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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:34 am    Post subject: RIP Tony Gwynn

An all time great. Was only 54.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:40 am    Post subject:

Damn. RIP.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:11 am    Post subject:

Wow. RIP.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:14 am    Post subject:

What...wow...RIP. Man, and me originally from Long Beach where he played at LB Poly and the baseball field named after him...omg
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:27 am    Post subject:

Terrible. One of my favorite players growing up. Tony was one of the best and smartest hitters in my memory. Cancer sucks.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:34 am    Post subject:

One of my fav players when I was young as well...
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:47 am    Post subject:

RIP Tony.


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:03 am    Post subject:

One of the best baseball players ever, but even a greater person.


IF YOU CHEW OR IF YOU SMOKE QUIT. YOU KNOW IT'S GONNA KILL YOU SOONER RATHER THAN LATER.
If he didnt crew he would still be here right now.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:14 am    Post subject:

One of baseballs greatest hitters of all time. Never a power hitter but would single, double, tripple you to death. 338 career batting aveage.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:47 am    Post subject:

Such a good guy. I can't think of a single person who had a cross word to say about him. I grew up in North San Diego County... everybody loved him. Wow...that's too bad. So young. And yes, cancer sucks.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:50 am    Post subject:

Damn, this sucks. We're losing sports icons here in San Diego left and right. First Junior then Jerry Coleman, now Tony Gwynn.

Read a stat that he once batted .403 for a 179 game stretch between mid '93 and '94. One of the greatest hitters ever, and one of the most genuinely nice guys in sports. RIP Tony, you will be missed.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:14 am    Post subject:

54 is way too young, RIP
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:17 am    Post subject:

I am shocked, I had no idea he had cancer. I loved watching him do what he did best, hit the damn baseball. Scary, he is the same age as I am.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:25 am    Post subject:

AY2043 wrote:
Damn, this sucks. We're losing sports icons here in San Diego left and right. First Junior then Jerry Coleman, now Tony Gwynn.

Read a stat that he once batted .403 for a 179 game stretch between mid '93 and '94. One of the greatest hitters ever, and one of the most genuinely nice guys in sports. RIP Tony, you will be missed.

I believe he would have batted 400 if the players hadn't gone on strike. He was batting 394. LINK
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"To this day, I really believe I’d have hit .400," he said to Tom Cushman of San Diego Magazine
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:14 am    Post subject:

jodeke wrote:
AY2043 wrote:
Damn, this sucks. We're losing sports icons here in San Diego left and right. First Junior then Jerry Coleman, now Tony Gwynn.

Read a stat that he once batted .403 for a 179 game stretch between mid '93 and '94. One of the greatest hitters ever, and one of the most genuinely nice guys in sports. RIP Tony, you will be missed.

I believe he would have batted 400 if the players hadn't gone on strike. He was batting 394. LINK
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"To this day, I really believe I’d have hit .400," he said to Tom Cushman of San Diego Magazine
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Yep. He was hitting .394 110 games in to '94 when the players went on strike.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:01 am    Post subject:

RIP..Not only was he an awesome ball player, the guy was cool.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:33 pm    Post subject:

Yeah, he was challenging Ted Williams back then.

Anyway, stay away from the chaw. Lesson learned.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:33 pm    Post subject:

Did not even know he was sick, let alone had cancer. RIP.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:11 pm    Post subject:

To lose Tony Gwynn and Junior Seau in just a few years has left a huge hole in the collective sports hearts of San Diego.

Tony Gwynn was a great guy and a brilliant player, one of the best hitters of all time.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:18 pm    Post subject:

He looked like he was in really poor shape post-retirement, easily pushing 300.

RIP Tony
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:33 pm    Post subject:

ronnyjeremy wrote:
One of the best baseball players ever, but even a greater person.


IF YOU CHEW OR IF YOU SMOKE QUIT. YOU KNOW IT'S GONNA KILL YOU SOONER RATHER THAN LATER.
If he didnt crew he would still be here right now.


I can't imagine how he looked in his last days as he wasted away from the cancer. I remember he was always a big dude.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:45 pm    Post subject:

RIP.

A real legend that will be missed.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 12:57 am    Post subject:

This is so unexpected to me because I remember him playing not that long ago. He was almost the same age as MJ.

I doubt he would have hit .400 though. Too much pressure, and because he was a few points below .400, that means he would have had to hit even better over the final 52 games. He was good enough to do it but I think his chances were far below 50 percent.

Maybe he would have done it if some pitchers started feeding him softballs in the last month, thinking it was good for baseball if he did it. There is a reason why nobody has hit over .400 since World War 2. It's just way too hard. But of course we'll never know because of that strike.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 1:36 am    Post subject:

Steve007 wrote:
This is so unexpected to me because I remember him playing not that long ago. He was almost the same age as MJ.

I doubt he would have hit .400 though. Too much pressure, and because he was a few points below .400, that means he would have had to hit even better over the final 52 games. He was good enough to do it but I think his chances were far below 50 percent.

Maybe he would have done it if some pitchers started feeding him softballs in the last month, thinking it was good for baseball if he did it. There is a reason why nobody has hit over .400 since World War 2. It's just way too hard. But of course we'll never know because of that strike.


Not a big baseball stats guy, but is hitting 0.400 comparable to Wilt's 100 point game? Like some may get near it but never reach or surpass it?
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