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liljol, still residing in a humble lil abode in Buzztime's Backyard, San Diego County, in The Horribly Site-Poor Golden State, California...

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F CUBS!!!!! FBOSOX!!!!!

FPDRES!!!!! FCHGRS!!!!!

Muahhhahahahah!!!

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What can baseball fans thank this man for...?

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"The game is afoot."

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liljol, still residing in a humble lil abode in Buzztime's Backyard, San Diego County, in The Horribly Site-Poor Golden State, California...

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F CUBS!!!!! FBOSOX!!!!!

FPDRES!!!!! FCHGRS!!!!!

Hey LJ,
I saw that you'd mentioned college baseball earlier and I was wondering if you could help me out. I can't seem to find the college rankings anywhere. Do you know which school is ranked #1?

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Gee, you really think SPOTES doesn't know where to find college baseball rankings?

Harry, you want to borrow my sarcasm sign?

BO

Oh come on, that's old and weak. I was hoping for an all-out attack like last time before you quietly deleted it the following morning.

BO

I see ESPN still does not know the diffrence between ASU and UofA.
11. ARIZONA (8-2)
Baseball Americia has it ASU at 11.

AJ Burnett goes to Pirates...tries to bunt...breaks face.

Let's go Bucs...Let's go B...nevermind.

The rankings I saw on ESPN had the unnamed school in question as #1.
So, I suppose, yes, I would dare.

I better not.
I still haven't returned my neighbor's and it's become a slight bone of contention.

In ICE's defense he knows two key elements of my character:
1) I hate looking things up
2) I really hate looking things up.

Actually, I was thinking that we can thank William Howard Taft for standing up in the seventh inning of opening day game between the Washington Senators and Philadelphia Athletics on April 14, 1910 at Griffith Stadium, and creating the tradition that we all love and enjoy of "The Seventh Inning Stretch" .

http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/histor ... inning.htm

Taft and the seventh-inning stretch

"Legend has it that Taft inspired another baseball tradition on that same day, quite by accident. As the face-off between the Senators and the Athletics wore on, the rotund, six-foot-two president reportedly grew more and more uncomfortable in his small wooden chair. By the middle of the seventh inning he could bear it no longer and stood up to stretch his aching legs — whereupon everyone else in the stadium, thinking the president was about to leave, rose to show their respect. A few minutes later Taft returned to his seat, the crowd followed suit, and the "seventh-inning stretch" was born."

There are some, who think it was created by Brother Jasper in 1882, perhaps there might be some truth to this story, but I doubt that a college baseball game 130 years ago is likely to be where "The Seventh Inning Stretch", that brings baseball fans to their feet in the 7th inning today, originated. (There are some other theories about this, but I don't buy them either.)



p.s. I guess we can thank President Taft for both throwing out the first pitch as well at the 7th inning stretch.

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There are only two left...

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...................................Wrigley Field................................................................................................................ Fenway Park

When the real Yankee Stadium was demolished, I looked in horror as the wrecking ball swung, and left it as a pile of rubble.



It sickens me to think of all of the baseball stadiums that have been destroyed. The Polo Grounds is now but a high rise public housing apartment building, called of all things, "Polo Grounds Towers".

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These baseball stadiums are (were) much more than brick and mortar. They are (were) basbeball cathedrals. Places steeped in history. Places where a fan could go, and think I'm sitting in the ball park where Babe Ruth, Stan Musial, Bobby Thompson, Duke Snider, Ted Kluszewski, Warren Spahn, Bob Feller, etc., once played... Right handed Yankee rookies can no longer dig into the box, and think that Joe DiMaggio once stood where I am now standing.

These stadiums are (were) holy ground, and to tear them down is a Sacrilege.

Now there only two left. I hope I am long dead and buried, before greedy owners and their ambitious advisers, decide that Wrigley Field or Fenway Park need to be bulldozed to increase corporate profits.

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"The game is afoot."

Well for once the Cubs won a game before the Red Sox this weekend.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

Went to the Pirates home opener last week, a 1-0 loss to the Phillies.

Largest crowd ever at PNC Park. Took over 40 minutes to get a Primanti Bros. sandwich...EGADS!!!

When I saw that, the only thing I remember thinking was "God, I hope A-Rod was still in there cleaning out his locker..."

Time waits for no man or stadium, Cloudy.

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There's a bit of a gap, around 50 years or so, until the third oldest, Dodger Stadium.
I know Oakland Coliseum and Angel Stadium both opened in the mid-60's.
I would assume Angel is the older of the two, but I since they built Alameda a couple of years before the A's moved there, I'm not 100% sure.
Did I pass the audition?
Assuming I didn't forget something completely obvious...

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Don't you mean a Cookie Rojas?

It was cool to see the Colt 45 uniforms tonight.

The owner should've stick to his guns and rename the Astros. It could've revert back to the Colt 45's but I guess that name is like the Washington Bullets, NO GUNS OR BULLETS will EVER be a sports name again.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO