MLB - NEWS & NOTES

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  1. Willie Head Coach Manager News & Notes Vikings

    Braves did well when Turner and TBS broadcast them on cable and they were the suckiest of sucks for a long time. It was baseball and that's what kept up the ratings. Exposer would and can go a long way.

    Loved those afternoon games on WGN, Maddux, Rhino, and my man, Harry Carrey, Hell, Andrea Dawson, I miss those days...... I liked Bill Murray and the ol' take me out to the ball game stuff too, that's a great memory right there.
     
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  2. BearsWillWin Drunk (Probably) Patreon Champion Manager Bears Blackhawks Cubs

    In the 80's I was a school teacher but I had a little 6 inch TV in my classroom that always was tuned to WGN.

    Part of me says the Cubs playing more and more night games each season is a good thing for them because the players prefer it and it's a little less taxing on them in regards to the schedule. But man a big part of me yearns for those summer afternoons at Wrigley. There is something awesome about it....even in the years the Cubs were god awful.....walking into Wrigley around 1130 or noon and taking in some BP while sitting in the sun....those are memories that will always make me smile.
     
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  3. skinny123 Guest

    But they are, over here they had enough pull to close down the streets to local traffic for two hours after a game.
     
  4. BearsWillWin Drunk (Probably) Patreon Champion Manager Bears Blackhawks Cubs

    I have tickets for a weekend series in Chicago against the Brewers in May. Can't f'n wait.
     
  5. skinny123 Guest

    I used to get that channel as a kid, never watched one game.
     
  6. BearsWillWin Drunk (Probably) Patreon Champion Manager Bears Blackhawks Cubs

    Well that settles it. My whole theory is busted because one idiot in Canada didn't watch.

    Thanks for debunking that for me. Much appreciated.
     
  7. skinny123 Guest

    Yeah, the welfare drunks had nothing else to watch in the afternoon, even harry was a drunk
     
  8. Catfish Guest

    a double-header. haha. the players union would cry foul if they had them now if not for a rain cancelled game. haha.
     
  9. BearsWillWin Drunk (Probably) Patreon Champion Manager Bears Blackhawks Cubs

    Yes he definitely was and I love him for it.
     
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  10. Catfish Guest

    my parents had cable tv (HBO, ESPN etc) since 1980. Even we had WGN in Philly. Now it's funny, our summer vacation home, in upstate Pa ,- Lake Wallenpaupack, had 5 channels in the 1980s. One was a NY station since we were close to NY, so it would televise Mets and Islanders games and the old Star Trek show at night. None of us grew up on Star Trek but since it was on so much up there, we watched it. Three channels were local to the area and the last channel - WGN. This was a very remote area and WGN came in!! That's a lot of viewership !
     
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  11. skinny123 Guest

    All I know is when I was a kid and this channel, along with tnt from atlanta came out of nowhere, at least the braves had some good teams. Also a channel from boston, a lot of bruins,.celtics and red sox.
     
  12. skinny123 Guest

    Best move the cubs made back then was giving up on Joe Carter.
     
  13. BearsWillWin Drunk (Probably) Patreon Champion Manager Bears Blackhawks Cubs

    They didn’t give up on him....they traded him to get Rick Sutcliffe.

    Big Red went 16-1 with the Cubs that season and won 18 games a couple years later.

    Lots of boneheaded moves in Cub history...that isn’t one of them.
     
  14. skinny123 Guest

    I remember Sutcliffe on the indians, tough sob to face. As a jays fan, no joe carter, no world series.
     
  15. Willie Head Coach Manager News & Notes Vikings

    RIP, Frank... :(

    Horrible news about one of baseball’s all-time greats: Hall of Famer Frank Robinson has died at age 83. He had been suffering from bone cancer.

    Robinson’s impact on the game cannot be overstated. A fixture in baseball for over 60 years, Robinson was the 1956 Rookie of the Year and won the MVP Award in both the National and American Leagues, in 1961 with the Reds and in 1966 with the Orioles. He was also the 1966 Triple Crown winner. For his career he was a .294/.389/.537 hitter who smacked 586 career homers, placing him 10th on the all-time list. He appeared in 14 All-Star Games and was the 1966 World Series MVP. A part of his game that often goes unnoticed: he led the league in getting hit by pitches seven times in his career. He crowded the plate and dared pitchers to throw him inside. They did and he never backed off. A fierce but not necessarily fiery competitor, Robinson was known to slide hard and otherwise play hard in every aspect of the game.

    That alone justified his induction into the Hall of Fame, which occurred in his first year of eligibility in 1982. But he was also a trailblazer, becoming the game’s first African-American manager when the Indians hired him as their player-manager for the 1975 season. He would go on to manage for the Giants, the Orioles, the Expos and, upon that franchise’s move to Washington, he became the Nationals first manager. His career record was 1065-1176, but a lot of that had to do with the fact that he took over some pretty bad teams. He rarely had teams which underachieved their talent level, and his managerial abilities were on perhaps their best display in Baltimore in 1989 when he turned around a dreadful Orioles club and was named the 1989 AL Manager of the Year.

    In the middle of his managerial career he moved into Major League Baseball’s front office where he was a key advisor to Commissioner Bud Selig, serving as the game’s vice president of on-field operations. As baseball’s so-called Dean of Discipline, he handed down suspensions and the like. After returning to the dugout to manage the Expos and the Nationals he returned to work as a special advisor to Selig and then Rob Manfred until his death.

    Robinson is survived by his wife, Barbara, a son and a daughter.
     
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  16. Catfish Guest

    Sutcliffe nicknamed the Red Baron, changed leagues via being traded in 84 and won the Cy Young Award for the NL that year over 20 year old Dwight Gooden. Not a bad move at all.
     
  17. Catfish Guest

    only player to win MVP in both leagues. a rare roy and mvp and an ever rarer triple crown winner. a legend. RIP Mr. Robinson.
     
  18. Catfish Guest

    JT Realmuto to the Phillies is a DONE DEAL ! He goes to the Phillies for current catcher Jorge Alfaro and the #1 prospect of the Phils and top rated overall - pitcher Sixto Sanchez. If getting the best catcher in MLB doesn't entice Harper or Machado to come to the Phillies - NOTHING WILL !
     
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  19. Willie Head Coach Manager News & Notes Vikings

    Good for you and your Phillies...
     
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  20. Catfish Guest

    thanks Will! Trade came out of nowhere and built up steam fast. Shocked they pulled it off and his price went way down. I can only pray the move tells Harper, Machado, Keuchal and Kimbrel they are all-in to contend this season and rebuilding is over in South Philly.
     

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