#33464
06/24/2001 10:11 PM
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Might be better if we confined said discussion here, folks (speaking from experience  )
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#33465
06/24/2001 10:56 PM
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I'd like to start with a salute to Mr. Cal Ripken, Jr. and his Farewell Tour ...a class act all the way through! And a special thanks for keeping baseball alive, when so many of us were ready to give up on the game! I'll never forget your trot around the stadium when you broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive games record..2,131! 
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#33466
06/25/2001 2:21 PM
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So, to buck the usual trend, maybe we can move from digression to language, instead of vice-versa. There are several important aspects of baseball language: first baseball terms that have entered the common parlance (hit a home run, on deck, touch all bases, ...ad infinitum), second fascinatingly random and colorful baseball euphemisms (a "can of corn" is an easy catch, a "southpaw" is a left-hander, the thousands of alternate names for home runs), and finally the respect for the power of a single word -- no-hitter. For those who don't know the tradition, when a pitcher is approaching the rare feat of not surrendering a single base hit to the opposing team, no self-respecting announcer on TV or radio will utter that word, preferring constructions like "The Yankees remain hitless," or "the Red Sox have all 6 hits in the game," or "the pitcher has yet to give up a base hit," and the last one is pushing it. Additionally, no one in the dugout will talk to the pitcher after the 6th inning or so, or even sit near him.
I suspect there are several yarts in here, but maybe we can indulge ourselves in travelling over previously covered ground in the spirit of the endless cycle that is baseball (We'll get 'em next year, right?)
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#33467
06/25/2001 2:29 PM
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Flatlander wrote: no one in the dugout will talk to the pitcher after the 6th inning or so, or even sit near him.
So when you are succeeding, you become isolated. When you are failing, you become isolated. Long live mediocrity and the jovial company of the masses!
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#33468
06/25/2001 3:02 PM
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>Long live mediocrity
the great thing about baseball, at least from the batter's perspective, is that a good hitter fails almost 70% of the time.
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#33469
06/25/2001 3:29 PM
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Saw this in the sports pages yesterday and recalled the old "phrases from baseball" thread: Former major leaguer and now coach Glenn Johnson, currently in Iran with other American baseball mentors to help them put together a baseball program and team for possible future Olympic competion, remarked that "not only were the nuances of the game lost on the (Iranian) players, but my colorful baseball jargon as well...when I'd say something like 'He couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle' they'd look at me strange and finally say, "What coach?" The phrase meaning a pitcher who couldn't throw accurately, of course.
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#33470
06/26/2001 10:42 AM
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WON cites: 'He couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle'Speaking of colorful language, those among us who love baseball *and good writing should check out this site http://www.efqreview.com/You don't get the entire magazine, but several of the articles, short stories and poems are available on-line.
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#33471
06/26/2001 12:43 PM
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Its rare that baseball interest me (well, its interesting in October, when the Yankies take on yet an other team for the world series..) but there is a good article in today's times about the "crack of baseball bat" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/26/science/26STAD.html (the ny times site requires cookies and a registration.. and othe details..but the article is interesting even to non baseball fans like my self.. )
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#33472
06/27/2001 9:10 AM
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in Baseball when the Yankies take on yet an other team for the world seriesWould someone like to explain the meaning of world in this context? Rod
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#33473
06/27/2001 9:15 AM
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Would someone like to explain the meaning of world in this context?
It sounds better. That's the only reason, as far as I can tell.
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#33474
06/27/2001 10:45 AM
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I betcha Faldage'll know the answer to that, rodward. I heard it's called the World Series because it's named after the now-defunct New York World newspaper, which sponsored the first event.
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#33475
06/27/2001 11:29 AM
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Faldage'll know the answer to that
Alas I do not. I always just assumed that it was typical US'n megalomania.
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#33476
06/27/2001 12:47 PM
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You mean when the American League and National league meet-- its not a world event?
American hubris. In recent years the leagues have expanded to include Canadian teams.. and there have been guest matches between american team and Japanese teams.. but the world series is not quite as worldly as the world cup.(soccer /football)
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#33477
06/27/2001 1:33 PM
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expanded to include Canadian teams..
hey! not only are the Canadian teams eligible for the World serious, but Toronto won the thing in the first appearance by foreign representatives in our fall spectacle, in 1992.
-joe friday
YCLIU! (Q&A - Yart thread?)
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#33478
06/27/2001 2:43 PM
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Speaking of canadian baseball, did the Montreal Expos ever win the Series? I know they were in it at least once.
I'm going to go to a game on Friday. Red Sox @ Blue Jays. Go Jays!
1918 1918 1918
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#33479
06/27/2001 2:47 PM
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I'm looking for a Red Sox/Cubs World Series {speaking of 19(0,1)8}
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#33480
06/27/2001 9:13 PM
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Hi, 3.14159, and welcome to the board! < Red Sox@ Blue Jays. Go Jays!> Boy, you better hope wow doesn't see this one! Bill Bucker, Bucky Dent, Bill Buckner, Bucky Dent! 
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#33481
06/28/2001 5:53 AM
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As a Cub fan... Bill Buckner can't even show up in white. ...even given as much as I enjoyed his playingFaldage - ...as am I...as I am... It has been so long since we've had pi... either flavor! (ps. CK - I have access to excellent friendly confine seats if your up this way in your travels... pm me (sorry to all verb purists )
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#33482
06/28/2001 1:32 PM
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musick has access to excellent friendly confine seats
Oh, CK, do it, do it, if your schedule at all permits. There's nothing to beat a game in beautiful Wrigley Field on a lovely warm sunny day!
July home schedule:
12-17 (16 is a night game)
24-29 (24 is a night game)
Just remember, they have to go all the way around to score a point (getting to first base doesn't count like in that other slow boring game) and bouncing it over the outfield fence doesn't, in and of itself, score any points. And inning is singular, innings is plural.
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#33483
06/28/2001 1:47 PM
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score a point
I warn you, if a certain little brother named 3.14159 sees you say that you will never have rest.
edit: it's a run.
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#33484
06/28/2001 4:14 PM
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"It has been so long since we've had pi... either flavor!" Thank you! You know, I might actually enjoy being at a baseball game, if I were with you. 'Specially if they have the right kind of candy.
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#33485
07/11/2001 9:57 AM
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This I didn't know. I had thought that legends records were allowed to stand forever!
I just read in today's NY Times on-line that yesterday he (Ripken) became the oldest All-Star player to hit a home run and has just been voted MVP for the All-Stars. Not bad for an Orioles man! (Currently 4th in AL East).
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#33486
07/11/2001 11:40 PM
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Rubrick, stick around and don't ever leave us again.
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#33487
07/11/2001 11:52 PM
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#33488
07/12/2001 12:07 AM
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Max, don't sticky up my wicket. (and yeah, that C Ripken guy is one good man)
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#33489
07/12/2001 12:23 PM
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Seems that, since I last posted to this list, there are still quite a few old names (with different titles) even more new names (with far more advanced titles than I have), and on-line infatuation (if not romance) and the same old ball-bashing of that greatest of great games - CRICKET! There, I've said it.
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#33490
07/12/2001 9:59 PM
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#33491
07/13/2001 12:25 AM
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40 year old Calvin Edward Ripken Jr. this year is cebrating his 20th season and his last this year. Ripken, the iron man, played in 2,652 consecutive games, the record in that category.
The sure-to-be-hall-of-famer hit a career .276, 1625 runs, *3124 hits 524 two base hits, 44 triples, 442 dingers, 1655 RBIs 1113 walks and 1264 Ks.
*with 3124 hits he ranks 17th all-time, and is only the 24th to reach 3,000 hits.
ScOtT
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