44 years later...

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

The only people that don't notice are small children. I've dropped 80 pounds in the last 2 years and my kid couldn't possibly care or notice - which I think is great, BTW.

The people that notice and judge by a person's size have been conditioned by society and Hollywood that only thin, beautiful people are of any value, and that you are worthless if you don't fit into their pigeonholed, narrow view of life. Little children have not yet been indoctrinated, until they hear children being teased on the playground, then it's all over. I was always a skinny person until into my mid-30s. I remember teasing my fat friend when I was a teenager, and I'm ashamed now of how insensitive I was.

[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

The only people that don't notice are small children. I've dropped 80 pounds in the last 2 years and my kid couldn't possibly care or notice - which I think is great, BTW.

This says it all about prejudice. Give this man a cheroot!

[greymule]

Dale Mitchell was the last batter in Larsen's '56 gem.

Yes, of course. My obvious mistake.

Mickey Owen no doubt felt bad, but he really had nothing to be ashamed of. Tommy Henrich missed that spitball from Hugh Casey by 2 feet; it was both unhittable and uncatchable. (Officially, the pitch was a "curve.")

Mickey Owen died in 2005 at age 89.
High Casey killed himself with a shotgun in 1951 at age 37.
Tommy Henrich is still alive at 96.

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty

This says it all about prejudice. Give this man a cheroot!

I'll take an egg white with fat free cheddar and canadian bacon omelet alongside 2 pieces of lite bread covered with homemade apple butter. 5 points. 6 if I have my coffee with half-n-half with it.

[SethPDX]

Originally Posted by Ump153

On the field, Froemming looked pathetic just squeezing that load into an umpire uniform.

And yet he somehow commanded respect from players and managers. There must have been some other qualities he had.

Originally Posted by Ump153

Off the field he looked beyond pathetic when he called an umpire adminstrator a "Jew b!tch."

I agree, not a good decision. You never said something offensive that you later regretted?

[Kevin Finnerty]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

I'll take an egg white with fat free cheddar and canadian bacon omelet alongside 2 pieces of lite bread covered with homemade apple butter. 5 points. 6 if I have my coffee with half-n-half with it.

Thatta boy!!