Bill's (Experts Only) Baseball Discussion Thread

[82_VOL_83]

@Behr is alurkin

 

[GordonC]

So a little bit cereal here

I see H is a pitcher stat.
Was it always?
For a long time (and growing up watching a lot of baseball), I only heard of Ws and Ss, and you mentioned quirky saves in the other thread.
Edit: I don't want to Google hahahaha

 

[volfanbill]

So a little bit cereal here

I see H is a pitcher stat.
Was it always?
For a long time (and growing up watching a lot of baseball), I only heard of Ws and Ss, and you mentioned quirky saves in the other thread.
Edit: I don't want to Google hahahaha

It was created when I was a kid. Somewhere in the 80s. So no.

 

[GordonC]

It was created when I was a kid. Somewhere in the 80s. So no.

OK
and with the technology and statkeeping capabilities with the Interwebz, I guess it became more noticeable
I used to have to look at the paper the next day to see Reds scores a lot of the time, and I don't remember seeing it in print

 

[volfanbill]

I never think about it. But since Kirby would’ve earned a save, I guess he does at least get the hold

 

[Weezer]

So either @Behr or a mod

Or @Souce .

 

[volfanbill]

Or @Souce .

Or… that guy that snuck over here to actually get the last word uses @Behr as an alt. How wild would that be?

 

[GordonC]

Reminds me I found this book (buried in a box) the other day. Joe on the front and Kitty Kaat on the back.

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

halo....

 

[volfanbill]

Reminds me I found this book (buried in a box) the other day. Joe on the front and Kitty Kaat on the back.

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I’m too young to remember Morgan the player, but I couldn’t stand him in the booth. He called more wrong pitches than Harry Carey poorly pronounced last names.

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

Is this where we discusss Kirby starting Saturday for nothing but net and more TENNESSEEE TD BABY! ?

 

[82_VOL_83]

Or… that guy that snuck over here to actually get the last word uses @Behr as an alt. How wild would that be?

Well they do profess unrequited love for each other.

 

[volfanbill]

Is this where we discusss Kirby starting Saturday for nothing but net and more TENNESSEEE TD BABY! ?

I agree with @NorCalVol67 ’s statements and I think it would mess with the psyche of everything, but I’m also a born and raised Johnson City kid with lots of friends and family still there, some with connections to Kirby’s family, so I wouldn’t be mad as long as it worked.

 

[82_VOL_83]

I’m too young to remember Morgan the player, but I couldn’t stand him in the booth. He called more wrong pitches than Harry Carey poorly pronounced last names.

I think he was awesome on the field but an absolute idiot in the booth

 

[NorCalVol67]

I loved Morgan in the booth.

 

[volfanbill]

Morgan: he left a fastball over the middle of the plate and Sosa crushed it

Replay: a breaking ball moving inside got crushed

 

[GordonC]

I was a huge fan of him as a player, and I don't remember ever watching a game and thinking he sucked as an announcer.

 

[Sgt_Nick_Fury]

but I’m also a born and raised Johnson City kid with lots of friends and family still there,...

I got alot of brothers there.... love me some Johnson City peeps.

 

[82_VOL_83]

He is the Gary Danielson/vern Lundquist of MLB all rolled into one

 

[NorCalVol67]

Morgan is up there among my favorite players. I’m sure I have told this before.

We went to a fund raiser put on by Ronnie Lott. It was cocktails and food before going to a play. We walked to the theater with Joe Morgan, I was in awe.

 

[volfanbill]

He is the Gary Danielson/vern Lundquist of MLB all rolled into one

In the response that will get banished from the Zone, I liked Vern. Enjoy retirement Sir

 

[NorCalVol67]

In the response that will get banished from the Zone, I liked Vern. Enjoy retirement Sir

Vern was awesome.

 

[82_VOL_83]

In the response that will get banished from the Zone, I liked Vern. Enjoy retirement Sir

Vern was an unabashed Big10 Homer. Gary Danielson is an unabashed idiot.

 

[volfanbill]

Vern was awesome.

I was guessing when I wrote that that you’d be the only one agreeing with me

 

[volfanbill]

OK
and with the technology and statkeeping capabilities with the Interwebz, I guess it became more noticeable
I used to have to look at the paper the next day to see Reds scores a lot of the time, and I don't remember seeing it in print

I miss reading box scores in the paper. I’m a xennial/Oregon Trail generation kid, and I loved the newspaper even as a little kid. It’s not the same on the internet