Holy moly.

[Double J]

Dave Dravecky, John Birch Society.

So what? From what I know of the John Birch Society, it has advocated the impeachment of both Clinton (for reasons other than Lewinsky) and Dubya (to put it in simple terms, for crimes against humanity).

It supports pulling the U.S. out of the United Nations. Nothing wrong with that, since the U.N. is an even bigger joke than the League of Nations ever was. No wonder Congress refuses to pay the hundreds of millions of dollars the U.S. owes the organization.

The society has also never been in favour of ties between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China, which of course is the world's largest terrorist organization, guilty for the past 57 years of crimes far worse than anything Fidel Castro has ever perpetrated.

I understand the society had quite a bad reputation for throwing around McCarthy-like Communist accusations way back in the day, but that was many years ago. Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd were successfully rehabilitated, after all, and unrepentant scumbags like Jesse Helms are still lionized as great statesmen, so why hold the society's previous beliefs against it?

 

[shotglass]

Way to grind a sports thread to a halt with your bull**** politics.

Bet you get invited to loads of parties.

 

[Double J]

Where in the **** did that come from? Grind it to a halt? Twenty whole minutes has passed. The thread was still on the first page. Geezus, who pissed in your corn flakes?

And like a thread here, sports or otherwise, has never jumped the track before, usually due to bull**** politics. Tone it down a little bit, Mr. Hypersensitive.

 

[rgd]

Didn't Tom Browning's career end when he broke a bone in his arm while throwing a pitch?

 

[pallister]

Wasn't Eric Show the Bircher, not Dravecky?

 

[Double J]

Him too, along with their Padres teammate Mark Thurmond.

 

[Football_Bat]

Holy Moly is what you get when you mix Swiss cheese with guacamole.

Yes, I saw Sanford & Son.

 

[Chef]

Holy Moly is what you get when you mix Swiss cheese with guacamole.

Yes, I saw Sanford & Son.

Thanks, you big dummy.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Didn't Tom Browning's career end when he broke a bone in his arm while throwing a pitch?

IIRC, Browning broke his arm in San Diego early in 94. He tried a comeback the next season with the Royals, but it was short-lived.

 

[Chef]

Didn't Tom Browning's career end when he broke a bone in his arm while throwing a pitch?

IIRC, Browning broke his arm in San Diego early in 94. He tried a comeback the next season with the Royals, but it was short-lived.

......as are many things previously successful with the Royals.

 

[bigpern23]

Isn't this exactly how they found out about John Kruk's cancer ... bad throw to first and he took it in the boys. Upon serious examination, he found out he had cancer?

The details are a bit fuzzy so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem remember when Kruk was on the All-Star team after coming back from cancer and he got a hit. The manager that year then sent in a pinch runner and Kruk opened his jersey to reveal a T-shirt that read, "That's it, I'm taking my ball and going home."

That always cracked me up.

 

[Chef]

Isn't this exactly how they found out about John Kruk's cancer ... bad throw to first and he took it in the boys. Upon serious examination, he found out he had cancer?

The details are a bit fuzzy so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem remember when Kruk was on the All-Star team after coming back from cancer and he got a hit. The manager that year then sent in a pinch runner and Kruk opened his jersey to reveal a T-shirt that read, "That's it, I'm taking my ball and going home."

That always cracked me up.

I think it was in Baltimore.

 

[DyePack]

Way to grind a sports thread to a halt with your bull**** politics.

Bet you get invited to loads of parties.

Are you going to be like this from now on?

Because that would be cool.

 

[Ace]

Way to grind a sports thread to a halt with your bull**** politics.

Bet you get invited to loads of parties.

Are you going to be like this from now on?

Because that would be cool.

He's been like that lots of times, Dye. Not afraid to bring the hatchet.

 

[BYH]

In defense of Eric Show, while he ended up a stark raving nut, he was also the only person from baseball to attend the funeral of ex-teammate Alan Wiggins. That should count for something.

 

[shotglass]

Way to grind a sports thread to a halt with your bull**** politics.

Bet you get invited to loads of parties.

Are you going to be like this from now on?

Because that would be cool.

He's been like that lots of times, Dye. Not afraid to bring the hatchet.

Seriously considering it. Maybe I'll have a poll.

 

[Just_An_SID]

"If they won't let me play, I'll take my ball and go home."

John Kruk on the delay of his return following testicular cancer.