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2 hours ago, Dan Gould said:
Miami is not the south, properly understood. And Tampa ... not exactly southern the way North Florida is. And I was told in no uncertain terms in grad school that LBJ was a Texan, not a southerner, and that there are material differences.
So really the only southern MLB team is the one from Atlanta.
And to think I really popped into this thread to state that the Rays cannot blow this series. I would be extremely aggravated if any other MLB team ever does what the Red Sox accomplished in the 2004 ALCS.
I always taught in history classes that the "classic definition" of a southern state was membership in the confederacy, has that changed now?
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1 hour ago, ghost of miles said:
Ironic, isn't it, that in the last four years the NY team that got closest to the World Series was Girardi's 2017 swan song--and in a season when they weren't expected to be competing at that level.
In the present-day postseason, I'm not shocked that the Rays are rampaging over the Astros... but I am mildly surprised that the Braves are handling the Dodgers with such ease so far (outside of L.A.'s furious near-comeback in the 9th last night). Would a potential Atlanta-Tampa Bay matchup be the first all-southern MLB World Series?
No, believe it or not, the St. Louis Cardinals played the St. Louis Browns(!!!???) in the 1944 World Series, I think St. Louis is considered southern, isn't it? Also, the Cards played Texas in the World Series (sorry to bring that one up JSangray!)
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44 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:
Damn--Joe Morgan has died. Such an integral part of those 1975-76 Cincinnati Reds teams, which belong on any top 10 list of ultimate powerhouse World Series champions list.
That is sad, RIP to a great player. I was lucky enough to see the Big Red Machine in person many tines in San Diego, and that was an amazing team, with Morgan especially playing a style of game that you rarely ever saw. Plus, who can forget his homer as a Giant that put the nail into the Dodgers pennant hopes. RIP Joe.
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Great performance by Rafa, Novak overmatched, to say the least. Shaking my head over the abysmal state of American men's tennis. You know it's bad when John Isner is still the top ranked USA player with Taylor Fritz and Reilly Opelka being the top "young" players.
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26 minutes ago, Dave James said:
From Pinstripe Alley, probably the best post-mortem I've come across. Most interesting is the suggestion that the decision to pull Gerrit Cole in the 6th inning may not have been made by Aaron Boone.
Is the thinking that the call was made by the GM? I know the Giants operate that way, but the Yankees also? The article just dropped the point after it was made.
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3 hours ago, ghost of miles said:
which is all the more reason why obsessive Yankee hatred is increasingly irrational.
I love being irrational, it's in my baseball DNA.
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My Whitey Ford story:
I knew a man, Ken F. (RIP! He was a great guy!), who grew up in New Jersey, he was an umpire for high quality amateur baseball games in Jersey. One day, he's umping an exhibition game where some of the Yankees are playing a good semi-pro team and Whitey Ford is pitching. Something happens in the game getting Ford really pissed off, and so he starts to throw pitches "high-and-tight", if you know what I mean. Ken was the umpire behind the plate and knows what's going on. So he goes to the mound to tell Ford to cool it, telling Ford how dangerous it is because these guys aren't big league players and never will be, so they're way overmatched and Whitey can really hurt someone bad. Ken goes back behind the plate, next pitch, high-and-really-tight, Ken goes to the mound and kicks Ford out of the game, chaos ensues.
A couple of years later, Ken is in Yankee Stadium, sitting close to the Yankee bullpen before the game with his newlywed wife, Irene (RIP, great woman!), and here comes Whitey Ford, ambling towards the bullpen, he recognizes Ken, stops and apologizes for putting Ken in a bad spot and agrees that he should've been kicked out of the game. Ford spends time talking and congratulating Ken & Irene on their marriage and being the classy guy that everyone knows he is.
Ken loved telling this story and I heard it many times.
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24 minutes ago, Dave James said:
Speaking of pitching on less than four days rest, does anyone know where or how that unwritten rule became the norm?
Just saw where Whitey Ford passed away, sad news RIP.
About Dave's question: I always felt that those 1980-81 Oakland A's teams, where Billy Martin ground the starters in mulch, killed the rotation and any thought of just three days rest. MLB coaches looked at that, ran away from anything like that, and started to add a fifth starter to the rotation. I seems to me that by the end of the 1980's, everyone had a five-man rotation. Pitch count put the final nail in the coffin in the possibility of three days rest. Nice article of the starters that Billy Martin ruined.
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I love the app the TCM has for smart TV's if you have them on your tv package, it's a great way to catch movies that I miss, and TCM keeps most films on the app for at least two weeks after their tv appearance. I hope Direct TV doesn't bump them up to a higher bracket.
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8 hours ago, GA Russell said:
Bob Gibson has died. RIP.
Sad news, great, great pitcher. His game 1 in the 1968 World Series is a great game to watch. RIP.
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Wire Train: Between Two Words
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1 hour ago, Dan Gould said:
Did they combine the "hit one for the sick kid" with the "called shot"?
Yeah, they did. There's a good movie to be done of Babe's life, the guy came from absolutely nothing, no education, no family, and became a national hero. He deserves better than William Bendix or John Goodman trying to be "larger that life". Maybe there's no way you can put that on film, who knows, but I find it an amazing story.
You start out like this, in the world's most depressing Christmas picture (Babe on left, his father on the right)
And you wind up with the idol of kids and hero to the nation.
It must of been one hell of a ride.
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3 minutes ago, Dan Gould said:
Yeah but you can't tell if he's pointing at the pitcher, centerfield bleachers, what. This is Gehrig himself saying that's what happened.
and apparently unheard for 80 odd years!
Hey, it's all on film!
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18 minutes ago, Dan Gould said:
supposedly proof of The Call
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Thanks for the good wishes, it seems as if we will be sticking around, there's been no word about having to leave. AQI is now at 306 here, I'm drinking water constantly to clear my throat.
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Fred Allen rocks!
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Hot & windy, with very thick smoke from the Glass Fire. We expect an evacuation order sometime today or tomorrow, the fire is at the boarder of Rutherford, and we're next in line. Plus, there's a new fire, Campbell Fire, that is right above us, it's smaller, but we'll see what happens.
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The Digital Age: Evening : Morning
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Ok, this stinks! I'm calling it utter bull**** that ESPN announcers are talking to Justin Turner, while he's on the field, playing the game! That is way beyond the pale for me, and if it distracts Turner from making a play, a way that ESPN can effect the out come of the game.
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1 hour ago, Brad said:
I visited the hematologist today and my levels continue to improve so that was real good news.
Good news!
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Hot, high winds, with fires. Many places in St. Helena are being evacuated.
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Giants out, couldn't win a game against a very good Padres team, Tatis Jr. is unreal. All for the best, the Giants weren't that good of a team in the first place.
MLB Season 2020
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Posted · Edited by Matthew
These Dodgers, what happens to them in the post season? It always seems when things get tight, they disappear. I DO NOT LIKE THE WAY ROBERTS MANAGES EITHER, in big games he's frozen into some kind of predetermined game plan, and by heaven, nothing's going move him off that plan! Kershaw, come on, if anyone followed the Dodgers, you know that he should have come out after five innings. The idea of manufacturing runs has become a lost art for the Dodgers (and most teams), what ever happened to the idea that "little baseball" can win games? Lone gone in this day and age.