Text 37934, 80 rader
Skriven 2010-05-19 16:54:28 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: RE: ball 173
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Batter Up Michael!!

->  HN> I like seeing musicals on stage, South Pacific
->  HN> West Side Story, and Music Man are among 
->  HN> my fav's.
-> 
-> I've seen very few musicals on stage, and none of the above.
-> Ever seen Damn Yankees?
-> 
I've seen the movie not the stage play.

-> Saturday night we did a pop concert that had the South
-> Pacific overture, the WSS suite, and assorted tunes from
-> Carousel, Show Boat, Les Miz, Girl Crazy, and others. It
-> was kind of fun, but I get tired of playing love songs.
->
Hate Carousel, don't care for Les Miz, Showboat is good
and the others are fine as well. There are lots
of songs from them that are not love songs...but
concerts seem to favor the syrupy ones first.
 
->  HN> The worst team in baseball (the 0's) beats
->  HN> us two out of three, and we go to the
->  HN> home of the best team (Tampa Bay) and
-> 
-> I've no explanation for that.
->
Nor does anyone else :-!
 
->  HN> slap em silly in the first game...whattya
->  HN> gonna do??
-> 
-> Well, the correction took place over the weekend.
->
And that trend has continued through Tampa
and now Oakland. I don't think we have managed
to win any extra inning games this year!
Lost last night 6-5 in the tenth!
 
->  HN> Hitting triples with no runners on base is 
->  HN> what we've been doing...and leaving the
->  HN> runner on third seems to be a speciality 
->  HN> of the team
-> 
-> Better, I suppose, than leaving them loaded.
->
Bout the same...0 runs scored 
either way!
 
-> Speaking of which, how many of your triples were leadoff?
->
I'd have to go back and look, but 
most of em have been solo shots
anyway.
 
->  -> But when 20 points below their average average is still .300,
->  -> you can't kick them too much.
->  HN> I was being generous..only two players are 
->  HN> hitting above 300, Ichiro (.356) and 
->  HN> Gutierriz (.310). Figgens is hitting .185
-> 
-> It is a bit of a surprise Chone has been such a lemon.
-> Griffey is of course on the roster as a sentimentality, sort
-> of like David Ortiz - but at least Ortiz has 6 homers.
-> 
There are lots of calls in the sports
media for dumping Griffey, Sweeny, and 
putting Figgy first in the batting order...
which makes little sense to me at all
I'd rather have a 340 hitter leading off
than one hitting 180!
Sooner or later the talent will
turn around and the hitters will
be coming closer to their baseball
card averages...but it will be much
too late by then I expect!
chat with you soon!
hap 
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