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1. Edmundo got dem ol' Kozma blues again mamaYou'd have thought this would have served as a lesson to the entire Dodger organization. Yet, just eight months later there was Don Drysdale giving Greg some pitching advice, only to watch in horror as the grooviest Brady later accused the Dodger righthander of coming a little too far inside on him, if you know what he means.
EDIT: Hmmn, after #s 3 & 4 it looks like this is some kind of double entendre about Connors. But this is serious trivia, people!
I recently became aware of Discogs.com. There seem to be 2 CD copies and 3 LP copies available of the album you're looking for. By comparison an Amazon search finds nothing.
Although (no offense) I would have thought your college radio days predated 1997, due to your venerable status among us internet people.
Some of the hippies there hated me (and were an epic pain in the ass, there's nothing quite so annoying as a progressive on a power trip), the rest of the hippies there liked me and were some of the nicest folks ever. I see @DannyPostel has a twitter handle. I should look him up.
Strangely DIPS kinda became a bright line divider in my life in a lot of ways: Chicago and relatively young and thin to Phoenix and relatively old and really fat. The weight gain probably started around 1997 but didn't start to become really noticeable until around 1999 or 2000, and then spun out of control from there. I simply was not prepared for the whole DIPS to BPro to Rob Neyer to Boston Red Sox thing, and I pretty much ate all of my stress.
It's going to be interesting as the weight continues to come off. Sort of looking forward to the past sort of thing.
Thanks for the heads up. Not sure I want to drop a sawbuck (does anyone use those terms anymore?) on it but I suppose I shouldn't be a cheap bastard. IIRC the album was fairly ordinary except for the Elizabeth Montgomery song which I really liked.
Mays, Drysdale, & Durocher once appeared in the same episode
Maury Wills was a regular on Doris Day.
Besides Chuck Connors, another major leaguer who transitioned into acting was Johnny Berardino.
If it was the same episode I saw, that was the E! True Hollywood Story on Bewitched. Another thing that episode mentioned was that when Elizabeth would play Serena wearing the black wig, she would get hit on by many members of the production staff. The staff did not realize that the actress playing Serena also happened to be married to the show's producer/director, William Asher.
Yankees on Bilko
This sentence would have been better if it was Leo.
I remember getting a Durocher bio out of the library and looking in the index. Under Durocher it had the various categories
Durocher, Leo:
birth of,
Brooklyn Dodgers and,
Day, Laraine and,
New York Giants and,
Penile Implant and,
Ruth, Babe and,
etc.
Day, Laraine and,
Penile Implant and,
Durocher was always all about the foreplay, because he knew that nice guys finish last. Besides, how do you think he got his nickname?
Let us not forget Brett Fav-ruh in "Something About Mary."
"Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!"
Put Down the Duckie!
Mookie and Keith at 1:47-1:51 (interrupted by Jane Curtin)
New York football Giants at 3:37-3:45 (interrupted by Pete Seeger)
Pfft...Elvis Hitler, they are not.
I think the 'Disgraceland' album is money.
You mean there is a NY baseball Giants still?
And I still get a kick of watching the original version of "the Longest Yard" and seeing all the old football players from the 60's and early 70's in it.
No, but amazing things can be done with editing. Like John McGraw saying,"Put down the duckie" or dancing Gangnam style.
They're all good. They had one last one named "Two Headed Cousin", that might have been Jim Leedy's best work, but it never got released. I wish I still had the cassette (!) copy of the master that he gave me.
Jimmy is an old friend of mine from the Lili's 21 days in Detroit, so I'm kinda biased.
####### those were fun times. Thanks for reminding me about them.
Dick Butkus acted very badly on lots of stuff. Merlin Olsen and Fred Dryer acted semi-competently (i.e. they didn't seem surprised to find a camera pointing at them). And who can forget Ed Marinaro?
Alex Karras, too. For a while it seemed like half the shows on TV had former NFL defensive linemen as stars.
Roman Gabriel in The Undefeated, however, was impossibly bad.
I went through a phase when I watched reruns of Bewitched fairly often, and thought it a pretty smart show compared to its peers; but my brain could just be spongy from too much TV.
I would maintain that Elizabeth Montgomery had Inner Circle credentials all along, but this pretty much would seal it.
Ben Davidson was a regular on "Ball Four."
Ah, yes. And Billie Jean King came on at the end of that one as well.
Jim Plunkett was on an episode as an Eskimo quarterback who was discovered by Oscar and then asked him to be his agent. Lot of jokes about turnig the thermostat down.
Karras was also on the Odd Couple. Billie Jean King did a cameo at the end of the Bobby Riggs episode (edit: beverage to TN).
and Ty Cobb would have made a great cameo somewhere. Maybe Father knows Best?
Not TV, but Cobb was briefly in the original "Angels in the Outfield."
Sparky Anderson was terrific on WKRP. Wade Boggs got pantsed on Cheers, and Luis Tiant did a mock commercial with Sam Malone.
As did Jim Bouton himself; of course, Bouton also had a decent sized role as Terry Lennox in Robery Altman's "The Long Goodbye".
I'd love to know the story behind that bit of casting, since Bouton hadn't acted in anything prior ...
"Punch Drunks" from the Three Stooges (1934). 50 seconds in you see Moe sitting at a table with three men. The mug saying "The only cut I got was this one over my eye" is "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, an elite lightheavyweight boxer and former champ (click the link to see his truly impressive career record). The fella sitting next to him is former heavyweight contender Frank Moran, who most famously fought Jack Johnson for the heavyweight title in 1914. Both men made a very nice career for themselves doing small roles like this in Hollywood - IMDB credits Moran with 150 appearances on-film, Maxie with 73.
He's perfect in North Dallas Forty.
"Every time I say it's a game, you say it's a business! And every time I say it's a business, you say it's a game!"
My favorite is Robin Roberts, who signs in with his real name, with the panel not wearing blindfolds. But his "line" is that he has a shrimp company, or something.
Also, I've linked to it in Branch Rickey threads before, but there's an episode with Rickey as the guest, touting his new Continental League.
Hm. I sure don't remember that, and there's nothing on the IMDB like that, although I am impressed by the specificity of your recall. Was it possibly a different show? I do remember the great Jack Soo as the Chinese wrestler Chuck Chin.
Altman loved casting non-actors. Huey Lewis was in "Short Cuts," there are several football players in "M*A*S*H," he used Lyle Lovett a lot, there are a bunch of musicians in "Nashville," and Andy Richter (!) is in "Dr. T and the Women."
Baer, of course, is notoriously and wrongly depicted as a sadist and all-around jerk in Ron Howard's otherwise commendable "Cinderella Man", but the real Madcap Maxie is the guy you see here, happy-go-lucky and surrounded by dames. I won't hold the pants against him since he probably didn't tailor them himself.
and Rosey Grier
Oh Lord, there went the brain cells: "Jim Plunkett" was actually actor Reni Santoni, who later went on to play "Poppy" in Seinfeld. He did bear a superficial resemblance to Plunkett:
Reni Santoni
Jim Plunkett
The day when I'm found shuffling along miles from my house in carpet slippers and robe just moved about five years closer.
The late and great. When I was at Michigan State there was a legend still current (from not that long before, looking back) that Bubba bought himself a Cadillac, painted the word "Bubba" on the side, and would drive it to campus in the morning and park it in the university president's reserved spot, or alternatively just leave it on the quad somewhere. A kinder and gentler college-sports-out-of-control world …
Dr J was in the Fish that Saved Pittsburgh. Ray Allen in He Got Game. Bernard King in Fast Break. (As was Michael Warren, who should be added to the Ed Marinaro post.)
Brian Bosworth was a minor action star, right?
One of my favorite cameos (after Kareem in Airplane) was Trammell and Whitaker in Magnum PI. It's very brief, Magnum runs into them in a bar.
I want to say he meant to see a game and couldn't due to his crime-solving adventures, but then runs into Trammell and Whitaker and his trip is salvaged, but honestly I can't remember and might be making all that up.
George Foreman on Sanford and Son. More mysteriously, Marvin Hagler once guested on Punky Brewster.
Doug English (another DT) was the eponymous character in "Big Bad John", also starring Jimmy Dean. The character is sort of based on the Jimmy Dean song.
I wonder how stuff like this happens.
One of the worst movies ever. I saw it a summer camp in 1989 and I'm upset about it.
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