phdave wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:I cheated cause it was before I started following baseball, but I think I found one of them?

[Reveal] Spoiler:

George Vukovich, game 4 of the '81 NLDS, walkoff PH HR

Yes. That's that hard one. And anyone who has watched the Phillies play at home at CBP would know of the first guy.

How about "The Bull"....Greg Luzinksi! (?)

stevemc wrote:

phdave wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:I cheated cause it was before I started following baseball, but I think I found one of them?

[Reveal] Spoiler:

George Vukovich, game 4 of the '81 NLDS, walkoff PH HR

Yes. That's that hard one. And anyone who has watched the Phillies play at home at CBP would know of the first guy.

How about "The Bull"....Greg Luzinksi! (?)

Yes!

So it was Luzinski first, Francisco next, then Stairs. And Vukovich was like 9th.

phdave wrote:

smitty wrote:Del Unser

Oh wow; I know who it is now. Never would have guessed it.

Yeah, not Del Unser either.

Unser was my guess before cheating. (I remembered hitting some big post season PH doubles).

Luzinski was the guy I'm referring to here. He was pretty bad in 1980. Only played 106 games and hit .228 (although he did walk a lot). Lonnie Smith played a lot of OF that year. The Phils team that season wasn't all that good except for monster seasons by Schmidt; Carlton and McGraw.

Boone wasn't good. Bowa was bad. Rose was bad. Maddox was pretty awful. Reed didn't have a really good year nor did Ruthven. Espinosa and Christenson were hurt. Lerch had to have had one of the worst seasons ever for a SP on a WFC.

Good thing there was no internets back then.

Not sure if this was posted before....?

smitty wrote:

phdave wrote:

smitty wrote:Del Unser

Oh wow; I know who it is now. Never would have guessed it.

Yeah, not Del Unser either.

Unser was my guess before cheating. (I remembered hitting some big post season PH doubles).

He did have big hits and some big doubles, but not pinch hits with the score tied. He tied Game 5 of 1980 NLCS with a single. Then he stayed in the game and hit a double, scoring the winning run on a Maddox double. He hit a double-RBI in Game 2 of the WS when they were down by 2 runs in the 8th, contributing to a 4 run inning. He hit a double to tie the game in the 9th of Game 5 of the 1980 WS. So, yeah, they were some big hits.

gaaaaaaah.

5 1/2 FUCKING MONTHS TILL APRIL.

IT'S BARELY HALF A WEEK AND I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE.

I WANT FUCKING BASEBALL.

sigh.

Our spring training trip is already booked for the first week of March. Sleeps 14. BSG is welcome.

jamiethekiller wrote:Our spring training trip is already booked for the first week of March. Sleeps 14. BSG is welcome.

Please don't talk to me about spring training.

I hate spring training.

There's nothing good about spring training.

Nothing.

until you go

1 wrote:until you go

I sincerely doubt it. It's pre-season friendlies. it's not the meat of day to day competition. other than knowing who might make the team for opening day, I can't see anything to rate it above going to a baseball game during the regular season. I guess it's warmer. But it's turned into a massive hype machine in the run-up to the season proper, and I fucking hate it. Ultimately, no matter how shite the phillies may become, when I see a game, it counts for something in the win-loss column.

I wouldn't be so fucked off about it, year in, year out, if it wasn't for the hype surrounding pitchers and catchers report. If it was just as low-key as pre-season friendlies in football, I don't think I'd be that fussed about it either way. But it's a month's worth of phoney war before the campaign proper, a month of regurgitated shite and desperately looking around for storylines, a month I don't really care about.

Wizlah wrote:I can't see anything to rate it above going to a baseball game during the regular season.

There's ample middle ground between that and "there's nothing good about spring training."

Baseball and beautiful weather (in person or even on TV) in the doldrums of late February and early March? Yes please.

WELL, its pretty damn awesome. its not as "special" as it used to be. like meeting ryan howard and jimmy rollins and bellying up to the bar with Larry Anderson. you don't see the players out as much anymore since they've gotten so popular.

but its still pretty awesome to be on one of the nicest beaches in the country in march in 80 degree weather then head 20 minutes towards town and watch baseball. come back and kick it at one of the bars. repeat that for a week in march. doesn't get much better.

Grotewold wrote:

Wizlah wrote:I can't see anything to rate it above going to a baseball game during the regular season.

There's ample middle ground between that and "there's nothing good about spring training."

Like I said, if it wasn't supposed to be the second coming of christ for baseball fans, I wouldn't be that fussed. but every year I'm told it's fucking great and I sit there and I think how long it's going to be to opening day, when the campaign proper starts, and how I've got to wait another month and a half, and it seems pretty shit, to be honest. I've already waited all the way through winter. I've spent months trying to ignore tedious speculative shite that I'm supposed to be hyped about, because it's the HOT STOVE NOW, MAN. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, without a doubt. so telling me that this is somehow supposed to make it easier is bollix. it isn't because it counts for nothing.

wiz is a lost man without something to pretend to be enraged about

I can't stop seeing Utley's fly out

Mark Parent is the leading candidate to become White Sox bench coach

victorino presser on CSN now.

rollins will be on at 12.

I'd take a flyer on Sizemore for $3-5 million.

kruker wrote:I'd take a flyer on Sizemore for $3-5 million.

over/under games played would be around 35

Soren wrote:

kruker wrote:I'd take a flyer on Sizemore for $3-5 million.

over/under games played would be around 35

He just had another knee surgery last week. He can't run anymore (0 SB in 300 PA) and his plate discipline has gone to shit. I think he's done but for a couple mil, it wouldn't be a terrible idea.