Warning!! It's Baaaaaack!! Off-topic Baseball Thread '08 !!

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Manny just admired the hell out of that one, didn't he?

He showed great hustle getting to second on a stand-up double.

I predict Manny has learned his lesson and won't stand at the plate and admire anymore of his hits the rest of his career!

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by grunewar

I predict Manny has learned his lesson and won't stand at the plate and admire anymore of his hits the rest of his career!

That makes you about as good at prognostication as that damn rodent in Pennsylvania.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

That makes you about as good at prognostication as that damn rodent in Pennsylvania.

You think that's bad......you should see my bracket!

[mick]

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by mick

Those Tigers look dangerous. Glad we won't have to face them until October.

[ChuckElias]

Red Sox lost this morning and Lester didn't look particularly good. Now they come back to California to play a 3-game exhibition series with the Dodgers, I think, including one game in the Colosseum. That should be fun to watch.

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by ChuckElias

Red Sox lost this morning and Lester didn't look particularly good. Now they come back to California to play a 3-game exhibition series with the Dodgers, I think, including one game in the Colosseum. That should be fun to watch.

I didn't know they were doing that. Are they setting up a temporary fence, or will one of the outfields be a mile-and-a-half long?

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

I didn't know they were doing that. Are they setting up a temporary fence, or will one of the outfields be a mile-and-a-half long?

The wallyness of Wally Moon

Brings back old memories of the 'unibrow' who led the league in homers very early in the season.

You could use a weed whacker on those eyebrows



"And his best stretch, 1959-61, saw him put up a .310/.405/.485 batting line. That this was his best stretch is both a reason for acclaim and a factor that makes some revisionists undervalue his performance. The Dodgers during those years played in the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, an Olympic track facility that worked for football but was beyond funkadelic for baseball. Look. The right field fence was near Tijuana, so it killed most lefties. The left field fence had to be squashed into the rectangle so it was only 251 feet from home plate. To try to balance that zaniness, the team put up a 40 to 42 foot screen, about 10% taller than Fenway's Green Monster. Wally Moon was able to launch occasional homers by looping to the opposite field with an inside-out swing, and people in L.A. took to calling those kinds of lazy high-arcing big flies "Moon Shots". To look at Moon historically, should we diminish our appreciation because it was such a ridiculous park configuration, or should we grant him a bit of reverence for figuring out how to overcome an equally ridiculous punishment for left-handed batters?"

[Mark Padgett]

Wally Moon might have had the worst unibrow, but White Sox pitcher Verle Tiefenthaler had the most mispronounced name.

Best sports name ever: NFL player Fair Hooker.

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Wally Moon might have had the worst unibrow, but White Sox pitcher Verle Tiefenthaler had the most mispronounced name.

Best sports name ever: NFL player Fair Hooker.

Bad segue...........

Here's how you do it.

Another guy with bushy eyebrows and perhaps the goofiest looking guy in baseball until Wille 'ET' McGee came along.

[ChuckElias]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

I didn't know they were doing that. Are they setting up a temporary fence, or will one of the outfields be a mile-and-a-half long?

According to MLB.com, they'll put in the outfield fence so that it reflects the dimensions that the Dodgers had when they first called the Colosseum home:

201 feet down the left-field line to a 62-foot high fence, 300 feet into the right-field corner.

[Adam]

Hey, it was too dangerous for the President, so he sent Hillary and Sinbad. Sounds reasonable to me.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Hey, it was too dangerous for the President, so he sent Hillary and Sinbad. Sounds reasonable to me.

C'mon, they had Chelsea there to protect them. Who would shoot at Chelsea fergawdsake

[ChuckElias]

Oh my!! Chris Russo on WFAN must be beside himself!!

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=280326294

Giants lose to their AAA affiliate.

[Adam]

Wow! Zito gave up all 4 runs in 6 2/3 innings.
Time for them to accept their role as spoilers this year in what will be the tightest race in baseball.