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Reb

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1455 on: September 09, 2023, 01:05:04 pm »
Quote from: davep on September 09, 2023, 09:18:05 am
When men weren't coached and trained into throwing 5 - 7 MPH faster than their previous norm.

Yeah, it’s a different game.

Dave, think you’d enjoy video of that 1965 Maloney game. Check it out.

In bottom of 9th, Cubs have winning run on 2B and Larry Jackson due up. Do Cubs hit for the pitcher there? NO. Jackson takes his turn, Cubs don’t score, and Jackson goes out to mound to pitch top of the 10th.

The starting pitcher was King. If doing well, he stays in game come hell or high water. Not saying it’s a good thing for Jim Maloney to throw 190 pitches but not too sure that such a good thing now that the bullpen is King.

Taillon pulled yesterday after 77 pitches (52 strikes) working on a 1-hit shutout? That’s baseball today. Of course 190 pitches seems crazy. But, maybe a bit too much the other way these days. What do you think?
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« Reply #1456 on: September 09, 2023, 02:20:26 pm »
The best part of the video I saw was the interview afterwards.  Just listening to it, you could tell that it was done in the early days of television.  Both the questions and answers sounded like they were prepared and rehearsed, even though that was impossible.  It was merely the style employed at that time.

Sometimes, just for kicks, listen to some of the Bill Stern "Sports Stories" if you can find them.  The same edge in the voice that indicates that this is the most important incident in the history of sports.
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Reb

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1457 on: September 10, 2023, 09:52:05 pm »
Not Cubs history, but 1950s "When Men Were Men" baseball history.

Vern Law pitches v. Milwaukee Braves, July 19, 1955.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PIT/PIT195507190.shtml
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Reb

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« Reply #1458 on: September 10, 2023, 09:57:56 pm »
Vern Law's following outing after the one above----against the Cubs.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PIT/PIT195507242.shtml
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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1459 on: October 11, 2023, 04:38:44 pm »
https://www.bleachernation.com/cubs/2023/10/11/wake-up-and-watch-the-cubs-ridiculous-rally-against-the-giants-in-game-4-of-the-nlds/


Seven Years Ago Today, the Cubs Pulled Off a Historic 9th Inning Comeback Against the Giants in the NLDS
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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1460 on: October 11, 2023, 05:32:55 pm »
I was at game 3 of that series in SF.  Incredible game even if a Cub loss.
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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1461 on: October 14, 2023, 02:13:44 pm »
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« Reply #1462 on: November 02, 2023, 12:40:31 pm »
In the Kevin Costner movie, Love of the Game, while pitching, the Costner character uses a mental device to shut out the noise around him by saying to himself, "clear the mechanism."  And in the movie, all of the sound in the stadium disappears. It's an effective dramatic device.

In a video of Ben Zobrist being interviewed, he describes the experience of hitting the historic double in the final game that gave the Cubs their lead. He is asked what it was like, was it really loud or quiet. Zobrist says when he is focusing as he should, everything is silent, and that is what he experienced on that hit, until reaching 2B (like in Love of the Game).

It's a cool moment in the interview.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1720067931805982907
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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1463 on: November 29, 2023, 10:59:23 pm »
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Reb

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1464 on: November 30, 2023, 12:53:19 am »
Quote from: CurtOne on November 29, 2023, 10:59:23 pm
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39006061/andre-dawson-wants-hof-plaque-cap-changed-expos-cubs

Dawson is part of the Ring of Honor at Nationals Park (as is Tim Raines)—large name plates facing the field that run from behind home plate to the RF facade.

Obviously, Expos franchise history otherwise is a minor presence in Washington compared to Cubs franchise in Chicago. So, Cubs can do stuff for Dawson that isn’t going to happen in Washington or in no-team Montreal.

But, there’s this: Dawson had 65 career WAR and 48 of that was playing for Expos.
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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1465 on: January 12, 2024, 09:06:14 pm »
Congratulations to the new Cubs Hall of Famers announced at the convention:





At some point they're going to forgive Sosa and bring him back, right? As much as the Ricketts' love money, it seems like they'd want to sell a few extra Sosa jerseys.
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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1466 on: January 22, 2024, 02:44:42 pm »
Ryne Sandberg has been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer.  Prayers up for him.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/cubs-ryne-sandberg-prostate-cancer/
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CUBluejays

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Re: Cubs History
« Reply #1467 on: January 22, 2024, 04:00:27 pm »
Shoot..
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JR

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« Reply #1468 on: January 22, 2024, 04:01:50 pm »
CBJ, that doesn't sound like a good prognosis does it?
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« Reply #1469 on: January 22, 2024, 04:08:05 pm »
I know nothing about his case in particular.  The five year survival for prostate cancer that hasn't spread is 100%.  The five year survival for metastatic prostate cancer is 32%.  I saw that he had prostate cancer earlier and didn't pay attention to it, because I figured he'd fall into the first group. 
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