OleMissCub

5 years to war! People always forget his Korea service too! Willie Mays missed about 2 years because of Korea also.

thats what your mother told sam beckett

Gentlemen, I present to you....from Bill James' Historical Abstract:

Grant Smith does some amazing historic baseball artwork. Here is some of his best stuff: http://www.grant9smith.com/portfolio.html Babe Ruth: http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_wishYouWereHere.jpghttp://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_noNo.jpg http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_3strikes.jpg Gehrig: http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_lucky.jpg Hack Wilson: http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_pauper191.jpg Josh Gibson: http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_timeIsOfEssence.jpg Cy Young: http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_headacheFuneral.jpg Satchel Paige: http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_turnTheKey.jpg http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_overlookedUnfit.jpg Ted Williams: http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_648-406.jpghttp://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_thereGoes.jpg Joe Jackson: http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_innocentEyes.jpghttp://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_control.jpg Honus Wagner: http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_greatestShortstop.jpghttp://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_drownedByCost.jpg Ty Cobb: http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_leaveInDitch.jpghttp://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_yourEyes.jpg http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_descentOfMan.jpg I think his most haunting work. The subject is Christy Mathewson, who died of the effects of gas during WWI. http://www.grant9smith.com/images/big_maybeNeverDie.jpg

Will you freaking run the play out Kosuke??

In his 8 no decisions this year (counting this one), Harden has given up an average of 1.75 earned runs. That's sad.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=douche+chills Douche Chills: The feeling of nausea one is overcome by, when witnessing a completely embarrassing situation.

You can all blame me. I jinxed them by putting on my Cubs "Believe" bracelet that I found in a drawer about an hour ago.

I have some serious douche-chills right now.

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6201/24477313662303d075bfns5.jpg

Not entirely shocking. Unions are tough.

Interesting, but not surprising really. I'm sure several pitchers moved to the field throughout the course of history, but the only one I can think of off the top of my head who spent significant playing time both pitching and playing the field, besides Ruth, is Smokey Joe Wood. Although there is probably someone very obvious I'm missing.

Probably the best action sequence ever photographed was Jackie Robinson's steal of home during the 1955 World Series. The catcher is Yogi Berra and the batter is Gil Hodges. http://i.a.cnn.net./si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0704/gallery.mlb.robinson/images/new1.jpg http://i.a.cnn.net./si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0704/gallery.mlb.robinson/images/new2.jpg http://i.a.cnn.net./si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0704/gallery.mlb.robinson/images/new3.jpg http://i.a.cnn.net./si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0704/gallery.mlb.robinson/images/new4.jpg http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37659&d=1205541670 Was he safe? http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37702&d=1205676699 There is good video of it in the Yogi Berra video that I made sometime back. It's at the .40 second mark. Yogi's reaction is priceless. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQwYDHKsG28

I've seen lots of historical baseball photographs and I think the best two subjects for action shots are Willie Mays and Ty Cobb. Here are some of my favs from both: Willie Mays: "the catch" http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=18820&d=1170545757 http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=24533&d=1180141202 http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=26908&stc=1&d=1185738359 Robbing Ted Williams of a homer in the 1955 all-star game: http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=31783&stc=1&d=1196011375 http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34316&stc=1&d=1200766691 http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=34317&stc=1&d=1200766720 http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35983&stc=1&d=1203430629 http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37218&stc=1&d=1205009565 http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37716&stc=1&d=1205695624 http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=40464&stc=1&d=1208713599 http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/willie1.jpghttp://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/willie2.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/willie3.jpg Ty Cobb: http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=13062&d=1156211826 http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20971&d=1173494675 http://baseball-fever.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=16793&d=1167429951 The infamous spiking of Home Run Baker which set off a riot in Philadelphia: http://www.umass.edu/pubaffs/jackie/cobb.gif http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/tycobb.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/tycobb6.jpghttp://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/99/12799-004.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/tycobb2.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/tycobb3.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/tycobb4.jpg Considered by many to be the most famous photograph ever taken in Baseball history. The third baseman is Jimmy Austin of the New York Yankees. Taken in 1909 by photographer Charles Conlon, who later wrote of the incident: "Jimmy and I were very close friends. Jimmy turned, backed into the base, and was greeted by a storm of dirt, spikes, shoes, uniform, and Ty Cobb. My first thought was that my friend, Austin, had been injured. When Cobb stole, he stole. But in a moment I realized [Austin] wasn't hurt... then I began to wonder if by any chance I had snapped the play." http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/tycobb5.jpg

I posted some of these a while back in a separate thread, but don't see the pain in posting some of them again. YOUR 1908 WORLD CHAMPION CHICAGO CUBS!! http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/cubsteam.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0069/s006934a.jpg The West Side Grounds in 1908. Home of the Chicago Cubs 1893-1915. Dimensions: left field 340 feet, center field 560 feet :shock: , right field 316 feet http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/CubsGiants.jpg View from centerfield....that's so deep: http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/pan/6a34000/6a34400/6a34450r.jpg Mordecai Brown (age 31), pitcher: (1908) 29-9, 44 games, 9 shutouts, 5 saves, 1.47 ERA, 0.842 WHIP, 160 ERA+ http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0022/s002297.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/threefinger.jpg Jack Pfiester (30), starting pitcher: 12-10, 117 ERA+ http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0029/s002942.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0077/s007718.jpg Ed Reulbach (25), starting pitcher: 24-7, 116 ERA+ http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/ggbain/08300/08343v.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0032/s003237.jpg Johnny Kling (32), catcher: 126 games, .276/.315/.382, 119 OPS+, 59 RBI, 16 SB http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0043/s004342.jpg Frank Chance (31), first base/manager: 129 games, .272/.338/.363, 120 OPS+, 55 RBI, 27 SB http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0043/s004357.jpg Honus Wagner sliding back into first base. Chance is the first baseman in this photo. http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/wagnerslide.jpg Johnny Evers (26), second base: 126 games, .300/.402/.375, 144 OPS+, 37 RBI, 36 SB http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/evers.jpg Joe Tinker (27), shortstop: 157 games, .266/.307.391, 119 OPS+, 68 RBI, 30 SB http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/tinker.jpg 1908 World Series: Chance meets with Tigers players and coaches before the game: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0535/s053543.jpg Cubs players walk across the field before a game: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0068/s006880.jpg A Cubs pitcher fielding a bunt: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0060/s006029.jpg Tigers shortstop Charles O'Leary runs out of the box. Kling is catching. http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0546/s054675.jpg Tigers centerfielder Ty Cobb runs out of the box. Kling is catching. http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/cobb.jpg Slagle hitting a pop up: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0060/s006084.jpg The Peerless Leader leading off third: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0544/s054414.jpg Leftfielder Sheckard running the bases while checking out the hot dame in the third row: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0544/s054430.jpg Chance rounding third. Looks to be ignoring starting pitcher Jack Pfiester who is coaching third: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0544/s054417.jpg Chance scoring a run: http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0557/s055757.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0068/s006869.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0058/s005873.jpg http://memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/s0058/s005881.jpg CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh153/OleMissCub17/fans.jpg

"So it begins" http://www.geocities.com/cormaksfanfiction/king.jpg

Behold the power of the high socks. Rammy better keep it the rest of the year.

My guess will be that he goes to the Vikings. If that team got a good QB, they'd be very, very good.

If he comes back with another team I am going to be really unhappy. (I'm a Packers fan if you couldn't tell) He will sign with the Vikings. You heard it here first Beat you by three posts, muahaha

to sign with the Bears?!?!?!? My money would be on the Vikings.

Riot's got a chance for 200 hits this year.

This is a great game.

That was way closer than it should have been. Aramis is a stud.

Riot has gone from an 85% success rate last year to a 40% this year.

As the old country saying goes..."I'd rather drink turpentine and piss on a brush fire"