New York Mets

I hate baseball! Okay, that's not true, but man, I'm really not in the best of moods this last week of the regular season.

How the heck did the Mets lose a 7 game lead with only 17 games remaining? How is it that the Red Sox can't seem to get that big win to finally keep the hated Yankees from winning, dare I say, their 13th straight division pennant, when at one point this year they had a 14 game lead?

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Sidd Finch was the baseball pitcher who could throw a 168mph fastball and went to spring training with the New York Mets in the mid-'80s.

Finch had grown up in an English orphanage prior to his adoption by an archeologist who was later killed in a plane crash in the mountains of Nepal. Finch briefly attended Harvard before dropping out to study yogic mastery in a Tibetan monastary. These teachings allowed him to learn to throw a baseball more than 60mph faster than had ever been recorded (with pin-point accuracy no less), making him unhittable.

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