Frayed Knot

In tonight's Rickwood Field game in Birmingham, AL [sFG v StL, 7:15 FOX] there's got to be some kind of penalty for any CF'er Not making a basket catch. - all runners advance, substantial fine, etc.

Yanx score once in bottom 10 but a CS and a K end it. Orioles 7 - Yanx 6

O's score twice in top 10 ... but can they hold it?

Fuck Grimace, I never liked him anyway!

Verlander to the IL with a stiff neck. Verlander + Scherzer starts this season = 10 (all by JV) Kimberly can't protect a one-run lead in the 9th so Yanx and O's head to the 10th tied at 5 Clown Car rules are now in effect.

All TX runs tonight come with two outs.

Keith, retired now for the last 34 years, seems to fail to realize that Nolan Ryan is seven years older than him (although retired 3-1/2 years after) and that the 30 y/o Drew Smith had no shot at seeing either.

Manaea's night: - retires two straight - puts on four straight w/o a hit - retires the next ten straight

Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Heavy has thrown fewer pitches thru three innings than Manaea did in the 1st alone. Heavy is the head that wears the crown. My 'puter has a very aggressive auto-correct function and it's starting to annoy me.

Yeh, Willie was up there with Mike Tyson and Jack Nicklaus in the top athlete/high-pitched voice Hall of Fame He'd also taunt pitchers who'd throw at him by saying, 'Keep trying, you can't hit me'.

Heavy has thrown fewer pitches thru three innings than Manaea did in the 1st alone.

I meant LF but the point holds either way. Once you get away from the very short lines on both sides, the walls at Fenway slant outwards at angles greater than most making the vast majority of the middle section of the outfield rather large.

A bit odd in that both Nido and Narvaez got their walking papers shortly after delivering some big hits, but there weren't a lot of signs for either that that level of play was going to be sustained.

#1 I assume this is a misprint meant to read: 1949 #2: CF is Fenway is quite large, particularly the RCF section which Mays, theoretically next to the range-challenged Williams, would be responsible for about 90% of it. One fence reading doesn't accurately measure the size of the OF.

Edgy MD wrote: I'm sure that Joe DiMaggio was nice to cats and stuff, but that what an ugly play that was by him and/or his people. I'm not entirely sure he was nice to cats and stuff either. Certainly the Richard Ben Kramer bio didn't portray him as a warm and cuddly guy. DiMag was maybe the first athlete to be himself for a living for his entire post-player career, and in his case that was about a half-century which gave him a degree of clout where he could name his terms if you wanted him at your function, the GLB intro was merely one of them. My dad was friends with Bill Gallo and Gallo was not only one of the few writers who had the very guarded DiMaggio's phone number in his rolodex, he was also the guy who organized an annual dinner which gathered cartoonists and sports notables (Gallo knew everybody who was anybody, particularly in baseball or boxing). But even Gallo knew that if you booked Joe you'd also have to have a backup plan as he could back out at any moment for any reason or for none at all. So, yeah, it was an unofficial designation turned into a marketing slogan.

=metirish post_id=159766 time=1718826527 user_id=72] Hayward seems like he's been around forever

I've never existed a day when Willie Mays couldn't be identified as the greatest ballplayer alive. (The above quote lifted from another thread) Well there was that 1969 survey (not sure who voted) designed to celebrate the centennial of professional baseball which bestowed that mythical title on Joe DiMaggio. I remember my father arguing that the 'greatest living' wording implied alive but no longer active and that the sport's greatest living player was, in fact, still playing (that would be WHMJr). But that GLP award became more or less official (particularly among Italian-Americans, MFY fans, and other DiMaggio-ites) to the point where it practically became his nickname. Whenever DiMaggio made appearances for the remainder of his days it was mandatory that he get introduced last if there were multiple guests and that he do so with the title of 'Greatest Living Ballplayer'. My feeling is that if there's not an obvious candidate then the title is vacant until such time and it isn't. In the other sports Gretzky is an obvious one, and is Jordan, and I guess Brady. MLB doesn't seem to have one starting on 6/18/24

We didn't even have the biggest comeback of the night on Tuesday. The Dodgers, down 9-4 entering the 9th in Colorado, got a Jayson Hayward GS to make it 9-8. Then, with two on/two out/two strikes, the Rox did NOT get a half-swing call on Teoscar Hernandez which would have ended the game. Not surprisingly they were pissed at the non-call with mgr Bud Black getting run. But they got even more pissed with Hernandez hit the next pitch over the fence. 11-9 LAD Call could have gone either way IMO but 1b ump Lance Barksdale had the only opinion that mattered. Ongoing in Philly, Brandon Marsh just whiffed on a 2-out/8th inning blooper to CF allowing a trio of Padres to cross the plate for a 5-1 SDP lead as the ball rolled behind him. A Harper HR in bottom 8 makes it 5-2 as they head to the 9th. Pads trying to end a nine game road losing streak.

=metirish post_id=159734 time=1718814000 user_id=72] SnY reports Nido heading to the Cubs

Me shaving my beard off. I can't remember the exact date but it more or less coincided with their turn-around. The whole cause-and-effect thing is a bit shaky but I'm going to take credit anyway.

One of the things I find myself wondering is if whoever's anchoring SportsCenter tonight has been briefed as to who Willie Mays is.

Not a game Bochy should put into his HoF application file.

Once again, Mets get runners on, three in this case ... and then fail to get the ball out of the infield. We're lucky to get the one run they did tally.

Pete Seeger could have made a better throw. And that ABSOLUTELY should be scored an error. Nowhere does it say that you CAN'T assume a DP, only that it's not usually done.

McNeal constantly starts out with 0-2 counts these days.