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

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by mick

Top of 2nd: Detroit 0 ; Rangers 6

Here's his line:

	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	Season ERA
N. Robertson (L, 4-6)	0.0	4	6	6	2	0	1	5.07

[ChuckElias]

Sox are on a bit of a mini-slide, losing 3 in a row now. They're 3-8 over their last 3 visits to Oakland. Tampa Bay gave up 6 runs in the bottom of the 9th to lose, and let the Yankees out of the cellar at the same time. All around, a bad night.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Sox are on a bit of a mini-slide, losing 3 in a row now. They're 3-8 over their last 3 visits to Oakland. Tampa Bay gave up 6 runs in the bottom of the 9th to lose, and let the Yankees out of the cellar at the same time. All around, a bad night.

Two more weeks and we'll be a half game ahead....

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Yo, Chuckie......

Hear that?

It's the theme from Jaws.........

To paraphrase Matt Damon on the Letterman show -- 9 more days like that, and you'll be in second place. Congrats.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

To paraphrase Matt Damon on the Letterman show -- 9 more days like that, and you'll be in second place. Congrats.

And in 10 days?

The key was Giambi getting hurt. Seriously.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

To paraphrase Matt Damon on the Letterman show -- 9 more days like that, and you'll be in second place. Congrats.

Matt Damon...? oh yeah, the actor...right. Got it.

btw I read on TMZ that when Paris Hilton gets out of jail she expects NY to be under 5 games out of first.

I would trust Paris Hiltons' baseball wisdom before Matt Damon's. I've seen her handle a bat and balls.

I've only heard rumors about Damon's balls-handling ability.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

I would trust Paris Hiltons' baseball wisdom before Matt Damon's. I've seen her handle a bat and balls.

LOL.......can't beat that logic.

[ChuckElias]

Ok, no Sox last night. So while I wait for the Rockies to roll into Boston, here's a little trivia question. Everybody knows that the Yankees retired the number 3 in honor of Babe Ruth. But Ruth was not wearing that number when he hit his historic 60th HR of the 1927 season.

What number was Babe Ruth wearing when he set the single season record for HRs in 1927?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Ok, no Sox last night. So while I wait for the Rockies to roll into Boston, here's a little trivia question. Everybody knows that the Yankees retired the number 3 in honor of Babe Ruth. But Ruth was not wearing that number when he hit his historic 60th HR of the 1927 season.

What number was Babe Ruth wearing when he set the single season record for HRs in 1927?

Off the top of my head.....he wasn't wearing any number. None of the Yankees players wore numbers. Numbers were introduced on Yankees players some time after that season. Starters were given numbers according to their usual position in the batting order. Ruth got #3 because he batted third.

How'd I do?

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Off the top of my head.....he wasn't wearing any number. None of the Yankees players wore numbers. Numbers were introduced on Yankees players some time after that season. Starters were given numbers according to their usual position in the batting order. Ruth got #3 because he batted third.

How'd I do?

You beat me.

Probably because one of your grand daughters stiched on the first number back in '29...I think '29.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

1) You beat me.

2) Probably because one of your grand daughters stiched on the first number back in '29...I think '29.

1) Why wouldn't I?

2) "Stiched"? That's enough to make me rech. That's what too much govoning does to you.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

1) Why wouldn't I?

2) "Stiched"? That's enough to make me rech. That's what too much govoning does to you.

he " " on my keyboard mus be broken.

[ChuckElias]

Yeah, it was too easy. I had heard that, but forgotten until today when I read that the numbers were introduced in '29 on the Yankees. Other teams had used them much earlier (the Reds in 1888; the Indians in '16), but it never caught on until the Yankees did it.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Ok, no Sox last night. So while I wait for the Rockies to roll into Boston, here's a little trivia question. Everybody knows that the Yankees retired the number 3 in honor of Babe Ruth. But Ruth was not wearing that number when he hit his historic 60th HR of the 1927 season.

What number was Babe Ruth wearing when he set the single season record for HRs in 1927?

No number.

Next...

[mick]

One of our lads from U.P. here will be umpiring a game this Friday in Grand Rapids (West Michigan Whitecaps) where Kenny Rogers (Detroit Tigers Ace) will be pitching.

Go Hammer !