Good to be happy with that, this way you won't be disappointed when they don't even make it to the World SeriesOriginally Posted by Joebob034
Tigers AL Central champs! first division title since '87
Good to be happy with that, this way you won't be disappointed when they don't even make it to the World SeriesTigers AL Central champs! first division title since '87
The Philadelphia Phillies clinch the NL East championship for the fifth straight time!!!
I am going to see the Phillies a week from Monday.
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
You're gonna be in Atlanta? That's where they're playing a week from Monday.
Yes sir!!
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
Interesting. Enjoy it.
How far are you from there? want to go to the game with me?
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
If I was still living in Atlanta, I'd join you, but unfortunately I live 6 hours away and I won't be able to make it.
But enjoy, man. Be prepared to drive. You can't walk in Atlanta like you can in Chicago. It's too spread out.
Oh, I know, I have a brother there, but I am staying in a downtown hotel for a week. I'll cab it to the game.
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
Alrighty. I remember downtown, or at least how it looked through a haze of alcohol-tinged vision when I was going to GT.
Alrighty. I remember downtown, or at least how it looked through a haze of alcohol-tinged vision when I was going to GT.
I have a feeling I may see it through the same lens!!
I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.
The Atlanta Braves of the 2000's
The Philadelphia Phillies clinch the NL East championship for the fifth straight time!!!
I dunno, I like the Tigers chances against anybody in the ALGood to be happy with that, this way you won't be disappointed when they don't even make it to the World Series
I am fixed
"Somedays I wake up and feel like nobody loves me. Other days I wake up and feel like I love nobody. Sometimes I wake up and feel tired, and worn out. Sometimes I wake up and feel like I cannot face the day. But someday I'll wake up and realize that waking up is pretty stupid because it just makes you feel like crap."
hey RBP you gonna watch that special on Bartman tonight and reflect on some fond memories?
I am fixed
"Somedays I wake up and feel like nobody loves me. Other days I wake up and feel like I love nobody. Sometimes I wake up and feel tired, and worn out. Sometimes I wake up and feel like I cannot face the day. But someday I'll wake up and realize that waking up is pretty stupid because it just makes you feel like crap."
Sep 28, 1941:
Ted Williams becomes last player to hit .400 - On this day in 1941, the Boston Red Sox's Ted Williams plays a double-header against the Philadelphia Athletics on the last day of the regular season and gets six hits in eight trips to the plate, to boost his batting average to .406 and become the first player since Bill Terry in 1930 to hit .400. Williams, who spent his entire career with the Sox, played his final game exactly 19 years later, on September 28, 1960, at Boston’s Fenway Park and hit a home run in his last time at bat, for a career total of 521 homeruns.
Williams was born on August 30, 1918, in San Diego, and began his major league career with the Red Sox in 1939. 1941 marked Williams' best season. In addition to his .406 batting average--no major league player since him has hit .400--the left fielder led the league with 37 homers, 135 runs and had a slugging average of .735. Also that season, Williams, whose nicknames included "The Splendid Splinter" and "The Thumper," had an on-base percentage of .553, a record that remained unbroken for 61 years, until Barry Bonds achieved a percentage of .582 in 2002.
In 1942, Williams won the American League Triple Crown, for highest batting average and most RBIs and homeruns. He duplicated the feat in 1947. In 1946 and 1949, he was named the American League's Most Valuable Player and in June 1960, he became the fourth player in major league history to hit 500 homers. He was selected to the All-Star team 17 times.
Williams played his last game on September 28, 1960, and retired with a lifetime batting average of .344, a .483 career on-base percentage and 2,654 hits. His achievements are all the more impressive because his career was interrupted twice for military service: Williams was a Marine Corps pilot during World War II and the Korean War and as a result missed a total of nearly five seasons from baseball.
Williams, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966, managed the Washington Senators (renamed the Texas Rangers in 1972) from 1969 to 1972. In 1984, the Boston Red Sox retired his uniform number (nine). Williams died of cardiac arrest at age 83 on July 5, 2002, in Florida. In a controversial move, his son sent his father’s body to be frozen at a cryonics laboratory.
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