? Giants VS.Royals 2014 World Series Contest!! ?
Royals are due. They just have to play up to their par.
I actually figured see Orioles in it after my Braves took a dump in Sept.
? Giants VS.Royals 2014 World Series Contest!! ?
> Royals are due. They just have to play up to their par.
> I actually figured see Orioles in it after my Braves took a dump in Sept.
That's all fine and dandy but...are you going to enter a score for these teams? o.O
History of the Kansas City Royals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Kansas_City_Royals
About a year ago at a school board meeting our District Superintendent declared that his favorite major league baseball team for his entire life was the Kansas City Royals. I told him I liked the Royals but I couldn't make the same claim he had just made. He looked at me like I was nuts and asked, "Why not?" My extremely logical answer was that they didn't exist for the first 15-plus years of my life. His look then changed to one suggesting, "You are older than dirt!"
Those of you near Oakland can trace your team's roots back to Kansas City until 1967 and much farther east than that for many decades prior to that. We had to put up with Charlie Finley long before you did. Remember the mascot, Charlie O?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Finley
Speaking of being older than dirt, who else here remembers the Seattle Pilots, the Houston Colt 45's, the Washington Senators and the Milwaukee Braves?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Houston_Colt_.45s_season
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Pilots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Senators
http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nl/milbraves/milbraves.html
? Giants VS.Royals 2014 World Series Contest!! ?
No Angel I got no forecast on this.
Since the Bravos blew their stuff in Sept.
And now Dale Jr. is 12th...
I give up. No reason to throw bull-squirt on it.
? Giants VS.Royals 2014 World Series Contest!! ?
> No Angel I got no forecast on this.
>
> Since the Bravos blew their stuff in Sept.
> And now Dale Jr. is 12th...
>
>
> I give up. No reason to throw bull-squirt on it.
Ok. Cause I want to keep the world series "chatter" off of this thread because the thread gets too cluttered as it is when I have over 200+ entries to filter through. Maybe we should post another thread for it. I think I will. 🙂
(Edit: as you can see, I did it and moved all the chatter here. B-) )
History of the Kansas City Royals
I remember the Milwaukee Braves very well.
Growing up in the U.P., many of us identified more with Wisconsin than we did with the Lower Penninsula.
There were more Braves fans than Tiger fans in my neighborhood.
Warren Spahn was my childhood hero.
Don
Hi guys...
Please keep the World Series chatter (and team chatter) here, and not on the contest thread. It makes my job a LOT easier. Thanks! 😀
Personally, I think the Royals are unbeatable. They have something in them that I haven't seen since my Cardinals played in 2011. The Giants may win a game or two but I think the Royals just have something a bit better.
But dang it, I wanted to see a rematch of the 1985 World Series!! :-@
I did too!
Dang Angel, you threw me for a loop on busting up the thread.
I remember a "Sports Illustrated" mag Mom got me back in the late 60s early 70s featuring Vida Blue.
Mays, McCovey and Marichal
Now those are REAL Giants!
For some reason I picked the Giants to be my favorite team in the NL way back when those guys were at their peak. Those fellows knew how to make a game an event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Marichal
older than dirt..very long
I am older than you (dirt) and remember all that and more.
My parents said that I learned to read from the sporting pages of the NYC dailies (Daily News and the Mirror). I also learned arithmetic from learning the stats from the box scores published. I remember names and averages etc…
I was a Yankee fan like my father. He admired Lou Gehrig as a boy in Paterson NJ . My brother shares a birthday with Mantle was not. He did not like the baseball/Yankees and was more of a football fan. He asserts that Mantle once spit on him and that was it. I think the story could be true in some strange family chronicle of long ago.
I liked Mantle but also all the other NY Yankees of course and my other favorite ball players were Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves and Roberto Clemente of the Pirates. All of them because hey were 5 point players. Mantle and Aaron had power but also could field, throw and run and contact hit.
I remember the day that Campy Campanella had the car accident. I remember the cover picture on the paper of the car on the icy street. Such a tragic event. My friend Billy was a Dodgers fan. We played endless stickball games of Yankees vs. Dodgers
I remember where I was and how the world stood still when Mazeroski hit the homer to beat the Yanks in the World Series. I was stepping off the #74 bus (Paterson- Newark) on my way home from school (St. Nick’s)with the bud in my ear of my Japanese AM transistor radio when it happened. It made me run all the way home to see it on the b/w tv so I could believe it like maybe the radio had got it wrong somehow. That day, I learned the lesson of defeat by the Bucs. Sudden stunning defeat. I thank Bill M for that lesson. I learned it well.
I keep busy with youth soccer these days. I get to ‘play’ with a group of 8-9 year old boys 3 times a week. Yesterday at the fields, I heard a mom say of her 11 year old that she would not let him cross one of the streets in our town because it is a ‘busy’ street. Egad . Every street that I grew up on was extremely busy compared to this street. So, I remember when my friend Eddie and I decided on the sly to see Aaron play at the new Shea stadium. We saved/earned some money. We got on the #30 bus (Paterson-Port Authority), into the subterranean bowels of NYC, finding the right train to Flushing Meadow… buying seats in right field and enjoying the game. Aaron nodded to us. Then we did the round trip.
I had an Aaron glove as a young kid that my brother bought me for a Christmas gift. Later I had a Clemente glove. My favorite bat was Jackie Robinson or Nellie Fox model. They were very similar in design with a thickset handle. Never could afford a Wilson A2000 glove, always had McGregor.
I saw Stan Musial pinch hit the hardest ball that I ever saw hit in an All Star game at Yankee stadium. I was sitting in the 3rd base line mezzanine with Dad. . The ball exploded off the bat and rose to my eye level in the mezzanine and then hooked severely to the right field mezzanine. It dropped my jaw and everyone else in attendance. I didn’t know a baseball could be hit so hard. I still have the NY Yankee bubblehead that I bought at that game. My father was puzzled why I chose a bubblehead as my souvenir of the game. I don’t know why a 9 year old boy chose that but I still have it and the memories as a 64 year old.
I always liked Yaz. I saw him in his final year at Fenway. I managed to wrangle a first row box seat at first base and watched him the whole game up close. Triple Crown winner who was stuck on crappy teams except for the year that he carried them winning the triple crown. I always ‘hated’ the O’s when the Yanks played them as a kid. And when the Yanks played the White Sox it was always going to be a good game.
Senior year in HS, I was approached by a Cards scout. I was in awe of Bob Gibson. I was offered a ride at Wagner College. I had met Curt Blefary who was a O’s Yankee killer outfielder and Wagner grad, so of course I couldn’t consider it…even though he later went on to play with the Yanks. My HS coach was a scout for the Cards and the Pirates. he is retired up in Don Poole's locale now on the Cape.
Mays, McCovey and Marichal
Well you forgot Cepeda and the Alou brothers.
I like the current Giants and I think they stand up with Giants of the Polo Grounds and Candlestick.
I can't decide if the Polo Grounds or Connie Mack stadium were the most dilapidated fire trap stadium that I ever saw. If I had to choose it would be Connie Mack. I saw it a few years before the wrecking ball did or a gust of wind knocked it down.
My childhood friend Buzz was and is Giant fan. He lives outside of Tahoe now and make some trips to Frisco to see games.
older than dirt..very long
> I saw Stan Musial pinch hit the hardest ball that I ever saw hit in an All Star game at Yankee stadium. I was sitting in the 3rd base line mezzanine with Dad. . The ball exploded off the bat and rose to my eye level in the mezzanine and then hooked severely to the right field mezzanine. It dropped my jaw and everyone else in attendance. I didn’t know a baseball could be hit so hard.
😀 Sucha a Wonderful Cardinal!! :love:
> Dang Angel, you threw me for a loop on busting up the thread.
>
> I remember a "Sports Illustrated" mag Mom got me back in the late 60s early 70s featuring Vida Blue.
Sorry...just wanted to keep the chatter here. When I do those contests, it gets very busy in those threads and I can't keep track if I have to weed through the chatter Here in a different thread we can chatter away! :woot:
Mays, McCovey, Marichal, & Cepeda
Crowds had a sweet swing with power.
But the Say Hey Kid from Alabama was for awhile in a league of his own as a ball player and athlete much like the younger Jackie Robinson.
No problem. I understand.
I've had an exceptionally bad weekend and the thread re-arranging got me a wee caught off-guard. I was kind of hoping it's all been a bad dream - but alas, not.
Royals...
Did well tonight! They needed this win! Now they get to go back home and play, regardless of what happens. And as they say.. "There's no place like home."
Still wishing my boys were in it, though. I'm having Cardinal withdrawals!! :-O :'( |-)
Just have to rub it in....
Giants, 5 games, 5 runs
This is too easy:-)
Don
Just have to rub it in....
:-$
Don
> No problem. I understand.
> I've had an exceptionally bad weekend and the thread re-arranging got me a wee caught off-guard. I was kind of hoping it's all been a bad dream - but alas, not.
But, maybe it IS just all a dream after all? (Existential font off)
