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Add Boston's WEEI-590AM as the Bruins' flagship station. You probably won't pick it up anywhere outside of Boston since it's only a 5,000 watt station. The Bruins also have network stations in all 6 New England states. This could be the Bruins' last year on 'EEI which also happens to be an all-sports radio station. Th...
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Some comments deleted for bandwidth (God knows, we need it... :)) Ok, Roger, here's a question for you. Say you are running an expansion team. You don't HAVE a team at the moment, but the draft is coming up. Who are you going to pick, guys who have won the most WS rings, or guys who COULD contribute the mos...
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Hey American Hockey fans, As a hockey fan I can sympathize with thefrustration that you feel. The problem is that other Americans don't give a shit about hockey. They view it as a bunch of Canadians with bad accents and missing teeth beating the shit out of each other on a patch of ice when it is too warm now in tw...
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And it is a damn good thing that she did post it since she claims to represent people in rec.sport.hockey. Her sole purpose in mentioning the net, as Steve Gallichio has already pointed out, is to lend weight to her points through association with the internet. There is no other reason to mention the internet. ...
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It was Clint Malarchuk's neck cut by Uwe Krupp's skate. I know it happened in Buffalo, but I can't tell you against whom. Krupp was defending an opposing attacker charging the net. Malarchuk became the fourth goalie (behind Hasek, Puppa and Draper) after suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. He's been play...
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Have there ever been any other no-hitters in Mariner history?
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Hooray, I hear on TSN that the Jets have won a game, Selanne getting a hat-trick! Of course, here in GOD'S COUNTRY (read Ontario!) I couldn't see that game, nor any other in the VAN-WPG series so far, because our beloved CBC figures no one out here cares about this series (which has looked pretty competitve so far... ...
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what did happen to the swiss team ? last year they reached the semi-final and now after 3 matches no points and even no goals !! after the 0:1 against Italy it seems they lost any hope and were overrun 0:6 by the russian team. now it seems that they have to work hard not to be relegated to the B-level. does anybody kno...
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This was a concession to Mansbridge and CBC News, they argued that if you're going to play havoc with the schedule, you should at least make sure that Prime Time is aired as soon as possible. News got a commitment that the post-game show would be scrapped and that the network would go to PTN within one minute or so ...
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I'd like to add that I think Canadian hockey fans like Don because his kind of hockey (the hockey he promotes in his TV appearances) is the kind that they think used to get played in the old 6 team NHL. So there's a kind of nostagia for the old days, before expansion, the Soviet series, Gretzky and even Bobby Orr, whe...
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I looked up "might" to see why you selected that particular word, and discovered the line ". . . to express permission, liberty, probability, possibility . . ." It also said something about being a "polite" alternative to "may." The presence of "probability, possibility" can certainly be used to partially explain yo...
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Actually, that's based on the NHL's history of 7 games. The statstical odds of winning one straight game -- 50/50. Two straight games -- 25%. Three straight games -- 12.5%, 4 straight games = 6.25%. The odds of the Penguins winning 14 straight games in the playoffs was 0.0061%. Of course, this doesn't include wei...
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-=> Quoting Greg Rogers to All <=- GR> Hi all, GR> Due to living in the Bay Area, I as unable to see Vancouver's victory GR> over the Jets last night. I know the score, but that rarely describes GR> the game. Could someone please post a brief sonapsis (sp?) of waht GR> happened. How well did each team play? Wer...
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I agree that Keenan is an excellent choice. Did you see Mike Lupica's column in Sunday's news? My sentiments exactly. I think he just may be the one to instill some hunger and fire into their hearts next season. Either that or he's going to be kicking alot of butt! I'm here, but am new to this group and have be...
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I need the box score from the April 15 game I believe the score was 5 to 4 if anyone can provide it for me I would appreciate it....
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I can't let this pass. *If* the Islanders get past Pitts. (Assuming the Isles beat the Caps, God Willing), them I'm sorry, the Isles will crush the Leafs. Flame shields up. ******************************************************************************** Of course no one asked me I always interject my opinions on mat...
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Alan "All in all, it's just another" Sepinwall writes... I agree. However, I have to object. Growing up in the early 1980's and playing 2 years of Mario Mendoza-esque Little League, I was told that since my hitting, well, sucked, I would do best to either "Walk, or take one in the face for the team". I did both. ...
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A "reasonable" umpire would have recognized that Ron Gant was disturbed with the call. A "reasonable" umpire would have realized that there was a 1-run game in progress, with two outs in the ninth. What Ron Gant did was try to regain his composure. What a "normal" baseball player would have done would have been t...
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Gerald, look at what happened to the Stars; they are off to Dallas. Gerald, the Alberta election is slated fou 7 June, unless something RE?ALLY goes wrong this time!! Pocklington could end up being THE embarassment of Klein if he goes ahead with his 'ultimatum'. Gerald, people still have an axe to grind wi...
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They could put on a Quebec-Montreal game. Talk a bout areivalry! opps rivalry.. roland
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I didn't say that pitcher's fear of throwing strikes to guys like McGwire, Bonds, and Frank Thomas was rational. I just said that it exists. I don't know Alex Cole's batting style at all. Some questions: How tall is he? Does he go into a crouch like Rickey Hederson/Pete Rose? Does he foul off a lot of pitches li...
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Exactly my point. If you'd watch games more closely, you'd see a lot of goons going after him. Ulf is one of the main reasons why less physical players for Pgh are left alone. Ulf plays rough hockey, but only when other players are putting the rush on Mario or Jagr. If you want to say anyone on the Penguins...
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And Dino Ciccarelli and Ray Sheppard and so on and so on..... : )
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Actually, Keith Hernandez is the best. -Sean
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NHL PLAYOFF RESULTS FOR 4/21/93. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE SEMI-FINALS BEST OF SEVEN PATRICK ADAMS NORRIS SMYTHE NJ BUF (leads 2-0) STL (leads 2-0) WIN ...
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I think there is another formula for ERA. I heard something about it last year. Im not sure what it is, but im gonna give it a stab. It allows for a pitcher to pitch more than 9 innings at a time and not benefit, cuz it uses outs recorded instead of innings pitched... ERA = (ER*27)/outs recorded Like ...
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Wow, this guy seems to be out to prove something to his old team, Boston. Which Sweeney you ask...well, of course Bob Sweeney, the one that Boston let Buffalo get a hold of (they still have 2 Sweeneys which makes things slightly confusing). Game winner in OT in game 1, and another BIG goal (seconds after Fuhr made 3 p...
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I remember a post from last year indicating that a "pitch clock" was tried in one of the minor leagues some time back and did not work. I don't remember why they said that it did not work. Anyone remember this? Jody McDonnel on WIP in Phil. has been saying that a pitch clock was inevitable. How would a pitch clock ...
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But maybe his wife was :-) I don't claim to know whether it's true or not, but a couple different people (totally unrelated) have said Harry was 'relieved' of his duties because he had more than platonic relations with Augie Busch's wife. Judgement is left to the individual, cuz I sure don't claim to be an impea...
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I am curious to known if there are any professional sports teams whose games are regularly broadcast on an FM station. The only one I am aware of is WYSP in Philadelphia who carries the Eagles' games. If you respond to me I will summarize for the list.
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Yeah, it's the second one. And I believe that price too. I've been trying to get a good look at it on the Bruin-Sabre telecasts, and wow! does it ever look good. Whoever did that paint job knew what they were doing. And given Fuhr's play since he got it, I bet the Bruins are wishing he didn't have it:)
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I don't "notice" refs and linesmen until the playoffs come around, and yes I have to agree that Stewart called the *two* worst games I've seen so far (Mtl-Quebec game 1, and last nights Toronto-Detroit game). What's the scoop on this guy? Is he the latest incarnation of KERRY FRASER??? Just because you are boneheade...
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To really speed up the game umps need to START CALLING STRIKES the way they used to. I'm talking about making the strike zone start at the knees and go up to the top of the letters. Forget this "the strike zone is in the general area of the groin". A lot less 3-and-2 counts and a quicker game.
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Not totally true. For the past year or two, the AP has been getting box scores from STATS, Inc. The AP representative in the press box is actually a STATS reporter ($25 dollars a game, but free parking. And anybody can do it.) The box is downloaded to STATS in Chicago, some quick error checking is done, and th...
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According to the recent TSN report Peter Puck is not paying any interest on the Treasury Branch loans. That's a lot of green. Again, according to TSN, virtually everything that Peter Puck has already has liens against it. Of course we can't really be sure of this. The Oiler rationale regarding the renegotiati...
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You haven't been facing major league pitching. Maybe more... you have to be good at the plate, and most STATS did a little study in the 1993 Scoreboard book entitled "Can you hit sacrifice flies on purpose?" A summary of the findings: Over the 5 year period, sac-fly type fly balls were produced 17.6 perc...
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210493 Italy-Sweden 2-6 (0-1,1-2,1-3) W D L Canada 2 2 0 0 6-1 4 Sweden 3 2 0 1 8-6 4 Russia 2 1 1 0 6-4 3 Italy 3 1 1 1 5-8 3
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Actually it was in the third period, his return did bring a spark to the crowd, and to the players, who played awesome defense in the third. You forgot about Gretzky. If any of these guys start scoring, the Kings will be unstoppable, if they continue the great defensive work as well. Stauber will be in net on Tue...
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[stuff deleted] The last year before Bryan Murray took over, the Wings did not make the playoffs. While they had been considered a possible contender when Jacques Demers first arrived, in his last two years they were, respectively, embarrassed in the first round by Chicago, and then failed to make the playoffs...
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Wow! You really know how to hurt a guy. Guess I shouldn't bother watching any more games. It's already been decided. :^) luigi
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It's gotta be an HBP.
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Im trying to find a site that has UPDATED(daily) stats more the National league. I'll take both leagues but I'm really interested in the National league.
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ST> as for more captain trivia, the next Edmonton ST> catain was Lee Fogilin who was later traded to ST> the Buffalo Sabres, after him was Wayne Gretzky ST> who w traded to L A, then came Kevin Low who ST> nly this year was traded to the N Y Rangers Wasn't Mark Messier Captai...
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: Hi there, : : I'm german and I have been into this MLB stuff since almost one year now. : There are many problems occuring for me. One of them is the ERA statistic for : pitchers. What does it say ?? ERA indicates the average number of earned runs attributed to a pitcher per nine inning game. Thus, if a pitcher pi...
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And you can bet that I wouldn't be the only one not belonging to the moderated group if it was moderated by an anally-retentive little dullard like yourself. I hardly need you to presume to lecture me on how to communicate my points of view. This "posting" that you have made is the second on the subject of the NH...
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Well I was watching Hockey Hotline last night and Stan said that the station (KBL) had been recieving calls all day concerning this subject. And the verdict was that almost exclusively NOBODY wanted that load mouth, know it all blow hard, former Bruin whiner, Ulf Hating, scum sucking, Pr*ck of missery in Pittsbur...
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I would be veru interested also, if there is one. Could someone please send me some info?
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Who holds the record for most career strikeouts while playing for one team? Who holds the record for most career strikeouts for the Rangers? (Hint: Nolan Ryan isn't either) What two pitchers have over 100 career saves for two different teams? Who is the only player to hit 300 or more career home runs and steal 300 or...
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Why would Pollin want to move the Caps, because I think he owns the Cap Centre. I know they don't sell out all of their games, but they draw a lot more than the Bullets. If you had the situation that Abe had, would you move if you were guaranteed that anyone who went to the games would have to park at the stadium, ...
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The Phillies finished third 2 years ago. The Phillies' opponents haven't hit much better
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And Fleury is no enforcer. An agitator for sure, but Fleury never has and never will have a fight, which seems to be what you're saying Wood is. The closest Fleury ever came to fighting was a game two years ago against Los Angeles. There was a scrum and McSorley pinched Fleury's head under his arm. Fleury dropped hi...
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Is it just me or is the camera work on some of these games really sad?? I can't remember how many times during the Penguins-Devils game they showed some guy (without the puck) being checked in the corner while the puck was being fired on goal. In fact, I think they even missed one goal completely because they were sh...
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I don't actually have the answer to this one. Bosio, after walking the first two batters, retired 27-straight for a "back-end" perfect game. How many other games - including extra inning games - have seen a pitcher retire 27 straight, excluding official perfect games? The only other instance of this I know about for...
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A few weeks ago I posted about the Phillies team personalities. Did anyone see the ESPN feature on the Phils on Monday Night. John Kruk had a great line. He was talking about people on the team always playing and not sitting out because of a minor injury. He said if they do they know we'll kick their ass. The tim...
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: >Showing a meaningless (relatively) baseball game over the overtime of : >game that was tied up with less than 3 seconds left on the clock?
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ESPN must have some very poor marketing people. They are only concerned with featuring players (i.e. Mario) than featuring good competitive hockey. I've heard that this is because most of their market is East Coast and hence would prefer the Wales stuff. Also, don't expect Canadian teams on ESPN.
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Lots of debate about the virtues of Bryan Murray vs Pat Quinn as a GM deleted. Randy Graca seems to think Murray is the best GM in the league. I think Quinn is one of several who are better. When Quinn took over Vancouver- several years ago, NOT LAST YEAR, they regularily missed the playoffs. I can't recall if t...
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Hi all, I got tired of waiting for a mailing list so I am going to make one.... just send me your complete e-mail address on your message and I'll send you a confirmation and the Yankee mailing list address -john
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Absolute nonsense. The decision that was made was Pocklington's. He chose 20 mill over Gretzky. If Gretzky wasn't upset about not being able to win a cup in LA then I submit that he wasn't worth the 20 mill. How do you know what he thinks (or thought)? The only "thought" that I can see that you have revealed i...
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If anyone knows of such a site could they please send it to me also. thanks
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Whoa. What you are effectively doing is implying that if a player plays really well, he 'stores up' mistakes that can be used at a later time. Ths is not so. Roy is the 'villain', as you so succinctly put it, because he allowed a very cheap goal. If you think Roy outplayed Hextall, perhaps you should get a tape...
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I am finding the volume of stuff on rec.sport.baseball overwhelming -- ca. 200 posts/day. An effect of this is that a backlog builds up, and many posts get dumped from my system. I could probably fix that--but don't have the time to read them all in any event. My guess is that mine is a common problem. I have some ...
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Baltimore Baseblazers? Where the hell did you come up with that? The Orioles are not a base-stealing team except for Anderson. Besides we would never call them anything but the Baltimore Orioles. Why? The ballpark has all these orthologically (spelling error?) correct BALTIMORE ORIOLES all over the place. I bet you...
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: Unfortunately, that is the way the league is heading... You can't fight, : so the only way to retaliate against someone is with a cheap shot when : the ref isn't looking. Ulf has brought this to a high level... Players : stuck in the past (like Neely) who prefer fights to cheap shots : are at a disadvantage in the n...
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Team Canada defeated Russia 3-1 to finish the priliminary round unbeaten at 5-0. Scoring for the Canadians were Kevin Dineen of the Flyers, Eric Lindros also of the Flyers and Paul Cariya of the Maine Black Bears. Cariya has put on quite a show at the Worlds. He is sure to be drafted in the top 3 this summer at the...
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(Ali's letter deleted for brevity) Roger, Your responses might just exclude you from sharing your opinions, then. You see, the same rights Ali has to mail her letter to the NHL are the same ones that let you post replies that mow her down like wheat at harvest-time. She never said she represented the entire interne...
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Lori, the regular Penguins poster here on rec.sport.hockey, indicated to me via e-mail that on the nights that Pirates baseball and Penguins playoff games coincide, the Pens will be covered on WDVE FM (102.5).
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NHL PLAYOFF RESULTS FOR GAMES PLAYED 23 APRIL 1993: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE SEMI-FINALS BEST OF SEVEN PATRICK ADAMS NORRIS SMYTHE NJ BUF (leads 3-0) STL ...
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Let's be careful here. If players' performance was completely random in (Clutch-No Clutch), then you would still expect some players to be good in the clutch every year and some to be not-so-good every year. With two years worth of data, you'd have 1/4 of the players good each year, 1/4 bad each year, and 1/2 would h...
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The overhead replay pretty clearly showed that it was the Quebec defender who deflected the puck. The re-play officials did not take nearly as much time to make this call as they did for the first non-goal, so it seemed pretty non-controversial. I agree that it was a great game; good to see Roy and Damphousse bac...
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What's with John Franco? The Mets are hardly using him. I heard he was completely recovered, but now I'm not so sure. If there is anybody out there with information about Franco, I would appreciate it if you could drop me a line.
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------------------------- Original Article ------------------------- Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball Path: butch!netcomsv!netcom.com!csus.edu!wupost!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.ed From: scunning@louven.berkeley.edu (Sean Cunningham) Subject: Candlestick Message-ID: <1993Apr21.041620.27894@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender:...
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There are very few disciplines where 100% certainty is necessary to state something as fact. Baseball is not one of them. Therefore I can say that I know Clemens was better than Morris last year, and Larkin was better than Griffin. No, I can't ascertain this. I can't prove it. But I'm not required to do so. And s...
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Well, I got the scores for Sat's games... AHL PLAYOFF SCORES-- FIRST ROUND (home team in CAPS) ================================ GAMES PLAYED ON SAT, 4/24 ------------------------- BALTIMORE 3 Binghamton 1 ROCHESTER 3 Utica 2 SPRINGFIELD 4 Providence 3 =============================================================...
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And you know what? There is no such method inherent in real life either. So I would assume you would endorse the notion that we cannot state, with any level of objectivity, that Mother Theresa has accomplished more good in this world than Joseph Stalin. After all, life on earth is a team effort. Have you tried g...
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Okay, I think we all agree that singles hitters should take a strike or two and try to get on base any way they can. So the "No Power/Impatient" guys have no excuse. The "No Power/Patient" guys are doing the right thing. Now the "Impatient/Power" guys (how could you leave out the Big Cat?). Would these guys have a b...
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This would be dumb move of the nineties...Lindros is big and strong... but why give him a ball and chain on one leg and an anchor on the other to drag along. Not if Pocklington gets there first! (-...actually, if Pocklington doesn't get a better deal, he would probably go to Hamilton...taking the team out of Canada ...
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Lou Gehrig, IRONMAN
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Finns had to do their best last night when they played against Norway in world champs. After two periods the score was still 0-0. This game was quite much similar to the first game Finland played (against France). The norwegian goalie was very good and a bit lucky, too. In the third period Juha Riihij{rvi scored 1-0...
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The only way to change ESPN's thinking, if it is even possible, is to complain to them directly. Anyone know there telephone # in Bristol, Ct? I do find it hard to believe that ESPN doesn't think viewers will simply change the channel from a boring game....I know I did. And then, when they didn't show the NYI-Was...
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Geez, I didn't realize things were so bad at Ohio State that they can't afford phone books, or even operators. This is probably Clinton's fault, isn't it...8^) 403.
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Did anyone see the Montreal - Quebec game yesterday? It was tight right down to the last second of the third period. In the overtime Roy and Hextall played like they were gods. Ok, so Montreal won! They deserved it after getting their first goal in overtime waved off because the puck was hit in with a high stick. ...
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That would be Clint Malarchuck. It was speculated at the time, that the injury was so serious that had he been playing at the other end of the rink at the time (he was playing in the same end as the ambulence is parked), he never would have survived. Ditto, if he were playing anything other than a league with an amb...
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<KIME.93Apr20133127@mongoose.torolab.ibm.com> <mjones.735335684@fenway> Organization: Eskimo North (206) 367-3837 {eskimo.com} Yeah, Morris just knows how to win. That's why he lost 18 for Detroit in 1990. Funny how he wins a lot of games when he pitches on good teams but loses a lot when he pitches on bad ones. And ...
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[Some discussion about whether Elias is money grubbing deleted] Some thoughts and facts, 1.) Bill James is a partial owner of STATS, inc. However he has almost nothing to do with the day-to-day operations of the company, although he does have significant input into the design of the books that bear his name. (...
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While I agree that Lemieux deserves the Hart, it is far from a "no-brainer". The Hart trophy goes to the player most valuable to his team, not to the best player in the league. So your above arguement is really worthless. The Pens without Mario are still a damn good hockey team. The Leafs without Gilmour would hav...
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Minnesota Lumberjacks (thought of Bunyons - as in Paul, not sore feet or Babes as in Big Blue Ox) Seattle Rainiers (I think this was considered by the new ownership -- harkening back to AAA glory days -- and placating at least one local brewer :-)
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Dayley's salary was guarenteed...with Wells the Jays were only on the hook for 25%(?) of it. Give Jackson a break...he lost about 10 pounds with that flu he had when he was traded. I would rather have Molitor than Winfield...Winfield was just hogging all the credit, and he was trying to soak the Jays for a 3 year g...
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TWINS UPDATE -- Posted April 22, 1993 --------------------------------------------- The Twins defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 5-4 today to conclude a three game homestand with the Brew crew. The Twins took two of three games in the series, with scores as follows: Tuesday April 20th MN 10 ...
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It is ironic that in any post that criticizes langauge ability, the critic invariably makes a mistake himself ("english" is generally written "English".) Oddly, I do not see that I have contested any of that. Perhaps you, with assuredly greater "english" ability can explain, in tiny words that I might grasp their m...
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Here's a few two-sport star trivia questions. I'll admit they're not too difficult, but a bit challenging nevertheless. Mail me your answers please; or post them. 1. Which pitcher played for the Harlem Globetrotters? 2. Which major leaguer briefly tried professional golf in 1978? 3. Which does Dieon Sanders ha...
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If I were Pat Burns I'd throw in the towel. The wings dominated every aspect of the game. Trying to mix up the lines is a dead end. Murray has too many combinations to counter with. My prediction is wings in 5.
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Right. Most definitely. This may be the root of the confusion... Please consider the following hypothetical with an open mind. Note that I am *not* (yet) saying that it has anything to do with the question at hand. Suppose we have a simplified Lotto game. You pick a number from 1-10 and win if that number is dr...
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NL: Chicago Wait Til Next Years New York Bunch of Egos With no Chemistrys Philedelphia Overacheivers Until Mitch Williams Blows Games Pittsburg CHeapskates Montreal Canadiens (love that name!) St. Louis Cardinals (how boring!) Miami Marlins (try telling Tampa-StPete that the Marlins are Florida's) San Diego She's Goi...
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O.K. It would be a shame for Cards fans on the net to go through the 1993 championship season without a mailing list to talk on so I would be willing to look at starting one. Except there's one little problem... I don't know the first thing about how to do it or what it requires in terms of resources or time. So ...
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As long as a player is under contract to an organization, he is obligated to play only where that organization tells him to play or gives him permission to play. The Rangers are certainly within their rights to force Zubov and Andersson to report to Binghampton. It certainly does reflect a lack of class on the part ...
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