Blue Jays: 2015 edition
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And Loup wasn't with the team for game 4, and as far as I last heard, won't be there today either, due to family medical issue. I wonder if they had known that, they might have activated Buehrle instead of Tepera after Cecil went down?
About Gibby...
OK. OK.
Can't argue with success.
This crow tastes like shit... please pass me a bottle of ketchup! :faint:
In all of my years watching baseball [and there have been many!] I have never experienced or witnessed a more goofy and emotional inning of baseball than the 7th inning...
There's a Yiddish expression that says "Man plans, God laughs!" I think the Big Guy was in a really jolly and playful mood today!!!
Perry
OK. OK.
Can't argue with success.
This crow tastes like shit... please pass me a bottle of ketchup! :faint:
In all of my years watching baseball [and there have been many!] I have never experienced or witnessed a more goofy and emotional inning of baseball than the 7th inning...
There's a Yiddish expression that says "Man plans, God laughs!" I think the Big Guy was in a really jolly and playful mood today!!!
Perry
The unexplained continuing absence of Loup is pretty strange. I keep wondering if he isn't being held prisoner at some Tijuana brothel while AA's intern (who I imagine looking like the nerdy guy in Get Me to the Greek) tries to come up with $100,000 in cash to buy his freedom and get him back to the team.
Post #2281 on August 1...
BJ's at KC, July 30 to August 2... BJ's take 3 out of 4.
Is it OK to quote myself? :biggrin1:
Perry
BJ's at KC, July 30 to August 2... BJ's take 3 out of 4.
Is it OK to quote myself? :biggrin1:
Perry
From what I've gathered it's a family illness. Probably out of privacy and respect they haven't released details.
I would imagine it would have to be someone close and on their deathbed to keep a player out of the playoffs.
None of the above opened a new stadium. San Diego started in the old San Diego Stadium. The Seattle Mariners started in the Kingdome, that was only a year old and used by the Seahawks. Tampa Bay started in Old Tropicana Stadium. Texas started as the Washington Senators in the ancient RFK Stadium. Milwaukee opened in the very old County Stadium. Houston started in the decrepit minor league quality Colt Stadium as the Houston Colt .45s. Colorado opened in Mile High Stadium, the Broncos' home and lastly, Montreal began life in 1969 in Jarry Park, a tiny ballpark that was refurbished for major league baseball where the beer was warm and the hot dogs cold.
I think the team management decides who gets a ring, it's not like an Olympic medal where the players get it and that's it. Wasn't there one of those string of Yankee teams in the 90's where Steinbrenner bought a ring for everyone who worked for the team?
blue jays did the same thing in 92 and 93. I knew the equipment manager for the visitors locker room and he got one.
It is management discretion. The Red Sox ordered 500 rings after the 2004 World Series.
William Wrigley, Jr. bought the Cubs just before the 1914 season. He completed construction of Wrigley Field that year and the the Cubs opened their sparkling new field in 1914. They are still in their "new" field and have not won a World Series in 101 years.
All 10 playoff teams get a cut of the playoff "gate". Sliding scale from wild card losers up to World Series winners. The players vote on full and partial shares and basic cash awards.
Ok, that sounds fair. So, just because everybody gets a ring doesn't mean everybody gets the same amount of money.
I think Fenway Park is the other ballpark that is 100 years old or older. I kind of like the charm of the older ballparks. Wrigley Field didn't even have lights until ............
