The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

[Shropshire Slasher]

https://x.com/DFWJodyDean/status/1720081953691709834?s=20

 

[User 11148]

https://x.com/DFWJodyDean/status/1720081953691709834?s=20

My wife and I cancelled our 20+-year subscription to the Star-Telegram this summer and subscribed to the DMN. We've been stunned at what we've been missing.

 

[Liut]

I was happy for Eric Nadel. And remembering Mark Holtz.

 

[BTExpress]

Star-Telegram deadline was 10 p.m. ET when I was at McClatchy two and a half years ago. Copy deadline was 8:30 ET.

And it was the LATEST deadline of the 28 papers we did, a half dozen of which are in California.

 

[HanSenSE]

I was happy for Eric Nadel. And remembering Mark Holtz.

And a shoutout to retiring D'backs voice Greg Schultze, who had been with the team from the beginning. Oddly enough, he had worked Suns games with Al McCoy, who also retired this year, before joining the ballclub.

 

[HanSenSE]

Star-Telegram deadline was 10 p.m. ET when I was at McClatchy two and a half years ago. Copy deadline was 8:30 ET.

And it was the LATEST deadline of the 28 papers we did, a half dozen of which are in California.

And I'm always reminded of the time we had two high school football teams playing for Section titles on the same night. We would send out the front around halftime. During the regular season, I always left them generic words for the front skybox before heading to a game, but was told this time to tease to a result if it looked like the game was in hand for one of the locals. Uh, hell no!

 

[Songbird]

Nice moment for Dave Parker though he didn't take over after Clemente died, as reported here. Sanguillen started '73 in right field.

 

[jr/shotglass]

 

[JC]

I think this sums up baseball and the analytics arguments quite well.

https://x.com/dszymborski/status/1720292398054432862?s=61&t=INGfTmaoGL5SCIDCo17kcg

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

It is always jarring to me to see how much middle-aged Cal Ripken Jr. looks like his Dad. Like, no duh, of course he does. But still, when you remember Jr. as the Rookie of the Year...

 

[maumann]

Both of them actually made the big leagues, if only for a cup of coffee.

Bob Bonner, a native of Uvalde, Texas, became an African missionary after he retired from baseball and spent 26 years in Zambia.

Jeff Schneider, from Bremerton, Wash., pitched in the longest game in professional baseball history, the Pawtucket-Rochester 33-inning affair in 1981. He now lives in Geneseo, Ill., according to Whitepages.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Both of them actually made the big leagues, if only for a cup of coffee.

Bob Bonner, a native of Uvalde, Texas, became an African missionary after he retired from baseball and spent 26 years in Zambia.

Jeff Schneider, from Bremerton, Wash., pitched in the longest game in professional baseball history, the Pawtucket-Rochester 33-inning affair in 1981. He now lives in Geneseo, Ill., according to Whitepages.

This would be an AMAZING baseball card autograph show get for someone.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

The Rangers' parade was pretty lame, if only because there's no way to stretch one 30 miles through the downtowns of both Fort Worth and Dallas. It just circled the ballparks and AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Might have staged in the Walmart parking lot across from JerryWorld actually.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I don't get this reference.

 

[swingline]

Looks like a tequila bottle, maybe Cabo.

 

[User 11148]

The Rangers' parade was pretty lame, if only because there's no way to stretch one 30 miles through the downtowns of both Fort Worth and Dallas. It just circled the ballparks and AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Might have staged in the Walmart parking lot across from JerryWorld actually.

MommaQuant and I went and were underwhelmed, but then we found a table at a nearby bar and had ourselves a proper celebration.

Also ... if I could have got my hands on the em-effer selling those damn horns that sound like an 18-wheeler's, there might have been a killin'.

 

[poindexter]

Somewhere around 1988 or 1990, I started collecting that Topps card, as well as the Fleer and Donruss rookie cards. I was an Orioles fan, and knew about Ripken's streak already. I started collecting those cards. I thought this was going to be my ticket for paying a future son/daughter's college education. I probably have 30 or 40 of those cards. They didn't turn out to be the golden ticket I had envisioned. They are in my attic somewhere.

 

[User 149557]

The pandemic was the time to unload those things. Once-in-a-lifetime second chance to get something out of valueless assets.

I got spending cash for some Kobe rookie cards I’d given up on ever getting anything for.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Joey Votto and Tim Anderson set afloat.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Somewhere around 1988 or 1990, I started collecting that Topps card, as well as the Fleer and Donruss rookie cards. I was an Orioles fan, and knew about Ripken's streak already. I started collecting those cards. I thought this was going to be my ticket for paying a future son/daughter's college education. I probably have 30 or 40 of those cards. They didn't turn out to be the golden ticket I had envisioned. They are in my attic somewhere.

I'm mildly surprised the Ripkens aren't worth a little more. Those early '80s cards had shorter print runs than the late '80s cards pre-Upper Decks, right? Not short enough to put kids thru college but short enough to get something for them, The whole world thought we'd be putting our kids thru college with 1987 cards but those were so overproduced I couldn't even buy my daughter lunch with one of those sets. Thanks Biden!