I almost forgot. The pre game also featured Pamela Anderson prancing around as a Malibu little league 'mom'. They didn't make moms like that when I was in little league.
We had the "Aunt Bea" version in my day! ---or maybe Betty Hill from King of the Hill lookalikes-no Pam Andersons in sight in those days...
Of course I dont remember hardly anyone going to LL games in those days---mostly just a small handful of other kids who were st the playground and a parent or two who was there to pick up their kid and give em a ride home-it wasnt that big a deal then I guess--I just rode my old stingray bike swung the glove on the highhandlebars balanced my bat and rode across town to the game--sometimes Id give a friend a ride and there'd be two of us on the bike....no one ever gave it a thought
-Today they have hot dog stands, parents (and families)that watch the whole game, every game, Pam Andersons ..and even in my tiny town 3 or 4 games going all at once...
I'd sure like to have some of those baseball cards I used to put in the front inside of my hat--I could retire early...
for no particular reason heres me lookin old and goofy and wearing a 2007 World Series Ring
To a Number ONE baseball fan, and wishing and hoping, even more than for another WS championship for the Red Sox, for MANY more happy birthdays for you!
Thank you very much---Im 53 --I really dont want much --maybe getting my wind back after smoking for 38 years would be nice..
I played softball last night for the first time in quite awhile and chasing down those flyballs and taking infield isnt nearly as easy as it used to be--the glove still works, the arm still works, even the bat wasnt bad-- but the back and lungs arent quite so cooperative just yet though. I may have lost a step um....well....about 14 steps with the legs too.. Im working on it all though...It was great to be back on a field
9-0 is hard to believe midway through May thats amazing...
as far as the clip --Manny caught it going away in left-- kept going three or four paces and leaped at the wall to high five a guy in a Red Sox shirt, came down, then threw to the cutoff man who doubled the runner off of first...just everyday Manny stuff :)
EDIT: HERE is another video of the catch I just found
I have boxes behind the ondeck circle tonight --The BrewCrew is coming to town as Interleague play starts
(will we have our annual rant against interleague play now?---Simon are you out there? :) )
Manny is sitting on 498--Im not really into the numbers so much as the ballgame but it would be cool to see his 500th..
I'll be hoping we have agood night its still cold and nasty in New England these days
9-0 is hard to believe midway through May thats amazing...
as far as the clip --Manny caught it going away in left-- kept going three or four paces and leaped at the wall to high five a guy in a Red Sox shirt, came down, then threw to the cutoff man who doubled the runner off of first...just everyday Manny stuff :)
EDIT: HERE is another video of the catch I just found
I have boxes behind the ondeck circle tonight --The BrewCrew is coming to town as Interleague play starts
(will we have our annual rant against interleague play now?---Simon are you out there? :) )
Manny is sitting on 498--Im not really into the numbers so much as the ballgame but it would be cool to see his 500th..
I'll be hoping we have agood night its still cold and nasty in New England these days
Manny high fiving and doubling a guy off first... check
stRangers being 8-18 after a 7 game losing streak, and then fighting back to 22-22... amazing!
Starman sporting a world series ring and the Stars still alive tonight against Hockey's evil empire... priceless!
Welcome back stRanger!
Its all good...
What a game tonight--about the 6th it dawned o n me that Jon Lester hadnt given up a hit yet...the last three innings got the adrenaline slowly getting amped up, got me pacing until I thought my heart would leap out of my chest by the ninth...Its good to know that the excitement can still get amped up
Congratulations to Jon Lester on the first no-hitter of the year.
First lefty in 52 years to toss one in Fenway.
at 24 -he has beaten cancer, won the final game of the World Series and now thrown a no-hitter
You have to like this 24 year old. He's all sorts of awesome
"He's not just a good kid because he threw a no-hitter," Terry Francona said. "He's a good kid because he's a good kid."
The birthday was a few days ago Tom ---thanks and good luck to the Stars and Rangers--hopefully we'll be seeing the Celtics and Spurs soon as well.
It was cool in all sorts of ways to see Lester throw the no-no, like Francona said he's just a good kid that you cant help but pull for...
Its eerie that there is a new generation of Red Sox kid fans who are thinking that no-hitters and World Series wins are regular occurences----how things change-----
Excie--Im trying to figure out any English most of the time never mind 8th grade English(which I failed miserably if I recall) --and then compact it in a few sentences---
To me its a ashame that the government had to get involved in controlling steroids and other performance enhancing drugs in baseball. Baseball should be self regulating but dropped the ball so the government( which really should have bigger things to do) intervened.
Its good and bad and good and bad.
Its good that baseball will be cleaned up, bad that they couldnt (or wouldnt) do it themselves, bad that the game had to be stained in the national spotlight, good that its finally over, Good that someone has the power to do it, bad in that I'd rather see the government dealing with things of more far reaching importance.
There--thats a start--is that completely confusing enough? :)
Im tired too its midnight--maybe I'll try something coherent in the morning
What a game tonight--about the 6th it dawned o n me that Jon Lester hadnt given up a hit yet...the last three innings got the adrenaline slowly getting amped up, got me pacing until I thought my heart would leap out of my chest by the ninth...Its good to know that the excitement can still get amped up
Congratulations to Jon Lester on the first no-hitter of the year.
First lefty in 52 years to toss one in Fenway.
at 24 -he has beaten cancer, won the final game of the World Series and now thrown a no-hitter
You have to like this 24 year old. He's all sorts of awesome
I remember feeling that way when the Big Unit pitched his perfect game in Atlanta a few years ago... Simonzelotes and I were watching the game together that day... it was pretty exciting.
Indeed, Francona's right... how can one not cheer for Lester to do those things!
could you guys help me out with a few sentences in 8th grade language about why the government is in involved in steroids and good or bad
i'm too tired to look into it
love always
Excie,
I offer these, in the hope that they might help. I apologize if I didn't succeed:
Steroids have caused several professional athletes to die way too young.
Steroids cause a great deal of harm to the body, ESPECIALLY to adolescents whose bodies still need to finish developing into adulthood.
Professional sports, especially Major League Baseball and the National Football League, did not "police" themselves to keep steroids out of their sports.
Therefore, the regulator of last resort (the government), had to get involved before MLB and the NFL would get serious about stopping steroid use.
I was just thinkin'... and I don't think we've talked about it since it happened last year... but I'm thinkin' that everyone in NYC rues the day that Joe T was 'let go' (except the Steinbrenners and Mets fans)... I'm tellin' ya, a good manager, the right manager, can make a difference in a season...
I know that Apod has been 'out sick' and his bat does make a difference but now young Hank is probably going to set about trying to find someone just like the Joe he let go of... sheesh, are they taking lessons from Tom Hicks?
...of course, I guess it's probably more that Hicks is taking lessons from them.
The Yankees are clearly going nowhere this year. Of course I said the same thing last year, and they wound up in the playoffs ( not for long, but they shouldn't have gotten that far).
At this time last year, Joe T looked like a man who's time had past. This year, Joe G looks like a man without a time.
It's still mid May-with 4 1/2 months to go-not that I think it will make a difference.
I'm glad Joe T is here in LA-but even he couldn't fix Andruw Jones-who mercifully looks to be out for the season. Between him and Jason Schmidt, the Dodgers could have saved about 70 million.
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I almost forgot. The pre game also featured Pamela Anderson prancing around as a Malibu little league 'mom'. They didn't make moms like that when I was in little league.
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We had the "Aunt Bea" version in my day!
---or maybe Betty Hill from King of the Hill lookalikes-no Pam Andersons in sight in those days...
Of course I dont remember hardly anyone going to LL games in those days---mostly just a small handful of other kids who were st the playground and a parent or two who was there to pick up their kid and give em a ride home-it wasnt that big a deal then I guess--I just rode my old stingray bike swung the glove on the highhandlebars balanced my bat and rode across town to the game--sometimes Id give a friend a ride and there'd be two of us on the bike....no one ever gave it a thought
-Today they have hot dog stands, parents (and families)that watch the whole game, every game, Pam Andersons ..and even in my tiny town 3 or 4 games going all at once...
I'd sure like to have some of those baseball cards I used to put in the front inside of my hat--I could retire early...
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To a Number ONE baseball fan, and wishing and hoping, even more than for another WS championship for the Red Sox, for MANY more happy birthdays for you!
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Thank You very much Rock :)
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It's your birthday, Mstar? Well, Happy Birthday indeed !!
I can't share your birthday wish for another Sox World Series, but I hope everything else you want comes to pass.
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Thank you very much---Im 53 --I really dont want much --maybe getting my wind back after smoking for 38 years would be nice..
I played softball last night for the first time in quite awhile and chasing down those flyballs and taking infield isnt nearly as easy as it used to be--the glove still works, the arm still works, even the bat wasnt bad-- but the back and lungs arent quite so cooperative just yet though. I may have lost a step um....well....about 14 steps with the legs too.. Im working on it all though...It was great to be back on a field
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Whats happenin out there/
I gotta give some congrats to The Rays who as of now have their best record ever and are in first in the AL East..
(we'll see how long that lasts but they are definitely tough and will be around for awhile)
and I dont know if you saw this play from last night or not
It's just another "Manny being Manny" moment that Ive grown to love so much,
Ya gotta love it when he makes a good catch and then high fives a fan before throwing it in for the DP
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Well, Mstar, I wish I could play that clip... I love that kind of thing too.
btw, Brandon Webb is now 9-0 in 9 starts! Dbacks won 8-5 tonight, Webb gave up 3 runs.
I meant to say that the clip wouldn't play for me...
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9-0 is hard to believe midway through May thats amazing...
as far as the clip --Manny caught it going away in left-- kept going three or four paces and leaped at the wall to high five a guy in a Red Sox shirt, came down, then threw to the cutoff man who doubled the runner off of first...just everyday Manny stuff :)
EDIT: HERE is another video of the catch I just found
I have boxes behind the ondeck circle tonight --The BrewCrew is coming to town as Interleague play starts
(will we have our annual rant against interleague play now?---Simon are you out there? :) )
Manny is sitting on 498--Im not really into the numbers so much as the ballgame but it would be cool to see his 500th..
I'll be hoping we have agood night its still cold and nasty in New England these days
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Got it... and it played this time. Thanks... :)
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greetings brothers! let's see...
Webb rolling along... check
Manny high fiving and doubling a guy off first... check
stRangers being 8-18 after a 7 game losing streak, and then fighting back to 22-22... amazing!
Starman sporting a world series ring and the Stars still alive tonight against Hockey's evil empire... priceless!
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Welcome back stRanger!
Its all good...
What a game tonight--about the 6th it dawned o n me that Jon Lester hadnt given up a hit yet...the last three innings got the adrenaline slowly getting amped up, got me pacing until I thought my heart would leap out of my chest by the ninth...Its good to know that the excitement can still get amped up
Congratulations to Jon Lester on the first no-hitter of the year.
First lefty in 52 years to toss one in Fenway.
at 24 -he has beaten cancer, won the final game of the World Series and now thrown a no-hitter
You have to like this 24 year old. He's all sorts of awesome
"He's not just a good kid because he threw a no-hitter," Terry Francona said. "He's a good kid because he's a good kid."
Fantastic, amazing, brilliant, wonderful
Good for him--that was exciting!
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happy birthday dear m
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could you guys help me out with a few sentences in 8th grade language about why the government is in involved in steroids and good or bad
i'm too tired to look into it
love always
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is it your b'day starman? if it is then... A VERY HAPPENING DAY TO YOU DUDE!
yeah... it's real nice about Lester... the video I saw of Francona and him hugging afterwards was really nice...
ahhh.... baseball!
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The birthday was a few days ago Tom ---thanks and good luck to the Stars and Rangers--hopefully we'll be seeing the Celtics and Spurs soon as well.
It was cool in all sorts of ways to see Lester throw the no-no, like Francona said he's just a good kid that you cant help but pull for...
Its eerie that there is a new generation of Red Sox kid fans who are thinking that no-hitters and World Series wins are regular occurences----how things change-----
Excie--Im trying to figure out any English most of the time never mind 8th grade English(which I failed miserably if I recall) --and then compact it in a few sentences---
To me its a ashame that the government had to get involved in controlling steroids and other performance enhancing drugs in baseball. Baseball should be self regulating but dropped the ball so the government( which really should have bigger things to do) intervened.
Its good and bad and good and bad.
Its good that baseball will be cleaned up, bad that they couldnt (or wouldnt) do it themselves, bad that the game had to be stained in the national spotlight, good that its finally over, Good that someone has the power to do it, bad in that I'd rather see the government dealing with things of more far reaching importance.
There--thats a start--is that completely confusing enough? :)
Im tired too its midnight--maybe I'll try something coherent in the morning
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I remember feeling that way when the Big Unit pitched his perfect game in Atlanta a few years ago... Simonzelotes and I were watching the game together that day... it was pretty exciting.
Indeed, Francona's right... how can one not cheer for Lester to do those things!
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Excie,
I offer these, in the hope that they might help. I apologize if I didn't succeed:
Steroids have caused several professional athletes to die way too young.
Steroids cause a great deal of harm to the body, ESPECIALLY to adolescents whose bodies still need to finish developing into adulthood.
Professional sports, especially Major League Baseball and the National Football League, did not "police" themselves to keep steroids out of their sports.
Therefore, the regulator of last resort (the government), had to get involved before MLB and the NFL would get serious about stopping steroid use.
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Did "the Unit" have a perfect game as well as a no-no??? gosh... I didn't remember that...
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I was just thinkin'... and I don't think we've talked about it since it happened last year... but I'm thinkin' that everyone in NYC rues the day that Joe T was 'let go' (except the Steinbrenners and Mets fans)... I'm tellin' ya, a good manager, the right manager, can make a difference in a season...
I know that Apod has been 'out sick' and his bat does make a difference but now young Hank is probably going to set about trying to find someone just like the Joe he let go of... sheesh, are they taking lessons from Tom Hicks?
...of course, I guess it's probably more that Hicks is taking lessons from them.
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The Yankees are clearly going nowhere this year. Of course I said the same thing last year, and they wound up in the playoffs ( not for long, but they shouldn't have gotten that far).
At this time last year, Joe T looked like a man who's time had past. This year, Joe G looks like a man without a time.
It's still mid May-with 4 1/2 months to go-not that I think it will make a difference.
I'm glad Joe T is here in LA-but even he couldn't fix Andruw Jones-who mercifully looks to be out for the season. Between him and Jason Schmidt, the Dodgers could have saved about 70 million.
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well... ya could've had Torii Hunter... hey, at least none of 'our teams' laid out zillions for Zito... think the Giants want a do over?
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MANY thanks mstar and rocky for your help
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Actually, I DO have Torii Hunter, since I live in Angels country, and see a whole lot more Angels games than Yankees these days.
Hunter is awesome-certainly on my short list of players I'd pay to watch.
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May 18, 2004
Game recap, Johnson's perfect game
It's my understanding that this game was his only no hitter.
Wikipedia -- Randy Johnson
Accomplishments
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