Yeah, although most players don't get that status until after they're done...today's game is such that great players have to put up gaudy numbers to even get a notice. Look at Albert Pujols from my Cards. All he's done in the 4 years of his career is average .334, hit about 40 HRs a year and drive in 125, and he is an afterthought in most discussions about great hitters of today because of one Mr Bonds....who, BTW, looks to be in some serious trouble. Everyone is coming out of the woodwork now accusing him of steroid use...wonder what effect it will have on the way we view him if it's true? Will all his records be erased and him banned? I doubt it...
Next week go in for surgery on the neck, a piece of vertebrate at the base of the neck has broken off and is pressing on a nerve that controls part of the right hand, no golf for a while bummer.
Next week go in for surgery on the neck, a piece of vertebrate at the base of the neck has broken off and is pressing on a nerve that controls part of the right hand, no golf for a while bummer.
A pheasant? Beautiful birds, but almost non-existent here in Southeast MI. They were very common in my area when I was a kid, but habitat destruction has made a pheasant siting a rare thing things days. I haven't seen one in a couple of years. Here in MI they have pheasant farms where hunters (yeah right) pay a price per bird. The paid for birds are released in a field and the blasting commences. Real sport.
I hope the bird in your avatar didn't meet such a fate.
Hey! Your avatar is sideways! Whenever I see Ozzie, I think of Gary Templeton. He had my all time favorite baseball quote when he was asked if he would go to the All-Star game as a back-up to Ozzie. Does anyone recall Templeton's famous (and hilarious) answer?
Templeton, not happy that he was chosen as a back-up, sarcastically retorted, "If I ain't startin'....I ain't departin'!"
As for the pheasant, here in PA we have plenty of pheasants. Most of them are stocked before hunting season, but there are still some naturally reproducing populations around.
Those farms you speak of are a disgrace to hunters everywhere. That's not sport, it's target shooting. Where's the thrill in driving to some farm, walking out in a flat field where you know the birds have been placed there, and then shooting away when they flush? There's some show on the Golf Channel I saw about outdoor adventures of pro golfers or something and I saw Craig Stadler on there dove "hunting". So I tuned in, only to see him and a couple other guys basically sitting on benches, waiting for someone to release a bunch of birds out in the distance, and they fly right into them where they blast off a couple shots, then sit back down and wait for the next round. Terrible.
There's some show on the Golf Channel I saw about pro golfers or something and I saw Craig Stadler on there So I tuned in, only to see him and a couple other guys basically sitting on benches, where they blast off a couple shots, then sit back down and wait for the next round. Terrible.
Are you sure you weren't watching a Champion's Tour event?
(BTW Please excuse the selective editing )
What? You been talking to Forged? Just because he's over the hill, he thinks anyone within 10 years of him is too. He's badly mistaken! And just what makes you think I'm in my "old age?"
I can only go in comparison to my own age pal, and judging by your comments on the '68 World Series, I must conclude that you are at minimum twice plus a couple years older than I...therefore, by definition, you are in the "old age" category. However, in a few more years as I advance towards "old age-dom" myself, you will fall back more toward the "contemporary" status....any of that make sense?
Besides, you are only as old as you feel...and I feel like I'm 80 this morning...err...afternoon
October 31st, 2004, 01:08 AM
Whenever I see Ozzie, I think of Gary Templeton. He had my all time favorite baseball quote when he was asked if he would go to the All-Star game as a back-up to Ozzie. Does anyone recall Templeton's famous (and hilarious) answer?
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