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| Aug-15-12 | | Shams: I may have sent Dick Vitale a bit of a rude tweet-- after Felix Hernandez' perfect game today, he tweeted (paraphrasing) "Wow, wasn't that fantastic, but how much cooler would it be if King Felix were a Yankee? Someday he will be, I promise you." Why do some people think things only matter if they happen in New York? I wish Dick Vitale and Bob Costas would punch each other in the face for an hour. |
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Aug-16-12
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Bob Costas +190 |
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| Aug-16-12 | | Shams: Quite a vig you're carving out for yourself there, <WannaBe>. |
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Aug-16-12
| | WannaBe: There are hungry Chinese (children) in San Francisco, you know. =))) |
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Aug-16-12
| | WannaBe: Instead of "Say it ain't so, Joe", now it's "Sir, yes, sir!" http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/fa... |
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Aug-16-12
| | WannaBe: Did you guys read about the J. DiMagio stamp (forever) that Postal Service had to put out an explanation on the depiction on the follow-through?? http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-b... |
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Aug-16-12
 | | Phony Benoni: <JB> It's an umpire judgment call: <Rule 8.01(b) Comment: With no runners on base, the pitcher is not required to come to a complete stop when using the Set Position. If, however, in the umpire’s judgment, a pitcher delivers
the ball in a deliberate effort to catch the batter off guard, this delivery shall be deemed a quick pitch,
for which the penalty is a ball. See Rule 8.05(e) Comment.Rule 8.05(e) Comment: A quick pitch is an illegal pitch. Umpires will judge a quick pitch as one delivered before the batter is reasonably set in the batter’s box. With runners on base the penalty is a balk; with no runners on base, it is a ball. The quick pitch is dangerous and should not be permitted.> So if Gonzalez was in the batter's box and ready to hit, the motion was legal. |
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| Aug-16-12 | | Jim Bartle: Gonzalez was set in the batter's box, waiting for the pitch. The pitcher (can't remember his name) just didn't stop at the set position, throwing off Gonzalez' timing. Or so he claimed. |
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Aug-16-12
| | Phony Benoni: Then Gonzalez has no recourse. I'd bet Valentine knew the rule, but was just standing up for his player. I would guess this isn't done more often since it can upset the pitcher's timing as well. |
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| Aug-16-12 | | Jim Bartle: Palmer was saying that this pitcher did this relatively often, to keep the batter off-balance. He said the Sox's scouting staff should have told the batters of this tendency. But maybe they did and Gonzalez didn't remember, and nobody reminded him as he went up to bat. But you're right about Valentine. Gonzalez was just yelling from the bench (no argument on the field at first) and got tossed. Only then did Valentine come out to argue and get ejected. |
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Aug-16-12
| | Phony Benoni: Here's the highlight. Gonzalez looks ready to me, but apparently he didn't think so: http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/ne... |
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| Aug-16-12 | | Jim Bartle: The Red Sox announcers had no idea what the problem was, while the Orioles announcers knew immediately that Gonzalez was complaining about a quick pitch. |
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Aug-16-12
| | Phony Benoni: Miguel Cabrera hit his 30th home run yesterday, becoming the first Tiger to reach that milestone for five years in a row. That seemed unusual, considering that Detroit has usually been a hitting team, but leave it to Elias to point out what was really unusual about it: <"Miguel Cabrera became the first Tigers player to hit 30 home runs in five consecutive seasons when he connected off Cole De Vries in the first inning of Detroit's 5-1 win at Minnesota. That leaves St.Louis/Baltimore as the only one of the 16 pre-expansion franchises for which no player has done that. Rafael Palmeiro had four straight 30-homer seasons for the Orioles (1995-98), and Cal Ripken had six consecutive seasons with 25 or more HR (1982-87). But no Browns or O's player hit 30 or more home runs for five seasons in a row."> My first thought was, "What??" My second was, "How about the White Sox?"
No, they had Frank (Big Hurt) Thomas from 1993-1997. The Senators/Twins? No, Harmon Killebrew six years in a row, including two in Washington. Cleveland? No, Jim Thomé had seven from 1996-2002. Wasn't sure whether to count Ted Williams; he had eight, but they weren't consecutive due to WWII (1939-1942 and 1946-1949). But Jimmie Foxx (1936-1940) covers the Red Sox anyway. He also covers the Athletics; oddly enough, Reggie, McGwire or Jose Canseco didn't do it. There seems no need to bring up the Yankees.
Maybe I'll check the NL later. I would guess Schmidt for the Phillies, Snider for the Dodgers, Mays for the Giants, Aaron for the Braves, Stargell for the Pirates. Maybe Frank Robinson for the Reds, but I'm not sure about the Cubs (not Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, or Ron Santo) and Cardinals. |
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| Aug-16-12 | | Jim Bartle: Mays had 30 six years in a row ending in 1966, his last really great year. I assume you've seen that the majors will be down one M. Cabrera for the next 50 games, Melky being suspended from the Giants for PEFs. I guess it's always suspicious when a guy takes a huge power jump. You could find a lot of suspects who were never implicated, one of the most obvious being Brady Anderson of the O's, who went from 16 homers to 50 in 1996. |
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Aug-16-12
| | Phony Benoni: Braves: Aaron had seven from 1957-1963 and five from 1969-1973. Pirates: Stargell never did better than four, but I should have remember Ralph Kiner with six (1947-1952). Reds: Frank Robinson with five (1958-1962).
Dodgers: Duke Snider had five straight with 40+ (1953-1957) Phillies: Mike Schmidt with nine straight (1979-1987) and 13 of 14, starting in 1974. Cubs: Oh, of course, Sammy Sosa, with ten from 1995-2004. Cardinals: Not Bill White, Ken Boyer, Stan Musial, Rogers Hornsby, or Mark McGwire. Let's see... oh, I'm living in the past again. Albert Pujols, eleven straight from 2001-2011. |
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| Aug-16-12 | | Jim Bartle: Schmidt's streak is even more impressive, as it includes the strike year of 1981. What's the record for most players with 30 in one year with one team? I remember it was big news when the Dodgers had four in 1977, but I doubt that's the record. Baltimore had seven with 20 homers in 1977, which I would guess is the record. And who had 30-homer seasons for the most teams? I'll guess Gary Sheffield with six. |
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Aug-16-12
| | Phony Benoni: Here's a list of team home runs which appears to be current through 2009: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rec... I doubt anyone is going to beat Sheffield's record. Dave Kingman had only three (Mets, Cubs, Athletics) with 29 one year for the Giants. |
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| Aug-16-12 | | Jim Bartle: Kingman was never really a regular with the Giants. They already had a first baseman, his fielding at third wasn't so great, and they had other good young infielders competing for playing time (Goodson, Ontiveros). |
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Aug-16-12
 | | keypusher: <WannaBe: Did you guys read about the J. DiMagio stamp (forever) that Postal Service had to put out an explanation on the depiction on the follow-through??> Looks like it was done by a 12-year-old who had never seen a baseball game. Couldn't they have just handed the artist a picture of DiMaggio following through and had him trace it? |
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Aug-16-12
| | keypusher: <Phony Benoni: Here's a list of team home runs which appears to be current through 2009:> Thanks, interesting. When you talk about unbreakable records, the 1908 Chicago White Sox should definitely be part of the conversation, it looks like. |
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| Aug-16-12 | | Jim Bartle: Took a look. Dead ball era or not, to go 16-17 with a 2.02 ERA as Frank Smith did is tough. And to go 40-15 with a team which hit three homers all year long? 464 innings pitched, and only 56 walks? |
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Aug-17-12
| | Phony Benoni: Even better--not only did Walsh win 40 games, he hit one of the three home runs. |
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| Aug-17-12 | | Overgod: Hey Phony Benoni!!!
You saved my life! I was looking everywhere (going through page after page of kibitzing) and going through game after game, to find a puzzle posted yesterday (August 16, 2012)!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finally found your treasure chest of puzzle archives!! I'll be favorting this, to avoid painful headaches in the future!!! Just so you know: Your efforts made me a very happy man today (especially now that I don't have to waste so much time in the future again!) Thanks a lot!
Cheers from Australia! |
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Aug-17-12
| | keypusher: <Phony Benoni: Even better--not only did Walsh win 40 games, he hit one of the three home runs.> Which is the equivalent of 88 <quadrangulares> on the 1997 Seattle Mariners. Take that, Ken Griffey! |
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Aug-17-12
| | Phony Benoni: <Overgod> You're welcome. It's one of my goals to increase the life expectancy of chess players. |
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