Strasburg Mania reaches towards insanity

[yanks12025]

ESPN is a joke for a network. They are just a bunch of red sox fans and dont know anything about sports.

[LastingsMilledge85]

One of many reasons why I don't ever, ever watch ESPN.

[legaleagle92481]

i think they are jumping the gun on him. alot of pitchers who look like future stars do not last ala kerry wood, mark prior, etc. It is like they did with Lebron before he went pro, hype, hype, hype. The difference is baseball players especially pitchers are much harder to project then basketball players. This kid could blow out his arm or simply not be able to handle big league hitters.

[Chris78]

I saw Stasburg pitch at Reading back in April when he was with Harrisburg and I was amazed with this guy that night. I saw Aroldis Chapman pitch at Scranton at the end of April and also on May 19th at Lehigh Valley and was not as impressed with him.

On a side note, several years ago I saw Phil Hughes when he was pitching in the minors and was impressed with him. He got injured and has not been great with the Yankees so anything can happen.

[LastingsMilledge85]

Mark it down June 4th.

[sox83cubs84]

The Eastern Seabord Programming Network? Hardly a surprise. Oh, well, better than any Brett Favre watch, I guess.

Dave M.
Chicago area

[5kRunner]

Check this out! Seriously....its just cardboard.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=190398394834

[5kRunner]

Check this out! Seriously....its just cardboard.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=190398394834

Oh yeah, FOUR days remaining.

LOL - Free shipping. Heck at that price, if I was the seller, I'd hand deliver it.

[legaleagle92481]

Oh yeah, FOUR days remaining.

LOL - Free shipping. Heck at that price, if I was the seller, I'd hand deliver it.

The biggest shell game in the world one of one anything in this hobby especially cards. How many Stratsburg cards will be released this year, that are some form of limited edition? You don't even get a sig. with this one. If he does not make it someone will have a very expensive piece of cardboard someday. Even if the kid is the next Dan Haren or a comparable allstar but not really Cy Young caliber pitcher he will be viewed as a failure so I think investing alot in him at this point is a HUGE risk. Young pitchers get hurt and/or underperform all the time and even the can't miss ones miss or fall short of expectations. If I had to put my money on one young guy it would be Verlander, followed by Lincecium.

[LastingsMilledge85]

Can you imagine the money lost if this guy where to be a bust? I think the collectors combined with fans and all would be a bigger financial loss than the contract that he has signed with the Nats