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| Mar-30-11 | | technical draw: Trying to find out how the LA Dodgers got their name I found this: <By 1890, New Yorkers routinely called anyone from Brooklyn a "trolley dodger", due to the vast network of street car lines criss-crossing the borough as people dodged trains to cross the streets. When the second Washington Park burned down early in the 1891 season, the team moved to nearby Eastern Park, which was bordered on two sides by street car tracks. That's when the team was first called the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. That was soon shortened to Brooklyn Dodgers.Possibly because of the "street character" nature of Jack Dawkins, the "Artful Dodger" in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, sportswriters in the early 20th Century began referring to the Dodgers as the "Bums".> Dem Bums! |
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Mar-30-11
 | | WannaBe: Now, in LA, we are busy dodging bullets and cars! But we are still the Dodgers! |
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| Mar-30-11 | | Jim Bartle: Yeah, but they haven't been the REAL Dodgers, the Dodgers we Northern Californians loved to hate, ever since the O'Malleys sold the team. Boooo! |
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| Mar-31-11 | | playground player: I can't believe it's Opening Day at Yankee Stadium on March 31, with rain today and snow in the forecast for tonight. "Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd--"
At $275 a ticket...
"Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack--"
$5.50 for a little box of cracker jack, $12.50 for a beer, hope you don't want a hot dog, too...
"I don't care if we never come back--"
Blow enough mortgage payments or grocery bills on a day at the ballpark, and there might not be anything to come back to. |
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| Mar-31-11 | | Deus Ex Alekhina: Cabrera Sobriety Watch 2011 (multiple choice: sober/buzzed/wasted/hungover). Result - Sober. Congrats! 161 more games to go. |
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Mar-31-11
 | | keypusher: <playground player: I can't believe it's Opening Day at Yankee Stadium on March 31, with rain today and snow in the forecast for tonight. "Take me out to the ball game, take me out to the crowd--" At $275 a ticket... > I noticed an ad for Yankee season tickets in the New York Law Journal yesterday. The Yankees don't advertise <there> regularly. The fan base seems to be a little dispirited. |
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Mar-31-11
 | | Phony Benoni: Take me out to the ballgame,
Take me out to the cold.
Buy me some coffee that's piping hot,
I won't care if the temperature's not
Over twenty-seven at game time
With wind chills that are a shame.
And there's ONE!
TWO!
THREE! feet of snow
At the old ball game. |
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| Mar-31-11 | | Jim Bartle: What I noticed a year or so ago at Yankee Stadium is that most of the seats are filled, except a lot of those right around home plate, the most expensive ones. The Giants are playing in LA tonight at Dodger Stadium. Not so long ago it was considered the greatest stadium in baseball, certainly among the newer stadiums. I was amazed when I went to some games in the late 70s. (I was in seats you may recognize, keypusher: the O'Melveny and Myers box.) Now it's one of the oldest parks in the majors, and considered ordinary at best. |
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| Apr-01-11 | | playground player: <Jim Bartle> The $275 seats I'm talking about are not those choice seats around home plate--I can't even guess what they cost. No, those are the seats my wife and I used to pay $15 for when we used to go to games in the 1980s and 90s. |
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| Apr-02-11 | | takchess: H Olafsson vs J Levitt, 1990 Sunday puzzle 2004, I ran across it in Aagaard Attacking Manual when he is discussing the pin. |
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Apr-02-11
| | Phony Benoni: <takchess> Thanks. It's going to be hard to track down all the puzzles before 2006. |
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Apr-02-11
| | Phony Benoni: I happened to tune in briefly to a tennis match today between Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova. (Had to cut-and-paste the names from Google.) After a couple of points, I closed my eyes and found that I could follow the course of the match just as well by listening to the sounds coming from each player. Now, I can understand it when players grunt. They're working hard out there. But when did they start doing the bird calls? |
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Apr-02-11
 | | OhioChessFan: I can't watch women's tennis. The shrieking is ridiculous. Sharapova may be easy on the eyes but she's hard on the ears. |
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Apr-03-11
 | | chancho: I watched a bit and changed it.
Who can forget Monica Seles back in the day
with that annoying shriek of hers?
AHHHEEE! AHHHEEE! |
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| Apr-03-11 | | takchess: If you being overly ambitious here is a way to google within the chessgames.com website only.
site:chessgames.com + keywords. Perhaps this might be of help but alot of work |
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Apr-03-11
| | Phony Benoni: <takchess> Thanks for the hint, but a Google-type search can be done here by using the "Search Kibitzing" function. The best method I've found so far is to search the kibitzes of a dedicated poster to the daily puzzle. (For example. on the "Search Kibitzing" page, type <user: "takchess"> for a complete list of all your kibitzes). For 2006 to the present, I've followed <dzechiel>, who is ideal since he posts nearly every day, indicates the move number of the puzzle, and rarely posts elsewhere. Compiling these collections was made a whole lot easier by his efforts. However, the daily puzzle dates back to March, 2003 and <dzechiel> didn't start posting until 2006. Those previous years are going to be harder, but I have some good ideas of people to follow. Using Google doesn't sound very efficient anyway, because there are no terms to check which are consistently used. For example, the actual phrase "Puzzle of the Day" rarely appears. There are a lot of game collections based on puzzles as well, but besides incompleteness the collectors rarely indicate the date of the puzzle. This means I have to look at every single entry to see if I already have it or not, or even if it was a Puzzle. A couple of <LifeMasterAJ>'s collections did help fill in some holes, but going through those will be a last resort if I can't find good kibitzers to follow. |
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Apr-03-11
| | Phony Benoni: Sea gulls are not an uncommon sight here in Detroit, even several miles away from the river. But today was the first time I heard one squawking and looked around for a tennis match. |
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| Apr-03-11 | | takchess: I got it......
Waybackmachine.org created daily snapshots of the web as part of the internet archiving projects. So although not complete you have a lot of 2006 homepages here. take a look at this link and click on a day.
http://waybackmachine.org/200601010... No case too small or too large-
Encyclopedia Brown 8) |
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| Apr-03-11 | | takchess: Also here is the earliest chessgames.com web snapshot they have on file from January 2002 http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20... "Introducing the new feature Kibitzer's Cafe." |
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Apr-03-11
| | Phony Benoni: <takchess> Ah, thank you! That should be very useful! I may be able to add a few entries on the Game of the Day collections as well. |
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| Apr-03-11 | | dzechiel: <PB> Glad to help, but you will have to work extra hard during the times I took vacations. |
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| Apr-06-11 | | takchess: This fellow seems to have commented on some older game. Perhaps a good one to follow. User: talchess2003 |
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| Apr-07-11 | | shivasuri4: <Phony Benoni>,thanks for your lovely contibutions to the GOTD and the POTD.You have become to the GOTD what <dzechiel> has been for ages to the POTD.Even if the puzzle is simple or the GOTD is silly,I make sure I read both of your posts everyday(unless either of you are on vacation).Along with <Once> and a few others,you are making CG a wonderful community to stay in. |
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| Apr-07-11 | | shivasuri4: By the way,that's a lovely biography you have put together. |
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Apr-07-11
| | Phony Benoni: <shivasuri4> Thank you. |
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