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- 11/22/09
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I can't give you the date, nor the names of the batter or opposing team, but I remember seeing NY Mets backup catcher Duffy Dyer do the same thing in the early 1970s. Bottom of the eighth inning, two outs and Dyer on first. The batter popped the ball up on the third-base side, and here comes Dyer barreling around the bases, yelling "I got it! I got it!" The third-baseman and shortstop both backed off, and Dyer scored. He was yelling so loud that the TV mikes even picked it up, and Lindsey Nelson started laughing and made a comment on it. Poor sportsmanship? Perhaps, but certainly no worse than today's steroid-fueled home run batters. At least Dyer (and A-Rod) were doing it for the team, not their personal gain or glory.
posted by billinnagoya at 01:16 AM on June 01
unless i'm really just missing something You obviously are not old enough to remember the original Washington Senators, now the Minnesota Twins, who were the perennial cellar-dwellers of the American league. An old jingle said that George Washington was first in war and first in peace. Old Washington Senator fans revised it to say that "Washington is first in war, first in peace, and last in the American league."
posted by billinnagoya at 06:56 PM on June 22
Will the Rams leave St. Louis?
Go back to LA? How about going back to Cleveland? After all, that's where they started. (Like the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Minneapolis Lakers; LA is only good for stealing other cities teams--and then whining when it gets done to them.)