Except you have to walk around in this crappy weatherQuote:
Originally Posted by OldFatGuy
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Except you have to walk around in this crappy weatherQuote:
Originally Posted by OldFatGuy
Its ok kk, maybe if teahen stayed at first Jacobs might have went to the plate with a different approach and got out or worse a DP.Quote:
Originally Posted by KowboyKoop
I don't know...Jacobs is pretty much always swinging for the fences. He'll be a hitter who is fun to watch when hot, terrible when cold. He's off to a good start so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by ragecage
RRS to the DL and Chris Jakubauskas to pitch instead!!!!!!!!!!
So happy RRS went to the DL, as weird as that is to say. I really wanna know what Jakubauskas can do. He has a sick curve, but I'm sure I'm just setting myself up for failure :(
I do, I always doQuote:
Originally Posted by BINGLEBOP
Do you put a lot of meaning into them, though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffy25
As an A's fan I grow accustomed to paying attention at the trading deadline, when they catch on fire after a slow start like every friggen season. Ugh.
I love Jackie Robinson, and what he did for baseball.
But I gotta admit, at least for an old fart, it gets pretty confusing watching baseball games where all the players are running around with number 42 on their back.
Yeah, requiring players to wear 42 is going overboard now.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldFatGuy
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/sweetspot...html?post=true
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Never underestimate the ability of the commissioner to take a pretty sweet idea and just drive it into the ground until it's dead.
Maybe that's too harsh. But every single player in every single game, wearing the same number?
You know what really bothers me about all this? Major League Baseball is apparently bound and determined to turn Jackie Robinson from a man -- a man with all his glorious virtues and oh-so-human flaws -- into some sort of god, and gods are incredibly less interesting than men. Gods are infallible. Or if they're not, it's still considered poor form to discuss their fallibility. Which makes us all the poorer.
If anyone deserves praise its Branch Rickey who had the cahones to think outside of tradition and break the color barrier by recruiting Jackie and bringing him up to play. But nobody ever talks about him.
The Padres look like a beer league softball team today
nope, but I pay attention....it's so much easier to win early in the year and try to maintain a lead then it is to catch up. I know that my cards have at least a one game lead on everyone in the division. One game on the Cubs, game and a half on a few, and like 4.5 on the Astros....I pay attention, but it doesn't mean a whole lot until June, then it starts to get a little more interesting...and of course gets more and more as the season goesQuote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
Branch Rickey was awesome, and not just for his color barrier....he did a lot for baseball, and deserves better recognition
hey, my beer team is pretty freaking good....two of our guys hit homers over 380 tonight down the left field line....those were shots!Quote:
Originally Posted by filihok
THT is doing a series of articles on him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffy25
Here's the 4th of 5 (I think...haven't been readin)
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...t-5-1953-1954/
That's part 5.Quote:
Originally Posted by filihok
Here's all the ones so far:
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...irates-part-1/
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...t-2-1950-1951/
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...t-3-1951-1952/
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...t-4-1952-1953/
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...t-5-1953-1954/