[Magdalen] World Serious

[Jay Weigel]

One of the craziest games in all of baseball was a 19.5 inning 4th of July
extravaganza at Turner Field in Atlanta back in the '80s. That game
featured not only several rain delays and a fireworks display at the end of
it (at 4:30 am!) but a home run by a notoriously poor-hitting Braves
pitcher, Rick Camp, whose usual hitting performance resembled the swatting
away of an annoying insect. I had gone to sleep with the game on but woke
up for that!

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> An hour of EWTN ought to be worth 2 of baseball at least. If he watches
> EWTN during the baseball off-season, you should get to bank those viewable
> hours for the spring.
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I really hate the DH, though.
> >>
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
> > Well, with or without the DH, the game has changed considerably. The DH
> > was adopted in a time when pitchers, unless they simply were having a
> > terrible day, were usually there for 9 innings, except for the strategic
> > choice of inserting a hitter for the pitcher.
> >
> > But nowadays, the controlling consideration of a pitcher is pitch count.
> > pitchers just get yanked at 100 pitches, whether it be in the fourth
> inning
> > or eighth inning.  This is just as true in the National League as the
> > American League -- the idea of puling the pitcher for a hitter in certain
> > situations has become quite rare in the NL, as compared to the systems of
> > 50 years ago.
> >
> > I'd challenge anyone here denouncing the DH rule in the AL to offer full
> > disclosure: How many games per year have you attended during the past 20
> > years? How many regular-season games have you actually watched on TV or
> > listened to on radio -- start to finish, during the past 20 years?
> >
> > Heck,how many of you are aware that another feature of the modern game is
> > to put even slightly injured players on the disabled list immediately and
> > calling up promising rookies from the Minors to replace them for a game
> or
> > three?  Out Scranton Railriders  won their division this year, but got
> > wiped out in the playoffs because the parent Yankee organization had
> called
> > up 5 of the best players to help them try to win the division?
> >
> > Like I  say, I don’t think that the antipathy toward the DH rule reflects
> > the views of anyone who actually follows the game.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jim
> >
> > PS Albert really hates it when I sit down to watch a game on TV, as he
> > simply hates baseball, period. I tell him for every hour he has EWTN on,
> he
> > gets an hour of baseball. He's resigned to it.
> >
>
>
>
> --
>
> Christopher Hart
>
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