Jim Cowan

2 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

Cycling racers are really beat up too. Yesterday Tony Martin of the German team closed out his career in the mixed relay races in Flanders with a gold medal and a rainbow jersey. The close-ups of him revealed that his right eye has been almost completely reconstructed and he has scars scraped across his forehead. 

I saw that photo, Tony Martin is 35 and he looks more like 60.

2 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Going from 71 wins in 1960 with the 154 game schedule to 101 wins in 1961 with the new 162 game schedule was a pretty good leap. Although I became a Tiger fan in 1960 I wasn’t much on standings then. In 1961 though, I was pretty well glued to it and it was so frustrating for the Tigers to be so good and for the Yankees to be better. My next-door neighbor was a Yankee fan because he wanted to always root for a team that won, which I’ve always considered a serious character flaw. The Yankees won 109 that year. I gained a lot of my ground work knowledge of the game listening to Ernie. I remember him talking about the Angels Bo Belinsky in 1962 and how he threw a no hitter sometime before the Tigers were playing them out there. I was listening to the game under my covers with a transistor radio which is one of those sacred shared generational memories.

Same for me, 1962, but just to prove that there is a God, the AM station in Niagara Falls, Ontario picked up the WJR baseball broadcast in 1962 and 1963.  So, for my first two years it was Ernie and Paul loud and clear every night, and I drew up a scoresheet and sat at the kitchen table.  After 1963 I had to take the kitchen radio out into the back yard and find a spot with faint reception and minimal static.

Is it too soon to give up on Tony Giarratano?  He's still only 38.

4 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

It's pretty depressing when you consider how many middle infielders have passed through the Tiger turnstiles both majors and minors since Iglesias walked and that not one of them has been able to either make the majors or be useful once there. Niko and W. Castro especially since both flashed just enough to get the FO hooked on them, but both have now disappeared for all intents and purposes.

Yes and Alcantara was glove-ready, and probably some other guys that I have already forgotten.

Hey Kirk, if you are going to take proprietary information out onto the field, take care of it properly.  PS nice build!

I had never even heard of cards until yesterday.  I don't see a problem.  A quarterback can have a list of plays taped to his wrist.

For some reason when I see that 68 road uniform the player that I think of is Dick McAuliffe.

15 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

This is a concept MWG could have a little fun with. Set up a hierarchy of double-dealing and collusion: Collaborator, Quisling, Sympathizer, Snake in the Grass, etc --- and most appropriately "defector". 

 

Earlier ranks could be "know-it-all", "pain-in-the-ass", etc.

Lol White Sox.  Enjoy the rest of your day LaRussa you puke.

Just now, IdahoBert said:

Never in doubt

Lol

Never in doubt

Just now, casimir said:

The 0-2 pitch was close.

Legit 1-2 pitch to get a swing out of the zone.

Oh yeah I liked the 0-2, up and in

6 balls in a row

Come on  Fulmer, you had him 0-2 and walked him.

Yes!  Really needed to get Grandal there.

Yes!  Really needed to get Abreu there.

OK that 1 run means nothing, Fulmer needs 3 outs in the 9th

Here's Fulmer

I'm trying to think how long I have hated Angel Hernandez.  It has to be at least 10 years, doesn't it?

He was hitting 100 on the gun a few years ago.  All the GMs loved him as a CF because of the wheels and the arm, but he just couldn't hit enough.  

10 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

For some other team, please.

I'll take those 2 innings any time.

I see that the Castrati are our DP combo now

Now pitching, Aaron Burr

Hutchison looks like a guy who wants to stay in the major leagues this time.

Now pitching for the Cheeze Dix, Bob Cratchit