Did anyone see what this young lady did? A perfect 21 strikeout game. Wow, impressive!
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Just checked on the Cubs game and they are losing 7-0 in the seventh. So frustrating watching them. They simply cannot hit. I have come to the conclusion that they should let their high priced talent play out their contracts and let them go. Rizzo & Bryant can't hit their way out of a paper bag. 😆
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Brewers are having a nice mini-surge after a 1-4 start. About to go 6-3 against the Flubs and Cards, all with Cain and Yelich out. Promising.
So the Tiggers clawed their way out of last place. Don't worry, they'll be back soon. 😪
And the Red Sux have won nine straight. Where is Stephen to gloat? 😛
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Interesting. Not shocking I guess.
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still too early Lee😮but yeah real surprising - JD is hitting like the JD of old
they left Rodon in while his nono/perfecto was still intact - good to see, altho that it’s even an issue is staggering.....Holy S**t, Even W/out Jiminez, are ChiSox going to go off this year🐴🦅
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A buddy of mine bet me the Flubs will win more games than the White Sux. I told him he was nuts. Easiest 20 bucks I will ever make. 😀
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still too early Lee😮but yeah real surprising - JD is hitting like the JD of old
Well yeah, of course it is. Only April. But I can actually see them finishing in fourth place behind NY, Toronto & Tampa. I wouldn't bet on it but I wouldn't be shocked. Definitely third at best. 😮
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Hadn’t known this about Pete Rose - when he signed w/Phila in 1979, he didn’t miss a game for the next 4 years - while in his 40s
current read - he also scoffs at present-day injury culture citing Stanton/Judge as xmpls - thank you Pete for the facts of the matter
Lee, 4th??🤪3rd at best???😆🤙- looks to me like we’re gonna go all the way....to the end of the season, haha - & who knows what-then😮
what-now? ChiSox - yep they’re in town - Chas. Comiskey & Tom Yawkey - They Wouldn’t Recognize The Game Today & neither does Charlie Hustle
✌️🌎good wknd, just red & white, no blue suede shoes, just red-colored Sawx, ya🤙
Lee, 4th??🤪3rd at best???😆🤙- looks to me like we’re gonna go all the way....to the end of the season, haha - & who knows what-then😮
Well, I didn't say they couldn't beat out Baltimore. 😛 😛
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Regarding Pete Rose, he just strikes me as a grumpy old man. He is pissed that he can't get in The HOF to begin with. And I don't care what he says, I doubt he will ever get in. Has Joe Jackson gotten in after 100 years? You just cannot bet on sports if you are associated with it.
I do kind of understand about his thoughts on the current game. Is it the same as when he played? Of course not. Hey, I miss the 70s game when I grew up. Different generations are often going to say these kinds of things. I love reading and seeing footage of the 50s & 60s. I wish I could have seen some of the greats of the times.
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Going to Wrigley Field today to see the Flubs play the Brewers. I told someone this yesterday and was asked when was the last time I was at a game. Obviously not last year. Couldn't remember. It was either Comiskey or Wrigley and I seem to recall the Tigers were at Comiskey so I looked it up and it was. Last weekend of the 2019 season. So it has been almost 18 months without live baseball. I was probably seven when that last happened. 😮 I made someone take me to Tiger Stadium at least once a year when I was a little kid.
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@lee nice! (go Brewers). I'm going to try to see the Crew in Miami next month. The last public event we went to was a Marlins spring training game last March.
Back from the Flubs / Brewers game at Wrigley. Good Flubs win! 😀 I would say the safety measures are spotty at best. While you had specified seats once you got into the stadium you could pretty much go anywhere you wanted to. Some seats were cordoned off but you could work around that. If you want refreshments you can get them delivered. But there was this guy giving hot dogs to this girl and I said I wanted two. He couldn't take cash so I gave him a card. I asked him if he could take a tip. So I tipped this guy $3 for two hot dogs because he had them.
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I could have gone to the White Sux game last night too. It never occurred to me that the Sux were home as well as the Flubs. It is very rare that both teams are either home or away at the same time. Another cool thing about living here if you are a baseball junkie. There is usually a game to go to. Might happen once a season. It would be cool to see two games in different stadiums on the same day. I've been to doubleheaders but not in two places. The train lets you out pretty much right at both parks. Comiskey is actually closer.
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dang. rough first 2 innings.
Yeah we had barely sat down and it was 10-0. I think the Brewer starter was injured and they pulled him. When you are at a game you don't always know what happened.
There was a guy sitting in front of me and my buddy with a Robin Yount jersey on. If there is an athlete I dislike more than Yount I can't think of one. 😮 I thought about needling him. 😉
Lots of Brewers fans there. And Milwaukee says Cubs fans invade Miller Park.
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@lee nice! (go Brewers). I'm going to try to see the Crew in Miami next month. The last public event we went to was a Marlins spring training game last March.
What's it like there? I have only heard bad things about the stadium and area. And something about a new stadium but nobody goes as I understand it.
I went to a game in Tampa a few years ago. It was okay but baseball inside just doesn't seem right. The neatest thing about it was going out to center field where they have these rays swimming around in a tank and if you got lucky you could touch and pet them. Watching kids try to get to one was funny.
Oh, the Rays beat the Twins in 10. 😉
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@lee hate The Kid? Dang, but I guess the Brewers were in the AL then and played your Tigers quite a bit.
The Marlins Stadium is great inside. Great ballparks reflect the local culture, and you get Miami in there - it's a party, there's a pool, there's a Cuban band that walks around and plays between innings (Miami Heat stadium has a similar atmosphere, there's a DJ and someone in a glowing robot suit - timeouts are fun!).
The area around the Marlins Stadium? That's a different story. I prefer when ballparks are in a part of a city and not off the freeway in the burbs (nice to have someplace to go right after the game), but they dropped the Marlins stadium right in Little Havana. There's nothing wrong with the neighborhood, but it's small 1950s houses and narrow one-way streets. It wasn't built for game day traffic, it's crowded with cars in the off season. When the Brewers are in town, it's no problem - took me 45 minutes to get home. When the Yankees are in town it took me 3 hours to get home. But yeah, it's usually pretty empty, Marlins fans would rather go to the beach - especially after they had a fire sale 2 years ago. Another park that's usually filled with the opposing fans.
The Rays stadium is a joke. They built that in the early 1990s when they were trying to lure a team and it was outdated then. You can hear everything, balls bounce off the ceiling. It's in a nice spot, St Pete is cool and they have some loyal fans, but I can understand the team willing to move to Montreal just to get out of that building.
Montreal? Hasn't that been tried before and failed miserably? I guess it would be cool. Great city. For some reason I always rooted for the Expos. They had, and lost, a lot of great players over the years. Just no fan base.
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@lee hate The Kid? Dang, but I guess the Brewers were in the AL then and played your Tigers quite a bit.
Are you talking about Yount?
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Got offered tix to the Flubs game today. The temperature might hit 50 degrees. If you are in the upper deck and with the wind off of Lake Michigan you will freeze you heinie off. Tiggers are playing the White Sux this week. Tuesday it is supposed to be 80 degrees. I might go to that.
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@lee hate The Kid? Dang, but I guess the Brewers were in the AL then and played your Tigers quite a bit.
Are you talking about Yount?
Yeah who else?
@lee Rays were in talks to split time between Tampa and Montreal. If they don't get a new stadium they have discussed moving there completely (though Nashville has been lobbying for an MLB team too). It would be too bad, Tampa/St Pete is a decent baseball town.
https://calltothepen.com/2020/12/09/tampa-bay-rays-ownership-looking-ahead-montreal/
Thought this was funny.
@lee hate The Kid? Dang, but I guess the Brewers were in the AL then and played your Tigers quite a bit.
Are you talking about Yount?
Yeah who else?
I don't think the Brewers and Tiggers ever had a rivalry even though they were in the same division, the A.L. East. Never said I hated the guy. I don't care about him or anything. He was mean to me when I was a kid and I never forgot about it is all. That's why I don't like him. He was a great player, fun to watch.
To your question, I never heard Yount called "The Kid". Maybe in Milwaukee they did? That was always Gary Carter's nickname. RIP. Another great player.
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That's kind of funny, leaves an impression. Always pays to be nice.
"The Kid" is a pretty common baseball nickname, and Yount was "the Kid" when he started in 1974 at 18. Wasn't it you who didn't know the Brewers are nicknamed "the Crew" - maybe you just have a blind spot for Milwaukee. I'm the same way with the Mets, growing up I thought they were a AAA team.
@lee Rays were in talks to split time between Tampa and Montreal. If they don't get a new stadium they have discussed moving there completely (though Nashville has been lobbying for an MLB team too). It would be too bad, Tampa/St Pete is a decent baseball town.
Why do you think there have been talks about them getting out of Tampa? The stadium? It seems like people could put up with a lousy stadium if they were really fans of the team. Heck, I went to The Pontiac Silverdome for years to watch the Lions and a couple of years to see the Pistons. You could get into Pistons game for $1. I've been to a lot of stadiums, arenas, other domes and The Silverdome has to be the worst. About the only redeeming qualities of the place were that there was a huge parking lot where you could tailgate. And it was located at close to two major expressways so you could come from pretty much anywhere in the metro Detroit area and it was easy to get to. And you could get out of Pontiac right away after the game. Other than a few dive bars there was nothing around there.
Back to Tampa, Miami and Atlanta I think, I have a theory about their attendance woes. Not sure if Atlanta is getting more people there but they didn't use to. Come to think of it, during The Fox Theatre run I went there a day early and paid $1 for a ticket to see the Braves. I think a lot of people that live in those places aren't from there. So there is no real connection to the team. A lot of snowbirds move there. Maybe Phoenix too but I think they draw okay. Heck the Rays are competitive quite often and living on a shoestring budget.
You might remember scuttlebutt many, years ago (I want to say late 80s early 90s) about the Tigers moving to Tampa. I think a lot of that was the economy in Detroit. Nobody went to the games. This was before Miami got the Marlins if memory serves.
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for sure, the snowbirds are a factor, a lot of people from the northeast and midwest are there in the spring and fall, not as much in the summer. There's a George Steibrenner bridge in Tampa, lots of Grapefruit League nearby.
That's why Montreal is an attractive option - there are Canadian snowbirds around there, too. But Tampa/St Pete is still a decent baseball town. Well, better than Miami anyways.
Why would the team move? Money. New stadiums make a lot more money - box seats, concessions, amenities, hotel rooms, etc. I'm not sure why Tampa/St Pete can't get a new ballpark. Sometimes just the threat of leaving motivates the city.
The Brave's move was weird - they had a relatively new Olympic Stadium right down town of the MARTA and moved to the 'burbs. I got the sense some fans from the burbs didn't want to go into the city, but I'm sure there were other factors.
Here's an article featuring some of the famous "The Kids" in baseball history, mentions both Carter and Yount
https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/stories/baseball-history/five-kids-in-the-hall
As with Williams, Carter earned the moniker of Kid during his first Spring Training. Reporting to the Montreal Expos’ camp in 1973, Carter wanted to make a good impression, so he put out maximum effort, both in running sprints and hitting the ball. A few of his Expos teammates noticed his behavior. “Tim Foli, Ken Singleton, and Mike Jorgensen started calling me ‘Kid’ because I was trying to win every sprint,” Carter told the Associated Press. “I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.”
The nickname of The Kid fit Carter perfectly, given his genuinely boyish enthusiasm and his constant hustle. Even as he aged, Carter continued to play the game hard and with gusto, giving no one any reason to alter his nickname. He would remain The Kid until the end, passing away in 2012 at the too-youthful age of 57.
Of all the kid Hall of Famers, the one that perhaps makes the most sense is Robin Yount. On April 4, 1975, Yount made his major league debut for the Milwaukee Brewers – at the age of 18. Less than three years older than the youngest player ever, Cincinnati’s Joe Nuxhall, Yount became one of a handful of major leaguers to start his career as a teenager.
Bob Uecker, the beloved broadcaster and baseball’s unofficial King of Comedy, dubbed Yount The Kid. Even in 1982, when Yount turned 26, won the American League MVP, and led the Brewers to the pennant, he remained The Kid, still a favorite label coming from members of the Milwaukee media.
