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ScarletKnight41 wrote: I'm disappointed - the whole rhythm of my Sunday has been thrown off I hear ya. At least during the week you have activities to do with a rainout, or even go to bed earlier! Weekends can get booring with nothing to do!

Game Called. Across the field of play the dusk has come, the hour is late. The fight is done and lost or won, the player files out through the gate. The tumult dies, the cheer is hushed, the stands are bare, the park is still. But through the night there shines the light, home beyond the silent ill. Game Called. Where in the golden light the bugle rolled the reveille. The shadows creep where night falls deep, and taps has called the end of play. The game is done, the score is in, the final cheer and jeer have passed. But in the night, beyond the fight, the player finds his rest at last. Game Called. Upon the field of life the darkness gathers far and wide, the dream is done, the score is spun that stands forever in the guide. Nor victory, nor yet defeat is chalked against the players name. But down the roll, the final scroll, shows only how he played the game. 12:10 start tommorow! Some Bagels and Baseball to start the work week! Both teams are off but have to catch afternoon flights. Mets to Denver and Phillies (or maybe they'll go to Penn Station and hop on the Acela Express) head down to DC

="Zvon"]Excellent tribute Mr Rogers. I remember those orange border cards very well- I had em all. Thought I dont remember if they were the kind available in Topps rack packs, or a mail in deal. Rack packs, I think. I really thought those cards were kinda blah back then- but looking back with nostagia I have to say now thats one kool set. I'm sure they were only available at Circle K stores, much like their K-Mart and Woolworths (theres a flash from the past for ya) sets from the same era (1980's) and probably just sold as a set These aren't the AS Glossy sets I think you are thinking about. The ones that had 40 cards that you sent away for, and a 22ish set that featured the previous years ASG starting lineups which were found in the triple packed rack packs. What I liked also is that the Yogi Berra card in the set shows Berra in a Met uni! It appears that they reused a photo from Berra's lone card as a Met from the 1965 set. Funny because Berra hit exactly 0 HRs as a Met!

Frayed Knot wrote: Of course if you listen to some current Yanqui fans they'd just as soon have ARod off their team the second this season's is over if not before. He's something like 0 for his last 12 with 10 Ks. Griffey tied Reggie the other day - 1 more and he knocks ol' RJ out of the top 10 (tee-hee). Just in time for his 60th birthday. Heh! You know its funny, Reggie is one of those guys in the list where you really don't think of him as having over 560 career HRs, you really just think of his posteason performances. Reggie only won 1 AL regular season MVP in 1973! (Rod Carew, Jim Rice, Don Baylor, George Brett and Rollie Fingers were your AL MVPs during Reggie's Yanqui years) Ditto with Ted Williams, of course because of his War years he isn't, but you would have thought of him being among the 3,000 hit club, not the 500 HR club and yet he is a member of the 500 HR club and not the 3,000 club

="Iubitul"]="Nymr83"]aldo i hate "modern" baseball cards, in their attempts to catch the players "in action" they lose the old nice portrait look, i can't even tell who half of them are without checking. But an action shot done right, like the McGriff card, looks so much better than just a posed portrait shot. I always liked the inventive portrait cards - there was one that Roger Clemens posed for - I think it was Upper Deck - that had him leaning against the Green Monster, and angled in such a way that "Strike" and 'Out" were positioned right next to him. That is one of my favorite all time cards 1991 Topps

Nymr83 wrote: can we please put Arod in a Mariners jersey and Delgado on Toronto? aldo i hate "modern" baseball cards, in their attempts to catch the players "in action" they lose the old nice portrait look, i can't even tell who half of them are without checking. Hey its my darn collection, I shall have player in the uni of my choosing! = That was just for this current moment, probably when I go through the updates at the end of the season I'll put Delgado in as a Jay Thats more of a future thing with ARod, chances are he;s going to be a MFY for a long while, probably longer than he was a Mariner

I also have one going for 3,000 hits, 300 wins and 3,000 Ks. Not sure if I'm going to add anymore milestone trackers. I'm mulling over 300 saves and an easy-to-do (number of players to collect) SB one as well Interesting this to notice, when my Dad bought the set for me, the guy right at 300, HOF Chuck Klein was number 81 on the all time list, (Rogers Hornsby with 301 right above him. As of this very moment, 8/27/2006, Chuck Klein stands at 114.

Heh, just today I changed Murray from a 1996 Score Card Indian to an Oriole and Andre Dawson from a Red Sox (some mid-1990 Leaf set) to that 1988 Topps Woolworth Highlight card of him as a Cubbie (though that should be changed to an Expo next time I get to it) Says alot for some of these vagabound guys in recent years. While Killebrew was a Royal, Foxx a Cub, Snider a Met, ect, its another thing for a Fred McGriff and Dave Kingman playing for a slew of teams without one defining team for their career.

And now, the rest of the 400 Club, the rest of the top 42 Homerun Hitters in MLB history 493 493 475 475 475 469 466 465 462 455 453 452 449 442 438 434 431 426 415 414 407 402

In the late 1990's my Dad picked up a cheap set of cards in a Florida flea market. It was a 1985 set put out by Topps and Circle K that was the top 50 HR Hitters at the time (sans Joe DiMaggio due to image license issues) Taking that set, and with the fact that at the time the 300 Club was around 80 deep, I decided to do a project of having a card of every member of the 300 HR club. Updated every year (and every so often during the season) and usually using a card of the team the player would probably be best known for (aside from being in the aforementioned Topps set) or just a nifty card of my choosing! Delgado (now represented by his 2006 Topps Card) is your latest member, but first here is your Top 20 All Time MLB HR Leaders, AKA, The 500 HR Club 755 725 714 660 588 586 583 573 569 563 562 548 536 534 521 521 512 512 511 504

Frayed Knot wrote: Wasn't it info on IMDB that "reported" that Piazza had a part as a high-school bully in some teen werewolf movie? Yup. Also somehow there are 2 Johnny Cashes on IMDB. I is The Man In Black and a II is a merger of a guy named Johnny Cash who did work on a video game and couple of tacked on TV apperances by the more famous Johnny Cash Heh, under further review it seems Cash II has been updated to reflect the fact that he is not the famous singer. Guess they do have editors checking these pages afterall! The listings on the 2nd Cash page was for a TV apperance with Kris Kristofferson and Jerry Lee Lewis and a documentary featuring two of Johnny's offspring, Rosanne and John Carter, the latter is still in production

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Never mind

Zvon wrote: ="SteveJRogers"]Bottom of the 9th... Whos the Phils closer with Gordon on the shelf? I thought it was Rhodes- guess not tonight. Too bad, Rhodes never does well when he sees an NY on the opponents cap!

Never mind, Ryan Madson in the game Heh, almost typed in Madsen Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right Here I am, stuck in the middle with you...

Bottom of the 9th... Whos the Phils closer with Gordon on the shelf?

Zvon wrote: ="SteveJRogers"]="Johnny Dickshot"]Safe to say David Wright is out of the MVP race. BTW, Abreu's run as a MFY, as well as Ryan Howard's post ASG performance would take the Home Run Derby excuse out of the argument for post HRD slumps FOREVER! (it won't of course) Abreus HR drought since the '05 ASG is what started the whole thing. Yup, and clearly that was just a slump from a Kevin McReynolds/Bobby Bonilla quasi star who was supposed to be THE guy instead of in the constellation

Frayed Knot wrote: ="metirish"]I'm sick of seeing the Phillies....go Mets. That's one of the arguments against the creation of these "regionalized" divisions that someone's always suggesting. If the Mets were in a division with the Phils, Yanks, & BoSox (an example that's often proposed) then Philly & Boston would both come into town for about 38 games per year. Then you'd REALLY be sick of them I don't know, it didn't hurt the old 8 team leagues when they did it that way in the 154 game scheds. I think it would add real juice to Yankee-Met games, and not the artifical juice that gets the media and team members (and managers) down on the Subway Series. Though to be honest, the way the media makes Joe Torre out to be, sounds like he'd rather be in KC than with the Yanks with all the big pressure games the Yanks play! So maybe its the media projection an annoyance for high profile matchups!

Zvon wrote: Take that Cleon! ???

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Safe to say David Wright is out of the MVP race. BTW, Abreu's run as a MFY, as well as Ryan Howard's post ASG performance would take the Home Run Derby excuse out of the argument for post HRD slumps FOREVER! (it won't of course)

A little White Sox mojo for the evening... Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world She took the midnight train goin' anywhere Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit He took the midnight train goin' anywhere A singer in a smokey room A smell of wine and cheap perfume For a smile they can share the night It goes on and on and on and on Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard Their shadows searching in the night Streetlight people, living just to find emotion Hiding, somewhere in the night Working hard to get my fill, everybody wants a thrill Payin' anything to roll the dice, just one more time Some will win, some will lose Some were born to sing the blues Oh, the movie never ends It goes on and on and on and on (chorus) Don't stop believin' Hold on to the feelin' Streetlight people

4-3 Phils Top of 8th

Yeah I know I mucked up the Sandberg trade thanks to doing something off the cuff, but before Wikipedia brought to the World Wide Web the encylopedia that anyone can add information without any attribution or editing, IMDB was doing the same for the movie industry. While a good tool for whats out there and they do link up to "professional" reviews and databases, there are many so-called "facts," urban legends and speculations littered all over the site's many features. Thanks to the fact that users can post things without editing. This caught my eye today, for the movie about Vince Papale, the Eagles walkon back in the late 1970's, Invincible. Found on the Trivia page: A common misconception is that the film is missing a primary character, specifically Philadelphia Eagles veteran QB #7 Ron Jaworski. But Jaworski was still on the St. Louis Rams during this time frame. Jaworski was not traded to the Eagles until March of 1977. I'm going to suggest that A) Its not a common misconception if the movie has yet to be released (Friday 8/25) it should be, MIGHT BE a common misconception. Plus if the movie bombs, the misconception won't be so common afterall! and ESPN Football Anaylist Ron Jaworski would be explaining to everyone a) That he wants to know why he's not in the film or Why he told producers NOT to use his name and image in the film (the case with the living, you need their blessing), if the case was that Jaws was on the 1976 Eagles. Oh, and the Rams were not in St. Louis in 1976, they were in Los Angeles!

Zvon wrote: ="metirish"]Why no talk about Howard for MVP? It would be typical that the Mets would make the post season and have a bonifide MVP candidate, and a Phils player ends up snaggin it. That wouldnt surprise me at all. Im conditioned that way thru yrs of being a Met fan. I was 9 at the time, did Schmidt really that THAT big of a year that it didn't matter how far in back the Phils were the writers were going to give him the award? Was it an anti-NY thing or something goofy like the 1998 MFYankees claim they had "25 MVPs" so no Met really stood out?

Plus they can still do what the MFY did with Captain Intangibles in 1995 and put him in a "Traveling Squad" kind of role on the bench.