The best story of the night is Joe Girardi, driving home at 2:30 am after celebrating, stopping to aid a woman who just crashed her car, on what the papers call a very dangerous section of the highway. He gets out of his car, stays with the woman, while flagging down a cop. A person's character has much to do with what you do when no one is watching, and my estimation of Joe Girardi just went way up.
I have said on here a lot over the years that winning is good for a city--It is-it helps bring out the best in people. People smile more ,laugh more, are a little happier,a little kinder , more helpful, more neighborly, just a step more upbeat.
If I were a social researcher i'd do a study on it because I know that it exists.
I'd like to see every place get the opportunity to experience the feel of it at least once
Good for Joe---Im sure there are all sorts of wonderful things happening in the big city and throughout Yankeedom right now that we wont hear of--long lost families reconnecting, strangers helping strangers, and alot of spontaneous high fiving and fistbumping in the subways and offices of NY
And lastly, a reminder that baseball does erase boundaries. The guy I'm taking a photo of, who's taking a photo of me - we get along perfectly at the ballpark - less so during our day jobs."
I'm moping over a missed opportunity. I'm tied up all day yesterday, turn on the car radio, where they're promoting an event at Angels Stadium. Bring in a toy, and you get 5 swings at home plate. 2 toys gets you 10 swings. If I had known, I'd have been there just to experience batting in a major league stadium. I doubt I could reach the rocks in center field though. I've yet to figure out the thinking behind that.
Dang I'd give em a hundred toys then forage through every thrift shop and pawn shop for more given that opportunity.
I suppose I'd be lucky to hit aline drive as far as second these days..but it would still be a thrill to get in the box.
Thats a great promotion--they did something like that at Fenway a few years back to raise money for the RS Foundation except it cost about $1200.00- It was 1 at bat, you got a jersey with your name on it, a photo, your n ame and pic on the big telescreen, It was a little steep for me....
Sorry you missed it
Im in Houston at the moment and got to driveby Minute Maid Park yetserday which looks impressive
Im away for the holidays this year (Im in Mississippi)and have had the pleasure of watching the MLB channel wich I dont get at home.
I hope y'all are watching its been a real treat.
Maybe everyone else gets it all the time but yesterday was great having the entire Ken Burns PBS baseball series as a backdrop to Christmas.
Today is an amazing mass of great games...So fra Larsens perfect game, now its the 65 World Series (firts one that I remmber watching btw) .
Two
Two great pitching performances by Drysdale and Koufax--in black and white with Vin Scully announcing-- which took me right back in time....great stuff!
I dunno --sometimes it does for me, sometimes it doesnt.---but I do recall how it was like magic for me when I was 11----I dreamt, ate and slept baseball at that age --knew everyones batting stance, tics, and throwing motions.
It was a new world for me then--somewhere locked in there is still a little bit of the magic--most times I have to dust myself off o get aglimpse of it--but it is still in there somewhere
for all its flaws im still thankful we have baseball and those memories of endless summer days full of possibilities
I still glimpse the magic at times. I was pretty giddy with the world series this year, though I've never been one of those Yankees fans that think they have to win every year. My most passionate fan years were when the Yankees were the worst team in baseball in the late 60's, but I loved them anyway.It took commitment to love Jake Gibbs.
I had the same passion when I was 11. Baseball was hugely important, and I knew every stat.I don't need to detail the ways the game has changed, along with our age.
Burns says he's going to end it in 2004. I'm so sorry we're in 2010, and the Yankees are again champs. It's like a political documentary made by some right winger, that ends with a triumphant George Bush. Whatever came after somehow doesn't count, or as important.
I know the argument about the long suffering Sox nation,and the generations that didn't live to see the triumph, and of course it has to be an important part of the film. The article paints a picture of a love fest I don't need to suffer through.
On further thought, I'll be watching cause it's Ken Burns. I still don't buy 'ending' it in 2004. The tearing down of old Yankee Stadium, and the championship in the first year of the new one, seems just as valid and certainly more current.
I cant access Bolsheviks link but I found THIS at the Florentine Films site
The Tenth Inning, a two-part four-hour documentary film directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, updates our landmark 1994 series, Baseball. Beginning where the original series left off, The Tenth Inning is based on the premise that this seemingly simple stick and ball game continues to be a window through which it is possible to see the best, as well as the worst, of America. Beginning in the early 1990s, the film tells the tumultuous story of our national pastime up to the present day,
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There is a lot to cover--The strike, The Yankees 90's run, McGuire/Sosa, The Steroid Era, Bonds, I'd be very surprised if there is not a section on Derek Jeter and Joe Torre.
The Red Sox message boards have been alive all winter with people sending photos and stories to Burns about 04 as that will be a section.
I sort of doubt that he will end it there and leave out the hearings in Washington, the improbable run of the Rockies, the controversies of the WBC...or the final year of Yankee Stadium.--but what do I now...
He is a good storyteller and usually covers things fairly and comprehensively.
If you have questions, comments or concerns let him know---
I based my comments on Bolshevik's link. It was a Boston source, that describes the 10th inning as basically a Sox love fest, since Burns is a Sox fan. Burns is quoted as saying that he's planning on ending the film at the 2004 Sox victory.
There are a few certainties in life: death, taxes, writers making moronic decisions in the Hall of Fame vote, and Charlie Brown's baseball team getting trounced every summer.
For fifty years, Charlie Brown took the field with his makeshift ballclub - the piano playing Schroeder behind the plate, the apathetic Lucy in centerfield, the blanket-toting Linus at second, and Snoopy, the slobbery superstar, at shortstop - and took beating after beating. Finding themselves on the wrong side of scores like 123-0 and 93-0 on a regular basis, the Peanuts crew was just never the talented powerhouse that Charlie Brown hoped for. But boy did they try. Few managers, and few teams, would have the heart to go out there day-after-day against such odds, but Charlie Brown and his crew were forever optimistic. It was endearing.
But losing takes it toll - if not on Charlie Brown's spirits then, at the very least, in the record books. After decades of losing and seemingly-countless knockdown line-drives up the middle (the first one came in 1963), the stats can't look too favorably on Team Peanuts. However, save for a short time when Linus was also team statistician, no one has ever taken the time to compile their stats. Granted, they aren't going to be pretty, but someone should find the answer to the questions: how many games did Charlie Brown's team lose? how many did they win? how many times did Charlie Brown get knocked over by a line-drive?and so on...
I based my comments on Bolshevik's link. It was a Boston source, that describes the 10th inning as basically a Sox love fest, since Burns is a Sox fan. Burns is quoted as saying that he's planning on ending the film at the 2004 Sox victory.
he could spin that season to represent all baseball fans . . . don't know.
So, any bets on what happens with Johnny Damon? He has overpriced himself(his agent has). . . . he can't throw and his fielding has gone downhill. . . but, he can still hit . . . . although, not a typical DH. . .. more a lead off guy.
My guess is he will have to be converted to another position and go to some team that needs a 1st basemen?? The Yankees don't need him . . . they have younger, cheaper, and better stockpiles of out fielders.
He is going to have to go to a non-contender and play for 1/2 his salary. . . . unless something changes. Someone gets injured?
actually, they wind up with the Dodgers or Angels. Maybe it's like retiring to Florida.
I have no idea who's leading off for the Dodgers. I'm still sick over losing Juan Pierre, who fit perfectly here. We'll see how he likes the White Sox.
I think it might be Charlie Brown who I deviated onto on the last page----It figures it would have to be during the steroid era--now we are left wondering
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The best story of the night is Joe Girardi, driving home at 2:30 am after celebrating, stopping to aid a woman who just crashed her car, on what the papers call a very dangerous section of the highway. He gets out of his car, stays with the woman, while flagging down a cop. A person's character has much to do with what you do when no one is watching, and my estimation of Joe Girardi just went way up.
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Great story
I have said on here a lot over the years that winning is good for a city--It is-it helps bring out the best in people. People smile more ,laugh more, are a little happier,a little kinder , more helpful, more neighborly, just a step more upbeat.
If I were a social researcher i'd do a study on it because I know that it exists.
I'd like to see every place get the opportunity to experience the feel of it at least once
Good for Joe---Im sure there are all sorts of wonderful things happening in the big city and throughout Yankeedom right now that we wont hear of--long lost families reconnecting, strangers helping strangers, and alot of spontaneous high fiving and fistbumping in the subways and offices of NY
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To illustrate my point I just found THIS ARTICLE
Keith Olbermann's photo of Sean Hannity
In baseball its a whole new world
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I'm moping over a missed opportunity. I'm tied up all day yesterday, turn on the car radio, where they're promoting an event at Angels Stadium. Bring in a toy, and you get 5 swings at home plate. 2 toys gets you 10 swings. If I had known, I'd have been there just to experience batting in a major league stadium. I doubt I could reach the rocks in center field though. I've yet to figure out the thinking behind that.
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Dang I'd give em a hundred toys then forage through every thrift shop and pawn shop for more given that opportunity.
I suppose I'd be lucky to hit aline drive as far as second these days..but it would still be a thrill to get in the box.
Thats a great promotion--they did something like that at Fenway a few years back to raise money for the RS Foundation except it cost about $1200.00- It was 1 at bat, you got a jersey with your name on it, a photo, your n ame and pic on the big telescreen, It was a little steep for me....
Sorry you missed it
Im in Houston at the moment and got to driveby Minute Maid Park yetserday which looks impressive
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Im away for the holidays this year (Im in Mississippi)and have had the pleasure of watching the MLB channel wich I dont get at home.
I hope y'all are watching its been a real treat.
Maybe everyone else gets it all the time but yesterday was great having the entire Ken Burns PBS baseball series as a backdrop to Christmas.
Today is an amazing mass of great games...So fra Larsens perfect game, now its the 65 World Series (firts one that I remmber watching btw) .
Two
Two great pitching performances by Drysdale and Koufax--in black and white with Vin Scully announcing-- which took me right back in time....great stuff!
Merry Christmas baseball fans
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I watched the '65 series today, too. What a parade of great players, with Vin announcing !
Why does it all not seem as magical these days-except for Vin-who's still going strong.
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I dunno --sometimes it does for me, sometimes it doesnt.---but I do recall how it was like magic for me when I was 11----I dreamt, ate and slept baseball at that age --knew everyones batting stance, tics, and throwing motions.
It was a new world for me then--somewhere locked in there is still a little bit of the magic--most times I have to dust myself off o get aglimpse of it--but it is still in there somewhere
for all its flaws im still thankful we have baseball and those memories of endless summer days full of possibilities
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Speaking of Vin---I just took a walk aroud my neighborhood. There was one of those :) :) historical markers, so I stopped to read it.
It was the birthplace of Red Barber...... :)
dang Im getting teed at the way this thing screws up my posts and i cant see or edit them anymore---but you get the idea what I mean
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I still glimpse the magic at times. I was pretty giddy with the world series this year, though I've never been one of those Yankees fans that think they have to win every year. My most passionate fan years were when the Yankees were the worst team in baseball in the late 60's, but I loved them anyway.It took commitment to love Jake Gibbs.
I had the same passion when I was 11. Baseball was hugely important, and I knew every stat.I don't need to detail the ways the game has changed, along with our age.
The Ken Burns series is a work of art.
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http://www.boston.com/sports
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speaking of Burns
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Burns says he's going to end it in 2004. I'm so sorry we're in 2010, and the Yankees are again champs. It's like a political documentary made by some right winger, that ends with a triumphant George Bush. Whatever came after somehow doesn't count, or as important.
I know the argument about the long suffering Sox nation,and the generations that didn't live to see the triumph, and of course it has to be an important part of the film. The article paints a picture of a love fest I don't need to suffer through.
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On further thought, I'll be watching cause it's Ken Burns. I still don't buy 'ending' it in 2004. The tearing down of old Yankee Stadium, and the championship in the first year of the new one, seems just as valid and certainly more current.
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you have a point, baseball didn't end in 2004,
It's one thing I love about the baseball season over other sports. If you lost today, tomorrow starts tomorrow.
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I cant access Bolsheviks link but I found THIS at the Florentine Films site
.There is a lot to cover--The strike, The Yankees 90's run, McGuire/Sosa, The Steroid Era, Bonds, I'd be very surprised if there is not a section on Derek Jeter and Joe Torre.
The Red Sox message boards have been alive all winter with people sending photos and stories to Burns about 04 as that will be a section.
I sort of doubt that he will end it there and leave out the hearings in Washington, the improbable run of the Rockies, the controversies of the WBC...or the final year of Yankee Stadium.--but what do I now...
He is a good storyteller and usually covers things fairly and comprehensively.
If you have questions, comments or concerns let him know---
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I based my comments on Bolshevik's link. It was a Boston source, that describes the 10th inning as basically a Sox love fest, since Burns is a Sox fan. Burns is quoted as saying that he's planning on ending the film at the 2004 Sox victory.
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O well --I guess we will have to see when it comes out.
Meanwhile on a lighter note
and for something fun to do during this baseballess winter.
The folks at Retrosheet have been spending the time calculating Charlies Brown's lifetime baseball Stats.
:) :)
Retrosheet: The Peanuts Chronicles
more at the LINK
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he could spin that season to represent all baseball fans . . . don't know.
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The other night on Jeopardy the answer was....he finally hit a homerun in 1993...
And you know the question.
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So, any bets on what happens with Johnny Damon? He has overpriced himself(his agent has). . . . he can't throw and his fielding has gone downhill. . . but, he can still hit . . . . although, not a typical DH. . .. more a lead off guy.
My guess is he will have to be converted to another position and go to some team that needs a 1st basemen?? The Yankees don't need him . . . they have younger, cheaper, and better stockpiles of out fielders.
He is going to have to go to a non-contender and play for 1/2 his salary. . . . unless something changes. Someone gets injured?
He should have stayed with the Sox.
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Isnt there some law that RedSox or Yankee players have to eventually go to the Dodgers?
That is unless that divorce kills the franchise this year..
Who's batting leadoff in LA this year??
He might work there, if they dont mind the 16 hop throws coming to the plate...
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actually, they wind up with the Dodgers or Angels. Maybe it's like retiring to Florida.
I have no idea who's leading off for the Dodgers. I'm still sick over losing Juan Pierre, who fit perfectly here. We'll see how he likes the White Sox.
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sorry . . . what's the question?
Damon was cooler with long hair . . . and beard.
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I think it might be Charlie Brown who I deviated onto on the last page----It figures it would have to be during the steroid era--now we are left wondering
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