Stix Rises?
Then I missed some things. Admittedly I haven’t been pouring over the comments lately. I thought I read something about one of the Chuck’s finding out that he’s no longer listed as a prisoner. What else has been found to indicate he is “alive and well?”
What comes back first? Stix or baseball?
Also, I was sifting through some old photos that I’ve posted here before and found this one. Good times.
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talk about a calm presence on the sidelines and you’re talking about this guy.
Yeah that’s too bad, loved Sloan. Tough player on those old Bulls teams that used to battle Warriors with Norm Van Lier, Bob Love Chet Walker. He ran great motion 1-4 offensive sets in Utah even after Stockton Hornacek Malone; those 3 ran classic variations of triangle set up with highly skilled and very efficient smart players.
I watched Ja Morant and Grizzlies vs. Wizards last night, two marginal playoff teams that mostly cranked up ill advised 3s or dribbled around forever without going anywhere. Morant and Beal are fun to watch, otherwise the concept of what the teams do is boring mix of endless high screen and roll and everyone standing around perimeter.
Flav – as I mentioned on the past thread, I swapped IMs with a couple of Stix’s relatives, and was told he is living with his sister about 20 miles south of Minneapolis in Lakeville. I passed along my contact info, so hope to hear from our man.
So, unless Bruce was pulling my leg, it appears our guy has been released. Not sure if he is on probation, etc., but he is a free man.
Looking forward to the first Stix post, if he does indeed post.
Ok, I missed this one. Thanks. So either he’s in a house without internet or he’s ghosting us. Lqtm
LMAO. True. Who knows…if he is on probation, there may be some goofy-ass rule about no internet for a certain time…Anyway, we do know that he has been released and is living with his sis. That alone made my day, especially after the news xoot had shared a while back about the prisons being rampant with cova-19.
Memorial Day weekend seems empty. 2002-2007 I was coaching Asian travel ball club team and this is when we hosted tournament teams from SF, Sacramento, Peninsula and LA. 6 age divisions, boys and girls, 2 games Saturday followed by Adult Social (free food and drink) dance for players and then finals game Sunday.
There were separate levels for adults–I saw local Piedmont Hills of San Jose guy Rex Walters play in one after his NBA career was over.
Once I stopped coaching I would go check out teams at different gyms; last season someone I had coached was now coaching and his team is very good and fun to watch; always run into parents grandparents and even refs from past. But not this weekend.
That IS a great pic. Funny thing, my nephew Joe was the one who entered the scrum and aggressively tried to get the ball. (Panik home run ball in Game 5 NLCS). Somehow it squirted out of the scrum and came right to Matt.
Joe came back disappointed saying he didn’t get it, and then Matt held up the ball showing he had it–and all hell broke loose, leading to that photo.
Can’t wait for the first Stix Post!
Never get tired of seeing that photo. It’s a classic.
Chi–thanks for all of your efforts keeping in touch with Stix and tracking him down. It’s gonna be awesome if/when he gets back on here.
You bet, SanD. I know a lot of Flappers are interested in how he is doing. I truly hope he pops-up here. It will be a hoot and a day to celebrate!
I was just thinking, I hope some troll doesn’t try to log in as Stix to fuck with us. Then I realized that would be impossible to pull off. His writing style was one of a kind.
Exactly.plys I can check the back end, make sure he’s using his stix email addy, I doubt he even knows how to fire up another email account.
Agree. The dude definitely has a unique writing style. After swapping many letters with him, I would spot a fraud in a NY minute.
That photo with the ball is so great. Rights to the photo should be sold to MLB for them to use as a marketing photo.
For when crowds are allowed to gather at games again, however, which could be a very long time.
Zum, I fixed that e-mail link on the last thread if you’re interested.
Can’t believe what a mess I made of it the first time…
Watching end of game 2 1980 world series Phils over Royals. Phils rally vs. Quiz for 4 runs, Bake McBride Mike Schmidt Rose at 1b.
Jose Cardenal was in RF for Royals. U L Toothpick Washington at SS. Any baseball cards actually show him with the toothpick?
Astro turf ball.
btw, is the gal in the pic UncChuck’s daughter?
I think that the first all-turf World Series.
it is diggity’s son and Unca CHucks daughter
It looks like there’s a bit of toothpick here:
http://baseballsimulator.com/baseballcards/front.php?id2=16640
ha thx!
absolutely. The first card I had of his had to the toothpick
When I get home I’m gonna tag panik and the giants on Twitter with that pic
Guess Singletary is lacking WINNERS!!
Can’t do it,Can’t coach them,I WANT WINNERS!!!
After dropping trou for the 20th time and still not winning, Samurai Mike left with his katana between his legs.
Thanks for the Astrid link, Loo. Very nice article.
Looking forward to a Stix reunion here at the Flap. Hope it happens.
Hell yeah, Can’t wait for Stix to figure out how to get back in here. Might be a little while. And that pic is great! I have a couple pics of that, but not that one. I just retweeted that as well.
Sandawg Jr got Joe’s bat for the ball after the game.
Panik isn’t too active on twitter but I hope he sees the pic I tagged him to. If it were me I’d want to see that.
oh no shit? I guess I knew that. I thought Panik would think it was cool to see the pic of the ball and now I find out he’s got the fucking ball lol
“New York Knicks legend and Georgetown head coach Patrick Ewing has tested positive for COVID-19.”
Disgrace that the Knicks gave every clown on Earth a shot at HC, but never Ewing…
Probably just as well for Ewing.
You’re right…
It’s a good feeling to know our brother Stix is out of that hell hole and living with family.
I hope those of us (like me) who didn’t reach out to him for whatever reason can figure
a way to do something nice for the man…
It’s great that he’s out. Would be even better to hear from him. The government stole almost 4 years of his life. That’s fucked up.
Well fortunately for Stix Covaid19 hit and due to his age they cut him loose.He could still be in Hell Hole if the government had their way.Cyrus the Virus helped out Stix imo..
I wonder if Stix is aware of how much of a legend he has become on the Flap…..
Here’s the signed bat, Matt, and Joe.
Great photo!
Agreed!