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artie_fufkin wrote:
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Interesting strategy. Bunt a guy over to third so you can send up a .235 hitter for a pitcher who has thrown four shutout innings ...
I’m very pleased they pulled Reyes.I think if they hadn't expected to get five innings from him, they shouldn't have started him. I mean, really. There are only eight guys in the bullpen. Surely, you have to save a couple for tomorrow.
Unless there was something to that mound visit with the trainer. I assume that isn't the case since they let him finish the inning, but there was something that concerned them. That may have factored into the decision to pull him after 4.
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artie_fufkin wrote:
Mags wrote:
artie_fufkin wrote:
The one guy on the board who I thought would respond to the S&H green stamps reference ...
Thanks. I saw my first Green Stamps in Fayetteville’ Ark. in summer 1950.
At the same drugstore where I encountered my first “electric eye” door opener.
Who knew Arkansas had electricity in 1950?
The First National in Norwood used to give double green stamps on Thursdays. You'd spend an entire year collecting them and pasting them into books. Then you'd bring them to the S&H store so you could get a free bottle opener you could have bought for a dime at Woolworth's.
FWIW, I remember greens stamps too. Basically the adult version of the tickets kids get when they go to places like Dave and Busters or Chuck E. Cheese. They play $50 worth of video games to collect enough tickets to get a plastic toy worth about a dime.
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artie_fufkin wrote:
Mags wrote:
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What the hell is Munoz doing?
Did he throw to the wrong base?He anticipated the throw going to first on Guerra's bunt and didn't cover the bag.
And when I say "didn't cover the bag" I mean he was there but didn't have a foot on the base when the throw arrived from Carpenter.
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forsberg_us wrote:
artie_fufkin wrote:
Mags wrote:
I’m very pleased they pulled Reyes.I think if they hadn't expected to get five innings from him, they shouldn't have started him. I mean, really. There are only eight guys in the bullpen. Surely, you have to save a couple for tomorrow.
Unless there was something to that mound visit with the trainer. I assume that isn't the case since they let him finish the inning, but there was something that concerned them. That may have factored into the decision to pull him after 4.
I have the sound down. Did the Facebook announcers ever mention what it was?
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In today's society, how is the sausage race not offensive cultural appropriation? I'm sure Mexicans and social justice warriors all over the world are offended by a chorizo wearing a sombrero.
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artie_fufkin wrote:
forsberg_us wrote:
artie_fufkin wrote:
I think if they hadn't expected to get five innings from him, they shouldn't have started him. I mean, really. There are only eight guys in the bullpen. Surely, you have to save a couple for tomorrow.
Unless there was something to that mound visit with the trainer. I assume that isn't the case since they let him finish the inning, but there was something that concerned them. That may have factored into the decision to pull him after 4.
I have the sound down. Did the Facebook announcers ever mention what it was?
They speculated that Reyes' most recent fastballs were only in the 92-93 range and that might have caused concern. Since they left him in, they assumed Reyes was sacrificing velocity for control, after which he resumed throwing 96, thus seemingly confirming their speculation.
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forsberg_us wrote:
artie_fufkin wrote:
Mags wrote:
Thanks. I saw my first Green Stamps in Fayetteville’ Ark. in summer 1950.
At the same drugstore where I encountered my first “electric eye” door opener.
Who knew Arkansas had electricity in 1950?
The First National in Norwood used to give double green stamps on Thursdays. You'd spend an entire year collecting them and pasting them into books. Then you'd bring them to the S&H store so you could get a free bottle opener you could have bought for a dime at Woolworth's.FWIW, I remember greens stamps too. Basically the adult version of the tickets kids get when they go to places like Dave and Busters or Chuck E. Cheese. They play $50 worth of video games to collect enough tickets to get a plastic toy worth about a dime.
I thought Dave & Buster's was for older "kids?"
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In today's society, how is the sausage race not offensive cultural appropriation? I'm sure Mexicans and social justice warriors all over the world are offended by a chorizo wearing a sombrero.
As a person of English ancestors, I'm a little wounded there's no representation of a Toad in the Hole.
To whom do I address my outrage?
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A Bader Bomb!
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E - 5
Can Kelly bunt ?
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... and the fucking video feed stopped.
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don.rob11 wrote:
E - 5
Can Kelly bunt ?
Apparently so. But can the Cardinals drive in a runner from 3rd with less than 2 outs?
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artie_fufkin wrote:
... and the fucking video feed stopped.
Hit refresh. I've had that happen a couple of times.
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artie_fufkin wrote:
Mags wrote:
artie_fufkin wrote:
Interesting strategy. Bunt a guy over to third so you can send up a .235 hitter for a pitcher who has thrown four shutout innings ...
I’m very pleased they pulled Reyes.I think if they hadn't expected to get five innings from him, they shouldn't have started him. I mean, really. There are only eight guys in the bullpen. Surely, you have to save a couple for tomorrow.
What they expected and what they got are two very different things. Ricky H and John what-the-fuck were talking about it on the radio as I was coming home. They confirmed the impression that I had gotten from the situations Reyes found himself in and the pitches he had thrown. Plenty of work for a guy just coming off Tommy John surgery. They sure as hell didn't need to hold him back until they had a chance to give him four innings in relief. Besides, why the hell would it have been so much better to have Gant start the game?
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That lead was short lived
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Pissa. Now I've missed half the runs because the FB feed stopped.
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artie_fufkin wrote:
Mags wrote:
artie_fufkin wrote:
The one guy on the board who I thought would respond to the S&H green stamps reference ...
Thanks. I saw my first Green Stamps in Fayetteville’ Ark. in summer 1950.
At the same drugstore where I encountered my first “electric eye” door opener.
Who knew Arkansas had electricity in 1950?
The First National in Norwood used to give double green stamps on Thursdays. You'd spend an entire year collecting them and pasting them into books. Then you'd bring them to the S&H store so you could get a free bottle opener you could have bought for a dime at Woolworth's.
I think at the time they thought they Fayetteville was on the Oklahoma side of the line.
Did I ever tell you that I once lived in Norwood for a little over two months? On Walpole street. I believe it was 88. Just down the road from the gift shop that was selling chokers made by Albert de Salvo..
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In today's society, how is the sausage race not offensive cultural appropriation? I'm sure Mexicans and social justice warriors all over the world are offended by a chorizo wearing a sombrero.
Good point.
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I'll never understand why the Cardinals didn't go after Yelich. They could have offered Fowler for him, straight up.
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Mags wrote:
artie_fufkin wrote:
Mags wrote:
Thanks. I saw my first Green Stamps in Fayetteville’ Ark. in summer 1950.
At the same drugstore where I encountered my first “electric eye” door opener.
Who knew Arkansas had electricity in 1950?
The First National in Norwood used to give double green stamps on Thursdays. You'd spend an entire year collecting them and pasting them into books. Then you'd bring them to the S&H store so you could get a free bottle opener you could have bought for a dime at Woolworth's.I think at the time they thought they Fayetteville was on the Oklahoma side of the line.
Did I ever tell you that I once lived in Norwood for a little over two months? On Walpole street. I believe it was 88. Just down the road from the gift shop that was selling chokers made by Albert de Salvo..
Yes. We were at either 488 or 588 Walpole Street, almost near the Walpole line. You would have been closer to Norwood Center, near where my mother grew up. She lived across the street from the public library.
I think that gift shop is still there. They have a stranglehold on the tacky souvenir market in the area.
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artie_fufkin wrote:
Mags wrote:
artie_fufkin wrote:
Who knew Arkansas had electricity in 1950?
The First National in Norwood used to give double green stamps on Thursdays. You'd spend an entire year collecting them and pasting them into books. Then you'd bring them to the S&H store so you could get a free bottle opener you could have bought for a dime at Woolworth's.I think at the time they thought they Fayetteville was on the Oklahoma side of the line.
Did I ever tell you that I once lived in Norwood for a little over two months? On Walpole street. I believe it was 88. Just down the road from the gift shop that was selling chokers made by Albert de Salvo..
Yes. We were at either 488 or 588 Walpole Street, almost near the Walpole line. You would have been closer to Norwood Center, near where my mother grew up. She lived across the street from the public library.
I think that gift shop is still there. They have a stranglehold on the tacky souvenir market in the area.
Damn that was close to the pen. Was one of your parents by any chance the warden?
BTW, it was Septemenber and October of 1971 when I lived there. After that, we moved into Watertown.
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That was a Hadef / announcer lovefest
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Mags wrote:
artie_fufkin wrote:
Mags wrote:
I think at the time they thought they Fayetteville was on the Oklahoma side of the line.
Did I ever tell you that I once lived in Norwood for a little over two months? On Walpole street. I believe it was 88. Just down the road from the gift shop that was selling chokers made by Albert de Salvo..
Yes. We were at either 488 or 588 Walpole Street, almost near the Walpole line. You would have been closer to Norwood Center, near where my mother grew up. She lived across the street from the public library.
I think that gift shop is still there. They have a stranglehold on the tacky souvenir market in the area.Damn that was close to the pen. Was one of your parents by any chance the warden?
No. I think my Uncle Gerry got picked up on an OUI once, but that's as close to the Massachusetts state penitentiary system as anyone from the Norwood tree of my family got.
Incidentally, the former Walpole State Prison is now known by the much more bucolic and docile moniker of "Cedar Junction." It seemed the law abiding residents of Walpole were being stigmatized by sharing a name with one of the state's two maximum security prisons.
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"After that, we moved into Watertown."
Sheryl and I lived in Watertown for two years right after we got married, on the top floor of a duplex. Our 95-year-old landlady lived on the bottom floor. She forbade us to do laundry on Sunday because it was "the lord's day." But she was almost completely deaf and we were able to sneak down to the washer/dryer in the cellar, if we needed to. I told Sheryl if she ever got caught, she could tell the landlady that *her* lord's day was Saturday and she had permission from a higher power.
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Reyes come back to soon , or is this someone stirring the pot ?