Sunday, February 24, 2013
Alex Rodriguez’s Only World Series Ring Going Up For Auction
(newyork.cbslocal.com)
posted on February 24, 2013 at 01:34 PM by Pat Rapper's Delight to alex rodriguez, centaur, count da ringz, memorabilia, yankees
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Affirming his status as a True Yankee by taking the cash over any other considerations…
Read More...Alex Rodriguez’s only World Series ring is up for auction, although Rodriguez himself is not the one who consigned it.
As 1010 WINS’ Gene Michaels reported, Rodriguez’s 2009 World Series ring is not being sold by the Yankees third baseman himself, but by an auctioneer who bought it from his cousin, Yuri Sucart – the man A-Rod said convinced him to use steroids.
And some think the ring might ...
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1 2 3 4 5 6 > Last ›"... before we move to the American League next year."
They should go back.
and all the silly fuss over using the actual retro unis - well, anything to get face i guess
(*) And moving from a traditional to a DH league is fundamentally different than switching back to a traditional league, as Milwaukee did. Nothing about how the Astros are shaping their future makes a lick of sense.
"Colts .45s" doesn't make any sense.
Really? I think it's very '60s and dated. Also makes me think of the dog from the Jetsons.
"Colt .45s" is a great name. Plus you've got the cross-promotional opportunities with the gunmaker and malt-liquor.
That was probably the diminutive for their nickname, like Fish or Tribe or Yanks.
There's no way Colt .45s is getting repeated again and again without someone (an announcer, a headline writer) finding a shorter version, and there isn't a more obvious candidate than Colts.
But not the 60s you detest, but instead the futuristic and optimistic 60s whose disappearance should be lamented. It's not as though they're the "Houston Hippies" or "Houston Bra Burners."
"Astros" is in the same vein as "Expos" or the big World's Fair globe outside that still stands outside Shea/Citi and the US Tennis Center. Everyone has their own aesthetic, I guess, but it's tough to see those as being bad symbols for popular sport. They fit and reflect the spirit of popular sport quite well.
There's no way Colt .45s is getting repeated again and again without someone (an announcer, a headline writer) finding a shorter version, and there isn't a more obvious candidate than Colts.
What's wrong with ".45"s? Pronounced, "Forty-Fives", like the "49ers".
I don't like the futuristic, optimistic '60s either.
The same attitude of inevitable progress and the perfectibility of man is behind all the "progressive" movements that have wrought so much damage.
The same nonsense underlies the "War on Poverty" as does "Futurism". Big government and the technocracy can fix all our problems, and make us all happy little citizens who love each other and get along.
It's just not true. That's not the nature of man.
And what are the 49ers called just as often as they are called the 49ers? The Niners. Finding shorter and shorter names for our ballclubs is a pretty time-honored tradition.
Isn't "Red Sox" a product of its time too?
Maybe, but you'll never convince me that a society where everyone subscribes to that view will be a decent society in which to live. Life is very dreary, bordering on dystopic, where everyone's given up on the hope of progress and a brighter future.
And putting a man on the moon in 1969 -- the apogee of the futuristic, optimistic 60s -- was one of humankind's greatest acoomplishments (*) and a cause for unalloyed celebration.
(*) One in which Houston was intimitely involved; thus, the aesthetic appropriateness of "Astros." It's a nearly perfect fit.
Do they not actually wear red socks? Or are you talking the spelling?
Well, civilization existed for 6000+ years without any hope of long-term material progress for the avg. man (basically until 1800) and they still produced lots of scientific progress as well as art, literature and culture.
I'm not saying you can't have progress, you just need to have reasonable expectations. You're never getting rid of war, poverty, disease and hatred.
So true. What is a man, after all, but a miserable pile of secrets?
The spelling. No one spells "socks" like that anymore.
How long does it take for an era to go from being seen as tacky and dated to being seen as classical and timeless?
Like the expectation of going to Valhalla in the Sky after your physical body shuts down for good? I'm not sure I'd call that "reasonable."
And, of course, it was the hope of that very thing that predominantly drove the pre-1800 progress you noted.
Well, we've made huge strides in all these areas, but you seem to be calling this progress "so much damage".
I'm certainly not offended, but someone's going to be. At least they aren't playing Colorado that day.
The same amount of time it takes for this to be ok. How long till I can market my 9/11 dunk tank?
As much as I believe that the Founding Fathers put the word "Militia" in the 2nd Amendment for a reason, I have no qualms about having a gun on a baseball uniform. I thought "Colt .45s" was a cool name back in the day and still think so now. Not that Astros was a bad name either, very forward looking in its time.
This modern day fear of the image of a gun or playing army (or dare I say it, Cowboys and Indians) is just nonsense. I remember when I got my toy Mattel guns (pistol and Winchester repeater) which had cartridges and plastic bullets that would actually fire. I was warned (and obeyed) the admonition that if I shot them at anybody, the guns would be taken away forever. I had no doubt that was true.
I have no desire to own a gun to this day.
For Hitler's birthday, of course! The new jersey will have a V-2 on it.
Just to be clear, the Astros' ownership has stated that they will not change the name of the team. The Astros will continue to be the Astros in the AL. But the uniform design may change.
Definitely one of my favorites from that scene; saw 'em in Phoenix around 1982. "Manzanar" is a great track.
And what better way to decrease the general populace's desire to own a gun than to have the Astros wear one on their jersey?
Not with that attitude, Debbie Downer!
Apologies. I assumed a thread about guns was going that way anyway.
I was talking philosophy not politics, but I know some people can't separate them. I should know better.
That is a fascinating article about the 1914 Braves opening day uniform.
Have we really? Think beyond the borders of the U.S. The problem is that progress in some areas lead to problems elsewhere. Like overpopulation and the environmental damage done by having so many people, all wanting to enjoy the material benefits of progress. If science ever cures aging - or even just extends lifespans to the 150 range - we're going to be in real trouble.
They are primarily a function of limited resources. All you need to do is increase the ratio of energy/person. 6 billion people dont use a fraction of the solar energy or physical space available to us... We just dont harvest or utilize it very efficiently.
As for disease, a bunch of that goes away with unlimited resources as well. The rest of it (cancer/longivity/infection/genetic prediposition) will all be solved in 50 years anyway. Without postulating better resource utilization (but assuming no epic collapse of civilization)
"Colts .45s" doesn't make any sense.
I think the correct phrasing is "Colts .45."
/William Safire
They are primarily a function of limited resources. All you need to do is increase the ratio of energy/person. 6 billion people dont use a fraction of the solar energy or physical space available to us... We just dont harvest or utilize it very efficiently.
As for disease, a bunch of that goes away with unlimited resources as well. The rest of it (cancer/longivity/infection/genetic predisosition) will all be solved in 50 years anyway. Without postulating better resource utilization (but assuming no epic collapse of civilization)
Resources all always limited, b/c human desires are unlimited.
We still define 15% of the U.S. population as "in poverty" even though they have material wealth that a King in 1000 AD could only dream of.
Humans are flawed beings. We will hate and envy and desire and fight for resources. That's what we do.
Do you actually notice rich people being less competitive and cut-throat? Hell no. They're even more ruthless in gaining more, more, more.
Like the expectation of going to Valhalla in the Sky after your physical body shuts down for good? I'm not sure I'd call that "reasonable."
And, of course, it was the hope of that very thing that predominantly drove the pre-1800 progress you noted.
Whatever you think of their expectation, they had a much more accurate view of the nature of man than any modern Progressive.
They recognized man as a fallen creature, and unperfectable. That gave them much more insight in to human nature than many moderns.
/William Safire
I guess it could be Colt's .45, if you were indicating the original gun invented by Samuel Colt (even though that's not the common usage), but "Colts .45" never works.
/end retaliatory pedantry (full snark mode)
Yes. Why limit it to the US? Endemic poverty only really exists in a few areas of the globe right now and actual war is confined to even fewer. A huge number of people are still affected, of course, and we're not "rid" of any of our problems, but we've come a long way in terms of real human progress in the last 6000 years. And there's no reason, snapper's "philosophical" stylings aside, that we can't keep making progress.
A-have jobs where you have a lot of free time? So you can just post at BBTF all day.
B-not have jobs
C-or what?
I've often wondered. I guess a book store owner like Frank..err...Andy can just sit at the counter and "spiel" away until somebody buys a book.
How do the rest of you get away with it?
Snapper--don't you own a company or something?
I thought Kings had castles and slaves and such?
Multiple Colt revolvers, all .45 caliber. Works just fine.
Well, it could have been a thread about baseball uniforms.
They're ripping off their employers. Which means that they're ripping off all of the rest of us who ultimately pay for their non-productivity in one way or another. Me, I have a flex time job and am generally off on Fridays.
But back to the unis... I'd prefer a more detailed and accurate depiction of a Colt .45; this is just a pretty poorly drawn generic revolver.
Snapper--don't you own a company or something?
Don't you know how to multi-task?
I thought Kings had castles and slaves and such?
They still had no 1) central heat, 2) AC, 3) refrigerated food, 4) fresh fruit and vegetables except in season, 5) effective medical treatment, surgery, or dentistry, 6) anti-biotics or any medicine, 8) televisions, movies, phones, internet, etc., etc.
They came up with the conception of heaven because they wanted their perceived future to be better than it would be without heaven.
In other words, they did precisely what you said people shouldn't do when you said they should live with "reasonable expectations."
By any objective and serious measurement, their expectations about the future of man in this universe were less "reasonable" than the secular optimism that prevailed in the West from ca. 1962-67.
You try using your slaves to stage a giant game of Skyrim*, or to re-enact the 1975 World Series.
*Admittedly, you could do this...and it would be quite fun. But such a hassle to plan.
EDIT: I was going to edit in a more serious response, but snapper covered it in 47.
My idea of the world gets a bit fuzzy after Versailles, but I'd have thought the golden age of secular optimism and belief in progress was 1900-1914 or so.
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