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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 01:33am
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Minor 2009 MLB Uniform Change

Watching a local spring training game this afternoon on TV, I noticed that the numbers on the "polo" blue alternate uniform tops now have black numbers.

Found this image on Flickr of Golden Baseball League Umpires:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1273/...45ab6570_b.jpg

Yes - I know this is slightly a jock sniffing post.
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 07:54am
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Yes - I know this is slightly a jock sniffing post.
Well, as long as you know it.
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 10:33am
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That coach in the red blasted 414 homers in the big leagues, and was the first man to blast 40 or more in a season in both leagues.

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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 11:26am
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Pete I?
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 11:30am
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Looks like Darrell Evans to me...

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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 01:06pm
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That is Darrell Evans.

Inky, though, (since his name came up) is credited with the #1 all-time baseball quote IMHO. When the players were on strike, many fans commented on their perceived greed on the part of the players.

Pete responded (paraphrasing): "The fans act like we're all a bunch of millionaires, when in reality a lot of us are making only five or six hundred thousand."
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 01:13pm
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That is a great quote.
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I saw Don Sutton's 300th win, which was a complete game near-masterpiece against the Rangers in '86. The only blemish was this mistake fastball that he threw to Inky, one of the strongest men in baseball, and he put it into the great beyond in dead center. We were right behind the plate, and as soon as Sutton let go of the ball, you could hear Bob Boone yell, "$h!t" before Inky even hit it. Incaviglia was crazy strong.
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 04:46pm
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That is Darrell Evans.

Inky, though, (since his name came up) is credited with the #1 all-time baseball quote IMHO. When the players were on strike, many fans commented on their perceived greed on the part of the players.

Pete responded (paraphrasing): "The fans act like we're all a bunch of millionaires, when in reality a lot of us are making only five or six hundred thousand."
I've never heard that quote before...that is great!
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 05:01pm
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I saw Don Sutton's 300th win, which was a complete game near-masterpiece against the Rangers in '86. The only blemish was this mistake fastball that he threw to Inky, one of the strongest men in baseball, and he put it into the great beyond in dead center. We were right behind the plate, and as soon as Sutton let go of the ball, you could hear Bob Boone yell, "$h!t" before Inky even hit it. Incaviglia was crazy strong.
I was at a Phillies game at Veterans Stadium in 1993 with my girlfriend du jour and we didn't have tickets and we ran into a guy out front who offered us two tickets in the mayor's box (face value: $13).

Inky hit one so hard into the upper deck in left field I couldn't believe how fast the ball got there. Wow, could he hit em.
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 05:22pm
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SD Steve will appreciate this one:

In the final year of Tiger Stadium, they let fans come on the field post-game on Sundays. My brothers and I had upper deck seats about 250' down the RF line. Tony Clark hit one past our faces off the facing of the third deck. I said, "Whoa!" as the ball went by.

After the game, we stood at home plate and I got a lot better look at how far away the facing of third deck is from home plate. My adjusted reaction was something like "HOLY &*&^%$#%^&#@#$%^!!"

That moment gave me a new appreciation for the power some of those guys have. Even better was seeing the distances of the light tower that Reggie Jackson hit in the '71 All-Star Game, and the left field roof that Frank Howard nearly cleared when the Washington Senators pounded the Tigers 15-3 in the first major league game I attended.
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 10:50pm
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Watching a local spring training game this afternoon on TV, I noticed that the numbers on the "polo" blue alternate uniform tops now have black numbers.

Found this image on Flickr of Golden Baseball League Umpires:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1273/...45ab6570_b.jpg

Hard to tell in ML umpires have made any change in their uniforms from this picture.

In the real MLB #65 is Ted Barrett...that's not Ted Barrett. Those aren't ML umpires.

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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 10:56pm
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Hard to tell in ML umpires have made any change in their uniforms from this picture.

In the real MLB #65 is Ted Barrett...that's not Ted Barrett. Those aren't ML umpires....those aren't even AAA umpires.
No kidding. I was using the picture to show the new color of the numbering on the MLB uniforms.
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 10:57pm
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No kidding. I was using the picture to show the new color of the numbering on the MLB uniforms.

The point is, why do you think that those are ML uniforms?
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The point is???

"Those aren't major league umpires"
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