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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 3, 2020 10:46:22 GMT -5
I think I'm fairly safe in saying baseball is incomprehensible to most British people. I know whenever I watch a film in which people get excited about a baseball game, or use baseball metaphors, and are saying things like "He's got a 346 batting average and with the midfield loaded in the third quarter and the second base is loaded..." They might as well be saying: "Bladdy wahff-lunk wibble wibble...." for all the sense it makes. I don't understand cricket either - though I do distinctly remember seeing a player move once. This'll tell you everything you need to know....
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 3, 2020 13:59:34 GMT -5
he was a borderline Hall of Farmer Sometimes typos are fun... I did one where I typed "I hop and pray".... You mean Buckner wasn't allowed in here? Okay, back to the Dead thread... Jerry's still gone, and Pig Pen...
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 3, 2020 14:05:42 GMT -5
Another political one (sorry) and someone I do think of as heroic. John Hume did more than most, and more than most people thought right, proper, or possible in bringing about peace in Northern Ireland. "Politics," he once said, "is the alternative to war." He won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Gandhi Peace Prize, and the Martin Luther King Award. We need more like him. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13945530"Blessed are the peacemakers."
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 3, 2020 14:23:52 GMT -5
He might be criticized for keeping his lousy relievers in the game but the Buckner error wasn’t his fault. The ball was hit right at Buckner, and he booted it. It had nothing to do with his mobility. It’s a shame that Buckner is known for that error, as he was a borderline Hall of Farmer with 2700 hits and a batting title in his career. Well, no, Buckner (a VERY borderline HOFer at best) committed the error, but he was about as mobile as a lamppost and McNamara had been lifting him late in games to put in Dave Stapleton, a more mobile fielder who wasn't as good a hitter as Buckner was. The real irony here is that Buckner, a "professional hitter," didn't hit at all in the Series. (He was 4 for 28 after his 0 for five in Game 6.) Buckner's error was a killer, of course, but it tends to obscure the so-called wild pitch thrown by Sox reliever Bob Stanley that allowed the tying run to score. I say so-called because when you watch the replay as many times as Sox fans have, it looks like a passed ball. Catcher Rich Gedman shoulda had it. Anyway, I think Mac let sentiment overrule reason in letting the old vet Buckner have a chance to be on the field for the win. He also took the rap for lifting Clemens with a 3-2 lead in the eighth. After the game, Clemens claimed Mac lifted him; asked about that, MacNamara bristled and said."My pitcher asked out of the game." Clemens bristled when he heard that and claimed it was Mac CYA-ing. Clemens has always denied this, and why wouldn't you believe him? It's not as if he's lied to Congress - oh, wait. Or said that when he threw the bathead at Piazza, he thought it as the ball - oh, wait. We'll never know, but I'm going with MacNamara on this one.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 3, 2020 14:33:59 GMT -5
Another political one (sorry) and someone I do think of as heroic. John Hume did more than most, and more than most people thought right, proper, or possible in bringing about peace in Northern Ireland. "Politics," he once said, "is the alternative to war." He won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Gandhi Peace Prize, and the Martin Luther King Award. We need more like him. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13945530"Blessed are the peacemakers." What’s so special about the cheesemakers?
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Post by Confessor on Aug 3, 2020 15:03:56 GMT -5
Okay, back to the Dead thread... Jerry's still gone, and Pig Pen... There, there...don't upset yourself. "A box of rain will ease the pain, And love will see you through."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2020 17:41:49 GMT -5
I think I'm fairly safe in saying baseball is incomprehensible to most British people. I know whenever I watch a film in which people get excited about a baseball game, or use baseball metaphors, and are saying things like "He's got a 346 batting average and with the midfield loaded in the third quarter and the second base is loaded..." They might as well be saying: "Bladdy wahff-lunk wibble wibble...." for all the sense it makes. I don't understand cricket either - though I do distinctly remember seeing a player move once. This'll tell you everything you need to know.... I learned nothing.
but then again, I got distracted by all the sexy, hairy chests
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 3, 2020 21:12:40 GMT -5
You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball; everything else is just details.
You get extra points for scratching and spitting, though.
Oh, and there's no crying in baseball.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2020 22:45:55 GMT -5
R.I.P. to Susan Ellison, Harlan's widow, who passed this weekend at the age of 60.
-M
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 4, 2020 15:57:48 GMT -5
60 seems too young to leave to me now. Sad.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 4, 2020 16:28:01 GMT -5
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Post by brutalis on Aug 4, 2020 19:38:57 GMT -5
Molly Hatchet guitarist Steve Holland passed away yesterday. Age 66. Reason unknown. Good and memorable southern rock music for traveling down the road flirting with disaster! Gonna have to put my CD on tonight.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 4, 2020 20:54:39 GMT -5
"Blessed are the peacemakers." What’s so special about the cheesemakers? He obviously means all purveyors of dairy products.
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 4, 2020 21:28:02 GMT -5
"Blessed are the peacemakers." What’s so special about the cheesemakers? Blessed are the milk, too.
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 4, 2020 22:53:09 GMT -5
What’s so special about the cheesemakers? He obviously means all purveyors of dairy products. Who would that be? "Cheese's christ"?
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