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Post by kaybli on Aug 9, 2019 21:03:04 GMT -5
Kahnle being wasted here. Is he need of work or something? Don't understand. |
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Post by inger on Aug 9, 2019 21:03:16 GMT -5
Russ, to be fair (and more than fair), you proclaim yourself a contrarian and take pride in ruffling feathers to do what you consider to be a favor to the forum by raising post counts. You do so proudly. Then, when you get called at that it’s your feathers that get ruffled. You let me get away with sh*t all the time because I’m such a lovable guy, but there are some others that rub you the wrong way. You think you have a thick skin, perhaps you do. Maybe you should add a shell. We should all remember that when a problem follows us around it just may be our fault. Don’t make me stop this car, young man... I don't take pride in being a contrarian nor do I deliberately say things to rile anyone. I say what I believe to be true. Few others agree with my take of things, but I don't disagree to disagree. Nor do I make personal references to others because they disagree with me. I understand others don't share my views and don't expect them to. Really? That either controverts a post you wrote to me a while back, or I am lacking in comprehension of that post... Either is possible, I suppose. Communication of course is not always what we say, but is always what others thought you said... Anyway, this post shall be duly noted... |
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Post by utahyank on Aug 9, 2019 21:03:21 GMT -5
smooth, smooth, deep male voice....one of the best.... |
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 9, 2019 21:04:07 GMT -5
Utah, you mentioned DiMaggio. Although I've seen plenty of film on him, there does not appear to be any live TV footage of him. The earliest complete game live broadcast I have found is from the 1952 World Series, the year after he retired. There is just something different about seeing players exactly as they were seen in their time. So I have been able to see Mel Allen and Red Barber making live calls of Mize and Allie Reynolds, but not Joe D.
A man I knew who saw Ed Delahanty play said his batting stance was just like DiMaggio's. Spread stance, level swing. It made it so much easier to visualize a player who died in 1903.
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 9, 2019 21:05:34 GMT -5
The streak was impressive, time to start a new one tomorrow.
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 9, 2019 21:07:35 GMT -5
My father worshipped Jim Reeves. Used to play that "He'll Have To Go" song. Drove me nuts when I wanted to blast James Brown from the Magnavox console. He even went to the site where Jim Reeves' plane went down. Were you a Reeves guy? |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Aug 9, 2019 21:13:43 GMT -5
Ghosts were talking ! Illegal Pitch ! The ball hit the bat twice !!!   |
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Post by inger on Aug 9, 2019 21:14:37 GMT -5
As this game ends I feel like I need to press the handle down and watch the water begin to swirl with the angst that perhaps there was too much paper out in and the durned tv is going to clog up. I need to wash my hands, maybe get a shower. Oh, how I hope I won’t need a plunger, or worse maybe Liquid Plumber.
I guess what I’m really trying to say is that a game like this tonendca winning streak can have a carry over effect and start a streak in the other direction. We need to win tomorrow to interrupt the karma created in this one.
Okay... gonna take that shower now. The water all went down. I think we’re safe...
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Post by utahyank on Aug 9, 2019 21:16:50 GMT -5
Utah, you mentioned DiMaggio. Although I've seen plenty of film on him, there does not appear to be any live TV footage of him. The earliest complete game live broadcast I have found is from the 1952 World Series, the year after he retired. There is just something different about seeing players exactly as they were seen in their time. So I have been able to see Mel Allen and Red Barber making live calls of Mize and Allie Reynolds, but not Joe D. A man I knew who saw Ed Delahanty play said his batting stance was just like DiMaggio's. Spread stance, level swing. It made it so much easier to visualize a player who died in 1903. In 1939 through 1942, I got to see a number of Yankee games when Joe was at his best...he was incomparable in my eyes...rarely did he not smoke the ball somewhere....the crack of bat on ball was especially his.... Clarence Mitchell who probably did not see Delahanty, thought Tris Speaker might have been the equal (and said it maybe to get a rise out of the young me),that maybe Speaker was better than Joe.....I caught him one time after he had said that winking at my Dad, so I'm not sure if he really thought Speaker was better.... |
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 9, 2019 21:17:40 GMT -5
Dan Iassogna had money on the Jays tonight. No favors from the arbiters tonight, although that's not why we lost.
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Post by anthonyd46 on Aug 9, 2019 21:19:57 GMT -5
Dan Iassogna had money on the Jays tonight. No favors from the arbiters tonight, although that's not why we lost. Yea obviously it wasnt a 1 run game where that call decided it, but when you are calling voices that arent even speaking and balls that didn't even hit the bat its like  |
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Post by pippsheadache on Aug 9, 2019 21:21:42 GMT -5
Utah, you mentioned DiMaggio. Although I've seen plenty of film on him, there does not appear to be any live TV footage of him. The earliest complete game live broadcast I have found is from the 1952 World Series, the year after he retired. There is just something different about seeing players exactly as they were seen in their time. So I have been able to see Mel Allen and Red Barber making live calls of Mize and Allie Reynolds, but not Joe D. A man I knew who saw Ed Delahanty play said his batting stance was just like DiMaggio's. Spread stance, level swing. It made it so much easier to visualize a player who died in 1903. In 1939 through 1942, I got to see a number of Yankee games when Joe was at his best...he was incomparable in my eyes...rarely did he not smoke the ball somewhere....the crack of bat on ball was especially his.... Clarence Mitchell who probably did not see Delahanty, thought Tris Speaker might have been the equal (and said it maybe to get a rise out of the young me),that maybe Speaker was better than Joe.....I caught him one time after he had said that winking at my Dad, so I'm not sure if he really thought Speaker was better.... Good stuff. My friend used to rave about Speaker too and how he played very shallow but could cover acres of ground on anything hit over his head. He lived long enough to see Paul Blair play and thought he was the closest modern equivalent. But not quite up to Spoke's level, of course!! |
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Post by inger on Aug 9, 2019 21:22:22 GMT -5
Dan Iassogna had money on the Jays tonight. No favors from the arbiters tonight, although that's not why we lost. Yea obviously it wasnt a 1 run game where that call decided it, but when you are calling voices that arent even speaking and balls that didn't even hit the bat its like People writing songs That voices never sing |
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 9, 2019 21:23:33 GMT -5
My father worshipped Jim Reeves. Used to play that "He'll Have To Go" song. Drove me nuts when I wanted to blast James Brown from the Magnavox console. He even went to the site where Jim Reeves' plane went down. Were you a Reeves guy? My Uncle John was a huge Jim Reeves fan. He always had it playing when we’d be on the road going fishing or hunting. I was about twelve years old, and it appealed to me much more than Conway Twitty and some of that ilk of the middle to late seventies. More than anything, Reeves’ voice reminds me of my Uncle, who I saw only once or twice a year, but he was such a good-hearted, decent man, who never knew a stranger. Reeves’ voice is so deep, clear and pure; the two are intertwined in my mind and memory. |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Aug 9, 2019 21:32:32 GMT -5
Yea obviously it wasnt a 1 run game where that call decided it, but when you are calling voices that arent even speaking and balls that didn't even hit the bat its like [img alt=" " src="//storage.proboards.com/6828121/images/FaPDancotIiOvGyPqDbu.gif" class="smile"] People writing songs That voices never sing The umps only wish they could be on that kind of legend status. |
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