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I was thinking about this a bit more—when I was growing up and becoming a baseball fan, Vin Scully was the play by play man for Saturday’s Game of the Week, Herb Carneal was the voice on 830 (can’t recall the TV guys on Channel 9), and other voices that I happened to catch were of the same...

Just watched the clip where Pat McAfee and some other dude announced Buxton and I never felt more like the Abe Simpson meme yelling at clouds in my life-and I am not ashamed.

I was able to use an all-Cuban/former Twins on the bottom line of the grid today which reeled in two new unique players: Julio Becquer, Tony O, and Sandy Valdespino. Reading the Twins Almanac awhile back, I tucked in the recesses of my mind the formerly strong Cuban connection for the...

Tom Brown

I just finished reading Monster of the Midway by Jim Dent, a biography on Nagurski and the man was beyond larger than life—just incredible tales from a kid in International Falls through his days as a Gopher onward to the Bears (if you ask me about this book in 20 years, the snippet I will...

Mike Gundy (I’m 40, I’m a man!) Tommy LaSorda (re: Kurt effin’ Bevaqua) John Chaney interrupting Cal’s press conference All worthy contenders and I know I’m missing a few others Read awhile ago how Norm Van Brocklin, after his stint with the Vikings and when he was with the Falcons...

On the shortlist for greatest manager/coach rant of all time:

I would agree-in fact, getting too close to Mitch would likely complicate things with Jodi, I could imagine. Plus, Jodi made the move on Pink, and I don’t believe it was because he was taking care of Mitch. On a similar note, I read the oral history of D&C recently and the cliques between the...

I own one myself. For those precious few in the wilderness who know and I cross paths with, it always garners a smile.

What’s Ish Smith up to these days?

I had a good day with newbies also, netting three. I’m not sure if it was Allen or Terrell who was one newbie, but my BoSox combo of Scott Cooper and Jimmy Piersall (both in non-standard positions) got me those two. I’m 17 away from 1400 newbies. I was really surprised to see UL Washington at...

Twins on the grid today. Went with: Rays: Ben Rortvedt (.8%-he might just be my evergreen player for this combination) 2B: Bernie Allen (.4%) SS: Jerry Terrell (.008%)

Today was a good day for my unique players used--after being stuck at 1373 for a long time, I was able to jump up to 1377 with some combination of Steve Nicosia, Doug Gwodsz, Randy Milligan, Jerry Royster, and Jerry Hairston Jr. getting me there--the categories of playing catcher and...

I have had this article sitting in my feed for awhile and I am finally getting around to sharing it-Richardson was playing and then getting suspended for life right when I was getting into the NBA—happy to read this and see how he bounced back where so many others have succumbed...

A fascinating article on the bumbling path taken by the Athletics owner and the mystery of whether a stadium will ever be built in Vegas (the term fail son emerged quickly in my mind): https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/02/athletics-las-vegas-stadium-john-fisher-mlb-debacle

Joe Posnanski does the baseball obits better than anyone out there (IMO) and he didn’t miss with Parker (apologies for the poor edit, was taking it from Posnanski’s newsletter and formatting was difficult): As the years roll by, it gets harder and harder to explain how things used to be. The...

Really nice write-up here, including his famous t-shirt and fedora photo along with the legendary throws during the ‘79 All Star game. The “We Are Family” Pirates were the first sports team I became enamored with and Parker was a centerpiece of that great team...

I went with: Expos: Charlie Lea (.3%) OF: Downtown Darrell Brown (.001%) 200: Sam Rice too! As with you, I was new player hunting and I think I accomplished the goal with the Twins row. Is there a way to check if you’ve used a player already? You are really killing it-I am at 1361 players...

I'm also working on seeing how many total players that I can accumulate. Because I have been more centralized than you, I have a larger number of completed grids (800) with a total number of 1348 players used. It's getting into territory where the "new" players used is getting pretty...

A lefty arriving for the bullpen: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45493610/twins-claim-leftt-hander-joey-wentz-waivers-pirates