tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post935123125145347734..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: Mensch on the BenchMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-47167783899552011802017-03-12T10:24:27.403-07:002017-03-12T10:24:27.403-07:00I see now that the Netherlands game will be shown ...I see now that the Netherlands game will be shown on ESPN tonight at 6PM EDT, 3PM for you, if you want to watch the repeat of that game in English. <br />And yes, I am amazed. Maybe the Yankees should sign these guys. :0)JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-57433068226042078442017-03-12T09:07:53.875-07:002017-03-12T09:07:53.875-07:00I ended up watching it livestreamed in Japanese on...I ended up watching it livestreamed in Japanese on youtube with the sound turned off!<br /><br />I had two versions of my latest piece open on my laptop, one in the event that they lost and the other in the event that they won.<br /><br />This whole thing is just flat-out weird.<br /><br />But GO MENSCHES!Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-74721931937083970872017-03-12T00:15:25.321-08:002017-03-12T00:15:25.321-08:00Are you seeing the game? Where?Are you seeing the game? Where?JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-12430874710950353432017-03-11T22:24:34.334-08:002017-03-11T22:24:34.334-08:002 balls, 2 strikes.
the game!2 balls, 2 strikes.<br /><br />the game!Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-46491115921223605762017-03-11T22:22:57.078-08:002017-03-11T22:22:57.078-08:002 men down.2 men down.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-49200929720378262722017-03-11T22:22:10.617-08:002017-03-11T22:22:10.617-08:00They're doing it again!
It's 4 - 1 Mensch...They're doing it again!<br /><br />It's 4 - 1 Mensches in the top of the 9th as I write, with one man down.<br /><br />This is fucking amazing.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-82899610545738556632017-03-11T22:12:02.188-08:002017-03-11T22:12:02.188-08:00Mickey Mantle vs. WIllie Mays
https://youtu.be/Ha...Mickey Mantle vs. WIllie Mays<br /><br />https://youtu.be/HaxrzW3aSrc<br />JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-23768716513732451302017-03-10T00:26:50.833-08:002017-03-10T00:26:50.833-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-70124439874774249732017-03-09T16:07:53.732-08:002017-03-09T16:07:53.732-08:00When I was at the University of Connecticut, in th...When I was at the University of Connecticut, in the late 1980s, I had a friend who was a beautiful young lady dating a buddy of mine. If this were 1960s Brooklyn, or whatever, we would have called her a "Shiksa Goddess." <br /><br />She was a long-time Red Sox fan who grew up in New England. A bunch of us hooked-up in my off-campus apartment to drink beer and watch the 1986 World Series Game 6.<br /><br />Anyone who knows much of anything about Major League Baseball will remember that series because Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner made <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18caPNisP2U" rel="nofollow">the famous error</a> that ruined the rest of us his life and led to a NY Mets victory that year.<br /><br />This poor girl was so upset about it that she literally flung herself onto a couch and wept!Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-29798844958964544622017-03-09T08:56:18.583-08:002017-03-09T08:56:18.583-08:00Graig Nettles felt that Bill Lee had a good beatin...Graig Nettles felt that Bill Lee had a good beating coming to him from his remarks a few years earlier - from another Yankees / Red Sox brawl - in which he told the press something like, "Watching the Yankees fight was like watching a bunch of women swinging their purses." After Nettles kicked his ass in NY, per the video above, he said something like, "I just didn't want Bill to think that he got hit by a purse." <br /><br />And the thing is, they were family friends up until that point. <br /><br />Jeez, they don't make baseball brawls the way that they used to.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-8371683981317520752017-03-09T08:51:21.685-08:002017-03-09T08:51:21.685-08:00And its on to the Tokyo Dome!And its on to the Tokyo Dome!Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-85417871278835022712017-03-09T04:10:07.114-08:002017-03-09T04:10:07.114-08:00Dizzy Dean once said that his cure for the Cold Wa...Dizzy Dean once said that his cure for the Cold War would be to send some bats and balls to Russia and teach them baseball. Once they started playing baseball with us, war would be impossible. Ernie Banks said, "Baseball is the thinking man's game." For those who don't follow baseball, well, I guess you're not!josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09057606413590949268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-36749040958597462692017-03-09T03:24:39.572-08:002017-03-09T03:24:39.572-08:00I once watched a final world series? match live. F...I once watched a final world series? match live. From memory I was in Chicago or somewhere at a dinner and the hosts started setting up screens around the place. <br /><br />It was a serious match. It was between two East coast teams and from memory it was a three match final which was one all and this was the tie breaker. Does that sound about right?<br /><br />The whole series depended on this match. <br /><br />I had absolutely no idea at all what was going on. My attention was entirely focused on this beautiful lady from California sitting beside me who did <br />her best to explain to me what was going on but had as much interest as me in who won given they were east coast teams. <br /><br />A gang of New Yorkers at a neighboring table were going absolutely raving barking mad.<br /><br />It was about 1982 I guess . The main course was " Surf and Turf "<br /><br />I have no idea who won.<br />geoffffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056725010151459750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-54980358463215020322017-03-08T21:53:16.248-08:002017-03-08T21:53:16.248-08:00"Most of the world does not care about Americ..."Most of the world does not care about American baseball."<br /><br />Good. More for me. BTW, loved the Ernie Harrell quote. JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-18561864047153176102017-03-08T21:39:12.907-08:002017-03-08T21:39:12.907-08:00At around the :16 mark you can see Graig Nettles (...At around the :16 mark you can see Graig Nettles (No.9) and Mickey Rivers (No.17) drag Bill Lee (No.37) off to the right, down the first base line and out of frame, for some "special treatment." JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-60941855792782422032017-03-08T21:30:48.352-08:002017-03-08T21:30:48.352-08:00I think it was just last year you posted this, and...I think it was just last year you posted this, and I'm forever grateful. It brings back good memories. That was the year I moved out west and we didn't have ESPN and the rest of it back then. I really missed seeing Yankees games on WPIX, Tuesday and Friday nights, if memory serves.<br /><br />https://youtu.be/ohQaOO_mTzs<br /><br />JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-12707746854861121362017-03-08T15:42:27.053-08:002017-03-08T15:42:27.053-08:00I come from a place that plays cricket and rugby a...I come from a place that plays cricket and rugby and those aren't well known outside of the Anglosphere and Pakistan and India. <br /><br />Mike - can we hope for a new crop of Cubans in MLB? I'm hoping. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-71466799306120138212017-03-08T14:15:58.004-08:002017-03-08T14:15:58.004-08:00Indeed. Much of the world does not care...
But if...Indeed. <i>Much</i> of the world does not care...<br /><br />But if so much of the world does play baseball, why is it not an olympic sport again?<br /><br />Oh, hell, I'll do my own homework.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-36059608326692428262017-03-08T14:14:03.165-08:002017-03-08T14:14:03.165-08:00I like to tell people - half kiddingly - that our ...I like to tell people - half kiddingly - that our problems with the Arab-Muslim Middle East would vanish if only they would take up baseball. <br /><br />Y'know, Pakistan has a WBC team, but it failed to qualify for the tourney.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-15475876501482932512017-03-08T13:10:37.093-08:002017-03-08T13:10:37.093-08:00Most of the world does not care....
Except for th...Most of the world does not care....<br /><br />Except for the US, the entire Caribbean, northern South America, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea.Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-50149822553705761802017-03-08T12:37:11.669-08:002017-03-08T12:37:11.669-08:00Geeze dont get me started. Baseball is a mystical ...Geeze dont get me started. Baseball is a mystical subject with me: my first glove, the games I went to, playing catch with my dad, friends, wife (who loved and played,), raising 2 kids who played and taught their kids to play; coachiong little league; trophy walls, etc etc etc. Just the word conjures up sights, smells and smiles.Doodadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349941094682080146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-16105435007625801982017-03-08T12:32:51.663-08:002017-03-08T12:32:51.663-08:00"Most of the world does not care about Americ..."Most of the world does not care about American baseball."<br /><br />Which makes them suspect in my eyes.<br /><br />"In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's. Ernie Harwell<br />Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/baseball.html<br />Doodadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03349941094682080146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-61443386170212960662017-03-08T10:01:03.269-08:002017-03-08T10:01:03.269-08:00btw, before God sent Posey into the world he held ...btw, before God sent Posey into the world he held him aloft among the clouds and the Angels and patted him on the head saying, "He shall be as a god among men and they shall call him <i>Buster.</i>"<br /><br />It's looking more and more like spring from my window.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-46371525269338912352017-03-08T09:47:52.572-08:002017-03-08T09:47:52.572-08:00Suddenly I feel like hot dogs for dinner with the ...Suddenly I feel like hot dogs for dinner with the game.<br /><br />I hope that Israel trounces the Netherlands... particularly after how crappy they treated our friend Ayaan Hirsi Ali!<br /><br />Jeez, who could have imagined that the world ever would have become quite so complicated?<br /><br />:O)Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-76784377443263919262017-03-08T09:04:48.918-08:002017-03-08T09:04:48.918-08:00Two of your favorite players are on the Giants? W...Two of your favorite players are on the Giants? Who'd a thunk it! Buster Posey and some other guy. :0)<br /><br />"And, if so, just how do these rogue Jewish Australians reconcile their Jewish nationalism with their Australian nationalism?"<br />Rooting for the underdog is supposed to be a left speciatly.<br /><br />"On the political-left nationalism is bad enough"<br />Unless it's "Palestinian." Only one nation state is allowed to exist. Please don't call it antisemitism, because it is. <br /><br />"Or, God Help Us, what if Israel goes up against the United States in the final game for the championship on Wednesday, March 22 at Dodger Stadium?"<br /><br />This is a most unlikely outcome, so I wouldn't worry about it. Nevertheless I am proud that some "Israelis" are excelling at the world's greatest sport.<br /><br />Besides the really hard leftists pretend to like soccer, because it's so international and American teams aren't that good at it. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.com