Hopefully news I saw on Big Hurt was fallacious.
I'd suspected poor reporting since Baseball Reference and Wikipedia'd not made note of it.
I mean........shouldn't the Big Hurt be nigh unto immortal now with that Nugenix he touts?
I recall reading an unreal status that Big Hurt shares with a mere three others all time in the game...lifetime 500HR, 1600BB, .300avg....and one other stat I can't recall...likely shared with solely Williams and Mays and Bonds (my guess)...
Nothing’bout how this story came out on Faux News?
Death of a superstar...ah yes, I faintly recall my dear old dad telling me stories of seeing this feller skedaddling around old Phillies' Ball Grounds...
Exceeded his rookie limits in 1888................
Wow! When was your dad born? My grandmother would have been three years old when Delahanty died.
He'd have homered >500 career times sure, but for awful happenstance.
I hope the 9 guys who voted against Hank for The Hall all had their voting privileges permanently revoked............but we all know how that particular 'game' is 'played', sadly.
Myself coming from a long line of late breeders, know it's entirely possible that Brew's dad could have been watching Ed in Philly. Grandparents around Ed's age, some younger some older. If my granddad had started breeding 20 years earlier than he did (and he could have), then my dad could easily have been at those games. And he still would have been well within his breeding years and able to produce ME at the same time I came out.
Good point. I guess I should have asked a different question: Wow, BrewCrewOldSkool, when was your dad born?
I had little difficulty identifying with young Fulgencio Joseph Pritchett.
Are you old enough to remember '82, Brew? Hated that.
I saw him throw a three hitter versus the Braves back in '55...rookie Henry Aaron doubled and homered twice (no other hits for MIL) while Lew Burdette threw like a champ, 4-1 victory.
League hadn't learned yet walking *44* was the safer way to go.
You saw Erskine pitch? Wow. You're older than I thought........
I miss *44*...what a fabulous spokesperson he was for Brew City.
So who did you root for after the Braves left and before the Brewers came into existence?
Even though I'm never been anywhere near the state of Ohio I'm still a hardcore Reds fan because I idolized Johnny Bench when I was a boy. The days of the Big Red Machine Rose, Morgan, Perez, Concepcion, Foster, Griffey...some of my best memories. We will be giving your Brew Crew a run for their money in the Central this year (hey don't laugh it could happen), if pitching can hold up....that's a big if.
I guess nobody noticed or you had to be a Reds fan from the 70's to know who Don Gullett was, but he died recently too. I remember being crushed when we lost him to Yanks in free agency. He was inducted to the Reds HOF in 2002.
We had no MLB team in my state when I was growing up, so one had to adopt some other team. I love the Cubbies because of my dad, but the Big Red Machine was fun to watch. Sparkie was an early advocate of using as many pitchers as necessary to get through the game. I knew Gullett well (by way of watching him on the tube).
I also knew that team (and thus who Gullett was), and despised them because of Marge Schott, and their/her clean-cut disciplinarian ways - among other well-known negative Schott-isms. Not to mention the Pete Rose issues(s). So I always (and still do, to this day, actually) called them "the Rednecks". Pleased to say several of my friends did as well, altho that seems to have fallen by the wayside as the eras have changed. Maybe not quite so bad as the bobby knight and woody hayes associations, but pretty far in that direction.
Yet one could not help being impressed with their talent and "machine"-ness. And.........purely unrelatedly........because I had some extended family living in far northern KY, the very first major league games I saw were in delightful Crosley Field (of course before the Machine era). Even as a youngster, I remember looking out past the outfield stands and seeing how the houses were built up on the hills - taller, closer together, etc. I think it may have been my first (in-person) inkling about differences between the north and the south.
Joe Morgan was always my very favorite Red...with his distinctive pump action (timing mechanism, I assumed).
Well, this isn't a person who was just lost, but a reflection back to the loss of strategy from disallowing defensive shifting. A *terrible* loss of potential strategy (and Herzog mention(s)):
The Past, Present, and Future of Baseball’s Most Daring Defense - The Ringer
Too bad that "Future" has disappeared.....
I hate the shift, so many times one of my Red's hitters hits the ball right on the nose but it's right at someone due to the shift, so I'm glad to see it go. Plus, the rule only prohibits extreme shifts so I'm good with that. What I hate is the recent extra innings rule, putting some one on second to start the inning, that is NOT baseball. People are too concerned with cutting down the amount of time it takes to finish games, which overall I'd like to see but it depends on how you do it. For instance, I like the pitch clock they have instituted. I can't remember now and don't feel like going to look it up but don't the batters have new rules concerning when they can step out of the box or maybe it's umps aren't as likely to call time so batters can step out...i'd like that.
I don't like the man-on-second thing, either, but agree the clock was kinda necessary. But the shift..............it was a wonderful tool to make your opponents' think - or do something different. Part of being a hitter (imo) is/was being able to hit to all fields - "hit it where they ain't". A skill that's just being lost as the powers-that-be (both puns intended) pander to the "strikeout or HR" crowd. The thing that elevates baseball above football and even basketball is that strategy component - those almost countless nuances where the location and speed of each pitch, and where the fielders stand for each batter and each situation, etc., etc., etc. Some - not all - of that has been lost.
SS Adames had 2E today...but his 2HR 4RBI day at the plate more than made up for it.
Your switch-hitter link doesn't work, in case you didn't know yet.
I noticed, but the title's descriptive, and I posted it in this particular "great loss" thread...likely easily found by search engine (Wall Street Journal article, I believe).
That's lazy, man. At the very least you could edit your original post to so indicate that issue.
I would have removed it had I seen "Edit your post"...but that's not been appending recent posts...IDK why.