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Started by The Minsky Moment, January 09, 2014, 04:47:49 PM

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Valmy

#135
June 18, 2014, 08:28:44 AM
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on June 16, 2014, 12:37:20 PM
I totally forgot about the game on Saturday.  Like...I didn't remember it was even going on right up until I read your post, Val.   :blush:

Texas is playing a big game tonight you might want to tune in ;)
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

derspiess

#136
June 18, 2014, 09:36:08 AM
Since we were posting awkward local car commercials on the other thread, I figured I would grace you fellas with this gem from Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0bqA0Quhg
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

derspiess

#137
June 18, 2014, 11:26:58 AM
So the Cards are facing Bartolo Colon today.  I was checking his stats for the hell of it & realized he was born 3 months before me.  Glad there's still an active MLB player older than I am.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

MadBurgerMaker

#138
June 19, 2014, 07:01:53 AM
1-0 W last night. :punk: Apparently a score that low hasn't happened at the CWS since 1985.  Also a home run hasn't happened at that ballpark for a while either.

Valmy

#139
June 19, 2014, 08:15:53 AM
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on June 19, 2014, 07:01:53 AM
1-0 W last night. :punk: Apparently a score that low hasn't happened at the CWS since 1985.  Also a home run hasn't happened at that ballpark for a while either.

That game was awesome.  FINAL FOUR BABY! :punk:  Augie looks about ten years younger in the CWS I have to say.  :hmm:

Now Vanderbilt, as the great Ernie Banks said, lets play two.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Grey Fox

#140
June 19, 2014, 11:44:48 AM
Quote from: Valmy on June 18, 2014, 08:28:03 AM
1994 was such an amazing baseball season.  Just tragic that was the one that had to be wiped out.

:weep:
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Valmy

#141
June 19, 2014, 11:50:16 AM
The poor Expos.  Their first great team derailed by the 1981 stoppage and then again in 1994.  Of course it gave MLB a chance to steal millions from the idiots who run Washington DC so I guess that makes Selig happy.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Berkut

#142
June 19, 2014, 12:13:41 PM
Not MLB, but Little League.

Final game of Jakes regular season last night. His team was 8-3-1, and 2 of those losses were against the Webster team, who was 3-9. But they beat the #1 team twice, when most of our players were not able to go to the game, so they thought they could do it again.

End of the 7th, score is 6-3 Penfield. We get their first two batters out, the second on a called strike that, well, it looked pretty far off the plate.

Next batter gets hit by the first pitch, goes to first.

Steals second.

Steals third, on a play that most of us thought he was out on.

Next batter hits a nice shot through the gap, gets to first.

Steals second.

The Webster parents are going nuts. Tying run at the plate.

Called strike, outside.
Ball
Ball
Foul
Ball
Foul
Crack!

Kid hits a perfect fly ball right into shallow center field, no way our center fields can get to it before it drops.

Webster is screaming like crazy, runners are coming home. Patrick, our center fields races in, take the ball off the bounce, turns and RIFLES it to first. OUT!

You never heard so much cheering go quiet at once. Like a switch was pulled or something.

It was an amazing throw for a 14 year old to make. I could not believe it.
"If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven't been paying attention."

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Valmy

#143
June 19, 2014, 12:24:54 PM
Great story Berkut.  That is what makes sports awesome.

And all levels of Baseball are welcome here, MBM and I have been talking College Ball after all.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

The Minsky Moment

#144
June 19, 2014, 02:23:50 PM
I went to a Rockland Boulders game (independent minors) last weekend - there were playing a team from Trois-Riveres of all places.
Nice stadium and terrific seats for a song.  Ballpark food was pretty good too.
Plus one of the few places in Rockland County to see a giant Canadian flag flying overhead.
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--Joan Robinson

MadBurgerMaker

#145
June 19, 2014, 05:42:28 PM
Gunning someone out at first off a bounce from center field is pretty badass.

derspiess

#146
June 19, 2014, 10:09:29 PM
Aw shit, Olbermann's going all jihad on tobacco in baseball.  Just when I was getting all warm & fuzzy on his baseball analysis.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

dps

#147
June 20, 2014, 12:18:01 AM
Quote from: derspiess on June 18, 2014, 11:26:58 AM
So the Cards are facing Bartolo Colon today.  I was checking his stats for the hell of it & realized he was born 3 months before me.  Glad there's still an active MLB player older than I am.

There hasn't been a player older than me in the majors since Julio Franco in 2007. 

Valmy

#148
June 20, 2014, 08:45:34 AM Last Edit: June 20, 2014, 08:47:58 AM by Valmy
Quote from: derspiess on June 19, 2014, 10:09:29 PM
Aw shit, Olbermann's going all jihad on tobacco in baseball.  Just when I was getting all warm & fuzzy on his baseball analysis.

It's like Limbaugh on sports.  He just cannot help himself.

Well it is more like Bob Costas.  We love you as a sports commentator but stop with the moralizing already.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

CountDeMoney

#149
June 20, 2014, 05:31:16 PM
Quote from: derspiess on June 19, 2014, 10:09:29 PM
Aw shit, Olbermann's going all jihad on tobacco in baseball.  Just when I was getting all warm & fuzzy on his baseball analysis.

I love all the hate on tobacco as a setting a bad health example, yet guys like Jonathan Braxton and CC Sabathia can be as porky as they wanna be.
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