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Post by noetsi on Aug 9, 2019 21:34:55 GMT -5
Well we are tied with the Astros nowe
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Post by inger on Aug 9, 2019 21:45:02 GMT -5
People writing songs That voices never sing The umps only wish they could be on that kind of legend status. I love the version David Breinan Of Disturbed recorded. So powerful. The Simon and Garfunkel original sounds so wimpy next to that one... |
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Post by inger on Aug 9, 2019 21:45:27 GMT -5
Well we are tied with the Astros nowe Oh boye... |
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 9, 2019 21:46:41 GMT -5
Better have the kids look away at these horrifying numbers.
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Post by utahyank on Aug 9, 2019 21:46:58 GMT -5
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!! If Speaker was as good as DiMaggio, he was very good indeed.....I admit to a bias in my memory of Joe's play, and I have seen other center fielders since who were as good defensively....but not someone with as complete a game, with the possible exception of Mays....I guess I will die with my all-time best CF being DiMaggio....and if he wasn't the best, he was still one heckuva center fielder hitting in the middle of the my lineup.... |
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Post by kaybli on Aug 9, 2019 21:54:12 GMT -5
Better have the kids look away at these horrifying numbers.  |
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Post by inger on Aug 9, 2019 22:06:46 GMT -5
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!! If Speaker was as good as DiMaggio, he was very good indeed.....I admit to a bias in my memory of Joe's play, and I have seen other center fielders since who were as good defensively....but not someone with as complete a game, with the possible exception of Mays....I guess I will die with my all-time best CF being DiMaggio....and if he wasn't the best, he was still one heckuva center fielder hitting in the middle of the my lineup.... That’s one of the great things about baseball. There is an organized Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Some revere it, some say it’s been ruined by overpopulation. Many of those same people rue the lack of inclusion of some odd personal favorite or another. In my mind’s eye, the “true” Hall of Game would have to be only that of perhaps a full roster of the 25 best players ever. To elect someone to this team the organizers should have the difficult task of removing a player to make room for the new one. Election would be rate, and it would be a painful experience to be removed (or painful for the player’s family of post mortem). Of course that will never happen, for we are too sensitive about such things despite our ability to commit a multitude of truly cruel and inhuman acts daily as a race. Hard to figure, isn’t it? Anyway, there is a place in each of our minds where we can park our own Hall of Fame. It can consist of nine starters, or one full 25-man roster with each position manned and backed up. It could be 100 good and strong or 1000’s of our favorites. If you have Joe DiMaggio in that Hall of Game in your mind (or perhaps we should realize that is actually run by your heart), that is where he belongs. You have plenty of company. As the older generation passes on over time there will be less company here on earth. Some younger player will stick in some younger man’s mind. We take our HOF along with us, and we know not when or if that will be extinguished...or why. It took me many years to realize that Mickey Mantle was not the greatest CF in MLB history, nor the best the Yankees had to offer, but I’ve gotten there. DiMaggio pushes Mantle to left field while Ruth mans right field... |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Aug 9, 2019 22:27:23 GMT -5
The umps only wish they could be on that kind of legend status. I love the version David Breinan Of Disturbed recorded. So powerful. The Simon and Garfunkel original sounds so wimpy next to that one... I am a huge Simon and Garfunkel fan, but that cover is absolutely amazing it was featured in a scene during the blacklist and its such a powerful song: |
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Post by inger on Aug 10, 2019 0:13:50 GMT -5
I love the version David Breinan Of Disturbed recorded. So powerful. The Simon and Garfunkel original sounds so wimpy next to that one... I am a huge Simon and Garfunkel fan, but that cover is absolutely amazing it was featured in a scene during the blacklist and its such a powerful song: I really didn’t intend to demean S & G in saying that, either. The song was huge in my youth. I can imagine how that song might not have fit the era sung in the manner this remake was, but I can also imagine it bringing down the house in some places, too... |
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Post by kaybli on Aug 10, 2019 0:15:32 GMT -5
You know the Gardner incident wouldn't be complete without Jomboy's video:
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