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Author Topic: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)  (Read 480920 times)

Offline Meanwood Villa

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3030 on: October 28, 2020, 02:09:26 PM »
Would have much preferred the Rays winning it. Shame to see the Dodgers not choke for once

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3031 on: November 07, 2020, 05:59:53 PM »

Offline UK Redsox

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3032 on: November 08, 2020, 11:23:50 AM »
Joe Biden wearing a number 46 Phillies jersey during an early 1970s Congressional baseball game



Offline The Left Side

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3033 on: December 14, 2020, 08:25:26 PM »
Sounds like Cleveland are finally going to change their name, I can't believe I beat UKRS to the thread!

Offline Richard E

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3034 on: December 14, 2020, 08:44:30 PM »
Are the Kansas City Klansmen planning to change their name?

Offline UK Redsox

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3035 on: December 15, 2020, 10:38:39 AM »
Sounds like Cleveland are finally going to change their name, I can't believe I beat UKRS to the thread!

'Spiders' would be good, but that one disastrous season when there's owners tanked it, probably carries too much baggage.

'Buckeyes' would be great as a tribute to the Negro League team, but that name is now associated with Ohio State.

Kansas City and Atlanta should follow suit, but their names, whilst cultural appropriation aren't derogatory.

Offline Brazilian Villain

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3036 on: January 19, 2021, 07:19:35 PM »
Mets have sacked general manager Jared Porter for sending unsolicited explicit text to a female reporter. #MetOoh

https://www.bbc.com/sport/baseball/55724021

Offline UK Redsox

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3037 on: January 20, 2021, 11:46:12 AM »
The media kept the reporter's nationality out of the reports to protect her identity.
Apparently the Mets then publicly said where she's from  >:(

Offline UK Redsox

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3038 on: January 22, 2021, 12:16:49 PM »
Its possible that the 2021 Hall of Fame ballot announcement next week will see no inductees.

The leading holdover candidates are Schilling (insurrection supporting arsehole) and Bonds/Clemens (PED)

No one on the list of first time eligibles stands out.

It'll be interesting to see what happens

Offline Brazilian Villain

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3039 on: January 22, 2021, 02:44:38 PM »
The media kept the reporter's nationality out of the reports to protect her identity.
Apparently the Mets then publicly said where she's from  >:(

Even googling doesn't reveal her name so it'd been fairly well hidden thankfully. Just out of interest was she Latina?

Offline UK Redsox

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3040 on: January 22, 2021, 03:13:10 PM »
It was said that if people in her country knew that she was the victim, it would be her who was blamed.

So, whatever countries fit that bill

Offline Brazilian Villain

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3041 on: January 22, 2021, 06:04:37 PM »
It was said that if people in her country knew that she was the victim, it would be her who was blamed.

So, whatever countries fit that bill

Iran had a US baseball correspondent, who knew? ;)

Offline The Left Side

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3042 on: January 22, 2021, 08:46:32 PM »
I just heard Hank Aaron has died, now he could hit a baseball!

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3043 on: March 01, 2021, 05:36:59 PM »
I just finished watching the World Series. It's nigh on 35 years since I was steeped in the sport, so it was encouraging that I found I could slip into the whole geek mode that Baseball wallows in (pace Sabremetrics). I loved it.

Provoked by this I went after memories, and was disappointed to find that old stadiums were not there any more (Candlestick, Shea et al.) but impressed by the fact that I could name a decent proportion of the mid-80s Mets team :)

P.S. One notable change for me was the fact that there seemed to be very few broken  bats compared to the "old" days.

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Re: I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)
« Reply #3044 on: March 02, 2021, 09:13:17 AM »
Welcome back to Baseball Woofles

There are quite a few ballparks that have been replaced since I first visited them; Tiger Stadium in Detroit, San Diego, St Louis, Cincy, Pittsburgh, Yankee, Shea, Miami, Dallas, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Philly, RFK in DC, Montreal. Minneapolis.

I've managed to attend games at all the replacements apart from ATL and DAL


I'm nowhere near as obsessed with the sport as I was in the 90s and 00s, but I'm going to try to take a bit more interest this season.

I even watched parts of some Spring Training games the last two evenings.

 


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