tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post115584727831366874..comments2024-03-15T23:25:52.517-07:00Comments on the joy of sox: G120: Yankees 12, Red Sox 4allanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1155917286123518292006-08-18T09:08:00.000-07:002006-08-18T09:08:00.000-07:00That means that one game at YS was played on the d...That means that one game at YS was played on the day after the ASG. The story did say it was the only game in the majors that day.allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1155917194020575272006-08-18T09:06:00.000-07:002006-08-18T09:06:00.000-07:00Sorry about that, Jere. :>)I looked up the game st...Sorry about that, Jere. :>)<BR/><BR/>I looked up the game story in the New York Times archives through ProQuest. It says the game was "a fill-in date from an earlier postponement", but give no more info.<BR/><BR/>Next to that is a story that Vice President Richard Nixon is in favor of a third major league "as soon as there are enough competent players around". He suggests cities like Minneapolis, Houston, Miami, Havana, Montreal and Mexico City. Nixon said one problem is "not enough young people are playing the game".<BR/><BR/>********<BR/><BR/>On July 7, 1959, this is how the third paragraph of the Times' All-Star Game story began:<BR/><BR/>"Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants, who swings and powerful bat but doesn't do too much thinking, bounced a tremendous 436-foot triple off the center field wall ..."<BR/><BR/>Just Willie being Manny?allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1155916703317166722006-08-18T08:58:00.000-07:002006-08-18T08:58:00.000-07:00I'm knocking off for the day to watch the first ga...<I>I'm knocking off for the day to watch the first game on Direct TV</I><BR/><BR/>Sick day over here. Funny, we both came down with something on the same day as this double-header.laura khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05524593142290489958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1155915992660784522006-08-18T08:46:00.000-07:002006-08-18T08:46:00.000-07:00Jack: I'm still wondering why you Weapons of Misgu...Jack: I'm still wondering why you Weapons of Misguided Preconception folks talk about Pena as if he's a completely different player than both eyes and stats indicate. If he ends up being as amazing as you all say he'll be, we can give him credit. Until then, I don't see why we are assuming anything.<BR/><BR/>Pena: 9 HR in 185 AB in 2006<BR/><BR/>Hinske: 12 HR in 197 AB in 2006Jerehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13448619048422750447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1155915332423783512006-08-18T08:35:00.000-07:002006-08-18T08:35:00.000-07:00Jack, I was going to put something about Lidle in ...Jack, I was going to put something about Lidle in the main post, then figured I'd save it for later.<BR/><BR/>From what little I looked at, it appears that Lidle made his last start <I>after</I> he learned about his grandmother's death. <I>Then</I> the team put him on the bereavement list. I guess the grief hit him a little late.<BR/><BR/>All legal, of course, but it enables the Yankees to get a fresh arm into their overworked bullpen and still not have Lidle miss an inning of time. <BR/><BR/>A player on the bereavement list should have to miss at least one game (or a start).<BR/><BR/>Bah.allanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04673233312198832937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1155914624313271652006-08-18T08:23:00.000-07:002006-08-18T08:23:00.000-07:00Jack, you are so right. I wrote in my post today a...Jack, you are so right. I wrote in my post today about how big, huge in fact, the first game will be. Think tonight, shortly before 8, fans crammed into their seats and relishing the afternoon victory still so fresh in their minds. Now let's make that happen!Peter Nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00625257724065648318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5730822.post-1155912183234853992006-08-18T07:43:00.000-07:002006-08-18T07:43:00.000-07:00You're killing me here. I've spent the last hour, ...You're killing me here. I've spent the last hour, at least, looking up weather reports for 1959 and poring over that year's schedule. The one game at NY probably makes up for a game missed in the opening series of the season. But I'm finding other quirks. Like, a one-game series at fenway on Labor Day. Could this have been planned? They played someone else on Sunday, the Yanks on Monday (Labor Day), off day Tuesday, someone else Wednesday. And it couldn't have been a two-gamer with Tuesday rained out, becuase it was their last meeting of the year. And it wouldn't be amake-up, because that would mean they'd have had 2 scheduled off-days in a row. (Proven by all the series played after that until the end of the year, and the fact that all 154 games were played. Unless there was a scheduled off-day remaining in which they added a game on to an existing series that was earlier missed.)Jerehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13448619048422750447noreply@blogger.com