It's baseball season

“Sung to Take Me Out for some Baseball

OH Take me out for some cocaine
Take Me out for some blow.
Snow or fluff or even crack
I don't care if I ever come back
Well its snort snort snort for the home team
We're sure they are feeling okay
Cause its ONE TWO LINES and your out
If its good cocaine.”

“Here's that article about the A's-Tigers:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/09/SPGERLLBVU1.DTL”

“I was think of you Backslacker watching the end of that game. Yikes!”

“I hope the resurging Cardinals make mins meat of the Mets (or as geo calls 'em, the mutts).”

“Cruds-Mutts ... can they both lose?

That's mince meat ENS.

I remember the 1968 World Series, with Gibson and Lolich dueling in the afternoon sun. That old Tigers Stadium was a band box park. At night the shadows made it seem eerie on B&W TV. Luckily, the WS was played during the afternoon in those days.

Busch Stadium though was brand new, light, and airy. Gibson's scowl was plainly visible.

But it was Lolich who won three games that year, overshadowing Gibson and Denny McLain (he won 30 that year).

That time with Ernie Harwell in the booth on ESPN last week was one of those precious baseball moments. They could market a video of that.”

“It's the playoffs,
The Yankees lost,
The Mets won,
and the forcast is for snow in hell”

“I had (still have, I think) a Mickey Lolich model glove!


From watching on TV as a kid, I always thought the inside (walls, etc.) of Tiger Stadium was green. Then I went there (one of the last years they played there), and everything was blue. Freaked me out!

I was something of a Tigers fan even before marrying Detroit-native BowlderGal because '68 was the year I really got interested in baseball, and the Tigers were often on the Game of the Week. Kubek and Gowdy, of course....”

“Cliff Floyd out for the rest of the playoffs. Will the Mutts have anybody left?”

“The look Gibson gave pitchers must have skeered the shist out of batters. Hell, Pennsy still says Gibson scares him.”

“I forget who the pitcher was that Richie Ashburn said knocked him down for looking at his pitches while in the on deck circle.”

“I was think of you Backslacker watching the end of that game. Yikes!”Bloody Knee Gravy
11:22:39 AM
10/09/06

Thanks for the thought WK, yea that was bad!
Detroit pitching is not that good, there's no way! Best lineup in the post season my ass!!!”

“Hey Bowlder, was that you standing up holding a sign over your head before the game started?”

“Ha! No, I was working, bleah! Well, at least I was in a nice place, Pacifica, over at the ocean, and it was a spectacularly gorgeous day. Just got home about the 5th inning....”

“Here was my office yesterday:

”

“Well the guy looked sorta like you Bowlder, which is why I asked.

Looks like the A's and the Flyers are both MIA. I wonder where they are.”

“It was kinda windy last night at our house, what with all those bats whooshing through the evening (and not hitting anything)....
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“When Nick struck out, the thought occurred that he was living up to his last name.”

“good one Geo!!! Go Cardinals!!!!!!!!!!!”

“It's going to be COLD for the game tomorrow.

I live about an hour southwest of Detroit and there was a quarter inch of snow on the ground this morning on the way to work.

They moved up the game to 4:30 so people don't freeze to the seats.”

“Actually, I hate the Mutts and the Cruds. That's just for GPs, but the Mutts have Billy Wagner and the Cruds have Scott Rolen, so it's personal now. Is it possible for both of them to lose?

Looks like it's coming down to Go Tinkers! They have Placido Polanco. Poly's a good soldier. I always liked him.”

“that's not cool conk!!!”

“I think it's fun just to say Polanco's name:

Placido Polanco
Placido Polanco
Placido Polanco
Placido Polanco
Placido Polanco
Placido Polanco
Placido Polanco”

“The "point forecast" for Comerica Park from the Nat'l Weather Service:

Tonight: Snow showers likely, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 32. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 22 to 25 mph decreasing to between 13 and 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Friday: A chance of snow showers, mixing with rain after noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45. Breezy, with a southwest wind 15 to 18 mph increasing to between 26 and 29 mph. Winds could gust as high as 37 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Friday Night: A chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 21 to 24 mph decreasing to between 13 and 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Saturday: A chance of rain and snow showers before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50. West wind between 11 and 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 42. West southwest wind between 7 and 11 mph.

Sunday: Partly cloudy, with a high near 57.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 46.



Enjoy, Detroitians!!!!!”

“never mind
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“Reminds me of a game the Phillies and Rockies played at Coors Field in the snow one April long past. The players in the pens and dugouts were wearing winter parkas, and the ball was lost in snow squalls from time to time. That was the most brutal baseball game ever, I think.

Besides Placido Polanco, it's fun to chant "Marco ... Scutaro!"”

“Let's see what Kenny "The Gambler" Rogers has in store for the boys from Oaktown tonight....”

“If the A's don't win tonight, it's adios mez ami, ja.”

“Lets Go Mets!”

“You've got base running mistakes by the Cruds to thank for that one Conk.

How do you like Endy Chavez? I hated to see him go.”

“It's the playoffs. You make mistakes you loose. Four post season games four post season victories. Lets keep it going.”

“I'm finding it very hard to root for the Mets...I guess I'm still bitter!
Sorry Conk!”

“Go TIGERS!

---down 1-0 in the 1st inning.....still cold in Detroit...I hope the A's freeze their arses off!”

“It was good to see Placido Polanco skipping around the bases in joy. Poly's a good solid gamer. Hated to see him leave the Phillies. At the time, it seemed like he left a contender for a cellar dweller. Who knew?

The Phillies had a chance to hire Leland and let him get away. Doh!”

“Go Mets! Let's give the Tigers a chance to beat both NY teams in one post season!!!”

“Now there's a thought.”

“The radio announcers for last night's game pointed out that the Mets' pitcher is the first of over 17,000 major leaguers to have the same last name (incl. same spelling) of a US state (Maine). Wow. Somebody has some time on their hands....”

“Hmmm, I guess ol' Massachusetts New Jersey never made it to The Show after all.”

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“Go Nats!”

“Great job ENS!”

“Wow, that really messed up this thread!




Now, if you think about it, the radio announcers who mentioned the thing about the Mets' pitcher, Maine, with the whole state name thing, obviously never heard of any guys named Washington. mlb.com lists seven such players....”

“So it's the Tigers and the Cards - Mickey Lolich and Bob Gibson!!”

“sorry for hosing the thread. I was caught up in the moment! That was one heck of a game! A real nail biter.”

“My nails are intact.

We may not hear from conk for awhile.”

“GO TIGERS!!”

“the Mets fans looked like ghosts after the game ended last night. that must have been a heart breaker. They sat through the rain til the end and the bases were loaded and the crowd was nuts and then Beltran watched that pitch go by and silence. People were crying and they didn't leave their seats for a while, sitting and standing there in shock.

I honestly wasn't expecting the cards to win after losing game 6. I thought it was the Mets' to win.
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