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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
I remember this was how former UT football player Bill Bates made the Cowboys squad.

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Bates was a classic example of working hard you will succeed was the reason they started the position of Special Teams selection on Pro Bowl teams back in the day when football was football. Not this pansy stuff don't touch don't hit baloney they have now...
 
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knoxvol52 said:
Bates was a classic example of working hard you will succeed was the reason they started the position of Special Teams selection on Pro Bowl teams back in the day when football was football. Not this pansy stuff don't touch don't hit baloney they have now...
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The late great John Madden was always praising Bill Bates on his hustle & his never say die attitude.
John Madden is the reason that Special Teams player was formed bc of his constant attention to Bates's play on the field.
 
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knoxvol52 said:
On a serious thought the Braves best not piddle fart around and lose Home field for playoffs since All Star break they seem to be struggling some. Plus the competition they have played isn't the best either just observing maybe they can get through this bad patch...
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My thoughts exactly. Glad you posted my thoughts. :cool:
 
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On August 11 in Baseball History...​
  • 1907 - In the second game of a doubleheader, shortened to seven innings by prior agreement, St. Louis Cardinal hurler Ed Karger pitches a perfect game, 4-0, against Boston.

  • 1926 - Tris Speaker of Cleveland hit his 700th career double but the Indians lost to the Chicago White Sox, 7-2. The double came in the third inning off Jim Joe Edwards.

  • 1928 - Carl Hubbell's first major league victory is a 4-0 shutout of the Phillies. He'll be 10-6 down the stretch and will pitch 16 years with the Giants.

  • 1929 - At League Park, Babe Ruth hits home run number 500 off Willis Hudlin of Cleveland.

  • 1950 - Hitting just .279, Yankee great Joe DiMaggio is benched for the first time in his career. He is currently languishing in a 4-for-38 slump.

  • 1951 - Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Giants, 4-0, dropping the Giants 13 1/2 games behind the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers.

  • 1961 - Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves scattered six hits to beat the Chicago Cubs, 2-1, for his 300th career victory.

  • 1962 - The Dodgers protest the wetting down of the field at Candlestick, a tactic they claim is to stop Maury Wills. The Giants win 5-4, but the watering ploy earns Giants manager Alvin Dark the sobriquet The Swamp Fox.

  • 1968 - Satchel Paige, 62 years or so old, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by the Braves. He will not pitch a regular-season game for Atlanta and will become a coach on September 30.

  • 1969 - Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder. Drysdale is the last Los Angeles player left from the Brooklyn Dodgers. Bob Aspromonte, who will retire in 1971, is the last active former Brooklyn Dodger.

  • 1970 - Jim Bunning notches his 100th NL victory, a 6-5 Phillies win over the Astros. Bunning is the first pitcher since Cy Young to win 100 games in each league.

  • 1982 - Terry Felton (0-11) is the losing pitcher in Minnesota's 6-3 loss to the Angels, dropping his career record to 0-14, the worst individual start in major league history. Felton will never win a major league game, finishing his career with an 0-16 record.

  • 1986 - Cincinnati player-manager Pete Rose singled four times and doubled to set a National League record with the 10th five-hit game of his career. The 45-year-old Rose drove in three runs in a 13-4 loss to the San Francisco Giants, to move one ahead of Max Carey for the record.

  • 1987 - Mark McGwire of the Athletics broke Al Rosen's American League rookie record by hitting his 38th home run in Oakland's 8-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners.

  • 1991 - Wilson Alvarez hurls a no-hitter in his second big league start as the White Sox stop Baltimore 7-0.

  • 1998 - Mark McGwire homers off Bobby Jones in an 8-3 Mets win. The home run tops Hack Wilson's 1930 National League record of 46 home runs hit before September 1. In McGwire's162 games with the Cardinals since a trade with Oakland on July 31, 1997, McGwire has a .275 batting average with 71 home runs and 146 runs batted in with 165 walks.

Baseball Birthdays on August 11... ​


Baseball Deaths on August 11... ​

 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
It doesn't say it's available on the lineup card. Try it out when game time comes around
and report back to let us know as I'll be watching the game on Bally Sport channel.
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I was referring to your love of the channel you mentioned TBS and 🍎+ just thought I would add to your mystery...
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
The article says he has high praise for the Vols. He loves CJH & DL coach Rodney Garner.
I'm hoping he comes to UT. He says we are an up & coming program he'd like to be apart of.
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Yes needs it seems is DL and OL .... Other positions are good so it seems by reading but who knows??
 
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