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

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Middle of the night for you is when, 10 pm?

Anytime between 2 and 4am. They're early tonight.

[Jurassic Referee]

Yo Mick......from this morning's Freep.....

From U.P. in the Sault......a live fishcam on the St. Marys...... click on the l'il fish logo on the right hand side- with ARL-LIVE Fishcam" written beside it.

http://www.lssu.edu/index.php

Amazing!

Eat your heart out, Rocky.

[mick]

Trout and Salmon and Pike, oh, my !
Water looks awfully cloudy. [Just read that it was at a river mouth, that'll explain the trubidity.]
I'll bet there's some light or sound thingy drawing those fish in.
Thanks, JR !
Interesting.

[Mark Padgett]

The new owners of the AAA PCL Portland Beavers want to change the team's nickname, even though the team has been the Beavers for over 100 years. One of the suggestions is the "Wet Sox"!

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Yo Mick......from this morning's Freep.....

From U.P. in the Sault......a live fishcam on the St. Marys...... click on the l'il fish logo on the right hand side- with ARL-LIVE Fishcam" written beside it.

http://www.lssu.edu/index.php

Amazing!

Eat your heart out, Rocky.

Them's little ones compared to where I grew up!!

[ChuckElias]

Boston beats the White Sox again, 11-1. They outscored Chicago 46-7! Meanwhile, the Yankees lost again pushing the Sox' division lead to 7.5 games. Should be a good set this week in the Bronx. Only 3 games, but it's going to help somebody's confidence going into September.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Boston beats the White Sox again, 11-1. They outscored Chicago 46-7!

Where's Billy Pierce, Early Wynn, Dick Donovan, Bob Shaw, Gerry Staley, Turk Lown, Wilbur Wood, La Marr Hoyt, Ted Lyons, Ray Herbert, Wilson Alvarez, Hoyt Wilhelm, Floyd Bannister, Joel Horlen, Goose Gossage, Barry Latman, Bob Locker, Bobby Thigpen and Tommy John when you really need them?

[mick]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

Them's little ones compared to where I grew up!!

You lived in a fish?

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by mick

You lived in a fish?

Maybe his real name is Jonah?

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Maybe his real name is Jonah?

That was a WHALE, sheesh!

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by mick

Water looks awfully cloudy. [Just read that it was at a river mouth, that'll explain the trubidity.]

Even misspelled, thanks for using 'turbidity'!

[mick]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Even misspelled, thanks for using 'turbidity'!

How else do you spell turbidity to show that it was really, really trubid?

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by mbyron

That was a WHALE, sheesh!

Oh, thanks for playing, but that was not the answer we were looking for! The New International Version, King James Version (least reliable), New King James Version and the New American Standard all say Jonah was swallowed by a "great fish".

You were perhaps confused by the story of Pinocchio, who was indeed swallowed by a whale.

You probably also think that Noah took 2 of every animal into the ark with him.

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Where's Billy Pierce, Early Wynn, Dick Donovan, Bob Shaw, Gerry Staley, Turk Lown, Wilbur Wood?

"These boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Oh, thanks for playing, but that was not the answer we were looking for! The New International Version, King James Version (least reliable), New King James Version and the New American Standard all say Jonah was swallowed by a "great fish".

You were perhaps confused by the story of Pinocchio, who was indeed swallowed by a whale.

You probably also think that Noah took 2 of every animal into the ark with him.

Oh, thank YOU for playing, but the Hebrew term 'dahg', commonly translated as 'fish', is the generic term of a desert people for swimming sea creatures.

Ancient cultures generally did not distinguish in thought or concept between mammalian and non-mammalian sea creatures, and so the use of the term 'dahg' would not exclude a whale.

Jerome's vulgate (early 5th century Latin translation) introduces the term 'cetus' in this context, from which word the study of whales (cetology) derives its name.

Although I don't believe the story, it is more plausible to claim that an individual was swallowed whole by a whale rather than a shark.

You are probably confused: the story of Pinocchio is fiction, so no one was indeed swallowed by a whale (though Pinocchio was in the story).