Baseball
Looks like Korean baseball has begun or is beginning. They are offering contests at draftkings starting Monday. I started fiddling around with line ups before I realized it was stupid and closed up that tab.
Matt Keough passing away was a bummer. He was one of those guys in my wheelhouse just as I was beginning to love the game….
I miss the game.
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Keough was there during Billy Ball. Martin had come back home; he was born and raised in the East Bay Area. The A’s went from being terrible to being a playoff team.
Geezers might remember his father and uncle…
Yes Loo remember Marty better than Joe. Checked out A’s numbers when Matt had good seasons, 1980-81 (partial half season). Rickey Henderson in 1980 stole 100 scored over 100 struck out only 54 times hit .300/.420/.399.
That team also had Tony Armas Mitchell Page Dwayne Murphy and Mike Norris who won 22 games. Martin always seemed to be able to enthuse a team for first couple seasons as mgr. before things eventually soured for one reason or another.
I think it was because he drank a little too much and was just a little crazy.
I loved going to Billy Ball games they were fun.
In case you missed it the first time. They hype was pretty huge and he got better and better with every race. All 3 races if you let it run. I could do without the cornball music . . .
For your amusement, Chuck this is the 1975 KYD, in which Chic Anderson famously (infamously Pawlie?) called Prince Thou Art the winner right until the very end when someone must have smacked him and told him that it was actually Foolish Pleasure in front. The video quality is horrendous, or else you would see that the reason Bombay Duck backed up so suddenly is because some scumbag in the crowd threw a beer can at him hitting him on his side. I think after that the drunken infield crowd was kept further back…
The back page headline on one of the local papers the next day was: “Prince Thou Ain’t”
This is the ABC coverage with Cosell & McKay. Much clearer picture and no mention of Anderson’s monumental gaffe unless it just didn’t make the cut. The trophy presentation by the governor is full of mispronunciations and cringe worthy moments…
Didn’t matter where Secretariat was in position on the race track, he had extra RPM’S when needed then any other horse 🐎! A Legendary Horsepower Machine that will rank #1 alltime among many fans and critics..
Secretariat fans are kinda like Beatle fans…
astute call.
Didn’t see the beer toss. Just Diablo and Avatar nearly taking each other out.
I can’t see it either – but it did happen.
The horse said so in a post race interview…
Yeah real bummer about Matt Keough’s death.RIP Matt
He had the recognition of being on the SI cover back in 1981 called “The 5 Aces” with fellow pitchers Steve McCatty,Brian Kingman,Rick Langford,and Dave Norris..Part of the zany Billy Martin Billy Ball era..
Even though Kapler has a .500 record with this team he was given, I still think he’s weak. 😁
Giants’ TV network is showing 3 retro games today.
Keough was a guy I always kind of liked too. Had a real up and down career. Remember he had that bad head injury from a freak accident in spring training. I forgot it was against the Giants at Scottsdale Stadium. John Patterson lined a ball into the dugout that hit him the temple area.
look at these dumb motherfuckers. I don’t see a single person wearing a mask or distancing themselves from anyone. Big diff between the way these people are living and the way people in my community are living
No one could say MF like Richard Pryor…
Leon from curb your enthusiasm says in a different but equally brilliant way
Here’s that A’s SI cover:
Just can’t see why Brian Kingman is included as one of they’re Ace’s on the cover.He stunk going 23-45 in the 4 seasons with the A’s.His best year in 1979 he was 8-7.His worse year 8-20.The guy was just a terrible pitcher..
He was off to a good start (3-0) in ’81 when the SI issue was published…
Once again, the country is wait-and-see mode. 2 weeks from now we’ll either see a spike in cases or not now that these restrictions are being lifted in GA and elsewhere. Golf and tennis are now OK in Contra Costa County.
that would have been GOAT game of all time to see—92 Dream Team playing each other.
If you look at credits not very far down list once they start, notice Andrew Thompson’s name as “executive producer”. He’s Klay’s uncle and brother of Mychal, heavily involved in assembling footage he shot filming 1998 Bulls season.
It’s a Lincecum theme in the retro games today. First, a victory vs. the Angels in ‘15. Then a victory vs. the Cards in ‘14. The 3rd game is vs. the Dodgers in ‘12.
I’m guessing Timmy goes 3-0?
You are correct!
Feels like Timmy’s career went by in a blink…
This surprised me:
Tim’s combined W-L record in his final 2 seasons as a Giant: 19-13
Well, I gave the Jordan thing a shot and was done in 10 minutes.
Can’t stand him and the Bulls.
All recordings deleted…
Couldn’t even make it thru the first episode, before I gave up.
Korean baseball up and running… I shared here a couple weeks ago videos about Taiwan up and running.. but I saw only that first game, haven’t seen if they’ve continued. Let’s see how long til they allow fans in, that might give the US a yardstick indicator…
Jeremy Lin, who has credibility, describes the new normal in Beijing:
https://nypost.com/2020/05/02/jeremy-lin-coronavirus-in-beijing-shocking-knicks-gesture/
Interesting, and similar to here in VN, everyone has that tracking app, temp checks everywhere, and some small groups but still hesitating about big groups… which is really something, since big groups for dinner and drinking are what they do here….
There would be much debate in the U.S. over whether the Chinese response is too much and too invasive, or if it is China taking the virus as seriously as it needs to be taken.
I think the U.S., as an overall nation, would rather let hundreds of thousands of people die from the virus than lose too much of their freedom. We know that from the gun situation in the U.S.
The tracking thing is so key. Yes, some people (many people?) might view that as infringement on privacy, but I don’t. Track me, I don’t care, I got nuthin’ to hide… Well… mostly…
The U.S. is in the horrible situation of having a president who sees his reelection chances sinking, and is trying to open up the economy of the nation too soon in order to try to make a Hail Mary pass to save his reelection chances. Trump’s attitude is “I got nothing to lose.”
Trump is just going to keep issuing stimulus checks until everyone who gets one feels guilted into voting for him.
The comparison to climate change is still an apt one. It’s all about immediate experience. If the deaths are in the hundreds of thousands, there’s still a very good chance you won’t know anyone personally who’s died. The deaths aren’t being perpetrated by a foreign enemy nor do they have the shock value of a 9/11. If they crept into the millions, I guarantee you those freedom fighters’ principles would disappear as quickly as the libertarian capitalist’s disdain for massive government spending does when financial losses hit home.
Loo and Craig, as horse racing fans, you might appreciate this. Pretty funny, especially the call as they hit the finish line…. 🙂
Don Shula passed away.