Damn

I was grabbing some dinner last night after the game and the Brewer game was on most of the TV's. But Baseball Tonight was on one of the other TV's and I started to see a lot of Rod Beck highlights.

That's when I thought, "Oh, no." Then, I just thought what is up in the title of the post.

SFGate.com has this
An ode to Shooter: Rod Beck (1968-2007)

Indeed, the hardcore dirtball Giants fans -- including this Fool -- who went to the Stick for baseball church services in the Beck Years (1993-'97), will always remember "Shooter" as the ballsy pitcher who looked decorum and tradition in the face and -- hawked a 98 mph loogie.
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In 1993, during perhaps the best Giant pennant race ever, Beck (48 saves, 2.16 ERA) was a rock down the stretch. He pitched in almost every game down the stretch. Toward the end, he had nothing. He dared batters to hit whatever he threw and it was mostly slow and not very straight.

And they still couldn't it very hard.

That brutal chunk of games might have cost him his fastball, which he never seemed to regain. He saved between 28 and 37 games the next four seasons, but it was more on guile and splitters than pure heat.

I can't find it on-line, but I'm pretty sure that Beck said something like the following in response to a reporter asking him if he neeeded a day off since he had been pitching so much during the pennant race: I'll just pitch 'til it falls off.

Rod Beck, one of the fun ones to watch.