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| Sep-03-09 | | Travis Bickle: Hey you sports fans Bears 23 Browns 20 in the 4th quarter in a barn burner! |
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| Sep-03-09 | | Travis Bickle: 26-20 Bears 7:00 left. |
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| Sep-03-09 | | Travis Bickle: Oh I want those lousy stinkin dirty rotten packers!!! Growwwll!! |
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| Sep-03-09 | | Jim Bartle: Yes, I've read Thome and Ramirez are good friends from their days on the Indians. They've got to represent the two opposite extremes as far as wearing socks is concerned, though. I remember Bill James' evaluation of Thome when he first came up: "A third baseman who can hit for a good average, though with little power. He may develop some over the years, thoough." |
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Sep-03-09
 | | Phony Benoni: Thome has 564 HRs, Ramirez 542, for a total of 1106. Not bad for current teammates, but apparently only third best. Second , with 1152, Thome (541) and Griffey (611) at the end of 2008 while teammates for the White Sox. Just nosing them out, with 1157, are Sammy Sosa (588) and Rafael Palmeiro (569), for Baltimore in 2005. Now, before you ssk about about Ruth and Gehrig, their last year as teammates was 1934 and their total 708+348=1056. Mays and McCovey? 646+371=1017
Aaron and Mathews? 442+473=915 |
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| Sep-03-09 | | Jim Bartle: No, not one of my usual stops. I'll take a look. |
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Sep-04-09
 | | LIFE Master AJ: <PB> How about a draw you played in the late 1980's? And yes, I definitely remember your draw with Gallegos. I was at a lot of other U.S. Open's. I played in a lot of side events, and several "busy-man schedules." Unfortunately, they are not all in the computer, so I have no idea of which ones. And no - I was never insinuating that we played. But now I am sure we rubbed elbows a few times. In 1981, I was rated barely 2000+. Yet after six rounds, I had 4.5 points. (One of my victories was over Lewis Cohen. Anyone remember him? Bobby Fischer's teacher wrote a book about his students, Cohen was the last one in that book.) |
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Sep-04-09
 | | keypusher: <JB><PB> Thanks, that all makes sense. What I still don't understand is why some American League team, for whom Thome and his 23 HRs could play every day, wouldn't want Thome much more. |
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Sep-04-09
| | Phony Benoni: <keypusher: What I still don't understand is why some American League team, for whom Thome and his 23 HRs could play every day, wouldn't want Thome much more.> There are different philosophies about the designated hitter. The Tigers, whom I follow most closely, like to switch theirs around, using it to give a player a day off from playing the field. They wouldn't be interested in having one person do it full time. Other contenders (and only contenders would be interested) with full time DHs, like Boston with David Ortiz, were probably satisfied with their situation. |
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Sep-04-09
| | Phony Benoni: <LIFE Master AJ>: If you played in US Open side events as well, then we almost surely ran into each other. I used to haunt those things except when I was working on tournament bulletins. But, as I said, my memory for names and faces can be very bad. I think I'll settle for you recognizing the game with Gallegos. I have too many other draws from the period to post here. |
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| Sep-04-09 | | A.G. Argent: I also might venture that the Dodgers didn't wanna be accused of inaction with late season pickups, which as the Czar says, a lot of teams do and even more so this year, it seems. A lotta movement. Everybody that's in the mix for a September run to post-season is adding what they can and it's paying off for a quite a few of them. Witness the Cards and Holliday (as well as Smoltz)(?). Penny with SF, Pedro with the Phils etc. Also maybe LA is thinking about Matt Stairs last year with the Phils; all they would maybe need out of Thome is one really well placed, timely pinch-hit jack in a play-off game and badda ergo bang, it's all worth it. Also, Czar, unfortunate news about Ernie Harwell. Hope he gets to see the Tigers go deep into the play-offs. |
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Sep-04-09
| | Phony Benoni: <A.G. Argent> Thanks for the thoughts about Ernie Harwell. For those who haven't heard, the longtime Tigers broadcaster has been diagnosed with an incurable tumor in his bile duct, and, at his age (91), has chosen not to undergo aggressive treatment. There is no way to tell how long he will have. At the moment, he still seems to be as fit and in as good spirits as could be expected. |
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| Sep-04-09 | | Jim Bartle: Is Harwell as good as everybody always says he is? All I've ever heard about him is not just good, but adulatory. But I never heard him call a game. |
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Sep-04-09
| | Phony Benoni: Maybe the best way to describe Ernie Harwell is "charming". But not in the sense of some smarmy con man; he was all summer and nostalgia. Low-keyed, relaxed, and conversational--but never boring. Maybe the best example was his call of Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard Round the World." You know, the one where Russ Hodges went into hysterics, screaming "THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!" over and over. Harwell, who doing the broadcast for NBC-TV, said "It's gone!", shut up, and let the picture tell the story. |
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| Sep-04-09 | | Travis Bickle: <Phony Benoni> It's obvious you dont want my comments on your forum so will you please do me the favor of removing them thanks Dave. |
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Sep-04-09
| | Phony Benoni: <Travis Bickle> My only problem is when people bring their outside arguments in here. |
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Sep-05-09
| | LIFE Master AJ: <<PB> "I think I'll settle for you recognizing the game with Gallegos. I have too many other draws from the period to post here."> Good enough for me! |
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Sep-05-09
| | Phony Benoni: Well, I guess it comes to no shock for their fan, but the Washington Nationals were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention last night. On the clock are the Baltimore Orioles, with a tragic number of 4. However, they are receiving close competition from Kansas City (7), Pittsburgh (8), and Oakland (9). |
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| Sep-05-09 | | playground player: <Phony Benoni> When were the 1962 Mets mathematically eliminated? I think it might've been sometime in May. Poor Ernie Harwell! He'll be missed. Most of my radio baseball was Phil Rizzuto and Bill White (R.I.P., Scooter--we miss you a lot); but every now and then the atmosphere would get all funny and I would wind up with a Tigers game on my radio, called by Ernie Harwell. Very relaxing, very enjoyable... and never a word about some guy with a 7.50 ERA putting in a "quality start" (getting bombed in the 6th inning). |
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| Sep-05-09 | | A.G. Argent: And the once great and storied Pirates will be setting a very ignominious record with three more losses; first professional sports team in North America to have seventeen consecutive losing seasons. Topping the Phils losing record from '33 to '48. Not much consolation to the true Buc fan but at least the city's got the Steelers. |
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Sep-05-09
| | Phony Benoni: <playgournd player> Actually, the 1962 Mets held on until August 10th. Not sure if that's the record for early elimination, but it has to be up there. On the other hand, the 1941 Yankees clinched the pennant on September 4th. |
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| Sep-05-09 | | Jim Bartle: September 4!! And the whole league, not a watered-down division. Speaking of the Pirates, it bothers me when teams with long and strong records descend to the bottom of the standings for years on ends. I don't mean they should be in the Series every year, but they should have competitive teams. So now you have teams like Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Kansas City which never have a good team, and little chance of getting one. |
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| Sep-05-09 | | Deus Ex Alekhina: Ernie Harwell is the BEST!!!! Met him once. Speaking of announcers, didn't Howard Cosell broadcast some of the Mets games? I always wished that Ali would have pulled that rug off of his head. |
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Sep-05-09
| | Phony Benoni: Little tidbit from the Fox broadcast today: <Mark Buerhle> hasn't won since his perfect game back in July. |
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Sep-06-09
| | keypusher: <Jim Bartle> You would be proud of me, went to the U.S. open and saw Venus eliminate someone (Rybarikova?) and Nadal beat Keifer(?). I have to say, though, Nadal's biggest advantage over his opponent was many, many fewer unforced errors. The same sort of thing you see in chess, really. A big part of what makes the great ones great is just not throwing games away. |
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