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1. The George Sherrill Selection Posted: January 14, 2007 at 06:22 AM (#2280289)Maybe you have his reincarnated spirit. Go to a scientologist and see if he can find the memories from your previous life. Maybe you'll be able to tell us if Marilyn Monroe was as good as advertised.
Joke that was going around back in the 30s...
Every day this Wall Street banker would buy a newspaper from a newsboy, look at the cover, then throw it away. After a couple of weeks of that, finally the newsboy asked him, "What are you doing, mister? Every day you buy the paper, but you just throw it in the trash. What gives?"
"I'm reading the obituaries," replied the banker.
"But the obituaries are on the inside of the paper," noted the newsie.
"The S.O.B. I want dead would have his obit on the front page," growled the banker.
Damn you, February 13, 1987!
It's not just that there's no absolutely reason why Bobby Kennedy would ask to meet Lasorda. It's also that Lasorda, a pure nobody, was supposedly summoned to meet with one of the most famous and powerful men in America -- and blew him off because his shoes didn't fit right!
This is the bull####iest piece of bull#### that has ever been bull####ed.
Scoreless innings streak vs serious contender for the Presidency murdered.
"A night of mixed emotions."
That could inspire a contest, all with the same theme.
"It was a night of mixed emotions. While I was happy for my cat finally getting rid of that hairball once and for all, I was sad and angry about the tsunami that killed 250,000 off the coast of Japan. No matter what your ethnic roots are, or which country you align yourself with, the mass drowning of a quarter-million people in a single wave of water is tragic."
I have nothing further to add to this subject - just thought I'd throw that out there.
I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
I am not the Google master, but I would imagine an industrious soul could figure out whether Ogden played that day. Or before or after. I seriously doubt that LaSorda could get from Ogden, UT to LA in a day's time with travel being what it was back then.
Just a thought.....
Actually, it was probably easier in the pre-deregulation days. The Gummint required and subsidized numerous specific profitless city pairings. One of the biggest complaints of pending de-regulation in the late 70's was that one would no longer be able to fly nonstop from Wichita Kansas to Boise Idaho anymore. I'm sure in the 60's there was at least one non-stop between SLC and LAX.
I'm trying, but no one seems to have the schedule or results listed anywhere. I'd use Retrosheet, but I can't seem to find minor league games on there.
Incidentally, the 1968 Odgen Dodgers won the pennant by half a game...because they played one more game than did the Idaho Falls Angels. Conspiracy?
That's the best contrast I've seen since this line of dialogue spoken by the unfairly cute Kate Beckinsale in Pearl Harbor:
"Rafe, I'm pregnant... I didn't even know until the day you turned up alive... and then all this* happened..."
*"This," of course, being the deaths of 2,403 US servicemen and 68 civilians, whom we're asked to believe perished on the morning of December 7, 1941 so that Beckinsale and Ben Affleck could have a "meet-cute."
That's probably really accurate.
Thissite indicates that the '66 season started on June 25 and the '67 season on the 22nd. I don't see a date for the '68 season, but there is a story about Lasorda teaching Bobby Valentine how to grow chest hair.
How? By lycanthropy?
How? By lycanthropy?
Well, seeing as it was Lasorda, it would come as little surprise to you to hear that lipids were prescribed.
See, it's things like this that made Tommy Jr. a homo.
Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Bo Belinsky left the Astros training camp because they wouldn't let him stay out until 3 AM with Jo Collins; a former Playmate of the Year. They wound up suspending him, then shuffling him off to the White Sox. But Bo got the bunny and they lived happily... until 1975, when they divorced.
Dan Sikes pulled away Jack Nicklaus on Sunday with a 66 to pick up the $23,000 winner’s check at the Citrus Open in the shadow of the under construction Walt Disney World in Orlando.
The My Lai massacre took place the day before; although no one outside of the villagers or the boys in Charlie Company knew about it yet.
I wonder if that's where the Dead fans got their name from.
June 5th
June 6th
Okay, I worked in a pharmacy in the city where he lived, but still...
You knucklehead!
Yes, I did just cut and paste that.
Everyone knows that the Nixon presidency was particularly trying on Walt Alston, causing him to retire at the age of 64.
Sirhan now has his reasonable doubt.
Why is this so hard to believe? Presidential candidates always meet with middling relievers before they kick their campaign into high gear. Haven't you heard about Barack Obama's meeting next week with Rich Garces? Or John McCain's meeting with Mike Trombley? Surely you've seen the publicity surrounding the Clinton-Alan Mills meet-up?
...just thought I'd throw that out there.
...just thought I'd throw that out there.
Damn, I was hopign that would be about my reminiscing about Victor Neiderhoffer.
Tony C hit a Spring Training homerun on my birthday, but his comeback attempt would have to wait another year. Just thought that I'd mention that.
Funny. Gracias.
One thing that has me wondering is Tommy's political affiliation in 1968. See, back in the 60's there was a significant transition of Democrats to Republicans. Early in the 60's it was Southern Dems who felt betrayed by Lyndon Johnson over civil rights. But later in Hollywood big names moved from the Democratic to the Republican party. Guys like Ronald Reagan and Frank Sinatra started out as believers in the New Deal but over time changed their views.
I wonder if LaSorda was one who changed his loyalties? If so, it's POSSIBLE that in 1968 he was still a nominal Dem. And therefore it's POSSIBLE that because of his various LA connections might have had a minute in Senator Kennedy's company.
I don't know. Just trying to give the codger the benefit of the doubt. My memory fails me regularly so I am reluctant to cast too many stones.
Still can't get past the fact that he managed in Ogden, UT that year. Even if the season didn't start until later he would have been busy prepping. The Dodgers were one of the most organized clubs in baseball at the time. They had a plan for EVERYTHING.
And Mike Crudale.
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