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Throw Matty Alou in there, although his career batting average from 1960-1974 was .307, and he had a few lean years in the '60s.

Thank you for this post. Incredible story.

Tough news about Melky! That'll hurt! Nationals were lucky to come out with a series win today. Yes, General Manager Mike Rizzo has said all along this season that Strasburg will be shut down in September. Hard pill to swallow for the kid, who wants to see post-season, and some team veterans who have voiced their opinions on the matter this week. Sounds like they may be allowing themselves to think the post season is a possibility. Would not have guessed it. I started the year hoping to be over .500!

Yes, he's never pitched a full season. Coming off TJ surgery, I can understand the shut down. He's already tailing off somewhat. Cardinals won last year without Wainwright. I guess the thinking is that the team has a strong enough staff with Gio Gonzalez, Jordan Zimmerman, Edwin Jackson, and Ross Detwiler. Especially if Strasburg in September is not the same as Strasburg in May or June. It's still very early, so we don't know if the Columbian District is even going to the playoffs or getting knocked out early by the extra wild card team this year. The way MLB has set up the post-season, it's for the hottest, streakiest team at the moment.

Pence breaks down the Nationals' success (they can hit and pitch!)

Oooh, that was tight! Farrah wins the 5000! Another one of the great events of the Olympics! Can't wait for the men's marathon tomorrow!

Tough field for the men's 5K race! Can we see a repeat of Farrah and Rupp? I would bet on the Ethiopians they beat in the 10K.

Country music got better for a little while, I think, when he was on top. I don't bother to listen anymore. Hope he can pull his life together. Sounds like a bitter breakup with his wife/manager.

My Astros are 36-73, dead last in Major League Baseball. For the second year in a row. There's maybe one player on the team that would even be tradeable at this point (Jose Altuve), but I believe he's who they're hoping to build around. It's gonna be 3-4 years before they're even competitive if they're lucky, and oh by the way they're also switching to the AL, involuntarily. So the need a DH. Don't really have any bats on the team. Nor any decent pitchers. Baseball isn't much fun to watch for an Astros fan. Hope to catch 'em at Camden Yards in the future! I've got an old cap with the H and star on it. They were my team before the Expos came to town.

That seems to have done the trick for me too. I use Google Chrome and I was getting the warning in the MLB thread, then in the thread ABOUT the warning in the MLB thread!

That 10,000 meter race was one of the highlights of the Olympics so far! Loved it!

Crazy win over the Brewers in 11! Clutch hitting again by Michael Morse, and stellar defense by Espinosa covering for Desmond at ss, and Ryan Zimmerman again at 3b. Player of the game for me was Jesus Flores, who really took a beating at catcher. A couple of nasty foul tips hit his right collarbone, then the next inning his left collarbone! Hope he's going to be ok! Ineffective Brewer bullpen killed them.

What about top sports moments in memory? I would even venture to guess Miracle on Ice and Nadia Comenici's 10s should be up there in Olympics history. And Jim McKay reporting on the Israeli athletes gone to terrorists. And Tommy Smith, John Carlos in Mexico City, of course.

Missed Made in America originally, and now that I see it on reruns they always ruin it. They NEVER let the screen stay blank as long as originally for effect. They rush to credits and commercials. I've seen it ruined twice that way lately. Thanks for this clip!

You won't believe this list that was on the Washington Post earlier this summer. Wow! Of course this raised a lot of protests of ageism. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/top-20-all-time-tv-moments/2012/07/11/gJQA4b19cW_gallery.html Funny you begin with LBJ's speech declining to run for president. Made a big impression on me. I was pretty young (born in '55) and was not too skeptical of politicians yet. He was bigger than life, probably the biggest president of my lifetime. I remember his speech before Congress asking the country to help him in the days shortly after JFK was shot. Strange that the country hated him because of the war, so to spite him it elected and re-elected a man who escalated it to a far greater degree. Strange times!

The opening ceremonies are usually preceded by some early-round competition.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2012/07/24/gJQA1hWV7W_story.html?hpid=z5 Loved The Jeffersons, and he was a riot recently in Nelly's Batter Up video

that was an amazing game, wasn't it? That was October in July!

Woo! 9-0, then we lost 11-10! and they say baseball is boring!!

Nutty game! 4 on tap this weekend.

It's going to be hard to get 4 games in with the Braves in DC, given the weather forecast this weekend. But this will be a good series between 2 teams that are pretty evenly matched. Lots of respect for the Braves here!

Mets paid us back today with a blowout, 9-5. Should have been 9-1 but for their bullpen failing to hold us late in the game. Don't forget that the Nationals had two blown saves (well, one save, and one tie) that Tuesday night game too!

Exciting game. A touch of Enos Slaughter's mad dash when Harper took third base in the last inning.

Pepper and Amy Adams