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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
To me, this raises an interesting question: if indeed there never was anyone better, then why don't their statistics reflect that?
It seems curious to me to say on the one hand that the objective stats are sufficient proof of a player's performance that you won't argue them, then a moment later say that evidence doesn't count and your subjective observations trump objective evidence.
That seems like a contradiction to me.
Keep in mind I have no opinion on this debate one way or the other; I just saw a few interesting elements in your statements that I wanted to comment upon.
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Bingo - if this arguement was valid, than Koufax should have had at least a season that was more dominating- if not a career. He hasn't - so unless you want to keep shrinking the sample size (this 3 week stretch in '69!), the arguement doesnt hold water. Else, I'm going to argue I saw Bobby Jones pitch the game of his life against the Giants- and it was the greatest performance ever, and because I saw it- it is.