John Patterson Retires

LET THE HALL OF FAME DISCUSSION BEGIN

I always love when a lesser known athlete retires and a bunch of lardasses on the internet sit on their computers and go "LOL WTF is that guy?!" As if he's a joke for not being hugely successful as a pro athlete.

Not that it happened here. Although it probably will.

the thing is, more guys don't do this enough. there are plenty of guys who should just retire rather than muddle around in mediocrity. hey where's mark prior at?

Wish I could have retired at 30.

I don't think Patterson ever "muddled around in mediocrity." He was immensely talented but couldn't stay healthy. BP scouting reporting called his stuff "overwhelming" and said that his 12-6 curve was "hypnotic" and "legendary."

shoot is there anything to say he couldnt just be taking a year or two off? this guy was Nasty with a capital N. You would think with some rest and only being, say, 32 that a return could be done.

"LET THE HALL OF FAME DISCUSSION BEGIN"

Nice job proving to everybody that you are a d-bag. An extremely talented pitcher has to retire in his prime because of tons of injuries. Lets make fun of the guy.

"LET THE HALL OF FAME DISCUSSION BEGIN"

"the thing is, more guys don't do this enough. there are plenty of guys who should just retire rather than muddle around in mediocrity. hey where's mark prior at?"

These are the most classless comments I have ever seen. I bet these two have never even had a girlfriend. Or they probably have, but they're just no man enough to deal with how badly they fucked up and have to blame it on her, much like how they have to pick on someone like John Patterson for retiring at 30.

Talk about LOW self-esteem.

John Patterson, you are the man and I wouldn't have minded at all if you were apart of my Angels' pitching staff. Good luck to you man.

As for those other two posers...

Time to walk a way like a MAN! LOL

you all will probably think i'm being a huge dbag too...

when i first was reading this post, i was like, 'damn that's a huge bummer'.. and then i got to the last paragraph, and based on that i decided that he was one of the greedy bastards that the spot needed less of anyways.

this is a true shame. now i dont usually watch the Nats' play but ive seen a few of his starts, and dude was phenominal. hopefully within a few years he can get healthy enough for at least a comeback attempt. if not, hopefully he can commentate, or coach, such as other comments stated. if nothing else he'd be much better a commentator than rex hudler, matt vasgergan, and dave campbell of the MLB series. class act, sad to see him go out so early

Great pitcher, plagued by injuries.

Best of luck to him in whatever endeavor he pursues.

Well this is really going to piss you off XxRyana.k.a.RufusxX

Matt White, Travis Lee, John Patterson, and Bobby Seay..

The baseball Gods prevail..

That's sad, I was never a big fan of him, but it's hard to give up the game you love. Best of luck to the guy. I hope he finds some kind of job involving baseball that he can enjoy.

Unfortunate that he has to retire after putting in probably 15-20 years into baseball.

you all will probably think i'm being a huge dbag too...

when i first was reading this post, i was like, 'damn that's a huge bummer'.. and then i got to the last paragraph, and based on that i decided that he was one of the greedy bastards that the spot needed less of anyways.

Posted by: dorfmac | January 07, 2009 at 03:55 PM

my thoughts exactly

Say what you will about Patterson. He might have been the biggest jerk alive, I have no clue... but he had flat out awesome stuff.