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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Rapparee Date: 28 Oct 06 - 12:36 PM Amos, it's even stranger to say "Gee, the Cubs took the Series this year!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Charley Noble Date: 28 Oct 06 - 09:58 AM So the Tigers tanked! Too bad. I had a great limmerick if they had won, something about the smile inside of the tiger. I've got a hangnail that needs attention. Any suggestions? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Raptor Date: 28 Oct 06 - 07:53 AM Well Shit and shove me in it! I'm going back to my Jays. My 2nd Fav team broke my heart! Raptor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Amos Date: 28 Oct 06 - 12:54 AM To be exact, it's been 24 years -- 1982 -- since it was last said with a straight face... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Amos Date: 28 Oct 06 - 12:47 AM Hell, they haven't had a series in a long time, so, good on them for shaking things up. How often do you get to say "The Cards took the World Series....?" It even sounds strange to the ear. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: GUEST,282RA Date: 28 Oct 06 - 12:35 AM >>What a way to break in a brand new stadium. I've said it before, I'll say it one more time, this season...GO CARDS!!! 2006 World Series Champions<< Congrats to the Cards. They certainly played like they wanted it--a marked difference from their opponent. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: GUEST,282RA Date: 28 Oct 06 - 12:34 AM >>Now when I read your posts after the series you seem to be saying that they THREW the series??? Acted? Gave a false impression?<< I'd feel far better than I do now if they had thrown the series. At least then they'd have had to tone down their play in order to lose. But they had no play to tone down. They were outplayed in every category. No excuses. Tigers should have won it and they should have swept it. They had every advantage. Instead the melted down against a team that wouldn't have even made the playoffs had they been in the AL. That is unacceptable play. >>Geeziz Man, they had a bad time of it.<< Really? What gave you that impression? >>Excrement occurs.<< It certainly occurred on Detroit's end of things. >>Neither team looked like anything memorable......<< Cards kicked their ass. Looked pretty memorable to me. If I were a Cards fan I'd be jumping up and down and laughing myself silly over how easy it was beat the oh-so-fearsome Tigers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Chip2447 Date: 28 Oct 06 - 12:00 AM What a way to break in a brand new stadium. I've said it before, I'll say it one more time, this season...GO CARDS!!! 2006 World Series Champions Chip2447 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:48 PM So what are you saying 282? Before the series you said: Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: GUEST,282RA - PM Date: 21 Oct 06 - 02:36 PM Cards have World Series experience. That will help them. Will it be enough? Not from what I can see. Tigers should win this one. I'm almost hoping it goes 6 so they can take it in Detroit. But I'm going to give St. Louis a game. I'll say Tigers in 5. St. Louis has really not played well all season--several large losing streaks in mid-season--and would not be a contender in the AL. The Tigers came out of the most competitive division by far in either league this season and does not appear to be tankless at all. It just doesn't look to me like St. Louis can bring enough to the table. Now when I read your posts after the series you seem to be saying that they THREW the series??? Acted? Gave a false impression? Geeziz Man, they had a bad time of it. Excrement occurs. Neither team looked like anything memorable...... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Big Mick Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:41 PM Do me a favor, buddy? Go be a fan of some other team. Any one will do except the Red Sox. How about the Yankees? The A's? San Diego? Any one will do. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: GUEST,282RA Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:39 PM When you're in a World Series, you're in it to play and win. The Tigers did precious little of either. They played just the way they did at the end of the season when KC kicked their ass and all the Tigers had to do was win one of that last 5 games of the season to win their division. They lost em all. They gave the false impression they had put that behind them in the playoffs but the other teams were just not playing well. And when the Tigers make it to the World Series they reverted back to their end-of-the-season play where anybody would have beaten them. They had no chance against St. Louis or anyone else. Getting shellacked the first game, getting shut out in game 4 and the only game they won they cheated. That was pretty piss poor. To be beaten by any team in the NL is cause for supreme embarrassment. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:39 PM Oh I'm sure it will be on you. The question is, how badly will it stain? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Big Mick Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:37 PM Damn, he even beat me to the friggin post. Shit, my world sucks. Lunch on me. Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:36 PM Well that didn't take long.............. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Big Mick Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:36 PM 'Spaw, I am fairly breathless with anticipation. That will be damn near as enjoyable as a hemorrhoidectomy. Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Peter T. Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:35 PM So anyway, about lunch....... (caw, caw, caw) yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:31 PM Deep shit Mick.......Wait til PT get ahold of you!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:28 PM BM- I hope you do better in real life than in prognosticating World Series'. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Big Mick Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:27 PM Jeezizkeeriste, 282RA, I have seen jumpin' off the bandwagon, but you take the cake. Couldn't you at least let the detractors do the ass kickin??????? You ain't much of a Tigers fan in my book. Leej, do you think I will look good in red?????? Anyone got a good stuffing recipe for crow? Shit. Life sucks, then basketball and hockey start. Mick, gone shopping for a Cardinals hat (Oh the friggin' shame) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: GUEST,282RA Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:13 PM The Tigers should be ashamed of themselves for looking so bad in the World Series. Wasn't much of a series. It was obvious from Game 1 that they would lose. They put on an act as though they could take on anybody but it's obvious now that it was nothing but luck. They got lucky. St. Louis is a pretty bad team considering their multiple 8-game losing streaks this season and they mopped up the Tigers and for that I can only say too bad. The better team definitely won. They could have at least made a series out of it. Thanks for nothing, boys. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Charley Noble Date: 27 Oct 06 - 09:14 PM I always root for the underdog, in this case for the Tigers who beat up the American League in an awesome display of talent and power this year. And to think they were in the pits just a few years ago. My White Soxs finally pulled it off last year, and I'm not about to write off the Tigers until the bottom half of the ninth inning of the last game. All they got to do is focus, and pass a round some Ripple to pull it off! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: GUEST Date: 27 Oct 06 - 07:33 PM Um, I'm not really good at math, but its not looking too good for Sylvester and the Pussycats. "I tawwt I taw a tiwger.......I did, I did" Never count the tweetie birds completely out. Freightdawg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: pdq Date: 27 Oct 06 - 06:51 PM "Stanislaus Musial...was born the first son and second youngest of six children to Lukasz Musial, a Polish immigrant and zinc mine worker and Mary Lancos who had Slovakian immigrant grandparents...He was the first inductee into the Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame, in 1973 and the Polish National Hall of Fame." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Lonesome EJ Date: 27 Oct 06 - 06:01 PM Stan Musial was a Pennsylvania boy, the son of a Czech immigrant. He joined the Cards line up in 1940, and finally took his last at bat in 1963. Throughout his career he was a consistent RBI hitter, led the NL in batting average 7 times, and led 6 times in hits and on base percentage. In the process, Musial helped the Redbirds win the World Series in 1942, when the "St Louis Swifties" used dominant hitting and base-running to beat the Yankees in 5. Old Number 6 also led St Louis in 1944 to victory in the "Trolleycar Series" over crosstown rivals the St Louis Browns 4 to 2. His bat was a key in the victory over the Red Sox in 1946, as well. Preacher Rowe, a Dodgers pitcher of the era said of Musial "My best way of dealing with Musial is this : I throw him 4 wide ones and then try to pick him off at first." In 1966, a statue of Stan the Man was erected at Busch Stadium. When meeting friends at the Stadium, the statue is a common rendezvous point, and "I'll met you by Stan" is an often-heard phrase. Stan The Man Musial turns 86 next November 21st. As Musial was a soft-spoken gentleman, Enos "Big Country" Slaughter was a take-no-prisoners, loud, aggressive force on the diamond. The North Carolinian hit .392 in 1946, and was immortalized for scoring from first on a single by Henry Walker in the bottom of the eighth inning, game 7 against the Red Sox. Circling the bases at top speed like a rhino in spikes, Slaughter scored the run that would win the Series for St Louis. Slaughter ran everywhere, even to first on a walk. And Big Country saw every opposing player as an enemy, every game as a battle to the death. A son of the segregated South, Slaughter tried to organize a strike when Jackie Robinson came into the league, and was shunned by Major League Baseball for forty years after cleating Robinson in the leg on a close play at first. Enos maintained he would have cleated anyone in the same situation, and there were certainly enough infielders with scarred shins and ankles to vouch for that. "A guy gets in my way, I run over him," Slaughter was quoted as saying. Whatever you think of old Enos Slaughter, one thing's certain : Nobody hustled more, or played harder, not even Slaughter's great admirer,Pete Rose. His "Mad Dash" is a part of Cardinals legend, evidence that talent and luck play a roll in victory, but nothing beats sheer guts and determination. Outside Busch Stadium, cast immortally in bronze, Slaughter slides into home plate, the catcher a breath too late for the tag, the umpire signalling safe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Cool Beans Date: 27 Oct 06 - 02:40 PM What Amos said, with the added note that it was the Cardinals whom the Tigers defeated in the 1968 SEries, after being down 3-1. We've got 'em right wehre we want 'em. Heh heh heh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Big Mick Date: 27 Oct 06 - 12:50 PM Damn, Peter. You have a bit of a mean streak. LOL. Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Peter T. Date: 27 Oct 06 - 12:42 PM It is to laugh. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Amos Date: 27 Oct 06 - 09:33 AM I remind you that in 1968 the Tigers came back from behind, winning three games in a row to clinch the series. The World Series. Just don't count your cardinals before they bugger, or whatever it is they do. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Big Mick Date: 27 Oct 06 - 09:32 AM
Yo (as we say here in Jersey)...... Driver ..... don't you dare slow down the bandwagon ..... if these layabouts want to jump off, make 'em do it at full speed..... hope they land on der gobs ...... Oh ye of little faith, don't forget my other beloved team, the Boston Red Sox. The same was said of them the year they broke the curse. I am looking around for a hat, but I ain't buyin' it yet. That is the Manager of the Year in the dugout, ya know. Anyone know a decent purveyor of poultry that sells fresh crow. Mitre, indeed. HAAARRRRRUUUUUMMMMMPH. Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Peter T. Date: 27 Oct 06 - 08:11 AM What will I have for lunch...........? yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 27 Oct 06 - 02:04 AM Ah, Mick! It's all over bar the shoutin'. As we Red Sox fans are wont to say - Wait til next year. Yer gonna look lovely in that Cardinal hat. I believe they call it a mitre. Seamus |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Chip2447 Date: 27 Oct 06 - 01:32 AM One more victory for the Cards and this one is a done deal. Make sure you get pictures of Mick wearing his Cardinal hat proudly. The weather for tomorrow night doesnt look too promising but what a way to open a brand new stadium... GO CARDS!!! Chip2447 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Lonesome EJ Date: 26 Oct 06 - 07:41 PM Peter T "One thing you can say for them...they just don't quit!" I love that particular cliche. Has a baseball team actually quit when things were going badly? "Ok, Ok. We get the point. No use playing these last two innings. Why swing at the ball when we know we ain't gonna hit it? It's just humiliating. We're going home." I mean, there are times this year when the Kansas City Royals SHOULD have probably quit and spared everyone a lot of wasted time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Big Mick Date: 26 Oct 06 - 02:32 PM ROFLMAO. Thank gawd I wasn't drinking anything when I read that, Rap!! Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Rapparee Date: 26 Oct 06 - 02:11 PM Mick, I'll betcha a bottle of Jameson's best that the Cubs aren't in the Series next year. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Big Mick Date: 26 Oct 06 - 02:01 PM Damn, Peter, that is a masterful use of hyperbole. I bow to the master......LOL. Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Peter T. Date: 26 Oct 06 - 01:32 PM It's in the cards, Mick (gee, no one ever said that before!). Still, they came to play, they have to touch all the bases, and if they give 111% no one can say what will happen on the day, as long as they have heart...... Who has the biggest cliches, that is what I want to know? yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: GUEST Date: 26 Oct 06 - 11:45 AM I love baseball, but the games start too late for me..9;30 in Atlantic canada and then there are five or six adds after each half inning so it is after midnight when it ends..as for my kids, who would love to watch, they are in bed before it starts...too bad. I have a soft spot for the Tigers and I wish them well, but I can't lose sleep over it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Big Mick Date: 26 Oct 06 - 11:42 AM Ouch!!! Unfair as hell, Jeri!! You know I can't answer that because my two favorite teams on this orb are the Tigers and the Red Sox. I get panicky as hell at the thought of them playing each other in the playoffs. I know I will be happy at the outcome, and despondent at the same time. Dirty trick. LOL. Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Jeri Date: 26 Oct 06 - 11:40 AM If the Red Sox could play this year, they would have kicked both the birdies and big pussies collective asses. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Cool Beans Date: 26 Oct 06 - 11:15 AM Despite the rained out game Wednesday night this morning's Detroit Free Press carried 19 stories on it. Apparently, the game itself is irrelevant. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Rapparee Date: 26 Oct 06 - 08:56 AM Unh-huh. But as the immortal said, "It ain't over yet." Go Cubs! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Big Mick Date: 26 Oct 06 - 07:50 AM Now that is some chicken shit finagling!! The Cards, justly fearful of the wrath of the Tigers, arrange a very "convenient" sprinkle to stave off the inevitable ass whuppin' that they were going to get. But have no fear, Oh Tigers Nation, our lads will be back tonight, with clean hands, and prepared to administer the righteous wrath on these pitiful escapees from an avian refugee camp. The end for the Gas House Gang begins tonight. BTW, Sam Crawford is starting in right field. This brings a live bat to spark the other hitters, and blazing speed on the bases. Be afraid, St. Screwie, very afraid. I can taste the Jamesons now. Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Rapparee Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:47 PM Cards 4, Tigers 1 -- and that'd be all she wrote. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Big Mick Date: 25 Oct 06 - 01:35 PM Damn Cards. My Tigers need to wake up those bats. How many chances did they have to score yesterday?? Now are down 2-1. But they will rise up in righteous anger and redeem themselves tonight. Too much talent not to. Go Tigers!!!! Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Lonesome EJ Date: 25 Oct 06 - 01:43 AM In the Lower East Side of Manhattan was a dingy slum called the Gashouse District, a region frequented by whores, drunks and thugs, an area which took it name from several large petroleum storage tanks in the neighborhhood. The nastiest crew of thugs in the district gathered some measure of notoriety as "The Gashouse Gang". When the 1934 Cardinals arrived at the Polo Grounds, they had just finished a rain-soaked game with the Boston Braves, and had had no time to clean their filthy uniforms. Arriving on the field sodden, funky, streaked with mud and tobacco juice, unshaven after a night on the road, the New York Giants and their fans were shocked by the appearance, and aroma, of these country boys. The next day a cartoon in the New York Herald Tribune depicted the Redbirds as "The Gashouse Gang", an insult that the team adopted as a compliment. TheGashouse Gang, featuring stars like Pepper Martin, Leo Durocher, Frankie Frisch, Ripper Collins and the Dean Boys, Dizzy and Daffy, won the National League Pennant that year, Diz pitching a record 30 winning games. They met the Detroit Tigers in the World Series, going seven games before winning the Championship. Dizzy and Daffy together won 4 games, pitching a combined ERA of 1.43. The following year, a line drive off of Dizzy Dean's toe brought an end to his pitching dominance in the National League, but the Gashouse Gang had made their mark in history, and in the hearts of the rough-and-tumble farmers, brewers, and teamsters who formed the heart of the Cardinals fan base in the Depression Era. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Lonesome EJ Date: 23 Oct 06 - 09:09 PM The Cardinals lost the World Series to the Philadelphia Athletics in 1930, but the teams met again the following year, the Cardinals this time led by the fleet John Leonard Roosevelt "Pepper" Martin. This series would mark the last appearance for the A's in the Series for forty years. The aging Redbirds pitcher, Burleigh Grimes, won two games, which included 7 no-hit innings in Game 3. Burleigh's career preceded the rule outlawing the spitball in 1920. A grandfather clause allowed Grimes to continue "wetting his pill" for the rest of his career. Pepper Martin was an Oklahoma boy, known among sportswriters of the day as "the wild horse of the Osage". He led the league in stolen bases, and had 5 in the Series. When someone asked him what made him so fast, he said that where he had grown up in Oklahoma, "once you start runnin', ain't nothin' to stop you." Pepper also was a clutch hitter, batting 500 in the 1931 World Series. Later in his career, he tried his hand at managing, once receiving a fine and suspension for choking an umpire. That shadow behind the Third Base Coach? That'd be old Pepper Martin, urging the Cardinals runners to take just one more base. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Lonesome EJ Date: 23 Oct 06 - 06:34 PM I think Tony LoRussa said it best. It was really a non issue. As you said, they couldn't hit him for seven innings after the orange thumb incident, so I don't think it affected the outcome. Rogers looks like a schizophrenic on pep pills when he's on the field, but he's a force on the mound and you get no argument from me on that. I still reserve the right to call him Kenny "Pine Tar" Rogers, though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Big Mick Date: 23 Oct 06 - 02:34 PM OK, you might have a bitch about the top of the first inning ..... except that he shut them down the other 8 innings too. Which means that it was probably resin, which dirt go into. Or not. The perfect accompaniment to a Tigers World Series Victory As endorsed by the Biggest Damn Mick you have ever seen!! The 12 year old was fine for the playoffs, but it takes 18 year old in the Series. ****snerk**** |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tigers & Cards - redbirds are goin down From: Lonesome EJ Date: 23 Oct 06 - 01:04 PM The perfect accompaniment to a Cardinals World Series Victory As endorsed by Lonesome EJ! |
