Posted on 10/24/2014 6:59:19 PM PDT by fhayek
I know baseball doesn't occupy the same level of pre-eminence that it may have had fifty years ago, but it is the championship, and it still a great game. Royals up 3-0 in the sixth. Great defense all around.
The only guy I remember from the old Royals is George Brett.
Are you talking about Rush Limbaugh? I didn’t know he was a baseball player (if so, obviously a smaller size).
Ditto to what you said.
I’m kidding, but I am a Buffalo Sabres fan. If that isn’t dumb, then what is?
In northern latitudes November can be too late for outdoor football games (Global Cooling and all...).
Buffalo is one of my favorite "enemy" teams (I'm a New Jersey fan). I've long said that after the Original Six, the three NHL teams with the most passionate, dedicated fans are Philadelphia, Edmonton and Buffalo.
I used to get to go watch the occasional Buffalo Bison hockey game.....
Oh my, that DOES go back a few years, Do you remember when they had the Pepsi bottle cap on their uniforms?
Well, it’s really a roll of the dice with weather this time of year in most of the country. I don’t understand why they insist on playing so late in the year. Bud Selig said he didn’t like November baseball. Yet they schedule that way anyway. Must be due to TV money.
Rush was traveling secretary for the Royals in the early ‘80s. He was already in Sacramento when they won the ‘85 Series.
I’ve heard Minnesota sportswriter Pat Reusse claim he gave Limbaugh the conservative radio talk show idea during a barroom drinking bout when Rush worked for the Royals.
I’m hoping that was AFTER my time there....
So what you are implying is that, yes, great ideas CAN originate in a barroom drinking bout. I have been telling my wife that for twenty-five years.
I’m learning all kinds of things tonight (hopefully I’ll learn how the Giants beat KC tonight). Did Limbaugh begin his radio career in Sacramento? Do you know where he was originally from?
Missouri.
Interesting. I thought someone said Limbaugh began his radio career in Sacramento CA. Do you know where he was originally from?
I had my ham radio on 14.313 when the earthquake hit during the 1989 SF/Oakland World Series; in the other room, the screen went blank, but within a minute there were hams from the area saying there was an earthquake, so I was the first on my block to know. How the world has changed in 25 years.
My husband and I used to sit by third base (left field) to watch the Royals. Bo Jackson would put a slew of Sunflower seeds on the ground, then pick them up and chew on them and spit out the hulls. George Brett was playing then, too.
We went to Coopertown to see Brett inducted into the Hall of Fame. Also, got to see Bo Jackson play football at Auburn.
Brett and Rush are good friends, still.
Perhaps it emanated from Limbaugh's faux pas of forgetting to take a baseball along when he escorted a fan to the pitcher's mound to throw out a promotional first pitch one year?
Limbaugh said he had to ask the dugout to throw out a ball, and they complied - in spades - throwing everything out of the dugout, iirc.
Limbaugh played the clip on his syndicated TV show way back.
Rush was born in Cape Girardeau, MO, and I believe he had his first job at a radio station there when he was still in high school.
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