By: 1970s Antihero
As a Mets fan, I'm sad he's leaving. But I would be a whole lot more upset about this if it weren't for Zack Wheeler and Matt Harvey. In terms of stupid trades the Mets have made, this isn't even in...
View ArticleBy: C.A.S.
He's an extremely thoughtful guy, you should listen to interviews on npr or podcasts with him, or better yet read his book. He just broke Jon Stewart's heart, but given his years of bouncing around the...
View ArticleBy: Ghostride The Whip
Speaking as a Yankees fan, I'm legitimately terrified of the Jays. A lot has to go right, especially their rotation staying healthy, but yeesh.
View ArticleBy: drezdn
With Dickey, it's hard to know how long he'll be effective. Then again no one else has been able to pitch without a ulnar collateral ligament.
View ArticleBy: reenum
Part of the reason I have renounced my fandom of the Royals is because the team acquired retreads like Ervin Santana and Jeremy Guthrie instead of trading for Dickey. And as Rany Jazayerli writes here,...
View ArticleBy: drezdn
I've been following him since he played for the Brewers AAA team, sad that he never got to pitcher for them at the major league level. The Mets should have just paid him. A contract like that doesn't...
View ArticleBy: Slap*Happy
Endearing nothing, it works. He's a pitcher who hits well above the Mendoza Line - .246 for a career average. There are some utility fielders who don't hit that well.
View ArticleBy: gladly
I'm certainly delighted that he's leaving the NL East, although his interview on Bullseye this year made me like him much more than I normally would like a Mets pitcher. Hearing that he names his bats...
View ArticleBy: Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish
Leaving the Mets would be the highlight of anyone's year.
View ArticleBy: RogerB
Also, he makes an awesome face when he pitches, which has become a meme in its own right, much to his mom's amusement.
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2012 has been one great year for pitcher R.A. Dickey. He climbed Kilimanjaro. He published a well-receivedautobiography revealing for the first time that he'd been a victim of sexual abuse as a child....
View ArticleBy: captaincrouton
Toronto sports media is funny. Whenever we give up prospects, we're giving up our future and its the worst trade ever. Whenever we get prospects, prospects never pan out and its the worst trade ever....
View ArticleBy: dry white toast
Also, he was the starting pitcher for the NL at the All-Star Game. Lifelong Jays fan who hasn't had anything to cheer about for 20 years. My wife ocasionally indulges in conversation about my love of...
View ArticleBy: albrecht
Partly because I still have a small hope to see a woman in the majors -- and I think that the only way this could possibly happen would be for a hotshot female knuckleballer to break into a designated...
View ArticleBy: mediareport
That "reinvention" link is a great interview with Dickey and Orel Hershiser about how Dickey was convinced to try to become a knuckleball pitcher and what happened after that. Lots of really touching...
View ArticleBy: newdaddy
Has anybody seen the Knuckleball! movie yet? Is this the one sports-themed film I can actually get my wife to sit through?
View ArticleBy: languagehat
God fucking damn it. The fact that I saw this coming (as a Mets fan hardened by decades of this sort of thing) doesn't make it any easier to take. Excuse me, can't read links now, too busy cursing Mets...
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