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Originally Posted by BigCity
You forget I've seen BOTH, not only BOTH but MOST of the pitchers who have worn an MLB uniform in the past 30 years anyway. I've seen 3 games by Koufax and probably a dozen by Pedro and I think Koufax was better. You can certainly have a different opinion, but there is a difference in the fact that I did see Koufax. When you've seen and studied dozens of the best major league pitchers over a lifetime, you tend to have a pretty strong opinion of who is better then who. I certainly have a right to my opinion as well without being accused of "holding onto memories".
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I've seen probably a couple dozen games pitched by John Halama and jeez... probably 50 by Randy Johnson (incluing the first no-no). Halama was more fun to watch when he was on* and therefore was better.
You can certainly have a different opinion, but I have seen both players pitch a lot and therefore mine holds more weight.
*Seriously. When Halama has his control going, it's not out of the ordinary to see the game last an hour and a half to two hours. I heart that. As for Randy... that first no-no was a classic Nolan Ryan no-hitter; people weren't hitting him because he was EXTREMELY wild in that game and for some reason folks kept trying to hit stuff that was way out of the strike zone (IIRC the pitch that ended the thing finished a good 2 feet out of the strike zone. It missed high, but that's an awful lot of "hop").