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Post by Prince Hal on May 19, 2023 8:52:46 GMT -5
Game 1 of the NHL Conference Finals between the Carolina (formerly Hartford Whalers) Hurricanes and the Florida Panthers is tied 4-4 going into the fourth overtime! -M Did you watch the entire game?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 19, 2023 10:58:49 GMT -5
Something non-Red Sox related.
I hadn't realized that earlier this month it was the 50th anniversary of Secretariat's Kentucky Derby win. But today is the 50th anniversary of his win in the Preakness Stakes. I have very vague memories of these races as my mother loved to watch horse racing (the only sport that even moderately interested her). I don't think anyone can argue that Secretariat was the greatest racehorse of all time.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2023 11:54:43 GMT -5
Game 1 of the NHL Conference Finals between the Carolina (formerly Hartford Whalers) Hurricanes and the Florida Panthers is tied 4-4 going into the fourth overtime! -M Did you watch the entire game? I don't have cable so no access to TNT, the network on which it aired, so no. I checked in on the score every 20 minutes or so after it was tied up in the 3rd, until I went to sleep. The Panthers scored just as I was turning in for the night. -M
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Post by Prince Hal on May 19, 2023 12:22:25 GMT -5
Did you watch the entire game? I don't have cable so no access to TNT, the network on which it aired, so no. I checked in on the score every 20 minutes or so after it was tied up in the 3rd, until I went to sleep. The Panthers scored just as I was turning in for the night. -M And of course it was Tcachuk who scored it.
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Post by berkley on May 22, 2023 21:37:30 GMT -5
Something non-Red Sox related. I hadn't realized that earlier this month it was the 50th anniversary of Secretariat's Kentucky Derby win. But today is the 50th anniversary of his win in the Preakness Stakes. I have very vague memories of these races as my mother loved to watch horse racing (the only sport that even moderately interested her). I don't think anyone can argue that Secretariat was the greatest racehorse of all time.
I was pretty young then too but I do remember how much of a household name Secretariat was back then. I'm not sure the same could be said of any race-horse since, though that could be just my own lack of knowledge on the subject. But I do know the names of some of the famous ones before my time, like Man o' War and Phar Lap, so could it be that thoroughbred racing, like boxing, is no longer as much in the public eye as it once was?
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Post by berkley on May 22, 2023 21:46:24 GMT -5
Actually, now I think of it, I also remember Affirmed and Alydar, who came a few years after Secretariat.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 22, 2023 22:11:06 GMT -5
Something non-Red Sox related. I hadn't realized that earlier this month it was the 50th anniversary of Secretariat's Kentucky Derby win. But today is the 50th anniversary of his win in the Preakness Stakes. I have very vague memories of these races as my mother loved to watch horse racing (the only sport that even moderately interested her). I don't think anyone can argue that Secretariat was the greatest racehorse of all time.
I was pretty young then too but I do remember how much of a household name Secretariat was back then. I'm not sure the same could be said of any race-horse since, though that could be just my own lack of knowledge on the subject. But I do know the names of some of the famous ones before my time, like Man o' War and Phar Lap, so could it be that thoroughbred racing, like boxing, is no longer as much in the public eye as it once was?
You are correct. It was baseball, boxing and horse racing for forever. The other sports tended to be niche interests; the NHL only played in six cities, the NBA was still plagued by vagabond teams, though track and field was also very popular. Even when I was a kid, the Penn Relays were an enormous attraction and shown on television. Football only began to make significant inroads in the fifties, with the Colts overtime victory over the Giants at Yankee Stadium in the 1958 championship game always denoted as the watershed moment. TV had a lot to do with that, too.
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Post by berkley on May 22, 2023 22:39:11 GMT -5
I was pretty young then too but I do remember how much of a household name Secretariat was back then. I'm not sure the same could be said of any race-horse since, though that could be just my own lack of knowledge on the subject. But I do know the names of some of the famous ones before my time, like Man o' War and Phar Lap, so could it be that thoroughbred racing, like boxing, is no longer as much in the public eye as it once was?
You are correct. It was baseball, boxing and horse racing for forever. The other sports tended to be niche interests; the NHL only played in six cities, the NBA was still plagued by vagabond teams, though track and field was also very popular. Even when I was a kid, the Penn Relays were an enormous attraction and shown on television. Football only began to make significant inroads in the fifties, with the Colts overtime victory over the Giants at Yankee Stadium in the 1958 championship game always denoted as the watershed moment. TV had a lot to do with that, too.
I always used to say that American or NFL football seems like a game purposely designed for tv, almost as if a bunch of executives and marketing guys sat around and thought it up: "We need something with lots of action, but also lots of stoppages and down-time, so our viewers can go get a beer, make a snack, use the can, then come back without having missed anything. Or if they did, we'll have endless replays so they can see it anyway."
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Post by Prince Hal on May 22, 2023 22:48:08 GMT -5
berkley... Yes. Plus the field fits the dimensions of a TV screen.
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 25, 2023 21:44:43 GMT -5
Can I dare hope? Half way to a historic comeback...
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2023 23:26:15 GMT -5
What a brutal way to lose a game, never mind a championship game...
catcher dropped strike three of what would have been the final out of the game but instead of tagging the runner or throwing to first, they started celebrating the win while the opposing team's runners circled the bases to tie and then win the game before the defensive team realized the game was still being played.
almost as brutal as allowing the inbounder to tip in a shot with .2 seconds left in a basketball game.
-M
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2023 10:35:06 GMT -5
Prince Hal wildfire2099Bobby Dalbec is killing it at AAA in May. If only that could transfer to the MLB level, or attract a suitor in a trade... -M
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 28, 2023 14:59:27 GMT -5
maybe someone who has an injury will give something decent up in a trade if it comes up.. that'd be nice
He has had hot streaks at the Major League level too, just not often enough.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2023 2:08:16 GMT -5
Prince Hal wildfire2099The Sox continue to misfire on most cylinders. If they get one aspect of their game going (offense, rotation, bullpen, defense), the other three start to sputter and go cold. They are capable of beating some good teams, but they are also capable of losing to some bad teams as he last couple of nights have shown. They could be a team that finishes a few games over .500 if they can keep enough plates spinning at the same time, but they could also be a team that goes off a cliff if too many plates crash and fall. Either way, they don't look like a contender in the AL East at the 1/3 point of this season, not unless they can find some consistency in all aspects of their game, and I don't see that really happening, even when all their injured players return. I also don't see them having the ammunition to pull off any major game-changing trades as the deadline approaches. A few minor deals to tweak things, but not enough to make a deal that changes the course of the season and elevates them into true contenders. -M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 1, 2023 15:40:50 GMT -5
I thought in the beginning of the season IF Sale and Paxton could come back they'd be a 90ish win team and compete for the last wild card.. nothing has disabused me of that notion. Could a key injury or two send them spiraling down to 70 win territory? Definitely...I think 90 wins and eeking out the last wild card is the ceiling though.
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