Missed threads for games one and two. Hope I don’t jinx the Crimson Hose with this one.
A grace note: Mookie Betts is more than just an astonishing ballplayer.
So let’s play ball!
Also: the message below was never more true. At your job and at the ballot box…
Image: Office for Emergency Management. War Production Board, At Your Job Today…Don’t Bunt When the U.S. Needs Home Runs, betw. 1942 and 1943.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Oh, please do!
JPL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: NO.. Just go take some pretty pictures and don’t you worry about the sox.
KSinMA
Thanks for the grace note. Mookie’s a good ‘un. Go Sox!
SiubhanDuinne
GO SOX!!!!
For the most part, I’m a NL fan. But I do greatly admire the Red Sox (and the Blue Jays, okay? Don’t judge me) –and there are a couple of NL teams I detest, most notably the Brewers. I actually think I might, might, even cheer for the FTFNYY over the detested Brewers.
So anyhow, GO SOX SWEET CAROLINE!!!
?BillinGlendaleCA
Just heard and saw the jets fly overhead, must be game time.
lahke
I hadn’t realized that it’s the law that all ball players have nicknames.
I’m old enough to remember when someone (was it Herb Caen?) tried to organize a contest to bestow a nickname on Joe Montana, and got shot down because his whole name was a nickname. Folks started proposing preppie names for him of the Joseph Mountbatten ilk, IIRC. (that’s an “ilk”, not an abortive try at “the third”).
Edited to fix terrible punctuation.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Obligatory comment on why the “World” Series shouldn’t be called that
trollhattan
@lahke:
Could have been Caen. Joe Montana is evocative enough of a name that no nickname is needed. “Joe Fucking Montana.” That’s all the name a ballplayer needs. Montana vs. Marino in the Supurb Owl=Mountains vs. Ocean. Again, all you need.
Steve Young could have used a nickname.
Best QB name of all time: Sonny Sixkiller. I’ll fight anybody who disagrees.
Happy Friday!
Omnes Omnibus
I can’t believe that I have to cheer for the Sox, but, as a Brewers guy, I have no choice. Die Dodgers, Die!
Gin & Tonic
@trollhattan:
In Haugesund, Norway, there’s a monument to Erik Bloodaxe. Presumably not a QB, but a helluva name anyway.
Omnes Omnibus
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Find better teams somewhere else in the world. Also try to find MLB team that doesn’t have players from everywhere that has baseball.
J R in WV
We stayed at a lodge between Jackson’s Hole and Yellowstone, where everyone had a name tag with their first name and their home state. Like I would be J WV.
Our waiter’s name tag was Joe Montana. He confessed he was really from Idaho, but right on the border — good sense of humor too.
schrodingers_cat
Watched Washington Week to see how the media is covering this week. Guess who the NYT reporter was criticizing.
The Dangerman
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Ditto.
Don’t forget: Do nut damage!
ETA: For the curious, that’s a Dunkin’ Donuts faux paus.
Mary G
Go Blue!
Spanky
@J R in WV: Jackson Lake Lodge? We stayed there post-eclipse. Had an awesome time.
Currently am staying a couple of hours from home for a conference, and missing the mrs and cats. The Tikka post hit home.
Mary G
@schrodingers_cat: Picture for you:
lamh36
I know this is about baseball, but if you know ANYONE in Texas…please let them know!
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Texas election officials confirmed that voting machines used in 30% of its counties (including its biggest) are switching people’s votes, including the Senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke. The GOP-appointed officials say they have “no legal authority” to update them.
I’ve been signal boosting it to my FB friends from Texas!
Roger Moore
@lahke:
It isn’t quite a legal requirement. And frankly, most of their nicknames are pretty bland. It’s also interesting the difference between the nicknames players use among themselves vs. the ones the media uses. For example, Babe Ruth’s teammates called him Jidge rather than Babe. And there are some odd cases like Honus Wagner, whose nickname seems to have changed after his playing career was over. During his career he was generally known as “Hans”.
schrodingers_cat
Baseball is cricket for country cousins.//
*ducks*
@Mary G: Its a bad idea to make a kitteh mad.
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
All the baseball teams that compete for a place in the World Series are playing in one country’s professional league. You would have as good a case for calling, say, the English Premier League an international competition on the grounds that Premier League squads include football players from all over the world.
Roger Moore
@schrodingers_cat:
Hillary Clinton?
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: Canada is part of the US?
ETA: And I am not interested in getting into another semantic argument.
schrodingers_cat
@Roger Moore: Indeed she was!
HumboldtBlue
This is a tough one as a Phightin’ Phils Phan.
Grandma grew up in Brooklyn dyed in blue and after the war and once her kids (she managed four children by herself for just over four years from 42-46 while her husband [a Princeton Tiger BTW, Levenson] served in Europe [Ghost Army, Maj. Charles Yocum evens gets a call out in the book!].) In the early 60’s with her kids grown and gone she and grandpa moved to Fall River, Mass. There, with no more Dodger Blue at hand, she turned to the BoSox to feed her never-ending contempt for the Yankees. I’m going Dodger Blue, however, National League far better league.
Amir Khalid
@trollhattan:
Steve Young must come from a fabulously wealthy family. I understand that he played college football at a university named after his family.
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well, there are Canadian teams in MLB.
HumboldtBlue
Please forgive the syntactical nightmare I just posted, can’t seem to edit.
JMG
Steve Young grew up in Greenwich, CT. HE is one of the best interviews I had in 30 years as a sportswriter. It came at a low point in his career before Super Bowl XXIII when he was the highest paid benchwarmer in sports history. Really good guy. Was so glad to cover his record-breaking Super Bowl five years later.
Roger Moore
@schrodingers_cat:
Both are games of great skill involving bats and balls, but with this crucial difference: baseball is exciting and when you go home at the end of the day you know who won. –Bill Bryson
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Omnes Omnibus:
Japan? The Dominican Republic? I was only kidding anyway. The “obligatory” should have been a clue.
BTW, I took your and others’ advice from yesterday. I just hate alienating people, especially when I didn’t even mean to.
jk
@schrodingers_cat:
I stopped watching Washington Week after Gwen Ifill died. Robert Costa isn’t fit to be her successor. he’s just a worthless tool.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Funny how we are coming at this from diametrically opposed positions.
schrodingers_cat
@Roger Moore: Only the classic 5 day matches end in a draw. Limited over matches yield a result at the end of the day. I prefer baseball to football and cricket to baseball.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
Jeez, I don’t know. This is hard, HARD. Can you give a hint ?
James E Powell
@schrodingers_cat:
Since it’s the NYT I have to guess that it was one or both Clintons. The NYT has a long history of hating them.
trollhattan
@JMG:
That reinforces the fan perspective that he is a genuinely decent guy, and smart. Smart enough to leave the game when concussions became an issue.
Fun fact: Steve Young was once the fastest guy on the ’49ers. When he’d get happy feet and take off you’d yell “What are you DOING?” then he’d just rocket past the linebackers and corners. It was something.
trollhattan
@SiubhanDuinne:
Don’t you mean “Can you give a Clint?”
Omnes Omnibus
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
So do I, but an exchange i had with someone yesterday may have had that result. Sometimes the personalities involved make it inevitable even if unintended. FIDO (Fuck It, Drive On) !
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: There was some taunting in the Brewers series that won’t be forgotten.
banditqueen
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Trash talk is a big part of sports, so here is a brief history of the term “world series”. Really, should Muhammad Ali have said “I’ll punch your face and then I’ll win” instead of “I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round”? Or “I have to say I’m pretty darn fast” instead of “Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee, your hands can’t hit, what your eyes can’t see”?
Steve in the ATL
@schrodingers_cat: yawn! Sorry, fell asleep at the mere mention of cricket, the world’s most boring sport, edging out dressage for the title.
schrodingers_cat
@Steve in the ATL: That’s because you don’t understand it. I find football pointless and boring but lot of people seem to love it.
James E Powell
Jackie Bradley Jr seems like a nice guy, but I feel nothing but evil toward him.
hilts
@Steve in the ATL:
Sorry, but you’re wrong about that. Golf is the most boring fucking sport ever invented. Watching grass grow or paint dry is infinitely more exciting than watching golf.
different-church-lady
Clearly safe.
Steeplejack
Somebody win this damn game! I’d sorta like to go to bed.
Duane
@Steeplejack: Hey buddy, if I’m stayin up you can too. What a game. 18th inning here we come!
janesays
What a ride! Muncy with the biggest hit of his life!
tokyokie
@trollhattan:
Yes, but the football player who most lived up to his real name was a RB, Joe Don Looney.