JUburton wrote:Let's get rid of the forward pass too.

Stripes wrote:

JUburton wrote:Let's get rid of the forward pass too.

Teams generally don't pass when they're up by 4 TD's. They probably shouldn't shift when they're up 7 in the 9th, and then complain when someone bunts against it.

JUburton wrote:

Stripes wrote:

JUburton wrote:Let's get rid of the forward pass too.

Teams generally don't pass when they're up by 4 TD's. They probably shouldn't shift when they're up 7 in the 9th, and then complain when someone bunts against it.

I completely agree but thats not what people were talking about at that point.

The Miami Marlins are claiming corporate citizenship in the British Virgin Islands in an effort to have a federally appointed arbitrator take over the lawsuit by Miami and Miami-Dade County to recover a share of the profits from Jeffrey Loria's $1.2 billion sale of the team to Derek Jeter and partners last fall.

Lawyers representing the Marlins told a federal judge that at least one corporation that owns part of Marlins Teamco — the company Jeter and majority owner Bruce Sherman formed last year to buy the franchise — is based in the Caribbean. As a result, team lawyers argued, the dispute with Miami-Dade should be governed by jurisdictional rules that apply to international disputes.

momadance wrote:

The Miami Marlins are claiming corporate citizenship in the British Virgin Islands in an effort to have a federally appointed arbitrator take over the lawsuit by Miami and Miami-Dade County to recover a share of the profits from Jeffrey Loria's $1.2 billion sale of the team to Derek Jeter and partners last fall.

Lawyers representing the Marlins told a federal judge that at least one corporation that owns part of Marlins Teamco — the company Jeter and majority owner Bruce Sherman formed last year to buy the franchise — is based in the Caribbean. As a result, team lawyers argued, the dispute with Miami-Dade should be governed by jurisdictional rules that apply to international disputes.

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cartersDad26 wrote:Is Philly ever gonna get the ASG again? CBP is 15 years old now.

momadance wrote:

The Miami Marlins are claiming corporate citizenship in the British Virgin Islands in an effort to have a federally appointed arbitrator take over the lawsuit by Miami and Miami-Dade County to recover a share of the profits from Jeffrey Loria's $1.2 billion sale of the team to Derek Jeter and partners last fall.

Lawyers representing the Marlins told a federal judge that at least one corporation that owns part of Marlins Teamco — the company Jeter and majority owner Bruce Sherman formed last year to buy the franchise — is based in the Caribbean. As a result, team lawyers argued, the dispute with Miami-Dade should be governed by jurisdictional rules that apply to international disputes.

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cartersDad26 wrote:Is Philly ever gonna get the ASG again? CBP is 15 years old now.

mtcal wrote:

cartersDad26 wrote:Is Philly ever gonna get the ASG again? CBP is 15 years old now.

rendell is part of a group trying to get as much of these as possible in philly in 2026 for the country's 250th birthday

A week after the draft, he flew to Atlanta for a workout with scout Paul Ricciarini. When he took the mound and started throwing, the Braves' then-general manager Bobby Cox looked at Ricciarini and said, “Paul, he’s out there, in uniform and cleats, pitching without any socks. I’ve never seen this before.”

Ricciarini at that point hadn’t told him that Turk had recently been washing his car in a local Pittsfield Car Wash when a deer ran through, and Turk jumped out of the car, grabbed his gun and shot the deer. He figured no general manager wanted to know he was looking at a pitcher who shot a deer in a car wash before the contract was signed.

They played little league, Babe Ruth League and various summer leagues together, including the Dalton Collegians when Duquette was playing at Williams and Turk for Quinnipiac. On one of the summer teams, Duquette says, a lot of the players used to dip tobacco, “and sometimes would spit the juice on Turk’s shoes. He couldn’t use tobacco or drink alcohol [because of a stomach condition], so he took up chewing black licorice” — presumably so he could spit back on an offender’s shoes. “But one of his sisters was a dental hygienist and advised him the licorice was bad for his teeth. That’s when he began flossing and brushing his teeth in the dugout after he pitched an inning.

Turk also had his own unique travel schedule. If the Collegians were playing in Connecticut, Turk would ride to the game by himself on his moped. “He didn’t have a light on the moped, and the trip back, up Route 8 in Western Connecticut up into Massachusetts, through winding mountain roads, through towns like Beckett and Washington up to the Berkshires in the dark, it was really dangerous,” says Duquette.“He didn’t care.”

Once on the day before Thanksgiving, he drove from Hamden to Dalton, more than five hours on the biggest traffic day of the year, on that moped. “I got home to the family,” he recalled. “It was fine.” Family, not the nearby Alice’s Restaurant.

While playing for the Collegians, Wendell found a rock in a shallow river in Dalton. It was white, completely smooth and the size of a baseball. Wendell called it his “pet rock.” Then he began playing catch with it to loosen up and build up his arm. “In other words,” says Duquette, “he was way ahead of his time, because now weighted baseballs are the new thing for pitchers’ training.” Only Turk would invent a training method with a rock he found in a river.