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They should have delayed the start time of this one a few hours. Give the drizzle a chance to clear out and the temperature time to warm up.

The fix is in from the NBA. ESPN is ALREADY running promos for Cavs vs. Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Watching Bear play I think he could surprise and make the team depending on how the offseason goes. Seems like a very smart player.

Poor Lily.

I have no special memory of my first live game. It was at Fenway, but I don't know when it was. What I do remember was becoming a Tigers fan. We lived in Massachusetts, so everyone in the neighborhood was a Red Sox fan. However, my father was a huge Cardinals fan, so I learned to hate the Red Sox in 1967. I was a Cardinals fan for a while, but my father told me I couldn't be a Cardinals fan because that was his team. The Tigers were good, so I chose them. As my family was spending a week in Cape Cod, I was listening to the games on the radio with my father. I think there was one TV game. In seven games between the Red Sox and Tigers, I remember the Tigers going 5-2 winning the middle 5 games. This would make it August 9 - August 18, 1968. I remember it as a 7-game series, but it was really back to back weekend series. I have no memory of the Cleveland series in between. Anyway, my team beat my father's team in the World Series and I never turned back.

Is his twin brother also known for his defense? Ausar really is getting better and better. You could see his improvement as the season went on. He's scary good, he influences shots even when not blocking them. Teams are missing shots that he defends just to try to avoid him.

They will not be millionaires. He'll give them a tiny bit and claim his pardon was the real gift and the rest of it will be for him.

With this and WPI numbers the bad news is pretty well confirmed. There is so much irony to consider with Warsh taking over for Powell this week. It's going to turn out that for all Powell and the Fed's resistance to Trump's fury over them not lowering rates more, history is going to show that they none-the-less did take their foot off the brakes too soon, which of course is now going to require a more severe correction, and probably another year or two, to fix, and this is a terrible outcome for American consumers. But it's also going to be a terrible one for Trump and the GOP. Inflation will finally be the railroad spike through the heart of Trump's second term. As always in life Donald, be careful what you wish for.

I dont remember his name, a relief pitcher, about 7 years ago or so.....he had like a 0.000001 ERA in the minors and got called up. And he was a huge MLB disappointment. I thought for sure he would be our closer for the next 10 years or so. Its one of the many reasons I dont put much stock into MiLB stats. They can be very misleading.

I'm probably with you on that. We didn't have nearly the information or the cynicism we have now. Can you imagine the webz today if a team likw 1968 was running out a ss/3B combo batting .135 & .200? With OPS of .399 & .556? Yet somehow that team won 103 games. I thought then with all the youngsters coming up Les Cain, Tommy Matchick, Wayne Comer, Jon Warden that it would go on for years.....but alas. Others were talking about their 1st game, I knew mine was in '67 and a DH vs the Indians. This seems to have been it since it was around my birthday and on a Sunday when my Dad could have taken me. And all through my younger years he liked getting value for his dollar and going to doubleheaders.

"That catcher hurt his knee. Not his left knee or his right knee. His weenie"

If you can find one person in 20 that cares about these I'd be surprised, but just keep worrying what color sandals the toga set is wearing if it takes your mind off Rome burning. 🙄

Great stories @Motor City Sonics. Pocket schedules. Oh man, just like chips, you couldn’t take just one when you found them. You had to grab a few because you needed to have them in different locations and/or spares just in case. But you’d be cool about it. You’d grab a couple here, s couple there, another couple from somewhere else. You wouldn’t empty out the first box you saw. You couldn’t do that to the next person needing their fix.

Niekro with the little smirk when they saw it fly.....

But do we know if they pitched with their usual pitching arm?

I mean, sure, gotta keep subscriptions up somehow, right?

This list goes on and on apparently. https://www.medicinenet.com/what_are_the_72_other_genders/article.htm

I was a little too young to really appreciate the Bad Boys so I didn't become a fan until the Grant Hill era. He became my favorite player and I was really bummed when he left for Orlando and all we got was this no name undersized center who couldn't score. That probably has to go down as one of the best sign and trades of all times.

June 28th is the 50th anniversary of that Yankee Monday Night game. The whole game is on You Tube (I think they cut the commercials out, though). I am going to re-watch the entire thing. That was wild. Nobody left until he took that curtain call and he was totally freaked out by it. I don't think he understood what he really meant. You have to remember, the year before that Kaline retired, the team was 57-102. Three game short of a full season because they were so bad they didn't need to make up rain outs? They lost 19 in a row that year. And then BOOM. Here comes Fidrych, LeFlore and Staub and they had a winning record again. The rest of that team in 1976 wasn't very good. Aging Bill Freehan, Mickey Stanley and Willie Horton. Tom Veryer and Pedro Garcia up the middle. Yuck. Starting rotation was The Bird, Dave roberts, Vern Ruhle and Ray Bare (with Joe Coleman getting traded). They had a losing record but it's hard to remember it like that because Fidrych made it so exciting. I still remember one of his commercials, sort of. It might have been for Highland Appliance, were he's on the mound telling the ball about all the great deals, then he throws the pitch, you hear a loud knock and Fidrych watches the ball sail away and says "Hey, Ball, where ya goin?" - then the announcer says "that balls headed to Highland Appliance" - or whatever it was. Here's part of a commercial clip, for something else, who knows what