JWBooth
Diamond Member
I got no dog in the fight and could care less who wins, just as long as there is some good baseball being played.
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LolLooking like my prediction of a Giants sweep might belie me as a total fraud.
No, not any rule. But all starting pitchers have at least 3 days between appearances. Back in the 1950s, when Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain were so good for the Milwaukee Braves they had a saying:Is that a league rule for pitchers or just the norm? Either way that seems really stupid.The Giants pitcher can't pitch two games in a row. They would blow out their arms. All starting pitchers are in a rotation, and pitch every 4 to 5 days.As I don't watch much baseball I have a question. Two actually.
Last night why wasn't the Royals pitcher pulled sooner.
And why isn't the starting pitcher from the Giants pitching again tonight?
The Royals pitcher probably wasn't pitching badly, they were just hitting some good pitches. It happens. If it's just a few hits it's dismissed as a fluke, but once it's gone more than that they other team has probably figured you out. Manager's judgement prevails, as always.
And they hit everything he threw plus he couldn't hit the box half the time. I don't watch a lot of baseball but even I recognized how awful the pitching was.
And then they had another player with a later jailbird's name: Willie Horton!I remember Cash and Kaline from their visits to Yankee Stadium. And Gates Brown, Mark Fidrych, and "Steady Eddie" Brinkman, and Lolich, of course. And Ron LeFlore! Lol!Hard not to pick the Tigers with 3 Cy Young winners on the staff. There hasn't been a rotation like that since Maddox, Glavine & Smoltz.
One of my baseball regrets is that I never got to see Tiger Stadium.
It was quite a place....my first game there was in 1959...even then it smelled like piss and cheap ceegars.
I saw Ted Williams there in his last season....and Mantle and Maris the year Tigers won 103 and still finished second to the Yanks.
Rocky Colavito was my hero.....Norm Cash made everybody laugh....Kaline was a snob...wouldn't sign autographs.
They did their best to save the old yard but the way it was built doomed it....I look forward to seeing a game some day in Comerica Park.
Yeah, you could get a seat right behind a cement column, I hear.
But Comerica looks like one of the nicest in the Majors. Pittsburgh's also looks nice. One of my favorites is one of the oldest of the cookie-cutters: Oakland Coliseum. Huge foul territory.
Gates was an ex-con...nobody messed with Gator. Lolich still makes donuts out in one of the suburbs. Jim Bunning was a favorite of mine....he'd knock down his mother if she dug in too deep in the batters box. Then there was Frank "Yankee Killer" Larry......very ordinary against all the other teams but the Yanks couldn't touch him. Another favorite was Charlie "Ol Paw Paw" Maxwell....aka "The Sunday Punch"....Charlie was the most dangerous hitter in baseball on Sunday afternoons...the rest of the week....eh. Ron LeFlore was another jail bird....I saw him play up in Seattle when they were still in the bunker called the "Kingdome"....I got a pic of Ron scoring a run.
Huge outfield.speaking of royals and tigers.anyone here who has never taken in a game at royals stadium here in the midwest needs to do so.it is the coolest ballpark in the country with its royal crown scoreboard and the water fountains which is a spectacular water show to look at between innings.beautiful stadium.
sparky anderson even said that royals stadiu was his favorite ballpark to come to when asked what his favorite ballpark was.and remember,he managed in BOTH the american and national league.
you sound like a Giants fan?A fantastic game one...........
you actually thought the Giants would sweep my royals?Looking like my prediction of a Giants sweep might belie me as a total fraud.
you actually thought the Giants would sweep my royals?Looking like my prediction of a Giants sweep might belie me as a total fraud.
dude what deserted island you been living on? they swept the angels,the team with the best record in baseball and the Royals swept the Giants earlier in the year as well when they faced them and you actually thought the giants would sweep THEM?
you obviously have not been paying any attention to the royals in the playoffs this year unaware that they entered the series without losing one game.
qAre you watching the game or perhaps going to it? Either way who do you think will win?
As the stadium is only a few miles from my house I will of course be rooting for the Royals despite the fact that I don't really follow baseball. I will dawn my blue & do my part to support the local team & probably the bartender at Buffalo Wild Wings.Are you watching the game or perhaps going to it? Either way who do you think will win?
As the stadium is only a few miles from my house I will of course be rooting for the Royals despite the fact that I don't really follow baseball. I will dawn my blue & do my part to support the local team & probably the bartender at Buffalo Wild Wings.
Royals in 6. Been to a few games there. Great stadium to watch a game. Loved every visit.
AND, oh my, gotta stop at A. Bryant's for the best BBQ eva before the game!