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  1. CRF
    Just a lil pinch of Garlick.
  2. CRF
    I remember those HP movies. My son and I read all the books too. I'm sure it's before your time, but it's kind of like the famous line from the 1950 film All About Eve. Bette Davis says "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night".
  3. CRF
    Let's all make sure to put on our seat belts...it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
  4. CRF
    Missing Kep and three pitchers...ouch! At least Pagan won't blow a game for us in Toronto!
  5. CRF
    How about with a fire extinguisher?
  6. CRF
    Agreed. They can't keep trotting out Pagan toward the end, or at the end of games. He's not reliable. I know Duran is raw, but I'd have him there every chance I got. I'd rather risk that, than the alternatives.
  7. CRF
    For me, I always liked him better than Kirilloff. I just think he's better overall. Hopefully, he continues to improve. I hope he evolves into a 30 HR, 100 RBI guy, and hits close to .300. I think he can do it.
  8. CRF
    Just saw that Gray was put on the 15 day IL.
  9. CRF
    Good game thread intro! To answer your question: I'm old and broken...I only play golf now, and even that's gradually going away. I used to play 4-5 times a week and was in a couple leagues. Won a few company tourneys over the years too. Played to a 4 hdcp. They're pricing me out of it, and the body is pretty much shot now anyway. The knees are toast. Way back when, in H.S., I played baseball, football, basketball, and golf. I went to a small H.S. in NJ, so even though I wasn't very good, I got to play. Played golf in JUCO. That was it for my youth. I had a good teacher...my dad played minor league ball in the Phillies organization back in the 50's. He was a second baseman. He also went to a couple try outs for the NY Yankees, but didn't make it. He could see the writing on the wall and gave all that up. He taught me how to play golf too. He's been gone for over 30 years and I miss him a lot. I just played low level, slow pitch softball for a long time after I got out of college. Been playing golf for almost 60 years though. Love being out on the course with my brother and/or my son. My ashes are to be spread on a golf course when I croak.
  10. CRF
    Depending on what Archer does...we maybe have a chance with this line up.
  11. CRF
    I went 3-4, but I think we're gonna get waxed.
  12. CRF
    By the looks of things...the swoon is in full swing. Back to .500 is closing on us real fast.
  13. CRF
    Almost makes me think Rocco does the line up by throwing all the names into a hat and then pulling out nine of them. Whatever order he fishes out, is the way they bat.
  14. CRF
    It ain't Ober til it's ober. Let's hope the boys feel like playing tonight...they sure didn't look like it in game two yesterday.
  15. CRF
    Your post kind of reminded me of a few things too. Some good...some bad. The first time I went to a game at the dome was in 1982, I was there with several other people. It was the Twins and KC. I caught a foul ball that Hal McRae hit, and I still have that as well. I'll never forget...the dome was absolutely empty...there might have been a few thousand people there, and the Twins were terrible then. When I caught the ball, there was a little boy over on the other side of the aisle from me, by the runway, not too far away. He must have been with his family, but I don't recall anyone near him. He probably just wandered to the aisle near the runway. He might have been 7 or 8...under 10 for sure. He looked over at me and I could tell he wished he would have gotten the ball. If memory serves, he had an ice cream or cotton candy in his hand. He got a little closer to me and I told him if another one came this way, I'd get it for him. Of course, no other ball did. I always regretted not giving him that ball I caught. It really didn't mean much to me, but it would have meant a lot to him. I get kind of teary eyed now just thinking about it. I've been fortunate enough to catch a few game balls before that, and maybe 5 or 6 more after that first game at the dome, and ever since then...I've always given the ball to a youngster that was nearby. Makes me feel pretty good inside. One thing for sure...the dome was the absolute worst place I've ever been for a MLB game. I just hated the place.
  16. CRF
    I'm not a big "collector" by any stretch, but I do have a handful of things that I've saved over the years. Some baseball memorabilia and some golf memorabilia too. One of my favorite items is this NY Mets program and yearbook from a game I went to in 1969. The year of the miracle Mets. I went to a double header in 1969 at Shea Stadium where Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman pitched the games. It was against the Phillies and the Mets swept the two games. It was the first baseball game I ever went to. I was a die hard Mets fan growing up. I lived in the NY/NJ area until 1982, and moved to Mn in 1982. I have some Twins items too, but the Mets program and yearbook is pretty special to me.
  17. CRF
    Kaat apparently just decided to go into broadcasting instead of remaining a coach. Here's an excerpt from a radio interview he did recently, with the question, and Kaat's answer: Part of your story is about the time when you were a pitching coach for Pete Rose, and you didn't spend a lot of time as a pitching coach. How come you didn't like to how come you didn't want to stay with coaching? Oh, it isn't that I didn't like it. But Pete had always told me when we when we competed against each other, I found out, that if he got a manager's job, he wanted me to be his pitching coach. And I was honored by that. So when he got the Reds job in late ’84, I went in there and did all of ’85. And then in in my era, if there was a rain delay, they would call a player up to the booth to kind of kill time and tell stories. And I had a lot of producers of TV and radio and said, Boy, you ought to get into this when you're done playing. So suddenly, I began to get calls from different agents and producers, for example of the Yankee games, Don Carney that said you should consider getting into broadcasting. So I found out that could be a very long career if I was able to do it well, so I decided to leave coaching after ’85 and was able to get the Yankee broadcast job in 1986. And got some great training. I worked with Bill White and Phil Rizzuto, Scooter. And Bill to this day is still my broadcast mentor who taught me more about broadcasting in those early days, that really helped me.
  18. CRF
    Hasn't really shown anything in the minors, or certainly up here. Reminds me of Kohl Stewart. Very average velo and average stuff. Just another run of the mill guy. Unfortunately, he probably won't have a long shelf life in the bigs. I heard Kitty talking about tweaking his delivery and follow through. If that was an issue, I would think that some pitching coach along the way would have noticed that and worked with Sands on it. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
  19. CRF
    Does that come with a side of Dung Flung Low?
  20. CRF
    Who would have thought that Carson Wentz would shut us down. I thought this would be a 12-10 game.
  21. CRF
    I dunno...looks pretty easy to forge that signature.
  22. CRF
    True, he's not getting much help, but I think Cole Sands is gonna be cole slaw tonight. Good thing Larnach makes that catch.
  23. CRF
    Did you get the autograph? He seems like a pretty good guy.
  24. CRF
    Hopefully, we can get to Kody Clemens and get the runs back!
  25. CRF
    He's great on the Jeff Belzer commercials. On the Twins broadcasts...not so much. I love the one where he wakes up and starts screaming when he sees the Belzer-wife next to him.
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