FB: Liberty League

[Mr. Ypsi]

Props to Jim Rice and Rickey Henderson going in next week to the HOF.  Next to Yaz, Rice was the guy JT was afraid of next.  He was a HOF guy when he retired regardless of how many writers didn't like him.  Ted Williams was surly too.

Henderson the best leadoff hitter in the game, bar none.

JT hopes that someday Munson goes in.

OMG, JT and Mr. Ypsi DO agree on something!

I'm afraid it probably won't happen.  He was too overshadowed (unfairly, I think) by Johnny Bench and by Carlton Fisk (definitely unfairly, IMO), and died 4 or 5 years too early (well, 40 or 50 years too early, but 4 or 5 in terms of his baseball career).

Roberto Clemente also died way too young, but after 18 seasons his HoF credentials were secure (in fact, he is the only player where they ever waived the 5 year waiting period).

I've always wondered about three others that seemed destined for the Hall.  Lyman Bostock was murdered after only four seasons; Herb Score and Mark Fydrich both sustained career-ending injuries too soon to tell if they had staying power.

Any other players seemingly destined for the Hall that I've forgotten?

It's been so long I may be fuzzy on the details of his career, but what about Tony Conigliaro?

Good catch.  He reached 100 home runs faster than any player in history (save only Mel Ott).  He did return from the crushing pitch a year-and-a-half later to earn comeback-player-of-the-year in 1969, then had his best season ever in 1970.  But his eyesight continued to deteriorate, and he was simply never again the player he seemed destined to be.  At age 37 he suffered a heart attack, followed by a stroke; he persisted for over 8 years in a coma, but died at a tragically early age.  (I've never seen whether any direct link from the beaning and his death has been able to be established.  His tragedy did have one silver lining - ear-flaps on batting helmets became standard as a result, probably saving many careers, perhaps even lives.)

Knightstalker is probably correct about the HoF potential of Gooden and Strawberry, but I keep a separate category for those who flush (or snort) away their potential!  Another in that category would be Bob Welch (who along with 3 others who made MLB led Eastern Michigan to a runner-up finish in the College WS) - he had a good career (including a Cy Young), but if he had faced his alcoholism earlier I suspect it would have been a HoF career.

[Knightstalker]

Props to Jim Rice and Rickey Henderson going in next week to the HOF.  Next to Yaz, Rice was the guy JT was afraid of next.  He was a HOF guy when he retired regardless of how many writers didn't like him.  Ted Williams was surly too.

Henderson the best leadoff hitter in the game, bar none.

JT hopes that someday Munson goes in.

OMG, JT and Mr. Ypsi DO agree on something!

I'm afraid it probably won't happen.  He was too overshadowed (unfairly, I think) by Johnny Bench and by Carlton Fisk (definitely unfairly, IMO), and died 4 or 5 years too early (well, 40 or 50 years too early, but 4 or 5 in terms of his baseball career).

Roberto Clemente also died way too young, but after 18 seasons his HoF credentials were secure (in fact, he is the only player where they ever waived the 5 year waiting period).

I've always wondered about three others that seemed destined for the Hall.  Lyman Bostock was murdered after only four seasons; Herb Score and Mark Fydrich both sustained career-ending injuries too soon to tell if they had staying power.

Any other players seemingly destined for the Hall that I've forgotten?

It's been so long I may be fuzzy on the details of his career, but what about Tony Conigliaro?

Good catch.  He reached 100 home runs faster than any player in history (save only Mel Ott).  He did return from the crushing pitch a year-and-a-half later to earn comeback-player-of-the-year in 1969, then had his best season ever in 1970.  But his eyesight continued to deteriorate, and he was simply never again the player he seemed destined to be.  At age 37 he suffered a heart attack, followed by a stroke; he persisted for over 8 years in a coma, but died at a tragically early age.  (I've never seen whether any direct link from the beaning and his death has been able to be established.  His tragedy did have one silver lining - ear-flaps on batting helmets became standard as a result, probably saving many careers, perhaps even lives.)

Knightstalker is probably correct about the HoF potential of Gooden and Strawberry, but I keep a separate category for those who flush (or snort) away their potential!  Another in that category would be Bob Welch (who along with 3 others who made MLB led Eastern Michigan to a runner-up finish in the College WS) - he had a good career (including a Cy Young), but if he had faced his alcoholism earlier I suspect it would have been a HoF career.

I would add Steve Howe to that category also, he could have been on of the greatest relief pitchers of all time.

[PBR...]

phew....pbr goes on vaca and a neutron bomb hits...the LLPP attackin one another...cannibalism at its finest...union vs. union and the good the bad and the ugly...too much to read pbr's head hurts trying to read all of that. time to go back surfing

[Apple Jack]

Atten: LL

Please gather up all spare change to place a bet on the number 11 horse in Wed running of the Schuyllerville at Saratoga...name of horse "Thats How I Roll".

['gro]

Time waster of the day

http://www.neave.com/

Gonna call this NSFW-ish, not so much for the content but it will consume bandwidth like a muh (gro's employer has it blocked)

[dlippiel]

Atten: LL

Please gather up all spare change to place a bet on the number 11 horse in Wed running of the Schuyllerville at Saratoga...name of horse "Thats How I Roll".

Can't imagine how many quality offspring this pony will produce when its put out to stud!

[SaintsFAN]

The term 'douchebaggery' makes U89 snarf every time he sees it.......

Has anyone seen the show, "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" on MTV?  The terms the announcer uses are hyyyysterical also.  If someone acts like a complete tool, the announcer refers to him as, "Scrotty McScrote" or some other unflattering monicker.  A bunch of tools were doing some douchebaggery dancing and the announcer started naming the dances.....one was, "The dying fish out of water" and another was, "Mr. Sticky Face".....classic stuff which should be enjoyed by LLPP.

They are using the same words and terms from the book/website "Hot Chicks with Douchebags"  SF has seen this show... the names used do make it funny.

[PBR...]

breaking news....mike vick was seen on a plane landing in oakland and al davis in his senile world is offering a contract of $5million/yr. and wants vick to practice tomorrow while peta and spca hide all their dogs up for adoption...in reality how long before that fool owner in oakland offers vick a contract?

['gro]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090727/ap_on_re_us/us_party_schools_list

#13, you gotta be kidding me.

[union89]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090727/ap_on_re_us/us_party_schools_list

#13, you gotta be kidding me.

Vindication!!!!!!!!!!!

[mattvsmith]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090727/ap_on_re_us/us_party_schools_list

#13, you gotta be kidding me.

Vindication!!!!!!!!!!!

These rankings are obviously flawed.  Arizona State University #20 while Union is #13?

What do the Princeton Review people think partying is?

Nigel: Well, Poindexter, it is time to rank party schools.
Poindexter: Rather! By what criteria shall we judge these schools?
Nigel: Surely, we should not rank highly those schools in which hot chicks wear bikini tops and hot-pants to class.
Poindexter: Scratch ASU off the list!  Let us instead place Union higher so as to make the Friendosauruses feel wanted and loved.
Nigel: Excellent, fair sir.  And shall we then also consider reading the Norton Anthology of Poetry higher than free poonanny on Mill Avenue?
Poindexter: But of course!  The free flow of alcohol, 33,000 smoking hot chicks wearing next to nothing, loose morals do not a party school make!
Nigel: Quite.  Perhaps the IQ-to-body-fat-ratio at Union should be the deal-maker, as it were.
Poindexter: I understand they read Finnigan's Wake while drinking Guinness.
Nigel: Oh, Lord love a duck, Pointy!  They are surely hard partiers!  Quick, quick! Get out your slide rule and calculate the scores using a logarithmic scale.
Poindexter: Oh Nigel!  Please, do not let us get carried away.  This is Union we're talking about, not RPI.

Union #13 and ASU #20?  You guys must have at least two or three alcohol related deaths per month to score that high.

[dlippiel]

breaking news....mike vick was seen on a plane landing in oakland and al davis in his senile world is offering a contract of $5million/yr. and wants vick to practice tomorrow while peta and spca hide all their dogs up for adoption...in reality how long before that fool owner in oakland offers vick a contract?

As much as I detest Mike Vick and think he should NEVER play in the NFL again, if any relationship makes sense its this one: One asshole (Al Davis) employs another asshole (The honorable Mike Vick) to work for him. Makes perfect sense...

Vick is a piece of ****!

[lewdogg11]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090727/ap_on_re_us/us_party_schools_list

#13, you gotta be kidding me.

Vindication!!!!!!!!!!!

That is classic stuff.  I've been to Union parties..they are not that cool.

By the way...Mike Vick would look nice running the Wildcat in New England...

[union89]

Has anyone seen the craziness that has been Stephon Marbury this past weekend?? 

[dlippiel]

Has anyone seen the craziness that has been Stephon Marbury this past weekend??  

Didn't he blog or record himself ranting for an exorbant amount of time with multiple NBA owners watching? I read that he has lost his ****ing marbles. I knew this long ago the second he put on a knicks uniform but I guess it took this debacle for the rest of the world to realize. What exactly did he do, specifics?