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Post by chiyankee on Apr 20, 2019 19:09:50 GMT -5
Yelich just hit another HR against the Dodgers. 12 HR's already for Yelich.
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 20, 2019 19:11:27 GMT -5
Yelich just hit another HR against the Dodgers. 12 HR's already for Yelich. Hah, I just posted that on the wrong thread. Gotta pay attention. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 20, 2019 20:07:38 GMT -5
A rare misplay by Kevin Kiermayer sets up Boston to take a 6-5 lead over Tampa Bay in the ninth. Five RBIs for Benintendi.
Tampa Bay is wearing its old Devil Rays uniforms. It's not a good look.
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Post by chiyankee on Apr 20, 2019 20:23:29 GMT -5
A rare misplay by Kevin Kiermayer sets up Boston to take a 6-5 lead over Tampa Bay in the ninth. Five RBIs for Benintendi. Tampa Bay is wearing its old Devil Rays uniforms. It's not a good look. Rays have runners on 1st and 2nd with two outs and the runner at first gets picked off to end the game.  |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 20, 2019 20:24:34 GMT -5
Boston beats Tampa Bay 6-5. The game ended when, with runners on first and second, Tommy Pham got picked off first.
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 20, 2019 20:26:11 GMT -5
Once again,Chi. Pham studied at the Gary Sanchez School of Base Running.
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Post by kaybli on Apr 20, 2019 20:38:49 GMT -5
Once again,Chi. Pham studied at the Gary Sanchez School of Base Running.  |
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Post by chiyankee on Apr 20, 2019 20:40:37 GMT -5
The Yanks do pick up a game on the Rays.
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Post by kaybli on Apr 20, 2019 20:53:42 GMT -5
The Yanks do pick up a game on the Rays. 3.5 games back with only 142 games left!  |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 20, 2019 20:55:19 GMT -5
It's well-known, but worth repeating now and then, that few base-running blunders ever topped Babe Ruth getting thrown out trying to steal second base with the Yankees down 3-2 and two outs in the ninth inning of Game Seven of the 1926 World Series.
Not that big of a deal was made of it. A different world -- radio was in its infancy and most people would only have known about it by reading it in the newspaper the next day. No social media or saturation TV coverage or sports talk radio to whip people into a frenzy.
And The Babe recovered quite nicely with a 60 home run season the next year.
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Post by kaybli on Apr 20, 2019 21:29:57 GMT -5
It's well-known, but worth repeating now and then, that few base-running blunders ever topped Babe Ruth getting thrown out trying to steal second base with the Yankees down 3-2 and two outs in the ninth inning of Game Seven of the 1926 World Series. A young pipps remembers that incident vividly.  |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 21, 2019 1:07:40 GMT -5
It's well-known, but worth repeating now and then, that few base-running blunders ever topped Babe Ruth getting thrown out trying to steal second base with the Yankees down 3-2 and two outs in the ninth inning of Game Seven of the 1926 World Series. A young pipps remembers that incident vividly. Oh yeah. I was screaming at Ed Barrow to trade Ruth for some pitching help in the off-season. But did he listen? |
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Post by kaybli on Apr 21, 2019 2:57:58 GMT -5
A young pipps remembers that incident vividly. Oh yeah. I was screaming at Ed Barrow to trade Ruth for some pitching help in the off-season. But did he listen?  |
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Post by chiyankee on Apr 21, 2019 8:06:45 GMT -5
A young pipps remembers that incident vividly. Oh yeah. I was screaming at Ed Barrow to trade Ruth for some pitching help in the off-season. But did he listen? How bad would have the Babe been roasted on social media for that and many of the other things he did? |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 21, 2019 9:19:57 GMT -5
Oh yeah. I was screaming at Ed Barrow to trade Ruth for some pitching help in the off-season. But did he listen? How bad would have the Babe been roasted on social media for that and many of the other things he did? The press in that day never reported on the foibles of the people they were covering, either in sports or anything else. In the case of baseball, at that time the teams picked up the expenses of the reporters who covered them, which was another incentive to avoid dishing the dirt. I'm not at all convinced that we are more enlightened by knowing the private lives of athletes, but there certainly is a voracious audience for it. In the case of Babe Ruth, he was genuinely liked by most of the people around him. I think his gregarious, living large personality would still play well today. Not an exact comparison by any means, but I think someone like Rob Gronkowski would fall into the general category. |
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