Random Off-Day Questions

[Centerfield]

1. Who are the Phillies commemorating with their black patch? I don't remember any Phillies dying recently.

2. Does the honor of managing the All-Star team belong to the manager or the team? In other words, suppose LaRussa left the Cards after last year and decided to manage another NL team, would he get to go? Or would it be the Cards new manager? What if LaRussa retired? Would it be his replacement, or Willie as the manager of the NL Runners up?

3. Maggie Gyllenhaal. Hot or Not?

[seawolf17]

1. Don't know.

2. According to Wikipedia:
The manager for each league's team has for many years been the manager of the previous year's league champion. This honor is given to the manager, not the team, so it's possible that the All-Star manager could no longer be with the team with which he won, as happened in 2003, when Dusty Baker managed the National League team despite having moved from the National League champion San Francisco Giants to the Chicago Cubs. This has even included situations where the person is no longer actively managing a team: in 1979, Bob Lemon managed the American League team after having been fired by New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. The coaching staff is selected by the manager.

3. Not.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The honor belongs to the manager. Bob Lemon, and he's not the only one, came back to manage the AL team after he had been canned coming off of a pennant winning season for the Yankees. He even put the Yankee uniform back on, which I question.

I also question Frank Torre wearing a Yankee uniform in the All Star dugout.

[metirish]

John Vukovitch..I think

#3..very hot in secretary.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

1. Is longtime coach John Vukovich.
2. See above
3. Kinda?

[Willets Point]

1. John Vukovich.

2. Already answered.

3. Yes, yes, flaming red burning h-h-h-h-h-h-h-hot!

[Benjamin Grimm]

I also seem to remember Danny Murtaugh coming out of retirement to manage the NL All-Star team in 1972. (He won the World Series with the Pirates in 1971.)

Who managed the All-Star teams in 1965? Both pennant-winning teams in 1964 ended up with new managers in 1965.

As for Maggie, she's definitely cute, but I wouldn't call her "hot."

[Centerfield]

What if the reigning manager declines for whatever reason? Who does the honor fall to?

[Willets Point]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Who managed the All-Star teams in 1965? Both pennant-winning teams in 1964 ended up with new managers in 1965.

Gene Mauch and Al Lopez.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good question, Yancy. Apparently the policy wasn't in place yet, because Al Lopez and Gene Mauch managed the 1965 All Star Game.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/all_star_event.jsp?story=8

Which is a heckuva reward for guiding a team to the most legendary failure of a stretch run in history.

[Frayed Knot]

Q: Is this the worst day of the baseball year?

A: Yes

[soupcan]

Movies that the very hot Ms. Gyllenhall has appeared nude in, thus emphasizing her hotness:

Sherrybaby
Secretary
Strip Search

[Centerfield]

re: Maggie

I've never seen a girl vary so much depending on angle. She can look great or bad from scene to scene, even within the same movie. Love her personality though....enough to carry her to Top 5 status for me.

[nymr83]

Frayed Knot wrote: Q: Is this the worst day of the baseball year? A: Yes

i think monday was the worst, being further away from the next met game than we are now.

how did Vukovich get 597 career at-bats and a 13-year career with those numbers? he had a career OPS of .425, i wonder if thats the lowest ever for someone over 500 career ABs?

[Guest sharpie]

He did manage to get traded straight-up for Dave Schneck (a couple of years after Schneck had played his last major league game).

[metirish]

Nymr83 wrote: ="Frayed Knot"]Q: Is this the worst day of the baseball year? A: Yes i think monday was the worst, being further away from the next met game than we are now. how did Vukovich get 597 career at-bats and a 13-year career with those numbers? he had a career OPS of .425, i wonder if thats the lowest ever for someone over 500 career ABs?

Why the hell did I think he was a former great of the game....would never have checked his numbers until you mentioned them above....

[RealityChuck]

seawolf17 wrote: 2. According to Wikipedia: The manager for each league's team has for many years been the manager of the previous year's league champion. This honor is given to the manager, not the team, so it's possible that the All-Star manager could no longer be with the team with which he won, as happened in 2003, when Dusty Baker managed the National League team despite having moved from the National League champion San Francisco Giants to the Chicago Cubs. This has even included situations where the person is no longer actively managing a team: in 1979, Bob Lemon managed the American League team after having been fired by New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. The coaching staff is selected by the manager.

Interesting change, which brings up a couple of trivia questions:

1. What manager (or managers -- there may be more than one) managed an all-star team without ever managing in the post season?

2. What manager managed four all-star games, but only was in the postseason twice?

(The change of rules now makes this much more unlikely, though not impossible.)

3. (easy one) What all-star game didn't have either of the previous year's winning managers managing?

[Guest cooby]

That reminds me...does anybody else think that Reese Witherspoon's chin is really pointy? I never noticed until about a year ago.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Have you ever seen Drew Barrymore's chin in profile?

[Guest cooby]

hers too? These poor kids.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Hers isn't pointy, but it looks like it weighs about eight pounds.

[Guest cooby]

Ouch.

We need a comparison photo test thread. Reese vs Drew's chins.


I'd start it but I currently have no PC at home and I'll be danged if I use my husband's laptop to start a thread like that

[Vic Sage]

Maggie is as hot as a cat on a tin roof. or something.

Secretary -- mmmmm, baby... thank you, sir, may she have another?
Stranger than Fiction -- not naked, but i understood why will ferrell fell in love with her.

drew = adorable
reese = scary stepford girl

[Benjamin Grimm]

Drew is adorable, but you don't want to get conked by that chin.

[Frayed Knot]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Have you ever seen Drew Barrymore's chin in profile?

David Letterman saw several of Drew's body parts in profile ... I'm just not sure that the chin was among them.

[DocTee]

reese is the female Jay Leno-- looks like see has an anvil instead of a jaw.

And she'sstill way better looking than drew.

[MFS62]

Their chins look almost OK when you compare them with the chin of Bernadette Peters.
http://www.bernadette-peters.com/cgi-bin/photoalbum.pl

Later

[Elster88]

Drew Barrymore is ugly.

[seawolf17]

Reese Witherspoon, on the other hand, is gorgeous.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

FK: >>>Q: Is this the worst day of the baseball year?<<<

Just a little less worse than that day off after a home opener (if it's to start
the season) ... otherwise, yeah it sucks.