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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 day ago on |
| YOU LIVE IN NEW ENGLAND ,IF ...
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from Septemberthrough May, you live in New England . If someone in a Home Depot store offers youassistance and they don't work there, you live in New England . If you've worn shorts and a parka at the sametime, you live in New England . If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 5 days ago on |
| I would like to Officially welcome to the Nation - Trevor Michael ,Born January 3rd 2009 ,Grandson of Dan-in-Portland
WOOOOO HOOOOOOO
Grandparenthood is going to be AWESOME !!!
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 10 days ago on |
| My Blogs have appearing for about three months now and my supply of good Baseball quotes is running out , I have a few choice ones saved but there irrelevant untill the season starts . So , because of this , I'm turning to you Folks . If you know of any famous or not-so-famous Baseball Sayings and or comments , Please feel free to private message them to me so I can continue my blog . I've looked everywhere from more , but , most of the sites I've found have the same lists . So ,...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 12 days ago on |
| "England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example." ~Robert Benchley - Comediam /Actor and News Colomnist
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 17 days ago on |
| Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them how to say: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth has upped Daddy's paycheck by fifteen to forty percent." ~Waite Hoyt
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 17 days ago on |
| Have the Red Sox even concidered picking up a catcher to (EVENTUALY) replace Jason ? 'Cause as much as I , like most of us , would love to see him play untill he's , well , 80 . That's not going to happen .
These are the available free agent catchers ( not
Brad Ausmus , Paul Bako , Josh Bard , Michael Barrett , Gary Bennett Henry Blanco , Jamie Burke , Kevin Cash , Johnny Estrada ,Sal Fasano , Toby Hall , Robby Hammock , Adam...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 18 days ago on |
| Sorry , I missed it yesterday
If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it. ~Dick Allen, on artificial turf, 1970
It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays. ~Yogi Berra
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 21 days ago on |
| Ok , I know this question has been brought up a million times before . I have never heard a straight answer . I don't why Baseball Players get paid soooooo much dough to play a game . Now I understand that they don't get all of it , because of taxes , agents and what not . Does anyone know the actual break down of a players salary ei; How much does He end up with in pocket , and where does the rest go ?
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 21 days ago on |
| Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton
1899-1978, American historian, b. Petoskey, Mich. He studied at Oberlin College and then entered upon a varied career as a journalist ....
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 22 days ago on |
| Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem. ~Saul Steinberg
I think this is Saul . He is an artist that did covers for the New Yorker .
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 24 days ago on |
| Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ~Jim Murray 1919-1998
One of only four sportswriters to win a Pulitzer Prize, Jim was a...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 25 days ago on |
| There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 26 days ago on |
| As of right now , Pitcher /Catcher report dates are still TBA . We need Baseball in the winter . Selig needs to have all teams build domes . and have Baseball channel streamed to all baseball fans free all the time . yeeeeeaaaahhhhh I like jello , and I like Baseball .. is anyone else as nuts as me ?aaaaahhhhhhhggggg !!!!! I'm goin' nuts . All these Christmas movies . AND ... there comming to take me away haha hehe hoho to the fun...... LOL...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 26 days ago on |
| Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it. - James Killpatrick
All I could find on Mr. Killpatrick was , He is an auther of books on student athletics . sorry no pics .
Apparently , Theo has the same ideas when it comes to the off-season as well . No problems here with that . " IN THEO WE TRUST "...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 27 days ago on |
| We're just getting power back on , up here in the greater Portland area . It went out at around 2:30 this morning . anyway that's why the blog is so late today ... sorry .........
"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in." ~Casey Stengel
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 28 days ago on |
| According to Butchie Murph's sources , it's down to Baltimore and Boston .
Here's the way i think may play out .
Speaking , strictly , as a Baseball fan , if Teix goes to Baltimore that would be real good for them . I don't see him as the "last piece of the puzzle" kind of guy though , as the Oreoles are hurting everywhere but third . right ? So , why would they go after him . But if the Red Sox get Him , He IS the last piece they need to get...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 29 days ago on |
| It is well to remember that a Martian observing his first baseball game would be quite correct in concluding that the last two words of the National Anthem are: PLAY BALL! ~Herbert H. Paper, in Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 April 1989...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 30 days ago on |
| Baseball? It's just a game - as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business - and sometimes even religion. ~Ernie Harwell, "The Game for All America," 1955
Ernie was the Tiger's radio announcer along with George Kell in the 60's . Mr. Harwell continued calling Tiger games in his , much loved , "conversational" style of commentating , into the 90's...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| I've been , recently , trying to quit smoking and it's not going so well . A friend of mine sent this to me today . I'm thinking I got it easy . Imagin how hard it must have been to quit back then with doctors telling you it's ok to smoke in tobacco ads . Or if people even thought of quitting . Only if We knew then what we know now about the risks of smoking .
Here are some of those ads . Some of you may remember them . These ones are a little before my time .
Back...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| " A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores. " ~M*A*S*H, Klinger, "Bug-Out," 1976
Very Funny Man , Jamie Farr
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. ~John Fowles
- British Auther
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate. ~ Edwin Donald "Duke" "the Silver Fox" Snider 1975
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha. ~"The Villains in Blue," Time magazine, 25 August 1961
Here is the whole article : http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895635,00.html
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. ~Nomar Garciaparra...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| "I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf." - Tug McGraw ( when asked if he preferred grass or astroturf ) Pithcher for the Phillies and Father of country singer Tim McGraw .
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. ~Barry Switzer - football coach
I know many people like...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em. ~Humphrey Bogart...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| Well , it's more of a question really . One that has proplexed me for some time .
Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there? ~Larry Anderson
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| "The exiled players have long since retired but the spirit of the Buffalo Heads is alive and well." ~ Michael ( Buffalo Head )
For those of you who do not know who Michael is , He's one of The many sawxheads on this site , and he one of the good guys .
His quote derives from an OUTCAST group of MLB players called Buffalo Heads ( not sure exactly where the name comes from ) ( there were a few from other sports as well ( Bill Walton...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues. ~Joe DiMaggio, quoted in New York Times, 30 April 1961
I know I don't need to explain who "Joltin" Joe DiMaggio was . He was , and still is , one of the greatest Men ever to step onto a baseball diamond . ( evn though he was a Yankee )...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton 1899 - 1978
Mr. Catton primarily wrote about the Civil War . He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for - A Stillness at Appomattox - His study of the final campaign in Virginia . ...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability. ~George Bernard Shaw - Irish Playwright...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| "There are three types of baseball players: those who make things happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens." ~ Tommy Lasorda
This is true , not only in baseball , but , in life as well .
Tommy Managed the Dodgers for 20...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ~ Jim Bouton
Jim was a Pitcher playing most of his career in Yankee land ending with the NL in Atlanta ....
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| The pitcher is happiest with his arm idle. He prefers to dawdle in the present, knowing that as soon as he gets on the mound and starts his windup, he delivers himself to the uncertainty of the future. ~ George Plimton
George was known for sports writing and he founded the paris review ( whatever that is ...LOL) .
I don't pick the quotes for who says them , rather what they say
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average. ~Mark Kramer
I GOOGLED Mark Kramer , and what I came up with was that He is a financial writer . I couldn't find Him in Baseball Reference
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| "Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray." - Joe Garagiola ...
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity. No, we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball. - Albert Einstein
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ~Bill Veeck
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14/09Dan-in-Portland wrote this 1 month ago on |
| I don't love baseball. I don't love most of today's players. I don't love the owners. I do love, however, the baseball that is in the heads of baseball fans. I love the dreams of glory of 10-year-olds, the reminiscences of 70-year-olds. The greatest baseball arena is in our heads, what we bring to the games, to the telecasts, to reading newspaper reports. ~Stan Isaacs, "Diamond-Studded Memories," Newsday april 1990
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