all-time web gems

Yeah we have a baseball thread but this merits its own.

Amazing that of the top 10 defensive plays of all-time, nine of them happened in the past 20 years or so. I know they said there had to be tape, but still ...

ESPN credibility takes another hit.

Anyone here old enough to remember Al Luplow vaulting the bullpen fence in Boston and making a catch?

Or Brooks Robinson in the 1970 series, or Nettles in 1978?

 

The online vote is even more ridiculous -- Otis Nixon's catch is number one. :

 

There has to be an extenuating factor. When they showed the Cardinals' web gems, Ozzie Smith's best play was nowhere to be seen.

 

That's because his best play was made as a Padre. ;D

 

The other best play.

 

Missed the countdown, but caught some of the post-announcement chatter.

Did Mays' World Series catch actually finish 10th?

 

Yes it did. Buster Olney called BS on that one, said it was the best of all time because of the situation.

 

Otis Nixon shouldn't have even been in the top 10, let alone what, fourth? In any given season there's 10 homer-robbing catches as good or better than that one.

And Jose Canseco got robbed. ROBBED! You think it's easy to time it so the ball hits off your head? That's talent, my friends.

 

The whole premise is bullshit. Just like nearly every one of these dopey Best Of things ESPN does.

 

All you need to know about said top 10: Two plays -- while tremendous -- occurred earlier this season. Way to scour the archives, Bristol. :

 

Remember, anything that happened before September, 1979 (NOTE: ESPN launched 27 years ago today) doesn't count in the world of the Mouse.

 

Where was Devon White's catch against the Braves?