These are the things I day dream about.

Funny, I would have guessed Pad Squad Carrie.

i just saw T Gwynn at a breakfast last Friday. sat at the table next to him in fact. the man is as wide as he is tall. his knees look to be shot.

there is no way he is hitting a 100 mph fastball anymore. sad to say, but it aint happening.

in his prime he’d toast strasburg, but not today. i just can’t believe it.

we can get Strasburg. I just can’t stand that the kid plays like 10 miles from Petco and he’s going to go the fucking Nationals.

Depends on the circumstances:

Gwynn now vs. Stras now — probably Stras
Gwynn now vs. Stras (potential prime) — Stras
Gwynn prime vs. Stras now — Gwynn
Gwynn prime vs. Stras (potential) prime — Gwynn

Intriguing I tells ya. Reports have been that Strasburg gets hit but his stuff is good enough to overcome it. I have to believe he would not fan Tony even now. Even if those people that make contact off him don’t get on, I would think that The Almighty One has enough fundamentals left in the rather large tank to smack one into the 5.5 hole. Ok with age considered, maybe the 5.6 hole? C’mon I gotta still believe!

The heart might be there, but the physical limitations are too. I watched for years as Julio Franco tried his heart out to keep up, but his body had already begun to show its age. In his head, he could hit anyone from Strasburg to Oil Can Boyd, but the sad reality is that his bat speed just wasn’t catching up to the high heat.

Gwynn was leaps, bounds, and pitfalls beyond Franco, but he hasn’t exactly kept himself in close to the physical conditioning that Franco did. At his age and physicality, I’d have to sit in the minority and believe that scouting or not, Gwynn would strike out before getting a hit off of Strasburg.