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they were just plain worn out....just like Chapman was....of course, Maddon overused him, needlessly...but we will forget that cuz the Cubs won In other news....I hope these guys use their powers for good, not evil.... http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/1993-High-School-Yearbook-Quote-Predicted-Cubs-World-Series-Win-for-2016-398397051.html https://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/tweet-predicts-world-series?utm_term=.nymxe5Ro#.jj712Z7n

Dan, you completely overreacted....clearly.....the Cubs had it all the way............... In other news, Joe Maddon doesn't have to commit harakiri , or Harry Carey

Joe Maddon is just way, way too cute.....a f'ing moron. A Sabermetrician first, not a real manager....managing like a panicky pete, that never has managed before....and only has sites like fangraphs to tell him what to do. Kyle Kendricks SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TAKEN OUT OF THE GAME! duh!!!!!!!!!!!!! but no, managers and the neverplayedbaseball experts know what to do , much more than every manager over the past 100 years or so....take a starter out after 4 + innnings, cuz...you know, 2nd time through the order, hitters are better...blah, blah, blah STOOOPID........................

Well, it's true...the 24 Yankees were a good team(Babe Ruth hit 46 HR's no one else had more than 12.....losers)...but they finished 2 games behind the Washington Senators. Just to be a contrarian...to a degree....The Cubs are a MUCH better team than the Giants...but, the Giants have arguably the best Post season starter ever (granted, not so hot this year, but he has been death to many a team ) and that's a huge advantage. And Bochy , while seemingly overdoing the bullpen changes, hey it has worked much more often than it hasn't. And there are intangibles that are just that, intangible. Not sure how much of a hand Bochy has had in keeping players "jazzed" but not overly aggressive, but guys like Hunter Pence were able to fire up teams, the Big Panda seemed to have the same ice water in his veins Manny and Ortiz had with the game on the line...How players perform under pressure....how well they can think under pressure is everything...

Hey,hey no politics here, this is a baseball thread!

Just seems so surreal. Don't know why it seems at least to me, that when we see strong young men like Jose, we see guys that are not as fragile as we all are ultimately. Imagine how devastated his Mother must be, to lose her son....a son that jumped in to save her, when she went overboard on the boat they came from Cuba on....His girlfriend is expecting a baby girl he will never get a chance to hold, she will never get to know her Dad, except 2nd hand.....

I see no reason to apologize for liking this film! It's great! It's been awhile since I've seen it, but I loved it when Chazz Palminteri's charater is asked by the kid how to know if a girl is the right girl, and after saying something somewhat generic , he takes it back and says no, if she unlocks the drivers door of the car for you from inside, she's the girl... heh, of course it's on youtube... you will have to watch the film to find out if she does or doesn't (or just search on youtube)

Yeah, really a shame....someone that when healthy was someone that played practically every game...157 or more games a year from 2006 to 2013. Think I heard on baseball tonight, that even after the 1st operation, he had to turn his whole body to someone on his right to face them on the bench. Wonder why his neck had this problem yet other guys that swing as hard as humanly possible too, don't?

That's right! The braves can completely win the NL EAST!

I searched, and couldn't any mention of metal Mother discs...which means someone will come along and show me 5 threads on the subject. :/ I have heard of metal recordings...but never read much about them... anyways, someone on facebook linked to this youtuber's page...I heard a few transfers a week or so ago, and was very impressed, but this Hot Five Recording! WOW!!!! As close as we will ever get to hearing them live. So....anyone hear own any? Or at least see one in person? How many are in vaults still here in the U.S. ? Or overseas like these discs? When you are blown away by the sound of 80+ year old recordings on crappy computer speakers....

Man, I searched and I swear I didn't find a thing on them!

Heard them on a JBL Hartsfield youtube clip (My Dad is an old JBL freak, and watches some weird stuff, like a 25+ minute clip of them just bringing the speakers in, then playing some music through them) Found their bio interesting...as albums are only available as imports from Japan, and the band seems to be made up only of Americans!

either as a drummer or dancer? http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A21333

Carl Reiner is 93.....Danielle Darrieux is 97, and acted as recently as 2010 I see! Eva Marie Saint is 91 (kind of amazing she didn't make her film debut til On the Waterfront, at 30) Didn't make a lot of movies, but Rise Stevens is 99. Mary Carlisle, who made 63 films before retiring in 1943, is ...101! Nehemiah Persoff is 96. Baby Peggy, a huge silent film star (who I never heard of til I saw an excellent documentary on her life on TCM- Baby Peggy, the Elephant in the Room) is 97. Anne Jeffreys is 92, Ann Blyth is 87 I only cheated a little looking up some of these folks

Wow, thanks for the tip Dave! It's so odd to not see firefox at the bottom of the list of processes. Now it's right around 10 MB's or less, from an average of 500 MB's or so, regardless of how many tabs are open, amazing!

Babe Ruth during spring training 95 years ago...Kid, your feet are too close together before you swing, and you are swingin' too hard! http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A20952

Russell, how often do you shut down mozilla? I find if I have several tabs open and for a few hours, a ton of memory is being used... I usually keep windows task manager up all the time, and when I see what I see right now, ^^ there really is an image there to click on, honest! I click on the end process button (lower right hand corner) then click on the mozilla icon ...all the tabs come back that way. Or, if you don't care, close the browser and start truly fresh... I do this several times every day...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vDW0ANRim8 Ok, know 3 guys, as I am sure everyone else does too, but who is on piano and bass??? ok, I scrolled down further, and see one commenter said they are Hank Jones and Ray Brown...

I lied http://bleacherreport.com/articles/444199-ted-simmons-why-the-cardinals-greatest-catcher-is-cooperstown-worthy Simmons's best stretch came from 1971-80, when he was simply unstoppable at the plate. In 1970, Simmons backed up Joe Torre, but took over in '71 when Torre moved to third base. Simmons immediately produced, posting a line of .304/.347/.424, good for the second-highest batting average among catchers. His 32 doubles were tied for sixth in the league. For the next nine years, however, Simmons improved to become one of the greatest hitting catchers around. From 1971-80, Simmons caught over 130 games seven times, accounting for nearly 92% of his games played, leading the league in games caught three times. Simmons was clearly not only the best hitting catcher in baseball, but one of the most durable. Here's the real kicker, though. In his first ten full years in the bigs, Simmons had an OPS+ of 131, and his single-season mark never fell below 114, the number he posted in his first full season, 1971. To put that into perspective, Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg has a career OPS+ of 114, while Robin Yount and catcher Gary Carter have career marks of 115. Remember, that's the lowest Simmons went for an entire decade. Players with a career OPS+ of 131 or lower include Rod Carew (131), Roberto Clemente (130), Carl Yastrzemski, and Eddie Murray (129). Among Hall of Fame catchers, none can match that mark. Only Mike Piazza, generally regarded as one of the greatest catchers ever, and Gene Tenace, who played just under 60% of his game behind the plate, have a higher OPS+.

You know who had 624 more hits, 270 more RBI's , also hit .300 or better 7 times? And oh yeah, caught most of his career? Ted Simmons. No one ever talks about him being HOF worthy (well a few big names like Gammons, Obermann, and Tim Kurkjian. According to Tim... “Over the past 50 years, of catchers who caught at least 1,500 games, only Mike Piazza and Rodriguez have a higher career batting average than Simmons (.294), and only four have a higher OPS -- Piazza, Jorge Posada, Bench and Fisk. What separates Simmons from so many other catchers in baseball history is that he hit in the middle of the order for most of his career. He hit fourth in 56 percent of his starts, and fifth in 30 percent. You can bet that all catchers who hit in the middle of the order as often as Simmons (1,600 of 2,067 starts) are in the Hall of Fame. That's where Simmons belongs because, by most any statistical measure, Piazza, Bench and Simmons are the best offensive catchers of the past 50 years." Not sure if he doesn't mention Rodriguez in the last sentence because of the possible steroid issue, or that he had so many more AB's I saw on MLBTV a panel hosted by Bobby Costas (Who started off, or at least became famous in St. Louis) and they had a segment on possible HOF players, Bernie Williams, perhaps Dick Allen...many players were discussed, Ted Simmons was not one of them Thus concludes my semi annual Ted Simmons is a HOF'er rant.

Like outtakes of the 1927 Yankees-Pirates World series(wish there was more Babe Ruth footage, very closed stance, moving all around the batters box) http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A17516 Bathing Belles, 1929 http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A19579 Barney Oldfield http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A21102 Berlin on Election Day 1924 (swastikas are seen even then!) http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3A1529 Well, you get the idea. The University of South Carolina has a huge archive of moving images. main page http://mirc.sc.edu/islandora/object/usc%3Amirc Fox Movietone is there in the 2nd row... One caveat, I found it very slow going at times...not the clips themselves, just getting to them. Gave up in the middle of the day, but seems to be working better after midnight EST. Anyone ever heard of this archive before? Only found out about it via a post on facebook

Thanks Lon, but I was thinking more stuff for sale...but not something I was selling.

My memory isn't whatyacallit...something something.. but I thought I remembered a thread telling folks if someone had a ton of cds on ebay/amazon/etc either cheap or at least fairly rare. Am I dreaming?

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/66712/keep-on-keepin-on/