Stony, thanks for joining us.

In your career, you've talked about how you were 65-70% curveball.

When you see what Clayton Kershaw has been able to do over his career with that curveball,

now going over 3,000 strikeouts for a career, what do you think as a curveball expert

makes his so special?

Well, I think when he threw harder, the curveball was actually better because it had

tremendous break on it. I mean, you know, going back and looking at some of the archive footage

of various pictures, you could take a look at Sandy Kofax's curveball, and it

looked like it was suspended on a string, and then all of a sudden the bottom just dropped

out of it, and whoever was hitting had to hit it almost like a lumberjack. You're

almost chopping at it straight down. And when Kershaws was right, it was very similar to that,

because he got so much spin on it that the ball broke so late and

it almost you could hear it spinning it looked like it was just hanging there and all of a sudden

boom it just exploded straight down and nobody could hit it so i think we're seeing and

there's a very good chance we're seeing the last of the three thousand strikeout guys with

clayton kersha i know uh chrisale a chance, but he's got to stay healthy.

There's a few other guys that have chances, but again, they have to stay healthy, Garrett Cole being

one of them. He's had a hard time staying healthy of recent vintage. So when you realize just how long

you have to go and how healthy you have to be, it's really a monumental accomplishment. And kudos to Clayton Kershaw, because he's been one of the great.

So Walter Johnson, you know, is the standard bearer for strikeouts.

He gets his 3,000th in 1923.

It's not until Bob Gibson, 51 years later later that a second pitcher gets there.

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