on January 4th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
This picture got forwarded to me by a friend of mine who knew I would appreciate its beauty and unique-ness.
Nice, huh??
The shot captures the impact of the bat and ball as Albert Pujols makes contact with one of his mighty swings!!!
Captured by photographer Scott Rovak, he states that ‘In 26 years of shooting baseball, he’s [...]
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on January 4th, 2010 by chemgod
Every morning for the past 4 years, I have driven into work and religiously listened to the Steve Czaban show in Fox Sports. It was so superior to Mike and Mike in the morning that it wasn’t even close. Czaban’s show was much like a bunch of guys shooting bull around the water cooler about [...]
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on January 4th, 2010 by danhitt
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on January 4th, 2010 by Dinged Corners
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on January 4th, 2010 by chrisolds
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on January 4th, 2010 by Chris Harris
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on January 4th, 2010 by T.S.
“Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” We seem to
have come a long way since that hoary old aphorism was in its prime, presumably in
the Vince Lombardi days of Green Bay Packer dominance in the 1960s.
Though he is widely linked with the pronouncement, its actual originator
is 1950s UCLA Bruins football coach Red Sanders, with the legendary Packer coach reportedly
first taking it out for an oratorical spin nearly a decade after Sanders’ reported
first utterance in 1950.
Perhaps now its been unofficially modified to something more in line
with the alleged moral relativism of modern times. I blather in this fashion as a
result of watching a couple of weeks of NFL tap dancing in the closing weeks of the
regular season that seems markedly different from the win-at-all-costs image that
gave the game its initial verve and vitality.
I don’t know about you, but regardless of the quite understandable explanations,
I don’t much care for watching NFL games where one team has little or no interest
in winning and instead is more concerned with avoiding injury. With those as the parameters,
that makes it exactly a half-ass exhibition game.
I suspect that the expansion of this particular problem came about because
the parity theme in the NFL seems to have gotten strained a bit this year, with several
teams posting such imposing records that the final stretch of games was almost guaranteed
to pose difficulties along these lines.
While I understand that winning the Super Bowl is the ultimate goal,
I think it raises really troublesome issues when you have things like an undefeated
team essentially throwing in the towel early in the second half, even with the understandable
goal of avoiding injury to the front liners.
I object to this simply on the basis of upsetting the fundamental underpinnings
of the sport; a game where physical contact is such an elemental component is not
meant to be played halfheartedly. The very bastardization of the process is enough
to invite injury itself, since the game is being performed in a fashion diametrically
opposite to its primary function.
And if it seems too snooty to decry it on such broad philosophical grounds,
how about this: What happens if – for example – the New York Jets somehow pull
off the second miracle in the history of that often moribund franchise? Would a Jets
Super Bowl win in four weeks be forever tainted by the argument that they never should
have set foot in the playoffs in the first place?
I’m just sayin’.
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on January 4th, 2010 by Captain Canuck
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on January 4th, 2010 by White Sox Cards
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on January 4th, 2010 by Tom
Custom Autograph card James Leroy ThomasFirst base/OutfieldBats: Left , Throws: RightHeight: 6′ 2″ , Weight: 198 lb.Born: February 5, 1936 in Peoria, ILAquired via trade with the New York Yankees with Ryne Duren and Johnny James to the Los Angeles Ange…
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on January 4th, 2010 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
I was able to pick up this subset for a very low price. It’s a 6-card set and it highlights some amazing accomplishments that occurred during the 1979 baseball season.
1980 Topps – ‘1979 Highlights’ – Card #3
Headline – “Manny Mota sets all-time pinch mark with 145th substitute hit”
Text on the back – Los Angeles, September [...]
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on January 4th, 2010 by Chris Harris
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on January 4th, 2010 by Dinged Corners
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on January 4th, 2010 by Dan
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on January 4th, 2010 by chemgod
Everyone knows that the Devils win or lose based on how well Martin Brodeur plays on a given night. However that couldn’t be further from the truth. The devils need scoring in order to win and Langenbrunner has played a big part in that since he became a Devil during the 2001-02 season. He will [...]
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