Ive been fighting off a bout of Lyme Disease.(I hate those gd $#%&%$ ticks) and been under the weather ...I'm starting to feel alot better -- a sweep of the Rays definitely helps!
Sorry about the lyme disease. When did that curse back there happen ?
Activity on this board is usually determined by whether the Red Sox are winning. If they're going well, there's lots of posts. Otherwise nothing. Just my observation and useless two cents.
Well I haven't posted in this thread much. I'm a Cubs Fan.
Yeah,... I know, tha explains it, don't it?
On the other hand, as other teams break records, we're getting awful close to the point where I can say we only win one out of everyt three games we play.
Still the red an Blue Hat goes on my head when I go out. The one with the C on it.
Activity on this board is usually determined by whether the Red Sox are winning. If they're going well, there's lots of posts. Otherwise nothing. Just my observation and useless two cents.
I think sox fans everywhere have been slightly distracted for the past month . . .
Welcome Gen! Always room for a Cubs fan down here! ( or a little league fan, a stickball fan, a wiffleball fan or a Toledo Mudhens fan for that matter)...I like them all but Hiway is right, Im pretty parochial about the Red Sox and if they're doing good I generally post a lot more---add your two cents or twelve dollars about whatevers on your mind while you're here..
I'd be curious what baseball happenings go on in Ireland myself.
I'm still something of a C's fan though, and root for them over the L's.
Celts/Lakers seems like the american way or something,
Im not as big a basketball fan as I once was but I do go back to the days of John Havlicek and Bill Russell vs Elgin Baylor and Jerry West--The battles are aalways good...I have a Sox game next week and will be expecting 35,000 at Fenway chanting "Beat LA"
Since you are a C's fan, I just may have to send you a Beat LA T-shirt and make you an honorary Boston Hooligan for a week or so :o :B)
It was incredibly painful to watch--Its really too bad that had to happen on the same day Jr. retired--He deserved his day..It was a beautiful thing to see him in his prime
True enough ..... but it WAS during a perfect game with 2 outs in the ninth....I didnt think it was all that close and still dont, it looked like full step to me.
The umpire freely admits he got the call wrong.....I understand umps are human and make mistakes, but that was a bad call at the very worst possible time.
Galaragga may never ever have that chance at baseball immortality ever again, it shouldnt have ended like that. I hope that Selig at least gives him an asterick (like Ernie Shores) and includes himin the list of perfect games--He earned it
One day the error in judgment made by the umpire will be reversed..(it will take some time before its overturned).. It was after all then a perfect game... 3rd this year.
I've been advocating for instant replay and electronically-called balls and strikes for years. A missed call on just one pitch can determine the outcome of a game (even an important one).
The electronically-called balls and strikes will probably never happen (nobody I've talked to seems to like the idea). I guess people prefer to keep the errors umpires make as part of the game.
I still think the biggest travesty was taking away Harvey Haddix's memorial game.
Haddix will always be remembered for taking a perfect game into the 13th inning of a game against the Milwaukee Braves on May 26, 1959. Haddix retired 36 consecutive batters in 12 innings essentially relying on two pitches: fastball and slider.
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Haddix's 12 and 2/3-inning, one-hit complete game, against the team that had just represented the NL in the previous two World Series, is considered by many to be the best pitching performance in major league history.
I miss the days when pitchers used to pitch complete games (yeah, I'm that old).
Did you know that Juan Marichal once pitched 16 scoreless innings? His opponent, Warren Spahn pitched 15 1/3. The SF Giants beat the Milwaukee Braves, 1-0 that night
In other news, Vin Scully doesn't broadcast road games out of the western division anymore, but he will be in Boston for the series with the Sox. I would strongly recommend those in the area to find out how to hear him call those games. In this day of internet , cable, satellite radio, etc, it has to be possible.
Vin began his career in 1949,, calling a Maryland-Boston U football game atop the press box at Fenway Park. It was cold, windy, and Vin was without a coat. His papers were blowing everywhere, and he just dealt with it.
He was hired by the Dodgers a few months later. That's 60 years-and he's as good, no better, today, as he was in 1950.
Red Sox fans-don't let this opportunity pass you by.
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Ive been fighting off a bout of Lyme Disease.(I hate those gd $#%&%$ ticks) and been under the weather ...I'm starting to feel alot better -- a sweep of the Rays definitely helps!
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Sorry about the lyme disease. When did that curse back there happen ?
Activity on this board is usually determined by whether the Red Sox are winning. If they're going well, there's lots of posts. Otherwise nothing. Just my observation and useless two cents.
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lyme disease?! that blows dude
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Well I haven't posted in this thread much. I'm a Cubs Fan.
Yeah,... I know, tha explains it, don't it?
On the other hand, as other teams break records, we're getting awful close to the point where I can say we only win one out of everyt three games we play.
Still the red an Blue Hat goes on my head when I go out. The one with the C on it.
Go Cubs GO!!!
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I think sox fans everywhere have been slightly distracted for the past month . . .
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Welcome Gen! Always room for a Cubs fan down here! ( or a little league fan, a stickball fan, a wiffleball fan or a Toledo Mudhens fan for that matter)...I like them all but Hiway is right, Im pretty parochial about the Red Sox and if they're doing good I generally post a lot more---add your two cents or twelve dollars about whatevers on your mind while you're here..
I'd be curious what baseball happenings go on in Ireland myself.
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Bowling Green Hot Rods vs Dayton Dragons, I take what my bunny ears will give me . . .
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Hiway, I'm sorry.
I just came onto this thread thinking about the Cs.
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I know there's a joke there, and it may be a good one, but I can't figure out what you mean.
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mstar1
I think its the Celts
Likewise--They're peaking at just the right time--darn, theyre playing good these days.
Maybe we'll get a Celts/Lakers final and we can divert into that for a bit
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hiway29
ah-the C's
We don't call the Lakers the L's out here.
I'm still something of a C's fan though, and root for them over the L's.
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well Pheonix might still have something to say about it . . . my mind will likely be focused toward basketball for the next 2-3 wks . . .
after that it will be free to focus on this season's version of the A.L. East vs Philly . . .
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Celts/Lakers seems like the american way or something,
Im not as big a basketball fan as I once was but I do go back to the days of John Havlicek and Bill Russell vs Elgin Baylor and Jerry West--The battles are aalways good...I have a Sox game next week and will be expecting 35,000 at Fenway chanting "Beat LA"
Since you are a C's fan, I just may have to send you a Beat LA T-shirt and make you an honorary Boston Hooligan for a week or so
:o :B)
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I CAN NOT Believe that call in Detroit
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Farewell Ken Griffey and thanks.
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I don't recall ever feeling so bad watching a ballgame as that Detroit game. Stunned, angry, helpless.
The pitcher, Galarraga, showed nothing but class afterward-more than he needed to,really.
The umpire knows he blew it big time, and I wonder how it will affect him.
Just a disaster.
Congrats to Junior. See you at the Hall of Fame ceremony in 2015.
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It was incredibly painful to watch--Its really too bad that had to happen on the same day Jr. retired--He deserved his day..It was a beautiful thing to see him in his prime
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Not to defend the umpire or anything but it was a close play. If Galarraga didn't have a perfect game going nobody would be talking about it today.
Just sayin'.
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True enough ..... but it WAS during a perfect game with 2 outs in the ninth....I didnt think it was all that close and still dont, it looked like full step to me.
The umpire freely admits he got the call wrong.....I understand umps are human and make mistakes, but that was a bad call at the very worst possible time.
Galaragga may never ever have that chance at baseball immortality ever again, it shouldnt have ended like that. I hope that Selig at least gives him an asterick (like Ernie Shores) and includes himin the list of perfect games--He earned it
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One day the error in judgment made by the umpire will be reversed..(it will take some time before its overturned).. It was after all then a perfect game... 3rd this year.
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I've been advocating for instant replay and electronically-called balls and strikes for years. A missed call on just one pitch can determine the outcome of a game (even an important one).
The electronically-called balls and strikes will probably never happen (nobody I've talked to seems to like the idea). I guess people prefer to keep the errors umpires make as part of the game.
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I still think the biggest travesty was taking away Harvey Haddix's memorial game.
Unfortunately he lost it in the 13th inning.
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I miss the days when pitchers used to pitch complete games (yeah, I'm that old).
Did you know that Juan Marichal once pitched 16 scoreless innings? His opponent, Warren Spahn pitched 15 1/3. The SF Giants beat the Milwaukee Braves, 1-0 that night
See the box score: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SFN/SFN196307020.shtml
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In other news, Vin Scully doesn't broadcast road games out of the western division anymore, but he will be in Boston for the series with the Sox. I would strongly recommend those in the area to find out how to hear him call those games. In this day of internet , cable, satellite radio, etc, it has to be possible.
Vin began his career in 1949,, calling a Maryland-Boston U football game atop the press box at Fenway Park. It was cold, windy, and Vin was without a coat. His papers were blowing everywhere, and he just dealt with it.
He was hired by the Dodgers a few months later. That's 60 years-and he's as good, no better, today, as he was in 1950.
Red Sox fans-don't let this opportunity pass you by.
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