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Aug-12-10
 | | OhioChessFan: Punk Carpenter got nothing. Which is a good thing or Widdle Tony might have vomited again. |
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Aug-13-10
 | | Phony Benoni: Calm down, guys, calm down! This is just baseball we're talking about here, not something vitally important like chess. NL Central looks like it is going to be a good race anyway, even without the added spice of bad blood. In fact, looking at all the standings, only Texas has a substantial lead and you have to figure the Angels have a late charge in them. Everywhere else it's looking like a two-team race, but I'm not going to count Colorado out until they've been mathematically eliminated for a week. Hard to see Boston coming back without Youhklis. |
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| Aug-13-10 | | Jim Bartle: Lots of races all around, and I don't even keep up with any enthusiasm. I just don't see these as real pennant races, since they are never between two outstanding teams, just two good teams. (If they were two outstanding teams, the loser would be guaranteed the wild card.) Baseball lost a lot with the introduction of the third round of playoffs. It in effect eliminated the great pennant race. I think the last one was Atlanta-San Francisco in 1993, when the Braves came from pretty far back (after receiving a nice gift of a McGriff) to edge the Giants by one game, 103-102 in wins. A great race, the only year the Giants had the lineup of Will Clark-Barry Bonds-Matt Williams. |
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| Aug-13-10 | | A.G. Argent: Serious Jim? Not even enthused about the NL West race with SF right in the thick of it? I do relate a bit about the wild-card situation and how it sorta dilutes excitement but I've grown to kinda like it. Don't like having the World Series border on November though. |
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| Aug-13-10 | | Jim Bartle: No, the teams in races just aren't that strong any more, at least usually. Any really strong team runs away from its division. I thought the best setup ever was four divisions, six teams each, best of seven playoffs, best of seven Series. |
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Aug-13-10
| | Phony Benoni: It seems like parity is the goal of this era. This naturally increases the amount of mediocrity, but it also broadens fan interest, enriching the coffers. Personally, I like having the wild card. There are so many occasions when the luck of a single game separates two teams that I like to see the loser get a second chance. But, like A.G., I greatly dislike November baseball. Unfortunately, the only way to avoid it is for the owners to schedule more doubleheaders (which they won't), or the players to give up some of their off days (which they won't). Maybe we should play some doubleheaders if the schedule starts backing up during the playoffs. (HA!) |
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| Aug-13-10 | | Jim Bartle: Definitely, fewer off days during the playoffs and Series, especially during the first round when TV tries to shoehorn in games from four series. This could keep events moving along. Also, there shouldn't be a fixed date to start the World Series--it should start two days after the second team is determined. This is also better in the baseball sense, as it means teams have to use more starting pitchers. With so many off days a team with two good starters but not much else could use them in more than half the games, not at all like the regular season. A good example: the Giants. An average team overall, but with Lincecum, Cain and Zito going in most every game they could get hot and take it all. |
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Aug-13-10
| | OhioChessFan: I am surprised they don't do more day/night doubleheaders. The team doesn't lose the ticket revenue and the fans don't have to sit there 8 hours. |
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Aug-14-10
| | Phony Benoni: There are probably good economic reasons for the lack of day/night doubleheaders. If they're scheduled during the week, the club probably loses revenue on the day game. Sunday is a getaway day, and playing at night could screw up a team's travel schedule. And who wants to spend all day Saturday playing baseball? Not to mention overtime pay for stadium employees, the hassle of cleaning out the stands during games, or having to make two complete sets of concessions so that they remain fresh. And I'm sure that players and umpires don't care for them, and their contracts have something to say about the matter. Ernie Banks was incredibly atypical. |
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| Aug-14-10 | | Jim Bartle: I see the San Diego lineup today includes Tony Gwynn, Will Venable, Jerry Hairston Jr., and Nick Hundley. Three sons of major leaguers, and one unfortunately not related (Hundley). |
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| Aug-15-10 | | suenteus po 147: <Phony Benoni> I have to say Game Collection: Podebrady 1936 is stellar work and another very important tournament to have collected. Thanks must go to <Resignation Trap> as well. You guys both do excellent work :) |
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| Aug-15-10 | | crawfb5: Looks like the admins have been working on the PGN upload backlog. Might be a good time to check on things you had pending. |
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Aug-15-10
| | Phony Benoni: I'm not sure who this announcer is, but if he ever makes the Hall of Fame this isn't going to be his signature call: http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/vid... |
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| Aug-15-10 | | just a kid: Gotta thank the Tigers for winning the series against the White Sox! |
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| Aug-16-10 | | Jim Bartle: The greatest call of all time is, of course, from Jerry Coleman: "Winfield goes back to the wall, he hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base. This is a terrible thing for the Padres." |
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| Aug-16-10 | | Jim Bartle: Johnny Damon gets a big ovation in his return to Yankee Stadium. He steps out, doffs his helmet, and he's got a mohawk. |
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| Aug-17-10 | | hms123: <Bobby Thomson Dies at 86; Hit Epic Home Run> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/s... |
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Aug-18-10
 | | keypusher: <suenteus po 147: <Phony Benoni> I have to say Game Collection: Podebrady 1936 is stellar work and another very important tournament to have collected. Thanks must go to <Resignation Trap> as well. You guys both do excellent work :)> Amen to that! You may want to fix the spelling of "Erich Elisases." (Then again, you may not.) I liked the caption for George Thomas' picture: "Sir Thomas, Anglie." |
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Aug-18-10
| | Phony Benoni: <keypusher> Thanks. Fixed "Elisases", along with an "Elikases" I spotted. |
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Aug-18-10
| | Phony Benoni: Carlos Guillen, who goes on the disabled list more often than Brett Favre retires, is back as a result of this play: http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/... Does it look like a dirty slide to you? I didn't have a big problem with it; if Guillen had any agility left, he could probably have avoided it. But the Tigers hit Gardner the first time up tonight. Naturally, he came around to score, so what good did plunking him do? |
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| Aug-19-10 | | Travis Bickle: Hey Phony, Be advised: The Cubs Traded Derek Lee to the Braves for 3 pitching pospects?? http://www.timesunion.com/sports/ar... They should have dumped the B%$#@&% 3 seasons ago but The cubs don't like eating contract's and would rather lose! The cubs are the antithesis of The New York Yankees!! |
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| Aug-19-10 | | crawfb5: Game Collection: Lake Hopatcong 1926 is done, more or less (I had to submit a correction slip on one game result). It's something of a companion piece to your Game Collection: Lake Hopatcong 1923 (9th American Chess Congress. |
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Aug-19-10
| | Phony Benoni: Now <here's> a Hall-of-Fame call by an announcer: http://www.baseball-reference.com/b... |
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| Aug-26-10 | | eightbyeight: Phony Benoni, in your profile it says you mated with king, bishop, and knight after an adjournment. Do you still have the game score? The mate is so rare I barely know it, and I would love to see it in action. |
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Aug-26-10
| | Phony Benoni: <eightbyeight>:
David Moody (2016) - Michael Freese (1818)
Region V Open (Monroe, MI), Round 2, 10.18.1986
<1.e4 c6 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 e5 4.Ngf3 Bg4 5.g3 Nf6 6.Bg2 Nbd7 7.0-0 Bc5 8.c3 0-0 9.Re1 Re8 10.Qc2 dxe4 11.dxe4 Bf8 12.Nc4 b5 13.Ne3 Bxf3 14.Bxf3 Nc5 15.Rd1 Qb6 16.Nf5 Rad8 17.Bg5 Qc7 18.Bxf6 gxf6 19.Rxd8 Rxd8 20.Rd1 Rxd1+ 21.Bxd1 Qd7 22.b4 Nxe4 23.Bg4 Qd2 24.Qxe4 Qxc3 25.Bf3 c5 26.Qg4+ Kh8 27.bxc5 Qxc5 28.Be4 Qc1+ 29.Kg2 Qg5 30.Qxg5 fxg5 31.Bd5 f6 32.Kf3 a5 33.Ke4 Bc5 34.f3 b4 35.Bb3 h5 36.h3 Kh7 37.Kd5 Bb6 38.Ke6 g4 39.hxg4 hxg4 40.fxg4 e4 41.Bc2 a4 42.Bxe4 b3 43.axb3 a3 44.Bb1 Kg6 45.Ne7+ Kg5 46.Nd5 Bd4 47.b4 Kxg4 48.Nxf6+ Kxg3 49.Nd5 Kf3 50.b5 Ke2 51.b6 Bxb6 52.Nxb6 Kd2 53.Na4 Kc1 54.Ba2 Kd2 55.Kd6 Kd3 56.Kc5 Ke4 57.Kb4 Kd4 58.Kxa3>
click for larger viewThe game was adjourned around this point.
<58...Ke5 59.Kb4 Kd4 60.Bc4 Ke5 61.Kc5 Ke4 62.Nc3+ Ke5 63.Bd5 Kf4 64.Kd4 Kf5 65.Nb5 Kf4 66.Be6 Kf3 67.Ke5 Ke3 68.Bd5 Kd3 69.Kf4 Kd2 70.Bc4 Kc2 71.Ke3 Kd1 72.Nd4 Kc1 73.Kd3 Kb2 74.Nc2 Kc1 75.Kc3>
click for larger viewI don't know about my technique so far, but from here on it was definitely crammed analysis. <75...Kb1 76.Bd5 Kc1 77.Ba2 Kd1 78.Nd4 Ke1 79.Kd3 Kf2 80.Ne2 Kf3 81.Be6 Kf2 82.Kd2 Kf3 83.Bf5 Kf2 84.Be4 Kf1 85.Ke3 Ke1 86.Bc2 Kf1 87.Nf4 Ke1 88.Ng2+ Kf1 89.Kf3 Kg1 90.Bd3 Kh2 91.Nf4 1-0> The finish would be 91...Kg1 92.Kg3 Kh1 93.Ba6 (the funniest) Kg1 94.Nh3+ Kh1 95.Bb7# Oddly enough, my other four games in this tournament <totalled> 59 moves! |
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