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| Jun-16-11 | | Jim Bartle: Justin ("It for the money") Verlander. |
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Jun-17-11
 | | Phony Benoni: One local sports writer has encouraged readers to come up with a good nickname. Everything so far has been pretty wimpy. Probably best was when Joel Zumaya was healthy and known as "Zoom". Verlander was called "Vroom". That didn't last, of course. |
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| Jun-17-11 | | Deus Ex Alekhina: Austin ("Scoop") Jackson. |
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Jun-19-11
 | | perfidious: <playground player: <Esteemed colleagues> Speaking of pitching masterpieces, the sportscaster on the radio this morning announced that some Yankee pitcher "gave up just four runs in seven innings"!> This could have straight from the lips of that wretched John Sterling. <Gee, wow--that translates to an ERA of 5.14. Real Craig Anderson numbers! I mean, when do we start constructing this guy's own wing of the Hall of Fame?> You really shouldn't mock this ERA-it's better than what AJ Burnett did in a lot more innings last year, after all! <Like all of our other institutions, baseball has fallen into the habit of bragging about things it ought to be ashamed of.> While on the theme of Sterling, here's a classic Matsui HR call by the master from two years ago: 'It's high, it's far, it's gone.....it's an A-bomb!'
Guess he forgot that it wasn't Rodriguez at bat. This also makes one wonder how those of Japanese origin might have felt on hearing this particular call. Then we turn to other gems, such as 'It's high, it's far, it's.....off the wall!'. Sterling is truly a buffoon. |
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| Jun-19-11 | | Jim Bartle: On the other hand, at least on TV broadcasts, Paul O'Neill is marvelous. |
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| Jun-19-11 | | playground player: <perfidious> Sounds like John Sterling has been in the booth a bit too long. He was calling Yankee games when I was a kid, and now I have a white beard. <Phony Benoni> I went to my local public library the other day and asked for "The City of God" by St. Augustine; and the answer was, "Oh, we don't have that." I could hardly believe my ears. I don't recall what library you work at, but I'll bet they have St. Augustine. Or have libraries decided to do without the pillars of Western civilization from now on? |
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Jun-19-11
| | Phony Benoni: <playground player> Considering I work at a Catholic--wait, make that a Jesuit--university, I'm pretty sure we have a copy of "The City of God" somewhere. And that's the point. Our clientele would have a need for resources by and about Augustine. Most public libraries do not, or at best a much lower demand than for Harry Potter or Lady Gaga. Deplorable, perhaps, but when the general public foots the bill they are going to want to see the resources they want to use, not those they should use. (As a matter of fact, the highest circulating materials in my "academic" library are our "recreational" collection of DVDs and CDs.) Still, if you haven't done so already checked your library's catalog. Librarians don't know everything. And even if there's no separate book, it might be included in a collection of some sorts. For instance, if your library still has a copy of the Great Books of the Western World, it has an entire volume of Augustine. |
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Jun-20-11
 | | WannaBe: <Phony Benoni: ... Librarians don't know everything....> Say it ain't so? Say it ain't so?
Also, most libraries have loan programs, where they can obtain material(s) that is lacking at their facility, it may require time and sometimes, money, but it probably would still be cheaper than buying it... |
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Jun-20-11
| | Phony Benoni: <WannaBe> It's the cold, hard truth. We gave up knowing everything when it became evident nobody was listening to us. What bothered me about <playground player>'s experience was that the librarian didn't even check. Nobody knows their collection that well. But I can understand the public library not having it. They probably don't have much Luther or Calvin either. The religious areas of many public libraries is restricted to Howard Camping and <The Da Vinci Code>. Interlibrary loan programs are available, of course, but it's frustrating to wait a week or two for a book that you want right now. For a classic like the <City of God>, your best chance may be to go online. I believe the copyright expired recently, so it should be available. |
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| Jun-20-11 | | Jim Bartle: "It's the cold, hard truth. We gave up knowing everything when it became evident nobody was listening to us." Huh? Is somebody trying to say something? |
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| Jun-20-11 | | playground player: <Phony Benoni> As a matter of fact, they used to have a Great Books set (which included St. Augustine), in its own little mobile bookcase... but they got rid of it a couple years ago. |
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Jun-20-11
| | WannaBe: Ah, I see that in the 3 game series of Detroit-LA Dodgers that we will not be facing Verlander! =) |
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| Jun-20-11 | | Deus Ex Alekhina: Justin ("Zoo") Verlander. When Abbott and Costello did their famous routine, they were paying homage to the great players of the 30's, 40's, and early 50's. But by the time the 60's rolled around, the nicknames seemed to disappear. Did any of these greats have a nickname?: Tony Olivia, Rod Carew, Willie Stargell, Sandy Koufax, Jim Palmer, etc., etc. Is it too late to give them a moniker? Well, Boog Powell didn't need a nickname, I think his parents took care of that - wasn't "Boog" his birth name? And manager Earl Weaver was called Earl "the pearl" for some reason; I'm sure a few umpires could have come up with something more appropriate. |
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| Jun-20-11 | | Jim Bartle: In his books Ron Luciano had some great names for Weaver, but I can't recall right now. Nicknames remind me of the Seinfeld episode where they get to know Keith Hernandez. So Jerry is jealous--of Elaine--because she goes out with Hernandez. She comes back and tells Jerry and George, "We met some nice guys. Some guy named Mookie was talking about some...game six,maybe? Do you know what he meant?" |
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| Jun-24-11 | | Jim Bartle: The Angels have pulled off a kind of cycle tonight, in the first two innings. They've had a guy picked off first by the catcher, a runner thrown out at second trying to steal, plus runners thrown out by outfielders at third and home. |
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Jun-25-11
| | perfidious: <Jim> For all that, Angels won big anyway; guess they operated on the premise of the Russian Army in sending platoons of runners, figuring they'd eventually get someone to score, lol. |
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Jun-25-11
 | | keypusher: <jim bartle> Just in case you missed it, there is a long article in the Times travel section another route to Machu Picchu. http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011... |
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| Jun-26-11 | | Jim Bartle: Thanks, KP, interesting story. The slide show wouldn't work on my computer, though. Funny how the title was the "Hidden Route to Machu Picchu," but really it was mostly about more remote sites like Choquequirao, Vitcos and Espiritu Pampa. I went to Choquequirao when it hadn't been cleared of brush at all years ago, but haven't been to the other two sites. Nice to see the theories of Johan Reinhard mentioned on the last page. We've been friends since the early 80s, when we looked for pre-Inca remains high in the Cordillera Blanca in northern Peru. Lots of his photos in my book, as you know. |
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Jun-26-11
| | Phony Benoni: <WannaBe: Ah, I see that in the 3 game series of Detroit-LA Dodgers that we will not be facing Verlander! =)> Verlander pitched last night against Arizona. 8 innings, 0 runs, 4 hits, 14 strikeouts. |
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Jun-26-11
| | perfidious: <Phony Benoni: Verlander pitched last night against Arizona. 8 innings, 0 runs, 4 hits, 14 strikeouts.> Yawn.
Just another gem from that kid. This may be his year for the Cy, well as Josh Beckett is going for Boston. |
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| Jun-26-11 | | Jim Bartle: Back to Peru for the moment, I got the slide show to work. Check out this photo of Machu Picchu (look carefully) from across the valley to the south. Spectacular. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/20... |
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Jun-29-11
| | Phony Benoni: So the Mets come into cavernous Comerica Park last night not having hit a grand slam since August 1, 2009--and promptly hit two off the Tigers in 2/3rds of an inning. Baseball is a tragic game. |
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| Jun-30-11 | | Jim Bartle: The juxtaposition of "cavernous" and "grand slam" made me wonder about inside-the-park grand slams, and was really surprised to see there have been so many: http://www.baseball-fever.com/showt... Mel Stottlemyre and Tom Brunansky are the names that stand out for me. |
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Jun-30-11
| | keypusher: <Jim Bartle: Back to Peru for the moment, I got the slide show to work. Check out this photo of Machu Picchu (look carefully) from across the valley to the south. Spectacular.> I'm glad you got the slideshow to work, as it was by far the best part of the NYT package. Not that you are hurting for good pictures of Peru. :-) |
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Jun-30-11
| | Phony Benoni: Wes Westrum was another interesting one; not too many catchers on the list. He played for the Giants, so I'll be he did it at the Polo Grounds. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/... Yep. First inning, when he was still fresh. |
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