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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 8, 2019 18:58:57 GMT -5
Tauchman!!! This game is easy!!
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 8, 2019 19:00:05 GMT -5
Urshela is on another planet right now. If DJ is Hornsby, who is Gio? Surely he’s no longer “Little Gio”... Gio is Mike Schmidt. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 8, 2019 19:04:07 GMT -5
They might as well put LeMahieu's plaque in Cooperstown right now. This must be what it was like watching Rogers Hornsby. except the stadiums were smaller the meat was real and he batted .420 or so one year 
Hard to imagine that.
If by smaller you mean fewer seats, that is true. But if by smaller you mean size of the playing field, with a few exceptions like Ebbetts Field and Baker Bowl that Hornsby played in, the dimensions, especially in the power alleys and to straightaway center, were generally significantly bigger than today. |
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Post by inger on Aug 8, 2019 19:08:33 GMT -5
except the stadiums were smaller the meat was real and he batted .420 or so one year
Hard to imagine that.
If by smaller you mean fewer seats, that is true. But if by smaller you mean size of the playing field, with a few exceptions like Ebbetts Field and Baker Bowl that Hornsby played in, the dimensions, especially in the power alleys and to straightaway center, were generally significantly bigger than today. And the balls were stuffed with feathers, right?...The gotta-percha was still in play...OOPS, wrong sport... (: |
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 8, 2019 19:09:37 GMT -5
I’m going to confess that, though I’ve never been to Iowa, I always thought that it would be a boring place, sort of a nothing is there, nowhere. Now, you have me curious about what’s appealing... The truth is that I’m sure there’s something appealing about just about anywhere you would go on this beautiful planet. Being a guy that likes his mountains and a dearth of humidity (is Iowa humid? I would think relatively so)...I like my western states...Especially the ones with the Rockies... No mountains Inger. Not magnificent like Wyoming or Colorado. But lots of beautiful rolling hills and grasslands and Mississippi River towns. I went to Clear Lake, which is where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper played their last concert at the Surf Ballroom (still intact from its 1950s splendor) and where the plane went diwn in a cornfield. The site is easy to find. Clear Lake is an idyllic Victorian town. The whole area is beautiful. Also near the Misissippi the town of West Branch, where the farm where Herbert Hoover was born is a National Historic Site. Another idyllic site. Also the Amana Colonies, a preserved 19th century community where a group of cabinet makers eventually became the foundation of the appliance giant. Near Dubuque is Music Man country, the real life River City. Lots of Field of Dreams areas. We were about an hour west of Clear Lake. The house we own is a big Victorian house circa 1900. It was to be our continual project, restoring it to its former glory to become a historical register site, which was not my first or second or third preference but we all do those types of things to see smiles on the ones we love. Inside, to myself only, I thought, “Ugh, this is a money pit,” when Sarah would say, “Don’t you just love this place; it’s got so much character!” |
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 8, 2019 19:10:22 GMT -5
Tauchman again!
WTF is going on guys?
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Hopefully, they’ve just arrived! |
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 8, 2019 19:10:58 GMT -5
Urshela is on another planet right now. If DJ is Hornsby, who is Gio? Surely he’s no longer “Little Gio”... Gio is Mike Schmidt. I was thinking the same thing....should it continue for the next five or six years. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 8, 2019 19:11:09 GMT -5
No mountains Inger. Not magnificent like Wyoming or Colorado. But lots of beautiful rolling hills and grasslands and Mississippi River towns. I went to Clear Lake, which is where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper played their last concert at the Surf Ballroom (still intact from its 1950s splendor) and where the plane went diwn in a cornfield. The site is easy to find. Clear Lake is an idyllic Victorian town. The whole area is beautiful. Also near the Misissippi the town of West Branch, where the farm where Herbert Hoover was born is a National Historic Site. Another idyllic site. Also the Amana Colonies, a preserved 19th century community where a group of cabinet makers eventually became the foundation of the appliance giant. Near Dubuque is Music Man country, the real life River City. Lots of Field of Dreams areas. We were about an hour west of Clear Lake. The house we own is a big Victorian house circa 1900. It was to be our continual project, restoring it to its former glory to become a historical register site, which was not my first or second or third preference but we all do those types of things to see smiles on the ones we love. Inside, to myself only, I thought, “Ugh, this is a money pit,” when Sarah would say, “Don’t you just love this place; it’s got so much character!” Beautiful. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 8, 2019 19:14:04 GMT -5
If by smaller you mean fewer seats, that is true. But if by smaller you mean size of the playing field, with a few exceptions like Ebbetts Field and Baker Bowl that Hornsby played in, the dimensions, especially in the power alleys and to straightaway center, were generally significantly bigger than today. And the balls were stuffed with feathers, right?...The gotta-percha was still in play...OOPS, wrong sport... (: Hickory shafts for your mashie and niblick. |
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 8, 2019 19:14:38 GMT -5
Fantastic change up from German to shut down the trouble!
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 8, 2019 19:16:39 GMT -5
And the balls were stuffed with feathers, right?...The gotta-percha was still in play...OOPS, wrong sport... (: Hickory shafts for your mashie and niblick. One of our cats was named Niblick, another Putter. Bogey, who is still alive, was named after Humphrey Bogart. |
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 8, 2019 19:20:58 GMT -5
Judge is suffering from warning trackitis.
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Post by inger on Aug 8, 2019 19:21:41 GMT -5
Hickory shafts for your mashie and niblick. One of our cats was named Niblick, another Putter. Bogey, who is still alive, was named after Humphrey Bogart. You have ME tearing up, my friend...I know this is tough on you... Funny about the story about the old house. I was thinking, and hence the difference between man and woman. The world is the same, and our eyes see the same things. It’s the hearts that are different... |
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 8, 2019 19:23:25 GMT -5
Vlad, Jr. has one horrifically quick bat.
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 8, 2019 19:30:06 GMT -5
One of our cats was named Niblick, another Putter. Bogey, who is still alive, was named after Humphrey Bogart. You have ME tearing up, my friend...I know this is tough on you... Funny about the story about the old house. I was thinking, and hence the difference between man and woman. The world is the same, and our eyes see the same things. It’s the hearts that are different... True enough. Though, I cry at Maxwell House commercials. Sarah used to say that I’m just a big softie, loved by all children and animals. |
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