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Post by chiyankee on Mar 4, 2023 14:28:32 GMT -5
A little late with this highlite, Oswaldo keeping up with Hicks for the LF job.
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Post by inger on Mar 4, 2023 14:32:14 GMT -5
Another HR for Tampa. Are they using juiced balls with the wind behind them, or what?…
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Post by inger on Mar 4, 2023 14:33:37 GMT -5
A little late with this highlite, Oswaldo keeping up with Hicks for the LF job. Never too late.He has effortless power. The kid could hit 25-30 bombs someday… Easy swing, long levers for a little feller… |
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Post by inger on Mar 4, 2023 14:43:33 GMT -5
The husky-voiced Meredith interviewing the voice of Kermit the frog…
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Post by inger on Mar 4, 2023 14:52:28 GMT -5
Oops! 10- 7 Rays as the slugging continues..
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Post by inger on Mar 4, 2023 15:28:54 GMT -5
When Hardman juggled that ball it popped out by itself, and I swear it looked like a yellow ball… must one of those “optical conclusions”…
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Post by inger on Mar 4, 2023 15:34:13 GMT -5
The unfortunately named Bastidas of the system…
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Post by inger on Mar 4, 2023 15:58:01 GMT -5
This game has now quickly disintegrated. Maybe we can score six in the bottom of the ninth… and maybe Christmas will start early… Not a promising day for the pitching nor the fielding…
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Post by inger on Mar 4, 2023 16:01:12 GMT -5
Trey Sweeney joins the HR parade. 14-10…
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Post by inger on Mar 4, 2023 16:16:11 GMT -5
Trey Sweeney joins the HR parade. 14-10… The obligatory Florial strikeout to end it… |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 4, 2023 17:10:19 GMT -5
The unfortunately named Bastidas of the system… About ten years ago the Phillies had a pitcher named Antonio Bastardo. That's one jersey I would have bought had they been selling them. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 4, 2023 17:32:51 GMT -5
I'll start with a Van Slyke one. Often after road games some of the relief pitchers such as Patterson, Kipper, Landrum, etc. would sit in the team hotel lobby and drink a beer. Typically I found that hotel security would not let fans into the lobbies of the team hotels but I was staying there so Bob invited me to join the group. The teams usually stayed at the nicest hotel closest to the ballpark. This time we were staying in downtown Los Angeles and it was about 11:00 P.M. Van Slyke and his wife and I think a child or two walked into the hotel and through the lobby to go to their room. A couple of the hotel workers politely asked Van Slyke for his autograph. He said no and kept on walking. Immediately his wife said, turn your ass around and sign those autographs. He immediately did what she said. I've got a picture of a group of us standing in front of Van Slyke's locker(he wasn't there at the time) at Three Rivers but I am not smart enough to know how to post it here. As a kid I loved baseball and dreamed of playing for the Yankee's but I wasn't worth a damn. Being able to walk out of the locker room and through the tunnel and onto the playing field was surreal.(This was in the morning before a night game so just a few player's were there). One of my favorite Leyland stories happened in Philadelphia. We were staying in a downtown Philadelphia hotel. We were leaving to eat supper at the Chart House. The team buses were waiting outside the hotel to take the team to the stadium. Leyland was waiting outside at the buses. I had met Jim several times but for sure he didn't remember me from Adam's house cat. I remarked to Jim that I was leaving the coaching to him that night. I'll never forget what he said: "I'll try not to F**K it up". Great story Bearman. How can you not like Van Slyke's wife? Head on straight. Leyland always had his head on straight. He kept the same modest home in Pittsburgh even when he was managing in Miami or Detroit. A regular neighborhood guy who went to the block parties, knew the guys at the gas station, went to the local bar. Maybe the last chain-smoking manager. How cool that you got to see him up close. I was already in awe from our Carolina Beach Music conversation from a few years that you had actually seen Major Lance and Willie Tee live in Myrtle Beach, the only person I know who has done so. And also that you remembered Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts. Anytime you want to talk The Catalinas, Band of Oz, General Johnson, any of those great Shaggin' acts from The Bowery, head on over to the Music Thread. But give us more Pirate scuttlebutt for sure. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 4, 2023 17:38:53 GMT -5
I'll start with a Van Slyke one. Often after road games some of the relief pitchers such as Patterson, Kipper, Landrum, etc. would sit in the team hotel lobby and drink a beer. Typically I found that hotel security would not let fans into the lobbies of the team hotels but I was staying there so Bob invited me to join the group. The teams usually stayed at the nicest hotel closest to the ballpark. This time we were staying in downtown Los Angeles and it was about 11:00 P.M. Van Slyke and his wife and I think a child or two walked into the hotel and through the lobby to go to their room. A couple of the hotel workers politely asked Van Slyke for his autograph. He said no and kept on walking. Immediately his wife said, turn your ass around and sign those autographs. He immediately did what she said. I've got a picture of a group of us standing in front of Van Slyke's locker(he wasn't there at the time) at Three Rivers but I am not smart enough to know how to post it here. As a kid I loved baseball and dreamed of playing for the Yankee's but I wasn't worth a damn. Being able to walk out of the locker room and through the tunnel and onto the playing field was surreal.(This was in the morning before a night game so just a few player's were there). One of my favorite Leyland stories happened in Philadelphia. We were staying in a downtown Philadelphia hotel. We were leaving to eat supper at the Chart House. The team buses were waiting outside the hotel to take the team to the stadium. Leyland was waiting outside at the buses. I had met Jim several times but for sure he didn't remember me from Adam's house cat. I remarked to Jim that I was leaving the coaching to him that night. I'll never forget what he said: "I'll try not to F**K it up". Nice! Keep theme coming Bearman. You’ve rubbed shoulders with some interesting characters. I had a few beers with Cal Ripken, Sr. one night when I was an invited guest at a Lion’s Club function. His brother was a bank president in the town (Rising Sun, MD). I remember Cal as being acerbic, much like his brother, Bill, and pretty much stewed. His wife, Vi was there as well. She seemed sweet enough, but was no stranger to the bar either. I couldn’t tell you a word that was said that night other than that Cal gave off a little “ptooey” sound when someone told him I was a Yankee fan. I was playing golf at the time and in an odd set of circumstances there were three separate instances where I arrived for a mid-to-late afternoon round and Cal, Sr, Vi, and another couple were playing golf and were on the then seventh hole, which is the sixteenth now. Each time I stayed by my vehicle and watched them play through. Not once did Cal get his approach shot airborne on those three tries. He had definite ground ball tendencies… 🤓🤓🤓😂 That's a nice vignette Inger. I'm not surprised Cal Sr. was acerbic, that's sort of how he came across just watching him on TV. Sounds like you could have taken his lunch money in a round of golf. Did you ever go to their baseball complex in Aberdeen? I only recently learned that there is a chain of those things. I know for sure there is one in Myrtle Beach and another in Kentucky. |
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Post by bearman on Mar 4, 2023 18:15:55 GMT -5
Another Pirates story. Probably to no one’s surprise Barry Bonds was not the most popular player and I know for a fact that included some of his team mates that felt the same way. I was at a playoff game in Atlanta and waiting with the team and some of their families in the hotel lobby for the team bus. Bonds was there and I saw one of his team mates kids ask for his autograph. He refused. He is one of the few Pirates of that era that I never asked for an autograph on their baseball card.
My friend also pitched for the Rangers. I was at a spring training game and went into the locker room after the game. I saw Nolan Ryan refuse to sign an autograph for a team mates child then as well. Never understood folks like that. There were no fans present in either situation. Just a friends kid asking for an autograph.
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Post by kaybli on Mar 4, 2023 18:28:44 GMT -5
Another Pirates story. Probably to no one’s surprise Barry Bonds was not the most popular player and I know for a fact that included some of his team mates that felt the same way. I was at a playoff game in Atlanta and waiting with the team and some of their families in the hotel lobby for the team bus. Bonds was there and I saw one of his team mates kids ask for his autograph. He refused. He is one of the few Pirates of that era that I never asked for an autograph on their baseball card. My friend also pitched for the Rangers. I was at a spring training game and went into the locker room after the game. I saw Nolan Ryan refuse to sign an autograph for a team mates child then as well. Never understood folks like that. There were no fans present in either situation. Just a friends kid asking for an autograph. lol, thats Barry Bonds for you. Little more surprised about Nolan Ryan. At least he didn't put anyone in a headlock.  |
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