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May-23-16
 | | WannaBe: Kershaw's 10+ Ks streak and <OFC>'s predictions are in jeopardy, 4IP 2H 1BB 1K... 0-0 game. However, it does not mean Dodgers/Reds can't bust loose and score a bunch of runs. Or Clayton striking out 10 batters in one inning due to WPs or PBs. So, keep Hope Alive! (Dude, Bob's been dead for over a decade...) |
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May-23-16
 | | OhioChessFan: <Wassabi: However, it does not mean Dodgers/Reds can't bust loose and score a bunch of runs.> When the Reds bullpen gets in the game, that's a real good possibility. |
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May-23-16
| | WannaBe: Kershaw 4Ks, that Irish lad Finnegan's matching Kershaw pitch for pitch! What a great game, gotta love baseball. Get this, Kershaw 6IP 69 pitches, 47 for strike. Finnegan, 5IP 71 pitches, but, I mean holy cow, that's a great game. 0-0, going to the bottom of 6th. |
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May-24-16
| | WannaBe: Oh, geeze, how about this plot, Kershaw 8IP, 7Ks
Need to strike out the side in the 9th for his 7th consecutive double-digit Ks. Will Dave Roberts leave him in?!!? Only 88 pitches after 8IP, 11 pitches per. That is just absolutely silly, ridiculous, <SICK>. Or as my best buddy V. Scully would say: "How you like them apples?!" On the other side of the coin, poor Mr. Finnegan only gave up one run (double-play, no RBI) 5H and 106 pitches thrown... That's what you'd call a Finnegan's Wake. |
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May-24-16
| | WannaBe: After 8 full innings, Finnegan 107 pitches 5H 1R 1ER 4BB 2K, quality start, and he's losing. I'm starting to root for this kid. 23 years old, out of TCU, from Kansas City Royals organization. Maybe them Yankees will sign him for 30 years and 1B contract... |
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May-24-16
| | WannaBe: That's just not fair, (such is life), Finnegan pitched a great game, GREAT GAME. 8IP, CG, 1R, 1ER, but the opposing pitcher was Clayton, who just happened to also throw CG, 9IP 0R 0ER 1BB 7K. |
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May-24-16
| | WannaBe: The other great pitching match-up, SD/SF, 0-0 game... Wow. |
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May-24-16
| | WannaBe: 100 days until College Football Kick-off.
215 days until Christmas. |
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| May-24-16 | | Jim Bartle: <pb> Found a real treat. Mel Allen's radio call of the deciding game of the 1949 season, Boston vs. Yankees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e72... |
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May-24-16
 | | Phony Benoni: How about that? Now all I need is three free hours and a Ballantine Beer. |
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| May-24-16 | | Jim Bartle: "multitask" |
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| May-24-16 | | Jim Bartle: Actually it's 1:45. Different era. |
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May-24-16
| | Phony Benoni: Thought it said 2:45. I have a slow computer. |
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| May-24-16 | | Jim Bartle: Oops, you're right. 1:45 is how much I had watched.
Really fun, since I've read the Halberstam book on that season. Terrible book, by the way, but still exciting. |
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| May-25-16 | | Jim Bartle: Mel Allen has a nice rhythm as the announcer in that game but really is poor about giving key information. For example in the middle of the ninth inning he just says Stengel is moving outfielders and puts Gene Woodling into leftfield. He doesn't even say that Woodling is entering the game and that DiMaggio is coming out. (DiMaggio was injured chasing a triple.) Lot of things like that. |
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May-25-16
| | Phony Benoni: I thought a Red Sox - Yankees lasting only 1:45 sound suspicious! |
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| May-25-16 | | Jim Bartle: It's not a full 2:45, though. There's a lot of the celebration after the game. No discussion of the dimensions of the Stadium, of course, but there several balls hit over outfielders heads in left center and right center. |
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| May-25-16 | | luftforlife: For anyone who can tune in NESN for tomorrow's Boston Red Sox coverage, the pregame festivities will feature a ceremony at which Wade Boggs's number will be retired. This will be followed by a rare and coveted appearance by <Carl Yastrzemski>, who will join Dave O'Brien and Jerry Remy in the broadcast booth during the first inning of the game against the Colorado Rockies. This will be one of only a few televised interviews he's given since his retirement, and promises to be entertaining -- maybe even illuminating. Not a plug for the network, but definitely a nod to Yaz -- my all-time favorite baseball player, and one of my few personal heroes, in or out of baseball. Thanks, Yaz! Go Sox! :) |
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| May-25-16 | | Jim Bartle: I assume the Yaz inning will be broadcast from atop the Green Monster. |
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| May-26-16 | | Boomie: <Phony Benoni>
I just noticed that you played in the 1975 US Open in Lincoln, Nebraska. So did I. The results are here - Game Collection: US Open 1975, Lincoln. The Seattle crowd performed well above pay grade. A 13 year old Yaz scored 8.5 including his first GM scalp. This was an especially remarkable result as the kid had been playing for only 2 years, mostly clobbering me for lunch money. Vic Pupols finished tied for 4th with 9 points. Jim McCormick and I finished at 7.5, which was good enough for me to share the class B prize. At the awards ceremony, Yaz told me to laugh all the way to the bank...heh. |
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May-26-16
| | Phony Benoni: <Boomie> Lincoln 1975 was my first. One memory was helping Isaac Kashdan get into his room. The door locks at the Hilton were a bit tricky. Then there was play Edward Schuyler Jackson in round 6 (and getting a draw, probably much to his disgust). If I had known then what I know now, I would have just let him talk at me for hours. So many questions he could have cleared up! Another kid who made a big impression there was Joel Benjamin, who's a year younger than Yasser. How young was he? I was actually rated twelve points above him! After the tournament, the Michigan players were talking about their goals for the next year. I said mine was to keep ahead of Joel Benjamin. Sure enough, in round 1 at Fairfax 1976, I was one board ahead of Joel Benjamin! Of course, he was paired down while I was paired up, but still... By the way, the 1975 collection is barely started. Right now I'm doing clean-up work on 1900-1969, and will resume new work afterward. I'm not looking forward to typing up some of those crosstables frm the 1970s -- if I can find them. |
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May-26-16
| | WannaBe: Good luck Darren, maybe you can put your great-great-grand-child's name on the list. NOW! =)) http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/1... |
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| May-26-16 | | luftforlife: It was uplifting to see Carl Yastrzemski on the field at Fenway Park during tonight's pregame ceremony, at which Wade Boggs became only the tenth Boston Red Sox player to have his jersey-number retired. It was touching and inspiring to see him and to hear him in the broadcast booth during the first inning. Yaz recalled watching Wade consistently hit the Green Monster -- and repeatedly launch the ball into the right-field "bleachiz." (Yaz's accent is more New Shoreham than New Yawk.) He also recalled extracting every bit of advantage from what he called his modest talent; while most of his teammates arrived at ten o'clock in the morning for warmups, he routinely took batting practice at 7 a.m. with hitting-coach Walt Hriniak. He worked tirelessly to be the best he could be, and that's why he always draws the loudest ovation when he appears before the faithful at Fenway Park, and that's one reason I admire him. Yaz called a David Ortiz two-run homer right from contact: he knew whereof he spoke. He loves the team, and he still watches every game. Such a joy to see Captain Carl Yastrzemski once again. |
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| May-26-16 | | Jim Bartle: <...and repeatedly launch the ball into the right-field "bleachiz."> Not that many times, actually. |
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| May-26-16 | | luftforlife: <Jim Bartle>: I believe Yaz was referring to batting practice as well as to games played. Wade Boggs loved the Monster, but he was able to hit to all parts of Fenway Park, and that offensive versatility stood him in good stead. |
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