I know what you mean starman! It's in the 60's here today, 70 tomorrow (supposedly) but then we have a few days of 40's and 50's with clouds and rain... I can't wait for spring to get here! (of course, in the dead of summer I'll be wishing for these days!)
in the dead of summer I'll be wishing for these days!)
well--you'll have to come up here for abit when the dog days come around--Its not quite so ovenlike up here----
Anyone see the Rajah congressional hearings today? --I missed most of it, but I did catch a few moments including Waxman telling Roger to STFU ( in more acceptable language of course) which was priceless. It looked like Roger's head was going to explode
I know what you mean starman! It's in the 60's here today, 70 tomorrow (supposedly) but then we have a few days of 40's and 50's with clouds and rain... I can't wait for spring to get here! (of course, in the dead of summer I'll be wishing for these days!)
It was in the mid70s today... some clouds, but still calm and still a lovely day... rain and wind and colder expected tomorrow... Dbacks (pitchers/catchers) report in... just about ONE day, 16 hours... Friday NOON!!!
I watched the hearings off and on all day... I saved 'em on the DVR incase I want to really see if anything new was said...
It was more of both of them saying the same thing which means someone will be joining Barry in the perjury pool... heard there were 8 FBI agents present to "observe" as they're trying to figure out which one is lying... heard that Pettite said in an sworn affidavit for Congress that RC told him he did do HGH...
Did anyone else think it ironic or funny that we had a bunch of liars questioning liars today?
Anyway... sad as I am to admit it I kind of agree with what Rocker said the other day... that we've got strict testing now and stiff penalties in place so let's just move forward because it's really not doing anyone any good to continue this...
I watched the hearings off and on all day... I saved 'em on the DVR incase I want to really see if anything new was said...
It was more of both of them saying the same thing which means someone will be joining Barry in the perjury pool... heard there were 8 FBI agents present to "observe" as they're trying to figure out which one is lying... heard that Pettite said in an sworn affidavit for Congress that RC told him he did do HGH...
Did anyone else think it ironic or funny that we had a bunch of liars questioning liars today?
Anyway... sad as I am to admit it I kind of agree with what Rocker said the other day... that we've got strict testing now and stiff penalties in place so let's just move forward because it's really not doing anyone any good to continue this...
Letterman had an interesting take on the hearing with Clemens... anyone else see that besides me?
So do I count down for the Yankees, Dodgers, Angels, or just be glad the day has arrived. I think I'll just be glad.
I finished 'Crazy '08', by Cait Murphy, about the amazing 1908 season. It's a window that's been opened on that time, by one of the best baseball writers I've come across in many a day, that somehow refreshingly barely involves the Yankees or Red Sox.
We may not always see eye to eye, mstar, but I think this book would speak to you and your passion for baseball history and lore in a special way, and encourage you to give it a go. I can think of worse ways for you to get through February.
My library is going to start getting bigger-Thanks for the head up --both of you--
The little I know of 1908 intrigues me.
Amongst the thousands of interesting aspects to the season. I saw this picture of Mordecai"Three Finger" Brown's pitching hand recently that stopped me in my tracks... he went 29-9 with 2 wins in the World Series that year
Good Lord..
I cant imagine what his pitches looked like coming into the plate and what they might have done as they apprached the plate with a grip like that..
I thought this an interesting list of instructors at the Yankee camp.
Yogi,Craig Nettles,Reggie,Goose, Ron Guidry, Tino Martinez,Stump Merrill, Mickey Rivers, Hector Lopez. HECTOR LOPEZ ! There's a name I hadn't heard since my childhood, when he played left field on the Mantle-Maris teams. Nice to see he's still around and contributing.
I'd take that team anyday. Rivers leading off, Reggie hitting clean up, Guidry starting and Goose in the pen.
Loved that pic of "Three fingers" Brown's pitching hand, Mstar...And he pitched before the famed Wrigley Field was built and Martin Luther King led those "We shall overcome" marches...
They had an article in the biz section of yesterday's Arizona Republic (or Repugnic, as Rocky so affectionately calls it) about some of the complications of the sale of the Chicago Cubs...Seems the current owner wants to sell the team and the stadium separately to bring in more $$$, but it also complicates the sale, as not owning the stadium would take some control away from the new team owners...What I don't get, is with all the games sold out,national and regional cable televising and not a whole lot of money spent on the stadium in the last century or so, the team is supposedly losing money???...I mean, if teams like Kansas City, Pittsburgh or Cincinatti, whom nobody cares about outside of their local markets can stay afloat, how can the Cubs, who are to baseball what the Catholic Church is to religion, lose money????...Sure, Wrigley Field is still named Wrigley Field, and not Cialis Park or Playtex Stadium, so they're not making money on naming rights, and they still have the least amount of billboard advertising in the majors, but I would think all the cable revenue would more than make up for that...
Myself, Im a terrible businessman, but I have been gettin a schoolin from the Red Sox for the last few years of what can be done in baseball by savvy businessmen. For the first time in my life that part of the game has been interesting to me
Fenway is still the smallest park in baseball but the owners have figured out how to market the team, and capitalize on a whole slew of fronts. Cable being one of the massive cash cows.
You'd think that the Cubs would be doing well. I would think it would be near impossible for the Cubs to lose money, even though they spend a lot, if the management does even a mediocre job.
They're the Cubs! They play in Wrigley Field! Is there anything anywhere that is more american?
They'd be like dream franchise to own, I think you would have to have advanced special degrees of ineptitude to make it a loser
....when they finally sell, I do hope that they get the right person or group who realizes what they have and makes it what it could and should be. Owners for most of my life were a curse, the last few years with the right guys have been an amazing amount of fun mostly just because they really "get it"
welcome back-- hang around or stop in more often will ya?
Thanks, man...Well,we are getting close to Spring Training, and 'tho I normally don't get into the business end of things, either, I do look forward to the Hope that Spring springs eternally for all the Cubbie fans and the rest of the baseball crowd...Sometimes one wonders if the powers that be in Cubs camp don't want the team to succeed---it only adds to their mystique...Who knows?...Cubs win the World Series, peace is reached in the Middle East, cures for cancer and AIDS are discovered, Jimmy Hoffa is found alive, the budget is balanced and wives and girlfriends voluntarily give blo jobs even when they're not drunk---It could upset the great balance of things as we know them...
I dont mind the balance being thrown off a few notches at all, the whole thing is kittywampus to begin with...it would do the world some good..a lot of good for the Cubs to win......besides The Cub hundred year rebuilding program is complete. They always win in years ending in '08.
My money is on the Cubs.....
you're right dowm near them -are we going to get any spring training stories?
you guys qwitcherbitchin!! you could have a club that draws close to (or over) 3 million a year with an owner that puts a small market payroll on the field... except for once every 5 years when he blows a wad on the wrong player and then decides that if the fans will come out and support the team (which they have) he'll spend some money on some players (which he hasn't)... his motto: "if they come, he will build it"...
currently we're in the third year of young Jon Daniels' reign... he's strengthening the system and building from within... this is fine IF Hicks will stay the course and add a player here and there that will make a difference... but we're getting pretty tired of building for '07, then '08 and now '09...
...it's probably our fault though... we keep going to the games...
you guys qwitcherbitchin!! you could have a club that draws close to (or over) 3 million a year with an owner that puts a small market payroll on the field... except for once every 5 years when he blows a wad on the wrong player and then decides that if the fans will come out and support the team (which they have) he'll spend some money on some players (which he hasn't)... his motto: "if they come, he will build it"...
currently we're in the third year of young Jon Daniels' reign... he's strengthening the system and building from within... this is fine IF Hicks will stay the course and add a player here and there that will make a difference... but we're getting pretty tired of building for '07, then '08 and now '09...
...it's probably our fault though... we keep going to the games...
I'll be p1$$ed if the Dbacks games -- which except for when they'll be on ESPN or FOX (Saturday afternoon) will be on Fox Sports Net AZ, which only rarely broadcast in HD last season -- are NOT in HD this summer.
Dodger ticket prices go up, up, up every year. I finally understood why when I read that Frank McCourt just bought another 35 million dollar home in Malibu-one wasn't enough, apparently.
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I know what you mean starman! It's in the 60's here today, 70 tomorrow (supposedly) but then we have a few days of 40's and 50's with clouds and rain... I can't wait for spring to get here! (of course, in the dead of summer I'll be wishing for these days!)
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well--you'll have to come up here for abit when the dog days come around--Its not quite so ovenlike up here----
Anyone see the Rajah congressional hearings today? --I missed most of it, but I did catch a few moments including Waxman telling Roger to STFU ( in more acceptable language of course) which was priceless. It looked like Roger's head was going to explode
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It was in the mid70s today... some clouds, but still calm and still a lovely day... rain and wind and colder expected tomorrow... Dbacks (pitchers/catchers) report in... just about ONE day, 16 hours... Friday NOON!!!
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I watched the hearings off and on all day... I saved 'em on the DVR incase I want to really see if anything new was said...
It was more of both of them saying the same thing which means someone will be joining Barry in the perjury pool... heard there were 8 FBI agents present to "observe" as they're trying to figure out which one is lying... heard that Pettite said in an sworn affidavit for Congress that RC told him he did do HGH...
Did anyone else think it ironic or funny that we had a bunch of liars questioning liars today?
Anyway... sad as I am to admit it I kind of agree with what Rocker said the other day... that we've got strict testing now and stiff penalties in place so let's just move forward because it's really not doing anyone any good to continue this...
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Letterman had an interesting take on the hearing with Clemens... anyone else see that besides me?
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no... but you could paraphrase it for us... Kimmel's going on right now about how he's never heard the word 'buttocks' used so much...
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It was visual... maybe he'll have available for viewing on his web site... I'll check.
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yea Toms right --time to move on-This could be an endless discussion but Ive heard enough of this for now....
Its 3am--7 hours til P&C--
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For the Dbacks... 22 hours, 12 minutes!
Moving on... to the 2008 BASEBALL (pre)season!
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So do I count down for the Yankees, Dodgers, Angels, or just be glad the day has arrived. I think I'll just be glad.
I finished 'Crazy '08', by Cait Murphy, about the amazing 1908 season. It's a window that's been opened on that time, by one of the best baseball writers I've come across in many a day, that somehow refreshingly barely involves the Yankees or Red Sox.
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Maybe I'll pick that book up--it seems like a good thing to read during the 100th anniversary of that season....
I wonder what surprises this '08 will hold...
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We may not always see eye to eye, mstar, but I think this book would speak to you and your passion for baseball history and lore in a special way, and encourage you to give it a go. I can think of worse ways for you to get through February.
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stRangers reported today as well...
I would still highly recommend Why Time Begins on Opening Day and How Life Imitates the World Series by Thomas Boswell.
both are very good reads and filled with stories of players from our youth (and beyond, depending on your age)
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My library is going to start getting bigger-Thanks for the head up --both of you--
The little I know of 1908 intrigues me.
Amongst the thousands of interesting aspects to the season. I saw this picture of Mordecai"Three Finger" Brown's pitching hand recently that stopped me in my tracks... he went 29-9 with 2 wins in the World Series that year
Good Lord..
I cant imagine what his pitches looked like coming into the plate and what they might have done as they apprached the plate with a grip like that..
...off to amazon....
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I thought this an interesting list of instructors at the Yankee camp.
Yogi,Craig Nettles,Reggie,Goose, Ron Guidry, Tino Martinez,Stump Merrill, Mickey Rivers, Hector Lopez. HECTOR LOPEZ ! There's a name I hadn't heard since my childhood, when he played left field on the Mantle-Maris teams. Nice to see he's still around and contributing.
I'd take that team anyday. Rivers leading off, Reggie hitting clean up, Guidry starting and Goose in the pen.
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Loved that pic of "Three fingers" Brown's pitching hand, Mstar...And he pitched before the famed Wrigley Field was built and Martin Luther King led those "We shall overcome" marches...
They had an article in the biz section of yesterday's Arizona Republic (or Repugnic, as Rocky so affectionately calls it) about some of the complications of the sale of the Chicago Cubs...Seems the current owner wants to sell the team and the stadium separately to bring in more $$$, but it also complicates the sale, as not owning the stadium would take some control away from the new team owners...What I don't get, is with all the games sold out,national and regional cable televising and not a whole lot of money spent on the stadium in the last century or so, the team is supposedly losing money???...I mean, if teams like Kansas City, Pittsburgh or Cincinatti, whom nobody cares about outside of their local markets can stay afloat, how can the Cubs, who are to baseball what the Catholic Church is to religion, lose money????...Sure, Wrigley Field is still named Wrigley Field, and not Cialis Park or Playtex Stadium, so they're not making money on naming rights, and they still have the least amount of billboard advertising in the majors, but I would think all the cable revenue would more than make up for that...
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Myself, Im a terrible businessman, but I have been gettin a schoolin from the Red Sox for the last few years of what can be done in baseball by savvy businessmen. For the first time in my life that part of the game has been interesting to me
Fenway is still the smallest park in baseball but the owners have figured out how to market the team, and capitalize on a whole slew of fronts. Cable being one of the massive cash cows.
You'd think that the Cubs would be doing well. I would think it would be near impossible for the Cubs to lose money, even though they spend a lot, if the management does even a mediocre job.
They're the Cubs! They play in Wrigley Field! Is there anything anywhere that is more american?
They'd be like dream franchise to own, I think you would have to have advanced special degrees of ineptitude to make it a loser
....when they finally sell, I do hope that they get the right person or group who realizes what they have and makes it what it could and should be. Owners for most of my life were a curse, the last few years with the right guys have been an amazing amount of fun mostly just because they really "get it"
welcome back-- hang around or stop in more often will ya?
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Thanks, man...Well,we are getting close to Spring Training, and 'tho I normally don't get into the business end of things, either, I do look forward to the Hope that Spring springs eternally for all the Cubbie fans and the rest of the baseball crowd...Sometimes one wonders if the powers that be in Cubs camp don't want the team to succeed---it only adds to their mystique...Who knows?...Cubs win the World Series, peace is reached in the Middle East, cures for cancer and AIDS are discovered, Jimmy Hoffa is found alive, the budget is balanced and wives and girlfriends voluntarily give blo jobs even when they're not drunk---It could upset the great balance of things as we know them...
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Damn Simon you oughtta be a poet!
My money is on the Cubs.....
you're right dowm near them -are we going to get any spring training stories?
I'd latch on this is their year
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you guys qwitcherbitchin!! you could have a club that draws close to (or over) 3 million a year with an owner that puts a small market payroll on the field... except for once every 5 years when he blows a wad on the wrong player and then decides that if the fans will come out and support the team (which they have) he'll spend some money on some players (which he hasn't)... his motto: "if they come, he will build it"...
currently we're in the third year of young Jon Daniels' reign... he's strengthening the system and building from within... this is fine IF Hicks will stay the course and add a player here and there that will make a difference... but we're getting pretty tired of building for '07, then '08 and now '09...
...it's probably our fault though... we keep going to the games...
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I'll be p1$$ed if the Dbacks games -- which except for when they'll be on ESPN or FOX (Saturday afternoon) will be on Fox Sports Net AZ, which only rarely broadcast in HD last season -- are NOT in HD this summer.
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I'm pretty sure ours are...
...oh... did I mention on top of all that I said before Hicks has AGAIN raised ticket prices.
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Dodger ticket prices go up, up, up every year. I finally understood why when I read that Frank McCourt just bought another 35 million dollar home in Malibu-one wasn't enough, apparently.
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