By RM
sunday, november 2, 2025 at 1:33:00 a.m. edt
How in the world do you get these comments posted so fast? Do you have a direct line to NS like the Batphone?
THE 1975 WORLD SERIES
Fantastic series between the Boston Red Sox and the Cincinatti Reds. The "Big Red Machine" wasn't exactly overpowering, and the series went back and forth to a thrilling seven games, Reds ending up with the win.
Pete Rose ended up as MVP, with 10 hits. Luis Tiant, eccentric and overweight pitcher from Cuba, outstanding for Boston, as was Don Gullett for the Reds. Red Sox veteran Carl Yastrzemski, ancient at 36, made some spectacular catches in the outfield. Fred Lynn, also Boston, nearly killed himself running backwards and slamming full-on into the center field wall-the crowd thought he was dead! He lay motionless on the ground, but finally arose-and stayed in the game!
The high point of the Series was game 6, which Boston won in an incredible 12 innings- per Wikipedia, widely considered one of the greatest WS games ever, and I have to agree! Well, if the teams were so closely matched, what made the difference? I put the blame where I usually do-on the manager. Boston's manager, Darrell Johnson, was lifeless and inexpressive (the announcers even said his nickname was "stone face"), and on THREE separate occasions was too slow to remove a faltering pitcher, costing him those games and the Series.
Sparky Anderson of the Reds was dynamic and alive; in one game he made so many changes he used the entire bullpen! When it was over and we saw him in the locker room celebrating, he seemed nearly in tears from joy! Great manager, deserved the win.
Boston continued its streak as a "cursed" team (Did they ever win one, finally? I stopped following the games decades ago!).
This time the Series was actually preserved by MLB, which means we didn't get to see any of the intros or National Anthems. The only celebrities shown were in Boston and predictably were politicians- Kissinger, Tip O'Neill (Remember him-the fat-faced, bulbous-nosed guy who looked the perfect stereotype of the corrupt, fat-cat politico?), and-BOO, HISS-Ted Kennedy!
You might well ask-with Pete Rose involved, was there any hanky-panky? Baseball is such an intricate game, a game could be "fixed" at any number of points-a pitcher blowing a lead, an infield error, a balk-but honestly, this seemed on the level. If Rose bet on his own team winning in seven games, he may have made a bundle, but I think it was honestly won. Disreputable as he was, it still seems sad that he didn't make it to the 50th anniversary of this series. I suppose I'm lucky I did!
Full details here, if anyone's interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_World_Series
-RM
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
sunday, november 2, 2025 at 1:51:00 a.m. est
Holy Gigabyte, RM--not really. Just a thing we do in the last games of World Series. The '75 series WAS great. A LOT of them were back then.
This year's was the most exciting (at least in the extra-inning games) in some time--maybe back to '88.
--GRA
WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO THE FOOTBALL--PART TWO:JACKSONVILLE KICKER BOOTS A RECORD BREAKING 68 YARD FIELD GOAL
ReplyDelete(nbc sports)Jaguars kicker Cam Little etched his name into the NFL record book before halftime in Las Vegas on Sunday.
Little made the longest field goal in league history when he drilled a 68-yard kick as time expired in the second quarter. The kick turned out to be an appetizer for a wild finish as the two teams scored 15 points through three quarters and then scored 44 points in the fourth quarter of a 30-29 Jaguars win, but things circled back to Little when all was said and done.
“It’s like, ‘Kick it straight enough, kick it long enough, and it goes in,’ simply put,” Little said, via the team’s website. “We’re playing indoors, and we’re on natural grass. You kick it long enough and you kick it straight enough, it’s going to go in.”
GRA:All of a sudden(we're supposed to believe)the kickers are kicking them 10-15 yards longer this year--with ease--because of leg strength? Pleeeease. Not ONE guy--MOST of them.
Little is 6'1" 172 lbs--not exactly an Incredible Hulk.
Fake records.
--GRA
LOS ANGELES FINALLY REVEALS ANOTHER MURDER ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT:SON OF AN "ASSOCIATE" OF NIPSEY HUSTLE IS "TRICKED" INTO WALKING OVER TO A PARKED CAR,THEN IS "TREATED" TO SOME BULLET
ReplyDeleteCANDY
(ZH)Jabari Henley — 34-year-old former rapper and son of Rolling 60’s Neighborhood Crips figure and music manager Eugene “Big U” Henley — was shot and killed on Halloween night in South Los Angeles, Breitbart reported this weekend.
The shooting occurred around 11 p.m. outside his smoke shop near 69th Street and Figueroa Street. According to the LAPD, “The victim, described as a 34-year-old black male, walked up to the suspect vehicle when an unknown suspect or suspects shot at him.” Police said the attackers fled, declined to identify Henley by name, and would not comment on possible gang ties.
The report says that Henley’s father, “Big U,” is widely known for working with rapper Nipsey Hussle and has long been associated with “checking in” — alleged extortion of celebrities entering Crips territory.
(GRA:Actually,"checking out".)
One federal affidavit stated, “While Henley and other supporters attempt to persuade the public that the ‘check in’ provides safety and security for those who do so, as set forth herein, he and the Big U Enterprise also manufacture the very danger they purport to protect against.”
GRA:Word finally got out because this vic was semi-known. How many murder announcements are delayed permanently if the vic is not?
--GRA