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Post by desousa on Mar 31, 2019 10:53:36 GMT -5
Gardner CF
Judge RF
Stanton LF
Voit DH
Andujar 3b
Sanchez C
Bird 1b
Torres SS
LeMahieu 2b
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 31, 2019 11:13:53 GMT -5
Desousa, I think LeMahieu must be second base. I know Andujar can use some help at third, but I don't think Boone can get away with putting two guys out there.  |
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Post by desousa on Mar 31, 2019 11:26:14 GMT -5
Desousa, I think LeMahieu must be second base. I know Andujar can use some help at third, but I don't think Boone can get away with putting two guys out there. That would be a hell of a shift. Thanks pipps. It's tough getting old, but at least we're not inger's age.  Game is delayed. No start time has been announced. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 31, 2019 11:33:54 GMT -5
Desousa, I think LeMahieu must be second base. I know Andujar can use some help at third, but I don't think Boone can get away with putting two guys out there. That would be a hell of a shift. Thanks pipps. It's tough getting old, but at least we're not inger's age. [img class="smile" src="//storage.proboards.com/6828121/images/udcwFqPimnXDtjoTmoVL.gif" alt=" "] Game is delayed. No start time has been announced. Yeah, at that point they really might start thinking about outlawing shifts. And while I like to think I am young at heart -- everybody thinks they're young at heart when they get old -- I actually have a few years even on Old Man Inger. Not getting specific, but I am old enough to have seen Ted Williams and Larry Doby and Enos Slaughter and Roy Campanella play. Of course I was only a few months old when I was watching them. |
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Post by michcusejoe5 on Mar 31, 2019 11:34:50 GMT -5
Still raining here in NJ...probably a couple more hours
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 31, 2019 11:39:00 GMT -5
Man, I was really hoping to watch the game today, since it's drizzling here in SE PA today and unlike yesterday a good day to sit inside and watch. I have to go out around 4, so they better start playing soon. Or else!!
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Post by desousa on Mar 31, 2019 11:44:09 GMT -5
That would be a hell of a shift. Thanks pipps. It's tough getting old, but at least we're not inger's age. [img alt=" " class="smile" src="//storage.proboards.com/6828121/images/udcwFqPimnXDtjoTmoVL.gif"] Game is delayed. No start time has been announced. Yeah, at that point they really might start thinking about outlawing shifts. And while I like to think I am young at heart -- everybody thinks they're young at heart when they get old -- I actually have a few years even on Old Man Inger. Not getting specific, but I am old enough to have seen Ted Williams and Larry Doby and Enos Slaughter and Roy Campanella play. Of course I was only a few months old when I was watching them. I think inger and I about the same age. I became a Yankee/baseball fan in 1960 when I was 5. I wish I could have seen those guys play. I did get to see Musial pinch hit in a ST game in 1962. I'll always remember that. Chatting about Hutch, Tebbetts, etc has inspired me to take a look at the backs of some of the few remaining baseball cards I have left. As a youth, I would spend hours doing that. |
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Post by desousa on Mar 31, 2019 11:55:50 GMT -5
Still raining here in NJ...probably a couple more hours You're probably right. YES said the weather is expected to clear by 2 and then they have to get the field ready. Good day for an early nap. |
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Post by inger on Mar 31, 2019 12:11:19 GMT -5
Yeah, at that point they really might start thinking about outlawing shifts. And while I like to think I am young at heart -- everybody thinks they're young at heart when they get old -- I actually have a few years even on Old Man Inger. Not getting specific, but I am old enough to have seen Ted Williams and Larry Doby and Enos Slaughter and Roy Campanella play. Of course I was only a few months old when I was watching them. I think inger and I about the same age. I became a Yankee/baseball fan in 1960 when I was 5. I wish I could have seen those guys play. I did get to see Musial pinch hit in a ST game in 1962. I'll always remember that. Chatting about Hutch, Tebbetts, etc has inspired me to take a look at the backs of some of the few remaining baseball cards I have left. As a youth, I would spend hours doing that. Snap! It sounds as if you are correct desousa and you are not QUITE as many years young as I. I was born on a cold and windy day, January 24, 1954. But for fate it is I who might have been the one to select Yankee54 for my on screen identification, but certainly not with the same persona...I didn't really get to watch much or understand much of the game until I was 9. I feel a great sadness for what I missed, for given a choice I'm certain that I would have sneaked out of the womb in 1954 and crept back in with a transistor radio and earphone to at least listen to the exploits of our team. Maybe it's best I didn't, since that was the year the Indians had an uprising and won 111 games to push the Yankees aside for the AL pennant. Of course this is also wishful thinking because the first practical transistor radios weren't produced until sometime in the early sixties, and I'm pretty sure that if I had drug the household radio into the womb mom would have noticed and been pretty pissed at me. Given what her temper was like and her accuracy with a broom handle on my skull after it was fully formed and I was walking around the house making a general pain of myself, I sort of dread what may have happened if she tried to get out of bed and found her vagina plugged into an outlet so I could hear the Yankee games...But man, I would have loved to have seen Mantle and Whitey in their primes... |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 31, 2019 12:36:21 GMT -5
Yeah, at that point they really might start thinking about outlawing shifts. And while I like to think I am young at heart -- everybody thinks they're young at heart when they get old -- I actually have a few years even on Old Man Inger. Not getting specific, but I am old enough to have seen Ted Williams and Larry Doby and Enos Slaughter and Roy Campanella play. Of course I was only a few months old when I was watching them. I think inger and I about the same age. I became a Yankee/baseball fan in 1960 when I was 5. I wish I could have seen those guys play. I did get to see Musial pinch hit in a ST game in 1962. I'll always remember that. Chatting about Hutch, Tebbetts, etc has inspired me to take a look at the backs of some of the few remaining baseball cards I have left. As a youth, I would spend hours doing that. We have endless free time as kids, and like you I spent a high percentage of it reading anything related to baseball and of course playing it for hours on end in dozens of variations, depending on how many players were available. And there was always the pitch-back when things were really slow. Well if you go back to 1960, you at least got to see the last third of the incredible Yankee dynasty of 1949-1964, with the 14 pennants and the Maris/Mantle HR derby of 1961. So you saw Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra and Elston Howard and that whole gang. The first season I can remember clearly was 1957, and my father made a big point of telling me to watch how guys like Ted Williams and Stan Musial played because I would want to remember that when I got older. Dad was right, as usual! He had done the same thing with guys like Ruth and Gehrig and Foxx and those vivid memories were very important to him. Mick and Willie were the biggest things going, so I didn't need any encouragement to study what they were doing. I have vague recollections of things like Don Larsen's perfect game, but I wish I had been paying more attention in 1956, which was the last season for players like Jackie Robinson and Bob Feller and Phil Rizzuto. But all I can recall of them is what I have seen on film. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 31, 2019 14:40:17 GMT -5
Now saying the game will start at 4:20.
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Post by chiyankee on Mar 31, 2019 14:43:09 GMT -5
Now saying the game will start at 4:20. Man, what a long day for those who attended this game. |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 31, 2019 15:23:20 GMT -5
Canned National Anthem now playing!
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 31, 2019 15:28:10 GMT -5
Strike three!
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 31, 2019 15:29:18 GMT -5
Dwight Smith and Trey Mancini itching to be mentioned on the list with Steve Pearce...
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