xpost wow I didn't know that quote was from the '69 Series!
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 19 January 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
"On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'"
― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Saturday, 19 January 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ef9e6Vfz1qzniimo2_500.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 January 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
I can never hear Earl's name and not chuckle at this. and wonder if Alice Sweet ever got those tomato plants sorted out
http://www.youtube.com/v/QWQbN0jFo_k&fs=1&hl=en
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 20 January 2013 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
^"Terry Crowley's lucky he's in fuckin' baseball"
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 January 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Here's something that surprised me a few years ago, when I discovered it: Weaver did not eschew the small-ball strategies, at least not all of them, early in his managerial career....from 1969 through '71, Earl Weaver was one of the buntingest managers in the whole American League. The Orioles were credited with 223 sacrifice hits in those seasons. That was good for fourth in the league, and just four bunts behind the Angels and the A's in second place.
But Weaver changed in the 1970s. His other best three seasons were 1978 through '80, in which the O's recorded only 125 sacrifice hits, easily the fewest in the league.
http://mlb.sbnation.com/2013/1/22/3904068/earl-weaver-obituary-death-cal-ripken-shortstops
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2013/01/23/the-banter-gold-standard-the-earl-of-baltimore
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Christina Kahrl remembers a day with Earl:
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=19481
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
still classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6cmqUTPn08
― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 02:53 (two years ago) link