DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Tailgate Forum Tom Seaver, New York Mets great, diagnosed with dementia

Time moves so quickly. So long ago I never imagined my childhood heroes aging before our eyes. Father time always wins.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tom-seaver-new-york-mets-great-diagnosed-dementia-n980766

My brother sent this to me yesterday. It's sad to see Tom Terrific have to deal with that wretched disease.

I've never had success using him in this (link below) game... but when news like this of a player comes out, I'm always intrigued to try them again.

www.imaginesports.com

Awful disease. Prayers for him and his family.

My memory of Tom Seaver as a kid was hearing an interview where he said you tell when he pitches well because his right knee would be dirty, hitting the ground during follow through. He said his legs generated his speed, or something like that. After that I always looked at his knees after he pitched a few innings. Many times that was always the case.

My mom is struggling wit this as I speak, and it isn't good, my prayers go out to the Seaver family and all families dealing with this Awful disease ...

Sorry to hear this. The ending of life is never pretty. Be it quick and sudden, or the long fade away.

My best thought go to Tom and his family.

On a side note, looks like a cool site. I bookmarked it. I may sign up....reminds me of a table game I had in the late 70's.....you had player cards with players through history. You had 3 dice to toss, the red cam up a 1,2, or 3, the others some other combinations and you played baseball doing that. It was a great game. I remember 24 was a high percentage number. Roll a 24 with Babe Ruth, Mantle, Aaron and a few others and it was a home run.

It actually played fairly realistic giving you realistic stats.

The pitcher rolled first. If he throw a KO, the batter didn't even toss to see if he got a hit of a GO or FO. You could also roll for tag ups and what not.

The only part we changes was Ty Cobb stealing a base. It was almost impossinle to throw him out. We crossed out a few save numbers. Not a lot, and lower toss odds, but like I said, you could never throw him out.


But hey, maybe back then you couldn't, but we did because he became a automatic first pick. He had a high singles, doubles average, and could easily steal his way to 3rd. Heck, you had a pretty good shot to steal him home.

I read an article recently about the epidemic of Tommy John surgeries and rotator cuff injuries among pitchers nowadays, and the author attributed it to poor mechanics being taught to or not corrected in some pitchers. He cited Tom Seaver as being nearly form-perfect in terms of his mechanics as a pitcher. He also mentioned Nolan Ryan as another example, along with Justin Verlander among modern pitchers. All these guys had/have explosive stuff, threw a lot of high-leverage innings for a lot of years, and never had a significant arm or shoulder injury. I'm surprised more teams don't try to coach these principals of pitch delivery to their young pitchers. None of which has anything to do with the tragic news of Seaver's condition, but maybe it would add some additional meaning to his life if he became the poster child for "how its done" to a whole generation of prospective pitchers. It would be a fitting legacy to a great pitcher.

I thought Seaver's mechanics were outstanding. I used to show my son and the other pitchers on his team how Seaver pitched. His lower body mechanics were amazing.

A prime example of a drop and drive pitcher. Nolan Ryan would be a prime example of a tall and fall pitcher.

I believe that Ryan and Seaver were both prototypical drop and drive pitchers.

Randy Johnson would be more tall and fall, in my opinion.