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Apr-03-12
 | | Phony Benoni: Disturbances are rarely civil. |
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Apr-03-12
 | | WannaBe: Is it Rick Barry University?! http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/story... |
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Apr-03-12
| | WannaBe: Over/Under, Kentucky will be forced to vacate their title in: Before Jan. 1st, 2016: +120
On/after Jan. 1st, 2016: -110
Calipari goes to the NBA:
Before NCAA Sanction: -500
After NCAA Sanction: +460
Before Good Friday: -220 |
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Apr-04-12
| | Phony Benoni: All you chess players who suffer from time pressure, try Detroit! Here's a note from Alexander G. Sellman's column in the <Baltimore American> of August 28, 1881: <"We learn from the Turf, Field and Farm that a chess tourney for the championship of Detroit will be held in that city in September. It appears, however--unfortunately perhaps for general interest in this tourney--that the time limit has been fixed at four moves an hour."> They should probably have scheduled the tournament for October. The extra day would probably be needed to finish before the end of the month. |
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| Apr-05-12 | | playground player: Hot baseball news flash!
The New York Mets have installed moveable fences at their new ballpark (named for some sponsor, I can never remember which: Feen-a-Mint Field?), just in time for the current season. The fences will be moved in when the Mets are at bat and moved back out when the visiting team bats. Former Mets pitcher, now Mets play-by-play announcer, Bobby Ojeda grumbles, "The fence will practically hit the shortstop in the a** when we're at bat." |
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Apr-05-12
| | WannaBe: 0-0, 7th, Bos/Det... Baseball is BACK!! |
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Apr-05-12
| | WannaBe: Detroit is on the board! 1-0. |
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| Apr-05-12 | | Jim Bartle: Bill Veeck tried that fence trick one year. Not for long, though. Charlie Finley wanted to bring in his rightfield fence to match Yankee Stadium, but the league wouldn't let him. So he painted a line on the field to indicate where the fence would have been, and instructed the PA announcer to announce after every ball hit farther than the line, "That would have been a home run in Yankee Stadium." Unfortunately something like 90% of the balls hit into that area over the first week or two were by the opposition, so the announcement was ended. |
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| Apr-05-12 | | King Death: Here's one for the laws of probability, Jose Valverde was perfect in save chances last year and blows his first one this year. http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/gametr... |
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Apr-05-12
| | WannaBe: Baseball, who'd thunk it! Just like in basketball:
Announcer: "Joe Smoe is perfect 12 for 12 at the foul-line today" Joe probably airballs the next one. Remind me the perfect scenario, Magic at the free throw line, and Chick Hearn says (something like) this: "Magic misses the first one, there's no way Magic would miss two in a row. If he does, I'm buying everyone lunch!" |
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Apr-05-12
 | | keypusher: <Jim Bartle>
<Unfortunately something like 90% of the balls hit into that area over the first week or two were by the opposition, so the announcement was ended.> Seems like the fans would have been very pleased, then. But I suppose it got on the pitchers' nerves... |
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Apr-05-12
| | Phony Benoni: <King Death> It's not really surprising. Valverde changed a lot of two-and three-run leads into one-run victories last year, skirting disaster many a time. But the Tigers won, so we'll forgive him. This time. The injustice, of course, is that Verlander throws eight almost perfect innings (two hits, one walk), then Valverde blows the lead. So who gets the win? Miguel Cabrera had a couple of adventures at third base. Going after a foul pop he caught the ball, lost his balance and fell, then did a back somersault in returning to his feet. He held on to the ball, but the US Gymnastic Team was not impressed. The fans just rolled their eyes. Then the next hitter hit a smash to his left that Cabrera did the old <Olé!> bit on. Batter was given a hit at first, then it got changed to an error. Interesting thought: often, a good fielder will be charged with errors that would be hits with worse fielders, as the good glove guy is expected to make the play. I suspect Cabrera will likely get a number of questionable errors because he supposed to be a lousy fielder who is expected to make errors. On the other hand, Prince Fielder had a couple of nice plays at first base, snagging low throws out of the dirt. |
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Apr-05-12
| | WannaBe: Blame the offence for not scoring more touch downs... |
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Apr-05-12
| | WannaBe: Tor/Cle were so happy to play ball, they (almost) had a double-header!! 16 innings. |
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Apr-05-12
| | WannaBe: ESPN's free game cast for baseball is kick azz!! Wow! (Following the LAD-SD game) |
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| Apr-05-12 | | Jim Bartle: I was half-watching the Detroit game and the Philadelphia-Pittsburgh game. One really great play by the Pittsburgh second baseman and nice catch to stay on the bag by the first baseman. This vulturing of victories is tough, especially since five-man rotations make winning 20 tougher and tougher. And the relievers don't care about wins either. Verlander certainly deserved a win, but so did Lincecum against the Dodgers last year, and he went 0-3. |
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| Apr-05-12 | | King Death: And here we have shades of Morgan Freeman, who got in an accident and had a woman for company that wasn't his wife. How will this play out? Does Bobby Petrino get taken down? http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo... Here's the possible femme fatale (Jessica Dorrell) on the right. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl... |
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Apr-06-12
| | WannaBe: Anyone remember Bobby Petrino leaving the Atl. Falcons with 2 (?) games left in regular season for Arkansas, and doing the Suuuuuuuuu-ey cheer?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7x3... (Note, listen carefully, you can hear Bobby somewhat rudely calls the cheerleaders to 'Get Up Here' at the 17 sec of the recording.) Now, we have this: http://espn.go.com/college-football... |
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| Apr-06-12 | | King Death: <"...Dorrell, who did not return a call seeking comment, was hired on March 28 by Petrino as the student-athlete development coordinator after serving as a fundraiser in the Razorback Foundation. She is in charge of organizing the recruiting process for the football team, including initial eligibility for each incoming player...> Hired on March 28 and taking a ride with the big man on April 1. That's either some real quick work or maybe he had a thing going with this girl awhile before. <"...Long said he had not decided whether to suspend Dorrell...> She should get the same consideration as Petrino, a full review of the facts. In the old days though she'd have been kicked to the curb and the boss would've been allowed to have his fun with somebody else. Times have changed a little. |
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| Apr-06-12 | | playground player: <Phony Benoni> Many thanks for the Polish game you posted on my forum, and for your kind offer to send me more games. Bear in mind that I am a complete computer lummox and have no idea what a textfile is. My wife keeps trying to teach me this sort of thing--and now she knows how my high school math teachers felt. Meanwhile, I'll print up the game you posted and see if I can find the killer move. P.S. I was only kidding about the Mets moving their fences back and forth between innings. |
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| Apr-06-12 | | Jim Bartle: Yeah, well, after the Mets totally screwed up that Finch guy's career, they needed to try anything. |
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| Apr-06-12 | | King Death: Zeke Thomas has a date with the executioner.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas... <We want to thank Isiah Thomas for his three years here at FIU," said Florida International executive director of sports and entertainment Pete Garcia. "However, we have decided to take the program in a different direction."> Thomas went 26-65 in 3 years to rack up a winning % of .286 and they want to go "in a different direction." Imagine that. |
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Apr-06-12
| | WannaBe: Hey, a .286 average will get you about 2.5 million a year in baseball! |
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| Apr-06-12 | | Jim Bartle: How did Isiah Thomas get the "Zeke" nickname anyway? Zeke has always been Jerry West. |
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| Apr-06-12 | | King Death: < WannaBe: Hey, a .286 average will get you about 2.5 million a year in baseball!> And if you have some pop maybe a lot more than that. |
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