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| Jan-24-10 | | technical draw: Minnesota deserved to lose. They played like chumps. |
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Jan-24-10
 | | Phony Benoni: <dakgootje> Well, at least you hit the margin in the other game! The Vikings have no one to blame but themselves. Two turnovers in the red zone, and a third while driving for a winning field goal at the end of regulation. Ol' Brett picked a bad time to recapture his youth. |
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| Jan-24-10 | | Jim Bartle: Couldn't watch Saints-Minnesota. The channel preferred to play a two-hour pregame before River Plate-Boca Juniors. |
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Jan-24-10
| | Phony Benoni: It was a very simple game. First Minnesota scored a touchdown, then New Orleans scored a touchdown. Then Minnesota scored a touchdown, then New Orleans scored a touchdown. That made it 14-14 at halftime, and Troy Aikman predicted that team which scored the most points in the second half would win. He was wrong, of course. The second half developed completely differently. First New Orleans scored a touchdown, then Minnesota scored a touchdown. Then New Orleans scored a touchdown, then Minnesota scored a touchdown. In between, everybody on Minnesota fumbled at least once and everybody on New Orleans was penalized at least twice. Brett Favre suffered a career-ending ankle injury, but fortunately it happened on third down and he didn't miss a play. Finally, in the last minute Minnesota had the ball just inside field goal range. Unfortunately, somebody ran out of fingers and they got penalized for twelve men in the huddle. Favre rolled out, and with fifteen yards of free space in front of him chose instead chose to throw across his body into the middle of the field. The game went to overtime.
Mew Orleans got the kickoff, and crawled down the field as every play was reviewed at least once. Finally they settled on a field goal to make <dakgootje> a happy man, and everybody changed channels to the game which you wisely chose not to miss. |
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| Jan-25-10 | | dakgootje: <Well, at least you hit the margin in the other game!> Haha indeed! Couldn't expect much more with only such a limited amount of researching ;D In any case, if the Vikings played like crap -and the Saints just narrowly won- shouldn't the Colts 'easily' win versus the Saints? 2:1 favorite or something... <Finally they settled on a field goal to make <dakgootje> a happy man> Haha indeed! Now I won the predictions with a score of -24 to -25 :D [the other guy had predicted 31-30 saints thus only getting a penalty of -2] |
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| Jan-25-10 | | playground player: <Phony Benoni> Great research on that brawl game. My memory of the game has Willie Mays "slamming" Elio Chacon to the ground with somewhat more delicacy than Elio had a right to expect. |
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| Jan-25-10 | | suenteus po 147: <Phony Benoni: <Suenteus po 147> I was about to begin work on Hastings 1948/49 when I saw you had already taken care of it and 1949/50 as well. A pleasant surprise! Just to b different, I'm going to drop on down to 2000/01 and work backwards for a while.> Well, I figured it had been a while since I collected any Hastings tournaments so I thought I'd work on them again for the index. I'm also trying to piece together the last Wijk aan Zee A-events between 1990-1995, including the two KO tournaments, but it's slow going. Each tournament has between 15-30 games missing, so that's adding on to my research and building time. I wish you well with the aughts and late '90s Hastings events. Hopefully they will have more game in the database than Hastings 1950/51 (36 games missing!). |
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| Jan-27-10 | | Jim Bartle: "Let's play two" is a tennis phrase as well, so did anybody else watch else watch the Serena-Azarenka quarterfinal in Australia? One of the highest quality women's match I've ever seen. And the second set tiebreaker, won by Williams, was just one brilliant shot after another from both players. And Serena showed once again she's one of the mentally toughest athletes anywhere. Down 6-4 4-0 against a player who was rocketing her serve back, she just stopped making errors, started hitting harder and closer to the lines, and won. Avoiding an extremely rare Williams double-whitewash, as Venus had earlier lost a match to a player she should easily have blown off the court. |
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Jan-27-10
 | | WannaBe: Seems like people want to keep the name Expos alive... http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/n... |
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Jan-27-10
| | Phony Benoni: <JB> Cheers for Serena. I've always had respect for those who can prove themselves champions time after time, regardless of the odds. <WB> I'm glad to see Dawson go in as an Expo, but I have the feeling Mr. Bickle may come Santo-ing around here soon. |
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Jan-27-10
| | Phony Benoni: And before there was Barry Bonds, there was Mel Ott: http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... |
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| Jan-27-10 | | Jim Bartle: Whoa! Lefty O'Doul must have felt great after that game. Guy ahead of him walked five times and he doesn't get him home once. Oh well, probably gave Lefty another story to tell at the old restaurant. |
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| Jan-28-10 | | A.G. Argent: By the by, JB, just WHO is the #1 1st baseman of all time? What stats put a a guy of any position ahead of others of the same position in the record books? Gold Gloves and HR's/batting averages/RBI's etc? Probably a stupid question but had to ask. |
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Jan-28-10
| | Phony Benoni: Since you asked <JB> I'll let him handle it. But just for reference, here's a list of Hall of Famers who played first base (though not exclusively). Jake Beckley
Jim Bottomley
Dan Brouthers
Orlando Cepeda
Frank Chance
Roger Connor
Jimmie Foxx
Lou Gehrig
Hank Greenberg
George Kelly
Harmon Killebrew
Willie McCovey
Johnny Mize
Eddie Murray
Tony Perez
George Sisler
Bill Terry
I'd say Albert Pujols could safely be added to this list of candidates. |
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| Jan-28-10 | | Jim Bartle: Greatest 1B of all time: Gehrig and Foxx. I'd put Musial in there as well if you call him a first baseman. Pujols either has Foxx in his sights or has caught him. He may be seeing Gehrig's taillights, and they're getting brighter. Since Pujols started in 2001, he has to have just completed one of the greatest "calendar decades" of all time. |
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Jan-28-10
| | Phony Benoni: <JB> I checked on Musial before making out the list. About twice as many games in the OF than at 1B. I think you are on the money here. Neither Gehrig nor Foxx may have been graceful around the bag, but first base is not a position for Baryshnikov--unless you have a scatterarmed infield. |
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| Jan-28-10 | | A.G. Argent: Yeah but, Jim, on what do you base that? Pujols chasing Foxx and/or Gehrig. Is it just in a hallowed sort of way, in stature only, in how they're perceived by the baseball universe, an arbitrary favorite or is it indeed statistical? Sorry, don't mean to belabor the issue but it is a bit of a unique concept. Never thought of it before. And Czar, I'd never dream of skirting you statness here at your page, it was a thought Jim placed at my forum but I will take slight issue about a great first baseman's range and over all leather in laying out, snagging and robbing a guy of an extra-base hit laced down the first base line with a runner on 1st, bouncing up, whipping it to 2nd, while dropping back to cover the bag to complete a DP is a glorious thing to watch. If it ain't balletic, it'll do 'till the ballet gets here. |
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| Jan-28-10 | | Jim Bartle: That's a problem. We see the old guys with records etched in stone, as if they hit a home run every day. And my father sort of drilled that idea into me, with his veneration of the old-time ballplayers. But look at Gehrig's record, and you see he was amazingly consistent. Basically he produced Pujols-type numbers for 12 straight years. Pujols is still three years short... By the way, I recently saw the Sports Illustrated baseball preview issue for 2001, and Pujols was not even mentioned in the Cardinals evaluation. A couple weeks later there was an article on the team's fast start, and it said they had a raw third baseman-left fielder who was hitting well, and it might be tough to send him back to the minors. |
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| Jan-28-10 | | Jim Bartle: Speaking of plays like the first baseman starting a double play: It looks great on TV, but to see it in person you really see how difficult it is, how much skill it takes. A different impression. |
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| Jan-29-10 | | Jim Bartle: Jim Edmonds has signed with Milwaukee. |
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| Jan-29-10 | | Travis Bickle: JB stick a fork in Edmonds he's done. |
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Jan-29-10
| | Phony Benoni: <A.R. Argent> No argument here; I'm certainly not disparaging the value of a great fielder at first base. My only thought was that the greatness of a first basemen is judged more by his hitting. I don't think you'll find a 1B in the Hall of Fame who got there chiefly because of fielding prowess, like Ozzie Smith at short, Brooks Robinson at third, or Bill Mazeroski at second. |
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| Jan-29-10 | | A.G. Argent: Could be right, TB. It is only a minor league deal to see if he can cut it. Hope so for his sake. -
Looks to be a very nice, new park in Minneapolis. God, what a wonderful thing; outdoor baseball returning to Minnesota. Another nail in the coffin of that insidiousness called dome baseball. Another great thing is that it was just a few years ago (4,5?) the Twins were on the verge of extinction. Quite a turnaround, eh? |
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| Jan-29-10 | | playground player: <Phony Benoni> The two best fielding first basemen in my recent memory were Don Mattingly and Keith Hernandez, neither of whom are in the HoF. Of course, they were both .300 hitters, too, and Mattingly a power-hitter in the bargain. Unfortunately, his back didn't hold up long enough for him to make it into the Hall; and with Hernandez there were drug issues. No team wants to bother with a first baseman who can't hit. I guess the guy who came the closest to that was Jim Spencer--and even he was good for a home run now and then. Great-hitting shortstops who can't field worth a damn are an even rarer commodity. |
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| Jan-29-10 | | Jim Bartle: "Great-hitting shortstops who can't field worth a damn are an even rarer commodity." The pitchers would tar and feather the manager, if the fans didn't get to him first. The top fielding first baseman I remember is Wes Parker, who really wasn't much of a hitter. Has anybody noticed this anomaly with the Dodgers? They've had great fielding first basemen (Parker, Garvey), but mediocre at best fielding shortstops (Wills, Russell) who could hit and/or run. |
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