Posted on 07/09/2019 7:14:20 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Speaking of the moon landing, contrary to popular belief, claims of it being a hoax started years before Alex Jones was even thought of. In 1970 CPUSA head Gus Hall, who fmr CIA dir. John Brennan bragged about voting for pres claimed to have proof that NASA paid off then MLB Commish Bowie Kuhn $5 million to rig the 1969 baseball season so that the hapless. hopeless Mets would clinch the Pennant and miraculously win the World Series, so as to distrct the public’s attention from the hoax NASA was perpetrating.
I missed all of that. I was pretty much cut off from current events that year due to basic training, AIT then shipped out of the country. We didn't have access to radios or TVs or the spare time to take advantage of them if we had them.....
Actually not bad after 50 years, and off the top of my head!!
Can’t remember the name, but the batter before Qualls had tried to get on with a bunt. He was roundly booed for that.
The upper deck of Shea was bouncing that night and despite the chants for him to take one, Seaver did not reappear from the dugout for a curtain call. That just wasn’t done in those days.
They went 15-17 over the next month, dropping 10 games behind in the division.
Why was the all-star game a dud last night?
I imagined it?
The managers ?
The Fox broadcast?
I was gonna watch it but I forgot it was on. Though it was a questionable policy having it determine home field in the series having no stakes has lessened it’s appeal.
I had a dream last night I pitched a no hitter, last out reached on an error and was caught stealing 2nd and I wanted it to count as perfect.
I had a dream that I was the official scorer. Last guy reached on an error, and I gave the guy a hit.
Until a few years ago, Ernie Shore was credited with a perfect game because he entered the game after the first batter reached on a walk and the starting pitcher was ejected for punching the umpire on the nose, the baserunner was caught stealing, and Shore retired the next 26 batters. I used to assume that a pitcher could have someone reach on an error, walk or HBP and get credit for a perfect game if the baserunner was erased in a DP, picked off or caught stealing so that he only faced 27 batters, but apparently that wasn’t the rule, and Shore’s designation was sui generis because someone else had walked the batter that got caught stealing. In any event, MLB clarified a few years ago that Shore does not get credit with a perfect game or even a no-hitter.
Am I correct to assume that you both know who was the starting pitcher who walked the leadoff man and got ejected for punching the ump in the nose, leading to Shore coming into the game?
THE BABE!!!! Right?
PERFECT=NO ONE ON BASE
That is correct.
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