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    1st trip to Spring Training

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    Look for the walkway between the Sox clubhouse and the stadium, then stand back there. There will be a fence between you and the players, but I was able to get Big Hurt to autograph a jersey for me when he was walking to the park from the clubhouse.

    What're the chances?

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    I wouldn't dump Boras. Boras is in the best position to take what Crede did in the postseason and cash it in with millions of dollars over several years. I'm sure Joe Crede likes being in Chicago and enjoyed winning a World Series, but the fact is he isn't a diehard fan like us, he's a professional, it's his job, and he probably wants to make as much as possible doing it.

    review of the MLB playoffs/WS dvd

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    I definitely understand where they are coming from. When I got the DVD, I was certainly surprised that there wasn't more coverage of the Astros. I obviously didn't complain about it, but I did notice it. Hell, they followed Sox players, I'd have liked it just as much to have some behind the scenes stuff of the Astros. Seen what their locker room was like after the games and what not. But it's all good, I love the DVD, and I'm going to go pop it in right now.

    P I C T U R E S

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    This isn't celebration related, but I didn't think it merited its own thread and this is a picture thread.

     

    My friends little bro goes to Auburn, and they visited the Auburn Sports Hall of Fame and saw this....

     

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    Bean Bags

    in SLaM

    Posted

    QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 04:47 PM)
    Is ladder golf the one where you essentially have a ladder with 3 rungs on it, and you throw these...ropes?...with balls on the ends of em, and if you hit it right it will wrap around one of the rungs?

     

    I saw some kids playing this type of game after the football game saturday; first time i had seen anything of that nature.

     

    I believe that's it, I've seen it just about every Saturday at 4th and Kirby in that parking lot and I know some people were playing it last spring at the World's Largest Softball Tailgate, but unfortunately I don't know how it is played. I stick with bean bags, but I think washers is better.

    Just Curious

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    I sent one in early in the season asking Hawk about whether or not he really invented the batting glove and how it happened. He didn't answer it during the game, and I wasn't able to watch the next game, but my buddy told me when he turned the game on the next day Hawk was going on and on about having invented the batting glove, so I guess it's likely he was answering my question, but I don't really know.

    What goes around comes around

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    I was reading on Page 2 a fake interview of Ty Cobb, which is very funny, but at the end Caple has his Box Score Line of the Week:

     

    BOX SCORE LINE OF THE WEEK

    It might have been the best game of the season. It just might have been the most exciting pitching matchup in the Metrodome since Jack Morris dueled John Smoltz in Game 7 of the 1991 World Series. It definitely was good enough to win this week's award.

     

    Cy Young champion Johan Santana faced fellow Venezuelan Freddy Garcia on Aug. 23 and neither disappointed. Garcia held the Twins hitless for the first seven innings but unfortunately for the White Sox, Santana held Chicago scoreless for eight innings. So when Minnesota's Jacque Jones led off the eighth inning with a home run, that was enough to send Garcia home with a 1-0 loss.

     

    And Roger Clemens thinks he has it rough? Check out Freddy's disheartening line:

     

    8 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 3 K (L)

     

    Thanks to the amazing database available at Retrosheet.org, we can tell you this was only the second time in the past decade that a pitcher has thrown a complete-game one-hitter and lost. The only other time in the past 10 seasons was when Ted Lilly did it with the Yankees in April of 2002.

     

    The winning pitcher that day? Garcia.

     

    Baseball is a great game, isn't it?

    Caple Article on Page 2

     

    I guess Freddy had it coming!

    Anyone ever visited all 30 MLB parks?

    in The Diamond Club

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    I thought really hard about trying to do this. My biggest advice to you would be to try to get sponsors. Write a ton of letters, see if you can get national restaurants like subway or something as well as maybe gas stations to sponsor you. It sounds like a long shot, but I'm almost positive I've heard of it being done before. Also, get in touch with your local paper, their sports section may be willing to give you money if you agree to write some sort of travel diary or something along those lines that they can publish in their paper. All of this seems like small possibilities, but it doesn't hurt to ask, and who knows, could save you a TON of money. maybe even contact MLB.

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