Andy Pettitte (1 Viewer)

[TenTimes]

I know the answer, but also know that his association with NYY and longetivity change things. Will this two time 20 game winner make it?

 

[Raider Nation]

Hall of Really Good Pitchers "who did HGH for two days" and had a great winning percentage over a very long career.

 

[Don Quixote]

Earlier thread

 

[JZilla]

A cheater AND a liar!

 

[Raider Nation]

Announced his retirement today.

Thanks for the memories, Andy.

 

[Eephus]

He's retired before

 

[Raider Nation]

Mariano Rivera Day at the Stadium on Sunday. Andy makes his last start the same day.

That will be a tough ticket, even on an NFL Sunday.

 

[JZilla]

It might cost me $150 in Funke's league but I just had to pick up Andy Pettitte for these starts. He's never gotten much sole spotlight but I think he'll bring it.

 

[Smack Tripper]

I went to the game yesterday...its kind of odd to be in your mid 30's and worried about the career plans of a couple of 40 year olds, but then I think back and these guys came up when I was in high school. And Andy was also my late grandmother's favorite player. And he has the no hitter going and you know its impossible but there you are in the 6th with a no-no. I don't even know who hit the home run but some old bag next to me was a Giants fan and I nearly berated her to tears for cheering in the context of that moment.

What can I say, it was emotional watching him vanish into that dugout. I was never the biggest Andy guy per se, but Game 5 in 1996 is the probably the second most amazing effort from a pitcher I've seen as a Yankee fan.

Number 1 is still Mariano in Game 7 2003 of the ALCS.

I don't even have anything to say, I know he did PED, I know he went to Houston, I know he already retired and all that is irrelevant to me. An era ended yesterday, another one will end in 3 days and Jeter is on the clock.

I'll never look at ballplayers quite the same way I don't believe. But maybe thats not a bad thing. Its time to put away childish things. But when you stand at the edge of that divide from then til now....well....maybe it gets dusty when Andrew Eugene tips his cap.

Thank you for everything Andy and yes, you ARE a Hall of Famer to me

 

[Michael Brown]

I went to the game yesterday...its kind of odd to be in your mid 30's and worried about the career plans of a couple of 40 year olds, but then I think back and these guys came up when I was in high school. And Andy was also my late grandmother's favorite player. And he has the no hitter going and you know its impossible but there you are in the 6th with a no-no. I don't even know who hit the home run but some old bag next to me was a Giants fan and I nearly berated her to tears for cheering in the context of that moment.

What can I say, it was emotional watching him vanish into that dugout. I was never the biggest Andy guy per se, but Game 5 in 1996 is the probably the second most amazing effort from a pitcher I've seen as a Yankee fan.

Number 1 is still Mariano in Game 7 2003 of the ALCS.

I don't even have anything to say, I know he did PED, I know he went to Houston, I know he already retired and all that is irrelevant to me. An era ended yesterday, another one will end in 3 days and Jeter is on the clock.

I'll never look at ballplayers quite the same way I don't believe. But maybe thats not a bad thing. Its time to put away childish things. But when you stand at the edge of that divide from then til now....well....maybe it gets dusty when Andrew Eugene tips his cap.

Thank you for everything Andy and yes, you ARE a Hall of Famer to me

Was there too yesterday. All day I was thinking back to my very first playoff game I ever went to, at 16 years old back in 1995. Sat in the last row of the LF bleachers for Game 2 of that series, a game started by Pettitte and finished by Rivera (who pitched 3+ innings in relief in a game that ended at 1:22 in the morning, will never forget that). STILL the greatest game I've ever been to live, in any sport. Donnie Baseball went yard, crazy back and forth game, Leyritz walkoff in extras...that game to me really kicked off the era of dramatic Yankee playoffs, and started with the two guys from yesterday. Even with the loss, it didn't ruin anything for me. To me, it was always more about the players than the actual team itself. Loved feeling a connection to those guys, and Yankee fans would do well to realize just how special it was to have two HOFers and two other Hall of Very Good guys all come up in the same season.

At the risk of sounding cheesy, it really made me think a lot about where I was at as a crazy 16 year old idiot when this started and now at 34 years old (and still kind of an idiot) and seeing this thing wind down, can't help but get a little choked up about it all.

I posted on a buddy's Facebook before the game that I was hoping to get one more classic Yankees moment with a Pettitte no-hitter. Looked like Nostradamus through the first 5 IP, even was yelling no-hitter after every single out from the very first out of the game. After all my near-misses with regard to no-no's, it really felt like it could happen. Either way, tip of the hat to two of the very best.

 

[Eephus]

You still have Phil Hughes