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

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by mick

I thought interleague play was over.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

That area got hit pretty hard last night with about 3 different storms that went through. My sister-in-law and her family were without power for a while; it sounds like there's still a number without even now.

There's quite a few people back there who are without boats. I saw pictures of some towns in my old stompin' grounds, and it makes one appreciate living in a desert.

[Jurassic Referee]

From the land of the Mickster-- a 35# muskie on 6# test line.

http://www.mininggazette.com/stories...articleID=8323

Cool!

Note that he broke his rod in 2 places while fighting the fish.

[mick]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

From the land of the Mickster-- a 35# muskie on 6# test line.

http://www.mininggazette.com/stories...articleID=8323

Cool!

Note that he broke his rod in 2 places while fighting the fish.

Yeah, it's a monster ! Big fish !

What does a 35# muskie eat ?
...Whatever it wants.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by mick

What does a 35# muskie eat ?
...Whatever it wants.

....whenever it wants.

[Adam]

I was going to guess twinkies.

[M&M Guy]

Did you read this part?:

"The much-maligned muskie (the Big Bad Wolf to your Little Red Riding Hood of the fish world), is the biggest, baddest, most reclusive and elusive freshwater fish there is.

You know how the dog days of summer are just about over? They last all season for muskies, who prowl shoreline shallows picking off small dogs, ducks and other critters that stray too close to the water. If you’ve ever watched a baby duckling that lags too far behind its mother and disappear without as much as a peep or a splash, you know what I’m talking about. They’ll also grab a merganser, munch a mallard, and chomp a red-winged blackbird off a cattail a couple of feet above the water.

Part of Wisconsin’s charm and culture is cultivating these horror stories (Esox fables?) about big muskies snapping poodles out of boats while they’re leaning over, admiring their reflection in the water. Some time ago, a guy in Hayward allegedly caught a big muskie when he dangled his foot in the water over the side of his boat, and got bit. If you ask me, he was asking for it. And so was that little dog, too."

Go ahead - dangle that twinkie over the side of the boat. I dare 'ya.

[Mark Padgett]

Here's just another unrelated story. I was at a twi-night doubleheader at Comiskey Park when I was a kid to see the Tigers play the White Sox. Although he also played for the Sox later, at this time Norm Cash was the Tiger's first baseman. One of the Sox hit a foul pop-up over near the 1st base dugout. Cash tried to reach over the box seats to catch it but some fan threw a beer in his face. Cash jumped the short fence and went after the fan. Unfortunately for Cash, the guy was huge and gave him a forearm right across the throat. It took a whole bunch of security guards to restrain the guy and eject him. Cash had to leave the game and missed the second game that night.

That's what I call fan support.

Here's a fun question for everyone - what do you think was the "coolest" baseball player name of all time. Of course for football, it had to be "Fair Hooker". My submission is "Mordecai 3-finger Brown". Nicknames count.

[Adam]

Coco Crisp may be my all time favorite name.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Coco Crisp may be my all time favorite name.

That may be the winner, but let's keep going. BTW - at one time, the manager of the minor league team at Walla Walla was Cliff Ditto.

I remember reading that fact in one of Jim Bouton's books. FWIW, Jim Bouton went to my HS where he was second in the HS team pitching rotation to Jerry Colangelo! It's twue, it's twue!

[Adam]

Howard Johnson
Milton Bradley

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Milton Bradley

Quit playing games - this is serious.

[ChuckElias]

First game of the double-header is in the books. Red Sox win 11-3. Timlin pitches 2 scoreless innings of relief (which should earn him a couple days off, according to Jerry Remy ) and Beckett picks up his 16th win of the season, which leads the bigs.

Clemens pitches tonight in Detroit. Detroit needs to win some games, so they're going to be tough.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

First game of the double-header is in the books.

From the looks of the radar, they better hurry and get the second game started.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

M&M's - The Official Candy of the Department of Redundancy Department.

Did you hear about the blonde who got fired from working on the M&M quality control line? She threw out all the W's.