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wordygurdy	Post subject: Spring Training Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:50 pm
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 741 Location: The Empire State	Read last week in Gordon Edes' Baseball Notes column in the Boston Globe that the Mariners' players have nicknamed new catcher Kenji Johjima "Joe Mama." And today Rex "the Wonder Dog" Hudler, broadcaster for the Los Angeles Rancho Cucamonga Sacramento Thousand Oaks Chico Palm Springs Palm Desert Angels of Anaheim, referred to Vladimir Guerrero as "Big Daddy Vladi."
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wordygurdy	Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:45 am
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 741 Location: The Empire State	A story, registration required in yesterday's Times discusses the 36-game hitting streak with which the Phillies' Jimmy Rollins will begin the season. I was only vaguely aware of this. He's got a long way to go to get to 56, much less 57, but it will seem kind of cheap if he does get to 57, given that he will have done it over two seasons. (A graphic accompanying the story illustrates the other players whose streaks have come closest to DiMaggio's and the ones whose streaks DiMaggio's surpassed. One of those players is Wee Willie Keeler and his 45-game streak, and I didn't realize that was also over two seasons, 1896 to 1897.) Last edited by wordygurdy on Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Matthew Grieco	Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:38 pm
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 2266 Location: New Jersey	The Elias Sports Bureau has stated that even if Rollins reaches 56, he will be credited with "Longest hitting streak spanning more than one season" and DiMaggio's record of "Longest hitting streak in a single season" will be undisturbed. I'm not sure I care, and I haven't been able to think of any reason why either DiMaggio's or Rollins' record would be more impressive than the other should that come to pass, but there you have it.
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wordygurdy	Post subject: Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:52 pm
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 741 Location: The Empire State	Matthew Grieco wrote: The Elias Sports Bureau has stated that even if Rollins reaches 56, he will be credited with "Longest hitting streak spanning more than one season" and DiMaggio's record of "Longest hitting streak in a single season" will be undisturbed. I'm not sure I care, and I haven't been able to think of any reason why either DiMaggio's or Rollins' record would be more impressive than the other should that come to pass, but there you have it. Interesting, Matthew. I like that solution. (I just now had a chance to READ that article and saw that info in there.) Thanks to Phillip for editing my post to include the graphic.
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wordygurdy	Post subject: Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:04 pm
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 741 Location: The Empire State	All righty, then. For a report from the lunatic fringe, let's go to our correspondent Darren Daulton, former Phillies catcher. This appears in today's Gordon Edes column in the Boston Globe: ...One of the more bizarre stories of the spring came out of Phillies camp, where Paul Hagen of the Philadelphia Daily News wrote about former Phillies star Darren Daulton, who is predicting the end of the world as we know it right down to the date it's going to happen. On Dec. 21, 2012, at 11:11 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time, he told Hagen, the chosen will simply vanish from this plane of existence. ''That will be the end of this dispensation," said Daulton, the leader of the '93 Phillies team that won the National League pennant who last summer spent three months in jail on a probation violation. ''I really don't know how to explain it. I don't know what words to use so people won't think I'm goofy. But by Dec. 21, 2012 [the last day recorded on the Mayan calendar], people will have a pretty good idea. It's all about consciousness and love. We have the ability to create whatever we want. We're all made of energy." OK...
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Docsdoctor	Post subject: Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:51 am
Joined: Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 575 Location: Mass.	Just out of curiousity - what crime was the '93 Phillies team on probation for?
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wordygurdy	Post subject: Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:36 pm
Joined: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 741 Location: The Empire State	Docsdoctor wrote: Just out of curiousity - what crime was the '93 Phillies team on probation for? I think the pronoun "who" takes care of the potential antecedent confusion. "Team" would take "that." The sentence you're referring to didn't stop me when I read it.
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