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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
New York Tribune, April 17, 1912: Ty Cobb, the outfielder extraordinary of the Detroit Tigers, will rest for a few days in an effort to get rid of the cold that has been troubling him for ten days. He left the team in Chicago on Monday evening, with the consent of Jennings, and will recuperate in Detroit.
I don’t know if quote fingers had been invented in 1912, but this would have been a pretty good use for them. You may recall from yesterday’s dugout that Cobb stormed out of Chicago and went home because he didn’t like his hotel room. It’s not much of a stretch to think that “the consent of Jennings” is a nice way to say that Ee-Yah suspended The Georgia Peach for a few days.
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1. Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) Posted: April 17, 2012 at 05:26 AM (#4108645)Ogden City [Utah] Evening Standard:Washington Times:If he spends a year at Hopkins, then goes overseas for eighteen months, that means he'll be in Germany until...October 1914. That should work out well.
Actually, Gessler played part of the 1913 season for Kansas City and then started the 1914 season as the manager of the Pittsburgh Rebels. He was slightly more successful than the Russian Second Army at Tannenberg. But only slightly.
And it's entirely possible that the third baseman could refuse to take the field alongside the center fielder. If that happens, Ferguson plays RF, Walling plays third, and we tell Cap where he can stick it. The Birthday League is fully integrated.
C: Gary Bennett
1B: Jake Daubert
2B: Pedro Garcia
3B/Manager: Cap Anson
SS: Solly Hemus
LF: Ryan Raburn
CF: Marquis Grissom
RF: Denny Walling
SP: Charlie Ferguson
SP: Jersey Bakley
SP: Scott Perry
SP: Bob Osborn
SP: Charlie Jaeger
RP: Lefty Smoll
Owner: Emil Fuchs
Writer of Rules: Alexander Cartwright
Best House Band Ever: Jan Hammer, Michael Sembello, Pete Shelley, Maynard James Keenan, Liz Phair, Redman, and Posh Spice.
Ventriloquist: Señor Wences
S'all right? S'all right.
Rico Fregosi is now my new favorite player.
Yesterday: Orioles 10, White Sox 4 (10). You'd think a game-tying rally in the 9th to force extras would do pretty well... and it's not that this game does badly by any means. But much of the scoring (particularly the late scoring) was based around solo homers (Wieters, Reimold, and Jones in the 8th and 9th, rallying Baltimore from a 4-1 deficit), which don't extend the drama as much as protracted rallies. And the last remaining vestige of hope for extra-inning excitement was wiped out by a Wieters grand slam that pushed the margin to 6. (Incidentally, Wieters is doing pretty well so far - .344, 12 homers, 1.212 OPS. Maybe He's finally arrived.)
Last year: Rays 4, Twins 3. Another 9th-inning comeback that didn't have much leading up to it. The Twins took the lead early; the Rays threatened in the third, fourth, and fifth, but never actually tied the game, and the Twins led 3-1 going into the 8th. Matt Joyce cut the margin in half with an RBI single, and then Joe Nathan melted down again: Ben Zobrist led off the 9th with a solo homer, and a walk-steal-walk sequence put runners on first and second. One out later, Nathan was pulled, putting Jose Mijares in position to give up Johnny Damon's eventual walkoff single.
Proof, I suppose, that even relatively tame days of baseball can produce good games.
My bad, 4 homers. No idea where 12 came from.
Yes!!!!
He should probably take the rest of the year off to rest up and get one next year at 50.
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