Warning!! Danger!! Annual Off-topic Baseball Thread '07!! Beware!!

[Nevadaref]

Phillies help Rockies' grounds crew stabilize tarp during rain delay

Associated Press

Updated: July 8, 2007, 6:15 PM ET

DENVER -- A strong burst of wind caught the tarp as the Colorado Rockies' grounds crew tried to roll it over the infield during a seventh-inning rain delay on Sunday, sending crew members flying into the air.
And when the tarp doubled over, covering some of the workers, several Philadelphia players rushed out of the dugout to help stabilize it.
Shane Victorino grabbed a corner, dug in and began wrestling it toward left field. Ryan Howard held a section down with a knee, and Michael Bourn started heaving sand bags onto the tarp to weigh it down.
Even Adam Eaton, the starting pitcher, was out in the middle of the field, trying to extend the tarp so it could be weighed down. Home plate umpire Bill Welke and crew chief John Hirschbeck were out there holding down the tarp as well.
The only Rockies player out there was LaTroy Hawkins.
No one was hurt and the crew -- with the Phillies' help -- eventually got the tarp down. The crowd, which was scurrying for cover, applauded their efforts.
The rain hit just after the bottom of the sixth with Philadelphia leading 5-4.
The grounds crew had no further trouble with the tarp while removing it after a 50-minute rain delay.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

[Mark Dexter]

Looks like they put off #10K until at least Friday, too.

[Dan_ref]

Watched part of the exciting HR derby last night. I can't tell you who won since I fell asleep about midway through. But I can tell you that every time Chris Berman says "BACK BACK BACK" God kills a kitten.

[ChuckElias]

I don't know how many of you saw this, but PBS ran a concert that celebrated Paul Simon winning the first Gershwin Award for Popular Song, from the Library of Congress. It was a great concert, for the most part. They had various singers do their own versions of Paul Simon songs interspersed with old clips of Paul's earlier performances. Occasionally, they would have somebody come out and say a few words about him, as well.

One of the old clips they showed was Paul Simon in center field of Yankee Stadium singing "Mrs. Robinson" shortly after Joe DiMaggio died. Then Bob Costas told a story about Simon running into DiMaggio in a San Francisco restaurant and asking him about the song. According to Costas, DiMaggio thought that the song was basically "a bunch of hippies making fun of him". Simon explained that it was definitely NOT making fun of him and apparently put DiMaggio's mind at ease about it.

Nice story, and pretty amazing clip of the song. There was definitely some dust flying around the Yankee dugout that day.

[Mark Dexter]

Even as a Sox fan, I liked that clip.

[ChuckElias]

Sox and Indians played a gem last night. If you're a fan of an old-fashioned pitching duel, you should've been watching. Dice-K continues a run of great outings by Sox starters, going 7 innings without giving up a run. Okajima pitched the 8th and Papelbon got the save. Exactly according to the script. Beckett, Gabbard, Wakefield and John Lester (in his first start since his cancer diagnosis!!) all pitched great in their most recent starts.

Yankees beat up on the Devil Rays pretty good last week. All I can say about that is that I'm glad we still have 15 games to play against Tampa!

[ChuckElias]

While I was having good feelings about the Sox, I went to check the standings, and happened to notice that there are a few teams in each league that haven't played each other yet. For example, the Angels and Blue Jays haven't played against each other yet. It's the last week of July! I guess that's what an unbalanced schedule will do.

Rangers/Royals haven't matched up; Detroit hasn't played the Yankees or the A's. In the National League, Braves/D'Backs haven't played; and the Marlins haven't played Colorado or the Giants. The Giants are still waiting to play the Nats.

Wierd.

[CoachP]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Sox and Indians played a gem last night. If you're a fan of an old-fashioned pitching duel, you should've been watching.

A 1-0 gem that took 3 hours?

Oh...Betancourt pitched 2 innings......

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Sox and Indians played a gem last night. If you're a fan of an old-fashioned pitching duel, you should've been watching.

Unfortunately, the Sox were on the wrong end of the 1-0 score last night. Oritz popped weakly to third to end the game. Papi's average in the 8th and 9th innings with a chance to tie or take the lead was like .340 last year. This year, it's only .180 with no homers and no RBIs.

Gotta hand it to the Cleveland starter, tho. Fausto Carmona is the guy that the Sox torched twice in 3 nights last year when he was the closer: http://forum.officiating.com/showpos...&postcount=482

I'm glad he bounced back after that and that he's having a good year (13-4), but the Sox could've used that game last night.

[Jurassic Referee]

Did you happen to catch Bob Costas' show? The one with Schilling and Mr. PotatoHead's connection on it?

The disclaimers are flying from Bonds and Sheffield now. Kinda interesting that neither one has threatened to sue anybody for all those terrible lies.

Let's see....in the world of sports today, we have:
- Mr. PotatoHead's drive for the homerun record, accompanied by all the 'roid commentary.
- Vick's problems in football. PETA is looking to lynch him.
- Donaghy and the NBA.
- the Tour de France, where every day the leader seems to get sent home for something affiliated with drugs.
- and so on.....

"It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood......"

[Texas Aggie]

This is the slow time of the year, sports wise. Only 1 major sport going, and all but the die hard baseball fans are already tired of that.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Did you happen to catch Bob Costas' show? The one with Schilling and Mr. PotatoHead's connection on it?

The disclaimers are flying from Bonds and Sheffield now. Kinda interesting that neither one has threatened to sue anybody for all those terrible lies.

Let's see....in the world of sports today, we have:
- Mr. PotatoHead's drive for the homerun record, accompanied by all the 'roid commentary.
- Vick's problems in football. PETA is looking to lynch him.
- Donaghy and the NBA.
- the Tour de France, where every day the leader seems to get sent home for something affiliated with drugs.
- and so on.....

"It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood......"

I haven't heard of any issues within the Canadian Football League.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

I haven't heard of any issues within the Canadian Football League.

Who would notice if there was?

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

I haven't heard of any issues within the Canadian Football League.

You mean besides playing a guy who was dumped from the NFL for a whole season due to his pot use?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

I haven't heard of any issues within the Canadian Football League.

Didn't that one guy get suspended for having unnatural relations with a moose while eating steroidal back bacon, eh? I think his name was Dudley Dowrong.