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  1. GaryWoods
    They let eight-year-olds play major league baseball back then? :lol:
  2. GaryWoods
    so it's okay if a millionaire gets his (or her's, controversy) feelings hurt, but an entirely different story of "joe schmoe" gets his feelings hurt? that's ridiculous and selfish. When did I say anything about "Joe Schmoe" getting his feelings hurt? Please point it out or find another reason to disagree with what I posted.
  3. GaryWoods
    Plus they can't take the July heat.
  4. GaryWoods
    I don't feel bad for Hawkins. He got paid way more for the one inning he pitched the other night than I'll make all year. Plus he should expect some backlash for his inflamatory remarks about the fans. The guy I feel bad for is the one who brought his family to see their first ball game and got stuck in the middle of that crap. How do you explain that kind of behavior to a little kid? Who gives a crap how it affects the millionaires on the field? People need to think about how their actions may affect the person next to them. It won't happen, though. Our society has become way to selfish to think about silly things like respect.
  5. GaryWoods
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/ Thanks - it does not list a date of death in that web-site. I also noticed that BR didn't list a date of death. I knew he had passed because I was working at a radio station at the time and reading obituaries was one of my responsibilities.
  6. GaryWoods
    Where did your list come from? El Tappe has been dead for several years. Phil Cavaretta debuted in 1951 and is still living; so based on the implied meaning of "oldest manager" in the context of this discussion, he'd be the manager today if there were no second guessing.
  7. GaryWoods
    It's catching on already, if only in parenthesis! I love it!
  8. GaryWoods
    Wilkerson for Perez would work out well. :wink: I'd take CURTIS Wilkerson for Perez.
  9. GaryWoods
    What time was the game supposed to start? There would have been people there up to a couple of hours ahead of time, some of them drinking right up to the beer sales cutoff. You don't sober up from that kind of buzz in a couple of hours. So drunkenness is a perfectly legitimate excuse, IMHO. So is stupidity, a lack of ability to think for oneself, and blissful ignorance of how to behave in public. All probably played some part.
  10. GaryWoods
    It depends whether or not he stays healthy or not. Griffey seemed like a lock with 398 homers before he turned 30, and 438 by the time he was 31. With his injuries the last few years, it seems like a longshot at best. As long as Rodriquez stays relatively injury-free and maintains his historical level of performance, he should have little problem passing 755 or whatever number Bonds stops at.
  11. GaryWoods
    Nomo was in AAA under a minor-league contract for the Cubs. When he signed, the agreement was that he would make a certain number of starts then be called up or released. The Cubs wanted him to make a couple more starts, but he refused; so he was released, signed with the Brewers, and turned his career around. How come the retreads the Cubs hang onto never turn their careers around? I'm thinking about Larry Gura, Mat Keough, Dave Smith, Howard Johnson; Gary Gaetti had a nice comeback after they picked him up in 1998, but bringing him back for '99 was a mistake. Rick Reuschel was a better pitcher after his comeback than he was before his injury, but not until after the Cubs released him. Rusch has really turned out pretty well, so far... Neifi has been okay, but about what was expected. I thought about Rusch after I posted this; Dempster has done alright, as well. Neifi fits more into the Gaetti category, playing well enough last year to warrant a return; then getting off to a hot start this year to solidify himself as the starter until Nomar returns before reverting to his typical lameness.
  12. GaryWoods
    Doesn't compare. LaTroy Hawkins has never woken me up from a needed Sunday afternoon nap to try to sell me something that I don't want. Unsolicited telemarketing should be illegal and punishable by death.
  13. GaryWoods
    Nomo was in AAA under a minor-league contract for the Cubs. When he signed, the agreement was that he would make a certain number of starts then be called up or released. The Cubs wanted him to make a couple more starts, but he refused; so he was released, signed with the Brewers, and turned his career around. How come the retreads the Cubs hang onto never turn their careers around? I'm thinking about Larry Gura, Mat Keough, Dave Smith, Howard Johnson; Gary Gaetti had a nice comeback after they picked him up in 1998, but bringing him back for '99 was a mistake. Rick Reuschel was a better pitcher after his comeback than he was before his injury, but not until after the Cubs released him.
  14. GaryWoods
    A team desperate for pitching signing Nomo to a minor league deal isn't any more crazy than a team needing a shortstop signing Ricky Gutierrez, Rey Ordonez, and Neifi Perez in the same season. Nomo's just a year removed from a very good season in 2003; I don't know that any of those guys have ever really had what you'd call a "good" season. Well, maybe Ricky when he was with the Cubs before.
  15. GaryWoods
    That's right! The game was televised on NBC, so Harry did the whole thing on radio; which means, of course, no Milo Hamilton! Lord, that guy was dull! I find it interesting that there's not a single sign in his hometown of Fairfield, Iowa, mentioning that he's from there, despite the fact that he's a Hall of Famer. I've always felt a little bad about calling it the "Sandberg Game." Sure, Ryno had a great day on national TV, going 5 for 6 with 7 RBI and hitting two game-tying homers off Bruce Sutter. But what about the ultimate hero that day, Dave Owen? He's the one who had the game-winning hit, and that's really all he did in his career. Sandberg's had plenty of accolades, so from now on I'm calling it the "Owen Game."
  16. GaryWoods
    I don't know that JoBo was a "user" before, but steroids are commonly used in the medical world to help injuries like his heal faster and more completely. Unfortunately, he's unable to use them as a treatment due to MLB's new policy. Don't know if that's what the original poster was getting at, or if there have been rumors that Borowski's jump in performance a couple of years ago was the result of 'roids; that's just something that crossed my mind when it became obvious that he's no longer the pitcher he was.
  17. GaryWoods
    It can't be that rare; the Cubs had 4 as recently as 1998. Of course, Orlando Merced, Jason Maxwell, and Mike Morgan batted a grand total of 19 times combined, so maybe that doesn't count.
  18. GaryWoods
    I'm two. You type well for your age. :wink:
  19. GaryWoods
    "It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife..." No, that's just bad luck, not irony. And where the heck would you find 10,000 spoons, except for at the spoon factory? Maybe a 10,000 Maniacs concert? Assuming each maniac had his/her own spoon, that is.
  20. GaryWoods
    True, but remember the cubs had to buy out his option for this season. I could see where it might be tough for a guy to swallow his pride and ask to come back after being handed a $2mil check NOT to play for the team.
  21. GaryWoods
    I believe the Hawk was correct. I also think they kept the wrong 1B in 1983/84, when they kept Leon Durham over Bill Buckner and/or Carmelo Martinez. Nothing against the Bull; but he tailed off pretty quickly, and trading Durham at the time probably would have netted a better pitcher than either Eckersly or Sanderson. And as to the Palmeiro/Sandberg controversy: I've heard both of those players heap praise on each other frequently over the years, and one of Palmeiro's kids is named after Sandberg. Given that, I have a hard time believing that Palmeiro was one of Cindy Sandberg's suitors. I think the rumors came to be from the timing of the trade, since her infidelities with Dave Martinez and others around the same time were common knowledge.
  22. GaryWoods
    Didn't Jerome Walton have two HRs in his first game? IIRC he was also ROY that year. ROY, yes; two homers, no. He did have two hits in his first game, but he barely hit two homers the entire season. OK, I exaggerate; he had 5.
  23. GaryWoods
    I'll second that. His debut was my first and only trip to Wrigley. Walked his first time up, then went yard next time up in his first official at-bat. His numbers weren't much to look at in his Cub career, but it seemed like every time he came up in a key situation he came through.
  24. GaryWoods
    The strength of a good major league hitting coach (not necessarily acknowledging that Clines falls into that category, mind you) is in recognizing what a hitter does when he's doing well and reminding him to do those things when he's not doing so well. Corey needs to go back to square one and reestablish his hitting style. That's much more easily done at the minor league level where winning is secondary to player development.
  25. GaryWoods
    Saying that we need 8 Vince Colemans and that we need guys who can get on base is an oxymoron. Coleman posted an OBP over .340 over a full season just once in his career.
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