June 4, 200817 yr Author QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 03:10 AM) Nope. Think blacker and crazier. Oh. Milton Bradley... duh.
June 4, 200817 yr QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 01:16 AM) Oh. Milton Bradley... duh. Kinda funny, through all the Josh Hamilton doesn't do drugs anymore and now he's a superstar and Carlos Quentin is a mangod, it's the crazy mofo who goes off on umpires and hurts himself that is leading the league in OPS. What's crazier is that, on June 4th, a 1.020 OPS leads the AL. In 2000, 1.020 wouldn't have been in the top 10 in OPS in the MLB. I really do believe 100% that we are about to move into a pitching favored era. Edited June 4, 200817 yr by witesoxfan
June 4, 200817 yr QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 11:05 AM) Who was the last Negro League player to play in the major leagues? Minnie Minoso?
June 4, 200817 yr Author QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 01:01 PM) Minnie Minoso? Technically yes, but I mean full-time player. Not the 1976/1980 Veeck/Reinsdorf experiment.
June 4, 200817 yr Since it could happen again this year, what was the last team to have three different players win consecutive MVPs, and who were they?
June 4, 200817 yr QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 11:05 AM) Who was the last Negro League player to play in the major leagues? Hank Aaron?
June 4, 200817 yr QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 02:32 PM) Since it could happen again this year, what was the last team to have three different players win consecutive MVPs, and who were they? Yankees - Maris ('61), Mantle ('62) and Elston Howard ('63)
June 4, 200817 yr Author QUOTE (Benchwarmerjim @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 04:29 PM) Hank Aaron? That's correct!
June 4, 200817 yr Whatever happened to the rabbit that came out of the ground to give the pitcher a new ball? Did that ever exist or did I imagine that as a kid?
June 4, 200817 yr In his entire high school career, how many times did Joe Mauer strike out? Edited June 4, 200817 yr by jenks45monster
June 4, 200817 yr QUOTE (Gregory Pratt @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 04:30 PM) Who was the last switch-hitter to win an AL MVP award? I want to say Mickey Mantle, but there has got to be somebody later than that
June 4, 200817 yr Author QUOTE (Gregory Pratt @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 05:30 PM) Who was the last switch-hitter to win an AL MVP award? I cheated. Excellent question Pratt! Vida Blue
June 4, 200817 yr Author QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 05:39 PM) Whatever happened to the rabbit that came out of the ground to give the pitcher a new ball? Did that ever exist or did I imagine that as a kid? Son... I'm gonna tell you just one time. Stay off the drugs.
June 5, 200817 yr QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 05:08 PM) I cheated. Excellent question Pratt! Vida Blue
June 5, 200817 yr QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 02:33 PM) Yankees - Maris ('61), Mantle ('62) and Elston Howard ('63) Correct.
June 5, 200817 yr Author QUOTE (jenks45monster @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 05:49 PM) In his entire high school career, how many times did Joe Mauer strike out? One time.
June 5, 200817 yr Author What team offered Carlton Fisk a contract in the 1985-86 collusion offseason; but, was asked to rescind it by Reinsdorf, and did?
June 5, 200817 yr QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jun 4, 2008 -> 04:39 PM) Whatever happened to the rabbit that came out of the ground to give the pitcher a new ball? Did that ever exist or did I imagine that as a kid? It existed. Except it was for the HP umpire. Edited June 5, 200817 yr by YASNY
June 5, 200817 yr QUOTE (YASNY @ Jun 5, 2008 -> 08:04 AM) It existed. Except it was for the HP umpire. That was Charlie Finley's A's that did that, correct?
June 5, 200817 yr QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Jun 5, 2008 -> 11:02 AM) That was Charlie Finley's A's that did that, correct? Until you said that, I was thinking it was at Comiskey. Now, I'm not sure, as I know the Finley did something similar. That was many years ago.
June 5, 200817 yr QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Jun 5, 2008 -> 11:02 AM) That was Charlie Finley's A's that did that, correct? Poof, I love Google. Finley was responsible for other dubious innovations, all adopted in an effort to boost attendance for a losing team in a small market. He installed a mechanical rabbit named "Harvey" (after the imaginary rabbit in the Jimmy Stewart movie of the same name) behind home plate to deliver new balls to the ump. You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of major league stadiums that currently feature the rabbit-o-matic ball service--if you're a one-armed man. He put goats beyond the outfield fence in left field at Kansas City's Memorial Stadium to eat the grass. He adopted a live mule--"Charlie-O"--as a mascot, and once brought it into the press room to annoy reporters after it had recently been fed. In order to keep FoxSports.com free of inappropriate content, I will leave the rest of this incident to your imaginations. Finley eventually moved the team to Oakland and turned it around, producing three straight World Series from 1972 to 1974. He sold the team in 1981, but his legacy of lunacy lives on in those green and gold uniforms. The team's mascot appears on the sleeves of their jerseys as a green elephant, thereby obscuring a part of baseball history.
June 6, 200817 yr Which pitcher won 1985 Cy Young and 1985 WS MVP? (this was the "Royal Razzer" Wednesday night at the game, I knew it right away- if you were there and you saw it, don't answer)
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