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5/6/08

Kerry Wood's 20 K, Roger Bannister's Sub-4 Mile Anniversary

10 Years Ago He Struck Out 20, Tonight He'll Walk At Least 10

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Since the sports world is a little slow today, time to reflect on the anniversary of two things very fast - Kerry Wood's arm and Roger Bannister's legs.

May 6th, 1954, an Oxford University student set out to accomplish a most challenging goal - break the 4-minute mile - a feat that was previously said to be impossible. Here's some old school news footage of the event. As someone who ran competitively throughout school and still fancies himself "a runner," I've always enjoyed this quote from Bannister: "The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

The other notable anniversary hits a little closer to home, so allow me to pull you down into self-indulgent Cubs memory lane.

10 years ago today, I had illusions of grandeur ... or wait, that might have been delusions. I was certain I was watching the pitcher who would finally bring the Cubs a World Series title during my life. In 1998, Kerry Wood threw a one-hit, 20 strikeout filthy gem against the Houston Astros. In my life of watching baseball, I've still never seen a more dominating performance. Baseball statistician Bill James has some crazy point system for starts and it still has Wood's rookie year outing as the very best of all-time.

While watching this video again gives me the chills, it's also incredibly painful. This anniversary will be even more difficult to digest when he blows another save tonight.

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5/6/08

kappafla211

1	One positive to take out of it....... is it would be one more blown save towards getting Marmol in there.

5/6/08

kappafla211

0	That was an incredible game for him and I too remember saying the Cubbies had found an ace for their starting rotation. OOOPS!!! on that one.

5/6/08

Jubanator14

3	Today is also the anniversary of Suzyn Waldman losing her mind about Roger Clemens coming back to the Yankess. It was the most dramatic thing she has ever seen!

5/6/08

kantwistaye

Jubanator14 wrote:

Today is also the anniversary of Suzyn Waldman losing her mind about Roger Clemens coming back to the Yankess. It was the most dramatic thing she has ever seen!

Pretty quiet year for Clemens. No real news and just quietly going into retirement. Good for him.

Wood is a rather depressing story, and just goes to show how important proper mechanics are. Its kind of surprising he's still with the Cubs considering everything he's gone through.