Who is the most overated athlete of all time?

[bwana devil]

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Babe Ruth

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not a baseball fan? [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

[istewart]

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Easily Cal Ripken. In his 20 years he hit .265 or less 10 times. He also has the honor of hitting into the most double plays in a career.

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Correct. The glory he gets for his consecutive games record is stupid as well.

[bholdr]

IMO he WAS a great baseball player, he had all the tools and then some, and was looking like he was going to get better and better with age. a five tool player that's in the top ten or so in every category, but with no one spectacular feature (except for his power) is, IMO, a great player.

[slickpoppa]

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Easily Cal Ripken. In his 20 years he hit .265 or less 10 times. He also has the honor of hitting into the most double plays in a career.

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Correct. The glory he gets for his consecutive games record is stupid as well.

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I agree

[Prof. Chaos]

Lance Armstrong.

He rides a [censored] bike and has a ridiculously low resting heart rate.

I repeat, he rides a bike.

[pshreck]

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Lance Armstrong.

He rides a [censored] bike and has a ridiculously low resting heart rate.

I repeat, he rides a bike.

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Thread over, this is the winner.

[slickpoppa]

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IMO he WAS a great baseball player, he had all the tools and then some, and was looking like he was going to get better and better with age. a five tool player that's in the top ten or so in every category, but with no one spectacular feature (except for his power) is, IMO, a great player.

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Your preaching to the choir with me. Bo is my favorite athlete of all time. I still wear my Bo knows t-shirt all of the time

[JTrout]

Wasn't Sam Bowie drafted ahead of Jordan?

I nominate Sam Bowie.

[Alobar]

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Wasn't Sam Bowie drafted ahead of Jordan?

I nominate Sam Bowie.

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So was Danny Ferry, and he sucked balls

[Prof. Chaos]

plus his last name was ferry.