Hosken Bombo Disco

i have a catapult? (How far back can we go?)

Who can watch this game tonight and not want the robo-strike zone?

Man, I was just about to say, Plouffie is gonna take advantage of the fresh count! That run goes to Hicks

Sano sneaking up on him?

So many missed chances #junebaseball

But I have been... File under: "Too soon, I guess"

I don't think Jared deserves that!

Irritating.

Back in the day, the toll booths were only 73 feet apart, so Chicago is proudly making progress on this! Chicago has also replaced their original automatic toll collecting machines with modern toll booths. Those first toll booths were nasty, nothing more than scuffed metal baskets, where drivers pulled up and were required to throw arbitrary amounts of change into them, this one 65 cents, the next one 20 cents. If you missed the basket, there was a sign nearby threatening you with imprisonment. The implication being this: "Here in Illinois, we mean business!" There was usually enough loose change strewn on the ground to buy a hamburger at Howard Johnson's, and I once heard a story of how one Chicago resident scooped up enough change in this way to buy White Sox season tickets. But here again, there is progress. The new toll booths are now staffed with White Sox, Cubs, Bears, and Black Hawks fans, who pass the time between vehicles by longingly looking upon the license plates of vehicles from other states. The downside of these new toll booths is that they now cost a buck fifty. But at least you can get exact change, so long as you help the guy in the booth with his arithmetic. Maybe a Chicago native and White Sox fan can come on the thread and confirm this information for us, so that we can banish them from this website. Oh, I'm sorry, what was the question?

I thought May pitched great last night, even if the stat line didn't reflect it. Best case scenario: a rested Hughes heals up and returns for a couple starts, Perkins heals up, Sano heals up. This could be good.

In the end, we find out it was not the Twins car, it was the Cubs car

Today is Labor Day; in that vein, please remove your caps for the Curt Floods and Andy Messersmiths of the baseball world who challenge the reserve system and paved the way for the players union we know today. In any case, I'm doing some unrelated research on information found in some public domain newspapers, and thought it would be fun occasionally to take a detour and share some baseball writing from the turn of the century. Some of these account are both entertaining and fascinating, or, too good not to share! Here is the link to the Library of Congress project that is digitizing and making these old newspapers public. The papers are public domain. I encourage you to take a look if you are interested in history or just want to do something different on the internet sometime. One hundred years ago on this date is an account of a doubleheader played between the Marshalltown Ansons and Clinton Pilots. The teams were from Iowa towns competing in the Central Association league, an unaffiliated minor league that survived about six years. Most or all minor league teams at that time were unaffiliated with the American and National league clubs; in fact, they were often just little leagues scratched together and disbanded under the softest of pretenses. Without further ado... ANSONS CELEBRATE WITH DOUBLE WIN ________________________ CLOSE SEASON BY DEFEATING CLINTON TWICE LABOR DAY ________________________ COOPER WHITEWASHES HIS FORMER TEAMMATES ________________________ Ex-Pilot Joins Ansons For Final Games and Scores Victory in Second Contest—Starts First Game, But Is Taken Out in Third, Richardson Finishing—Ryan's Fielding Feature. ________________________ Clinton, Sept. 7.—The Ansons finished up like whirlwinds Monday, wiping up the Pilots for two. That they did so was not altogether their fault, neither was the game presented to them. Both contests were marked by more or less carelessness, due to the fact that they were the last games of the season, and as a result were uninteresting as baseball exhibitions. The first one dragged horribly, while the second was played in the remarkable time of an hour and ten minutes. Cooper, signed by Marshalltown for the last day of the season, made two efforts to humble his former teammates on their own grounds. He was unsuccessful in his first attempt, being forced to take position on the bench in the third inning. He came back strong in the second, however, and allowed only two hits up to the last inning, "goose egging" the Pilots........................ ________________________ Source: The Times-Republican (evening edition), Marshalltown, IA, Sept. 7, 1915, p. 9. Link: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85049554/1915-09-07/ed-1/seq-9.pdf NOTE: I will get around to uploading a screen grab of the old paper itself to spice up the blog entry and provide a little more flavor for the time. Otherwise see link directly above.

Trevor May is back

Looks like guys are making all the plays and Molitor pushing all the right buttons tonight. Good call on Hunter tonight. Great game! .....so far?

In a couple of different paragraphs you mentioned the service clock issue. I think Willihammer made a really good point. With Berrios on the 25-man, maybe Molitor would have swapped Berrios into the rotation for Pelfrey, and probably rode Berrios harder than Ryan was comfortable with. It's certainly a plausible explanation, unlike most of the other explanations floated out there. It's also not something Ryan would come out and state directly to the media. All of this could have and should have been handled differently. At least we got Duffey somewhere in the middle of all that.

33 always, that is the nicest thing I think I've even seen written on here--thank you!

Bucknor was way too liberal in calling that back door curve for a strike. Many of those pitches started too far outside and never made it back over the plate. Ironically Escobar reached out and hit a single on that same curve ball the other guys were getting rung up on. And then Duffey wasn't getting the low strikes. I thought Duffey pitched well even if the boxscore looks like he suddenly imploded and was maybe left in a couple batters too long. That's why they pay Molitor and not us

Rosario lead off single. It was 4-0 when I turned it on, now 4-5, so I'm going to do Twins Territory and tune out for the night. Thanks all, I will lurk to make sure I don't miss anything. Great set up Riverbrian!!!

you could be right about that. Somebody once said in a Parker pitch framing thread said Suzuki had short arms. It sounded silly but there may be something to that.

yep

I think the called strike one would be more appropriate for this game, but whatever, great gif anyway

The 'F' in Casey Fien's last name actually stands for f***

Nice. Pretty much. The Latin word for left handed is: "sinister" (no joke) Maybe Bucknor is left handed......

If only all the veterans could hit as well as Miguel Sano and Eduardo Escobar........

remember you can only drive 15 mph through Ontario