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On the mound with my top 15 pitchers that I have seen.

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My next top ten is devoted to those athletes who hurl a ball 60 feet , 6 inches towards a batter who plans to hit said ball safely. Now I only include pitchers that I saw pitch, so no Christy Matheson, no Walter Johnson, and certainly no Cy Young, Whitey Ford, and no Don Larsen. I would like to stray a little and make it my top 15, just because I do not want toleave certain pitchers off this list. Coming in at #15 is Juan Marichal, of the San Fransisco Giants. Marichal's delivery was renowned for one of the fullest windups in modern baseball, with a high kick of his left leg that went nearly vertical (even more so than Warren Spahn's delivery. Marichal maintained this delivery his entire career, and photographs taken near his retirement show the vertical kick only diminished. The windup was the key to his delivery in that he was consistently able to conceal the type of pitch until it was on its way. Marichal was discovered by Ramfis Trujillo.  Ramfis was the primary
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While my guitar gently weeps, a top ten list

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Clapton and Cream Musically speaking, rock is my love, and great guitar bands are my preference. I have taken the time out of my extremely busy day to assemble a list of the top ten guitar players in my humblest opinion. I have left many out, who people will find fault with, Why did you pick so and so at number 5 instead of such and such, I know I know, I can hear already. Where's Neil  Young, where's Brian May, where's Mark Knopfler. They could have made the list if extended to 20, but this is a top 10. At number 10, David Gilmou r of Pink Floyd. As a producer and songwriter, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour is drawn to floating, dreamy textures, but when he picks up his black Stratocaster to play a solo, an entirely different sensibility takes over: "I wanted a bright, powerful lead guitar tone that would basically rip your face off," he says. His pioneering use of echo and other effects – initially inspired by original Floyd guitarist Syd Barre
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Top ten Westerns

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On a roll of late, here's another top ten list direct from the sagebrush, my top ten westerns of all time. In true western form, the camera pans Monument Valley and centres on a lone horse and rider, he loafs along at a leisurely pace, the sun gazes down on him casts a dark shadow on the canyon floor. Entering at number 10, is a particular favourite of mine, #10 - Once upon a Time in the West , starring Henry Fond, Jason Robards, and Charles Bronson,all as anti heroes. Serfio Leone directed this long sweeping oater. The film portrays two conflicts that take place around Flagstone, a fictional town in the American Old West: a land battle related to the construction of a railroad, and a mission of vengeance against a cold-blooded killer. A struggle exists for Sweetwater, a piece of land in the desert outside Flagstone which contains the region's only other water source. The land was bought by Brett McBain (Frank Wolff), who foresaw that the railroad
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My top ten sci fi movies

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In all of cinema, I grant you there are genres of movies that I love better than others, and this is one of them. I love a good sci fi movie over romcom's or melodramas. And so begins the pain staking making of my fave 10 sci fi movies, leaving many on the cutting room floor. Aliens and Star Trek did not make my top ten, Close Encounters was number 11, as well honorable mention goes to the Matrix . I am sure I am forgetting some gems, it's hard to bring it all down to ten, but them's the rules. # 10 - Planet of the Apes , starring Charleton Heston as the doomed commander of the US led mission of 4 astronauts, 3 men and one woman, who travelled ( ahead ) in time. To a kinder simpler world, popuated by the dominant species, no not man, but apes, chimps, gorillas, orangutans, and the like. Spoiler alert : Chuck finds out he has not really left earth, finding a half buried Statue of Liberty on the beach. Help me Dr.Zais. #9 - Them , starri
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Top ten comedies

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Now for something completely different.. my top ten favourite comdies of all time. #10  The Odd Couple, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matheau as two desperate friends who decide to live together, despite their obvious differences. Mattheau, the slob, a sports reporter for a daily newspaper collides with neat freak Felix Unger, played by Jack Lemmon. Hilarity ensues. #9 National Lampoon's Animal House, is clearly one of my faves', just for the last scene alone. Time Matheson leads a band of college misfits on a comic rampage at Faber College, during the turbelent 60's. Watch it, then we'll talk. Belushi at his finest #8 Arsenic and Old Lace , starring Cary Grant as a befuddled nephew of two old aunts who kill their gentlemen borders, who they come to realise are not happy in their life.  A thirties screwball comedy erupts in this adapted stage play,also srarring Josepjine Hull and Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre. #7 Some Like
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My top ten favourite television shows - all time

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Well to start off with, this is a new blog, all based on my own personal likes and dislikes, of television programmes, down thru the years. To begin with, I begin at the end, a weird start to be certain, but if anyone knows me, I am unconventional, to say the least. So , without any further fanfare, I begin by listing my all time fave tv shows. Later on I will divulge my reasons for the order, and my reasons for ranking them. Also , I will rank other top ten lists, of movies, sports franchises, favourite sports cards I've collected, favourite board games, favouite books and authors, favourite birds, and creatures, favourite trips I've gone on, etc. But first my top ten TV shows, beginning at number 10. #10 The Newsroom , starring Jeff Danials, as Wil McEvoy , a news anchor of Atlantis News Network prime time news slot, and also starring Emily Mortimer, as his TV producer, and Sam Waterson as the studio executive in charge of the news. Wriiten almost exclusively by Aar
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