soupcan

Seaver for Zachry, Flynn, Henderson and Norman right? That sure as hell doesn't seem like a whole lot. Henderson came in second behind Dawson for ROY, Flynn won a Gold Glove, Zachry was good but couldn't stay healthy and Dan Norman didn't turn out to be much of anything. Seaver meanwhile wound up 21-6 that year (14-3 for the Reds) pitched a no-hitter for them (in '78?) and won a total of 75 games for them over about 5 seasons. He went on to garner 47 more wins after he left them (9 of those for the Mets in '83). Bad trade.

Dime a dozen.

Caller: "Mike, what exactly is a 'cut fastball'?" Mike: "It's a fastball that you cut."

Bryce Brentz. Bit of a tongue-twister.

dgwphotography wrote: soupcan wrote: About 25 years ago I was told by a friend, that a friend of a friend of Wally Backman's told him that Wally said Dwight Gooden has the biggest dick in baseball and George Foster is the biggest dick in baseball. Hope that answers your question. I was going to post this exact same quote - I read it in The Worst Team Money Could Buy, IIRC That's funny - I was told that in 1987. Was the quote attributed to Backman in the book?

About 25 years ago I was told by a friend, that a friend of a friend of Wally Backman's told him that Wally said Dwight Gooden has the biggest dick in baseball and George Foster is the biggest dick in baseball. Hope that answers your question.

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Tell you what - at this point let me see what the league does to discipline him. Once the whole thing shakes out, if you still want it, I'll pm it to you.

Edgy DC wrote: What's the name/URL of the dad's corporation? You really want it...?

So this Murphy to second business is kinda funny to me right now. This weekend my son's Babe Ruth team (13 year-olds) played a great game. A really nice kid (Robbie) tossed a complete game (7 innings) 2 hit shutout against a team that looked like each one of them could best the Manassas Mauler. It was really great because Robbie is this pudgy little lefthander who was just soft-tossing these lumberjacks the whole game and they were corkscrewing themselves into the ground trying to knock the ball three counties over. But I digress... One parent comes over to my son's coach around the 6th inning and starts arguing with him because HIS son has not been seeing enough time at second and has been batting too low in the order for the dad's (and presumably the son's) liking. The coach - much to his credit - dismisses the dad wih a wave of his hand, telling the dad, "I'm not discussing this with you, now". The dad, then proceeds to smack the coaches hand away forcifully, then knocks the coach's hat off of his head, threatens to punch him and made more threats about consequence and bad things that would happen to to the coach. Now rest assured that is all being handled as I type this and it looks like the dad (the sponsor of the team btw) will be banned from attending any more games. My point in telling you all this story is that the coach - we'll call him 'Bob' (because, well, that's his name) has for as long as I've been helping him out (2 years) felt that at the level the boys are now playing, it behooves the team to put the better athletes in the outfield rather than the infield. His reasoning is that if you make an error in the infield it may cost you a base, but if you make an error in the outfield it will cost you a run. As a result Bob plays his best athletes in the outfield. In other words its a compliment to be an outfielder on Bob's team and he's basically saying that any fencepost can play second. And THAT is where the Murphy thing comes in. Why hide the guy in the outfield where bad defense can and will be so much more costly. Put him at second. How hard can it really be for a major-league player who came up as an infielder to be a serviceable second baseman?

I've been voting based on who comes to mind as the most representative of that position in that division. Hence Bowa over Ramirez at ss and Hernandez over Howard at 1B.

Hey, how far fair was Reyes' double? They didn't show a definitive angle at the game. From where I was it looked like it almost hit the line but from the reactions in the thread I'm thinking it was fair by a lot more than that.

I appreciate the dual nominations, thank you. One more: There was an Utley or Howard deep fly ball to center at some later point in the game when it was still 1-0 and the Phillie Phamily behind us all stood up and screamed like it was gone. It settled nicely into Pagan's glove short of the warning track and my son turned around to them and said 'This is a major-league stadium'

Was able to snag a ball last night. Sitting several rows behind Mets dugout, after Werth grounded out to end the 4th, Ike flipped the ball into the stands as he headed in. It bounced off a few people's hands and landed at my feet. Picked it up and was looking at it when the guy behind me tapped on the shoulder and said 'Hey, why don't you give that to the kid?' and then pointed to his smiling, cherubic 7ish year-old. I looked at the kid - who was wearing a Phillies cap and I said 'Phillies fan? I don't think so'. Then I put it in my bag. It's on my kid's dresser this morning.

Carter and Piazza, 1 & 1A.

Sandberg and Garner.

Easy. Schmidt.

I went with Bowa. A generational thing I guess - he was just always the Phillie ss and always winning gold gloves.

I'll go with Mex. I suppose Stargell and Howard would be my next 2.

'BLANKS FOR COMING' is pretty good.

That's just great!

According to Jose himself - he is back. His legs feel great, he's had several straight multi-hit games, he's driving the ball, stealing bases and looking good on defense. Who am I to doubt him? Welcome back Jose, let's keep esplodin'.