right?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The actual playing time in an MLB game is nine minutes and 55 seconds, despite routinely finishing at around three hours.</p>&mdash; OMG Facts SPORTS (@OMGFactsSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/OMGFactsSports/status/195165823655100417">April 25, 2012</a></blockquote>
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