View Full Version : Rick Monday's Best Play for the Chicago Cubs
SASless
24th Jul 2006, 19:06
The American Legion monthly magazine had an article about this great Baseball play.
http://veterans.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Newsroom.PressReleases&month=6&year=2006&id=682
Radar Muppet
24th Jul 2006, 19:25
Aww....bless
Safety_Helmut
24th Jul 2006, 20:00
Anyone know what baseball is, is it like rounders ?
S_H
BEagle
24th Jul 2006, 20:15
Just listen to 123.45 on the pond - in between "Say, you guys gotta ride report", you'll hear endless boring discussions about the Spams' rounders results.
Tourist
24th Jul 2006, 20:19
SASless.
Just remind me what the only officially sanctioned method of disposing of the US flag is..............?
West Coast
24th Jul 2006, 20:29
"Just listen to 123.45 on the pond"
You can monitor that from seat 18D nowadays?
Maple 01
24th Jul 2006, 22:46
Beags never flys that far back - for God's sake man, on some carriers that's nearly Club Class!
West Coast
24th Jul 2006, 23:27
Of course, royalty flies nearer the pointy end, none of that steerage crap.
GreenKnight121
28th Jul 2006, 23:59
Tourist...
US Flag Code. TITLE 4 > CHAPTER 1 > Sec. 8(k) states: "The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning"
Note the word dignified!
What that man and his son were attempting was NOT dignified, but rather the opposite!
The difference is the same as burying your Grandad in the cemetery with a nice funeral, and just hauling him off in a lorry and chucking his corpse in the landfill with the household trash!
Both constitute burial, but one will get you a nice talk with the police!
SASless
29th Jul 2006, 00:35
Safety....
Baseball is like Cricket but with excitement, beer, and hotdogs and gets played out in nine innings and within a single day.
Ali Barber
29th Jul 2006, 02:22
The Chicago White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers played a game lasting 8 hours and 6 minutes on May 9, 1984. The Chicago White Sox eventually won 7-6 in the 25th inning. That's one run every 38 minutes, or one run every 2 innings. Exciting stuff!:D
Ali Barber
29th Jul 2006, 02:25
And from the non-Majors:
The Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings, two teams from the triple-A International League, played the longest game in professional baseball history in 1981 at Pawtucket's McCoy Stadium.
The game began on Saturday, April 18, 1981, and continued through the night and into Easter morning before finally being suspended. Although most leagues have a curfew rule that would have suspended the game, the rule book that the home-plate umpire had that night did not contain one. So the teams continued playing until the president of the league, Harold Cooper, was finally reached on the phone sometime after 3 a.m. Finally at 4:09, at the end of the 32nd inning, the game was stopped and would be resumed at a later date. At this point, there were 19 fans left in the seats, all of whom were given lifetime passes to McCoy Stadium.
The game resumed on the evening of Tuesday, June 23, the next time the Red Wings were in town. A sellout crowd and news media from around the world were on hand, partly because the major leagues were on strike at the time. On that evening, it took just one inning and 18 minutes to settle the game, with Pawtucket's Dave Koza driving in Marty Barrett for the winning run in the bottom of the 33rd.
N Arslow
29th Jul 2006, 13:36
Intereszz...zzz...ZZZ
SARowl
29th Jul 2006, 14:01
I'm mystified as to the relevance of this thread.
Ali Barber
29th Jul 2006, 22:15
Ithink it was to do with Flag Day, which is a holiday in the USA that occurred about about a month before this thread started...... so, yes, I m confused as well!
Vox Populi
31st Jul 2006, 21:14
That was the day Rick Monday, then playing centerfield for the Chicago Cubs, snatched a flag from a father and son who were attempting to burn it at during a game between the Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
This an offiicial press release from the US Senate? With a typo in the second par??
God bleff America.
GreenKnight121
1st Aug 2006, 21:12
Unfortunately, the state of the education system in the US over the last 20+ years has resulted in the return of language and grammer use to pre-dictionary days... when you could find the same word spelled 2-3 different ways in the same hand-written letter (authored by a "highly educated " person), and no one thought that strange.
Starting in the late 1970s, the American Education Association ( US national teachers union) started supporting the concept of "It is not critical that you always get it exactly correct, as long as you understand the concept and others understand your meaning"! They apply this to virtually all subjects, from grammar & spelling to math and history.
After all, one of the highest-priority elements of a current US education is "building self-esteem"... and demanding too much perfection is damaging to the ego of those with a "different ability to learn"! :yuk:
GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU
3rd Aug 2006, 11:17
"It is not critical that you always get it exactly correct, as long as you understand the concept and others understand your meaning"! They apply this to virtually all subjects, from grammer & spelling to math and history.
I see exactly what you mean.
South Bound
3rd Aug 2006, 12:35
I don't think we in Blighty can whinge too much about this - the standard of grammar taught in our State schools is virtually non-existant. I remember (and this was a LONG time ago) really struggling with French, only realising some years later that my problems were founded in a lack of understanding of the basics of English grammar.