Dojji
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My dad was a navy paroll clerk aboard the carrier USS Enterprise. My grandfather served on the destroyer USS Theodore Roosevelt in WWII. I have a great appreciation of the navy and the good men it helps to make.
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So glad all that curse idiocy is history. We'd be a lot more miserable if that 2004 miracle hadn't happened. Just grateful I got to watch it. I still can't believe though that I got depressed and didn't watch Game 4. Of all the games I had to miss!!! The Roberts steal never had the same impact in replay. I never found a photo of the policemen guarding the foul lines in Game 6 after the Slap (or was it the disputed Bellhorn Bomb?. Anyone luckier than me? I had to listen to that game on the radio so I never got to see it but I've always wanted to. I'd love to find an image of it.
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THanks for your service.
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I have two funny baseball stories in among all the train wrecks. First one -- playing a coed game, hit a cheap little ball to shortstop, this wispy little first basewoman decided to field the throw by standing on the base. Have I mentioned that at the time I weighed nearl 300 poinds? The woman flew further than the baseball did before hitting the ground. And yes, I was safe. Second one -- I was kicking around with a friend who decided to "teach me how to hit," so he put me on the mound and took his place at the plate. To show me how it was done you know. I guess his challenge got me fired up and I decided to, as they say, "try something." He wasn't expecting it and swung over the top of the pitch three times. One of the few times I ever struck anyone out.
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Frankly, I was pretty indifferent to baseball as a kid. Just didn't have the skill to ever really get into it. I was one of those kids who grows too big too fast for his own good so I was horribly slow and uncoordinated. I also have a lazy eye, which hurts my depth perception. Add to that that I was a ground ball hitter and slow as heck, and that I had the attention span of a gnat with ADHD, and it just wasn't the sport for me. Not to play, anyway. Love it, but can't actually play the game. I often wound up pitching, mostly for lack of anything else to do with me. Batting practice would be a kind description, however. About the only thing I had going for me as a baseball player is that I could hit switch hit a little -- no worse lefthanded than I was righthanded anyway. Since I never faced a live lefthanded pitcher, ever, even just kicking around, that's not much of a claim. And if you think that was bad, one of these days I might get going about my rec league baskeball "career."
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A bright red infielder's glove with Barry Larkin's name stencilled onto it in gold letters. Which is fine, cool even, until it got older and faded to pink. Naturally my memories of that glove aren't particularly fond. I also tended to forget it on the lawn sometimes and it became a haven for slugs. That's fun to reach into the glove and find.
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I'm calling it now. In 3 weeks there will be at least one "lolwut" post in this thread.
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Might be major league ready in relief. A lefty with a great fastball can thrive in the pen even with not much else at all.
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That was one of the reasons I was searching -- I wasn't sure.
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Either they're trading Ryder, Ward and/or Kobasew, or Phil's gone.
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I was searching for Rickie Weeks actually, seeing how one of my Anti-Fantasy picks was doing. But I guess that's funny enough that I can let you get away with it.
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Ankiel and Dukes will hurt me a little but I think I'm at least at the point where my lineup is not a problem for me.
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Was searching for something else entirely and stumbled across one of those vast number of 19th century players who get a brief cameo in the history books: Charlie Manlove, catcher His nickname was Chick. As in, Chick Manlove. They weren't above ribald humor in the 19th century so I can just imagine why this guy didn't last long in the fledgling MLB.
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Definitely. 100% agree. But he is going to suffer some turbulence too at some point.
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He's due for a regression. His bb/9 is a full point under his minor league levels in his first big league season. That is rarely sustained without a correction or a bit of adversity. That said, looks like a talented lefthanded pitcher who's more than worth a pickup at this stage in the draft. Where do the Jays keep getting them?
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I've heard talk of moving him to third base. Hmm... third base... might have a need there.
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Is Ortiz ready to go back to his familiar 3-hole?
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Salvaged the series. Nice little game.
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Don't you dare blow it now, Jonathan Papelbon!
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Two...
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C'mon, Paps... hold it together please.
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Lugo comes through! OMG LUGO COMES THROUGH!!! SOX LEAD!!!
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Lugo, you better have a freakin' productive out here!!
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Great job. Now someone, please, step up and win this thing.
