Sunday, June 16, 2013
With defensive shifts on the rise in baseball, Orioles among leading proponents
(www.baltimoresun.com)
Read More...Manager Buck Showalter downplays the notion that he suddenly found religion on the shift.
“People were doing it years ago,” he says. “It’s not something new. Ask [1960s slugger] Willie McCovey. But a lot of it then was really tough, because you were basing it on just what your gut told you.”
...Orioles closer Jim Johnson, a ground-ball pitcher when he’s throwing well, says the shift has become too popular. “It’s fine on certain guys, but I think sometimes it gets a little carried ...
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1. PhillyBooster posted on February 07, 2013 at 11:03 AM # hit 0 | hit 0"no markers for slain former MLB player Clyburn"
"A year after his death, there’s just a faded tiny metal marker to indicate that is where Danny Clyburn Jr., who hit home runs in the major leagues, lies six feet under the red earth."
He was killed, police say, after an argument at a tiny home that was used as a guys’ clubhouse on North Market Street. . . That house has no marker, either."
What are these "markers", how big should they be, and how many of them are murdered former baseball players entitled to? Does hitting four major league home runs entitle him to four markers? Was there a debate at the guys' clubhouse about marker placement? Or did it not occur to anyone except the author of the article that the space should have a marker in it?
gravestones
Next question: Guess which "Lancaster" this article is talking about.
A) Pennsylvania
B) California
C) Ohio
D) other
Unfortunately, I can relate to his dad's plight. I wasn't able to come up with the money for a marker for my mother's grave till nearly a half-decade after she was buried, when I was finally able to sell the house & land she left for something like $4,000.
But the article says that there is a "tiny metal marker" where he is buried, so that is one marker. There is no "marker" at the house where the shooting occurred, and the headline says "no markers," which is plural so I assume it is talking about something other than a grave marker. I don't think he wants a big gravestone stuck inside the clubhouse. Who has multiple grave markers?
I COMPLETELY though the article was about Lancaster, PA. I even checked the newspaper, which covers "York, Chester, and Lancaster Counties," which would make sense for PA. Then I checked again, and saw his birthplace and the article links. I guess they have similar county names in South Carolina.
Also odd was the photo caption saying that Clyburn played for the Orioles and D-Rays, while the picture shows his father holding up three baseball cards, showing Clyburn playing for the Pirates (minor league card pre-Orioles), Newark Bears (Indy-League post-D-Rays), and what looks to me like Red Sox uniform, but must be some minor league team with a similar color scheme. He didn't have any Orioles or Devil Ray playing cards?
Then again, I haven't hit any home runs in the major leagues.
That'll happen with "York" and "Lancaster." Speaking of which, poor Richard III didn't have a proper marker either.
Very tough story to read when you get through the writer's oddities.
Yeah, I clicked through just to find out, because I grew up in the one in Ohio. Glad it wasn't that one.
Well at least they haven't built a parking lot over his grave yet either.
Well not yet. You may still get lucky if you get pinged for a DUI and are suspected of taking PED's. That's the makings of a major leaguer right there.
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