| To: Broken_Clock who wrote (79321) | 5/19/2024 8:57:22 PM | | From: Zen Dollar Round | | | | I do get tired of New York-centric sports and talk shows talking about New York teams doing well in the playoffs, as if everyone else in the world should give a shit.
I'm always thankful when they lose (and they usually do) and the hosts have to shut up about them. |
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| To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (79322) | 5/19/2024 9:35:00 PM | | From: Broken_Clock | | | | LOL!
My Mom's uncle was a scout for the Yanks and Braves. He sent us two autographed balls back around '60. Berra, Maris, Mickey, Boyer, Whitey Ford ....the whole team. My brother has it and never answers my calls. I guess that ship has sailed.
Also have a Milwaukee Braves ball with the team sigs, the main ones being Warren Spahn and Hank. I sure hope my brother kept those.
B&W TV days I saw a lot of the Yanks and Celts so those were the 1st too pro teams I became a fan of. Then the Texans/Cowboys showed up and i latched onto football, since i was a kid in Austin. We thought Darrel Royal was a god. We lived right by the stadium and were good at sneaking in through the vendors gate then slipping down onto the sidelines. I remember being there and watching those "huge" college guys banging into each other and it was very impressive for a 10 year kid 15 feet off the sideline. |
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| To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (79322) | 5/19/2024 10:13:21 PM | | From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell | | | | To be completely fair and unbiased and scientific about this, every time I ask someone around here for their favorite sports team, it's almost always a team from NY. Sounds like a clearcut case of location discrimination on your part. Rather, I choose to believe all people are biologically the same.
For example, I've been to Seattle a bunch of times. Nice city. A bit rainy, but the people are generally pleasant. Anyhow, did being physically in Seattle make me a Mariners fan? No. So I'm really having a hard time visualizing people being born in Seattle as NY sports fans somehow later identifying as a Seattle fan. It's just not natural.
BTW, between you and me, if you want to cure yourself of being a Seattle fan, I know some bars that specialize in that in the Bronx. Just wear a Mariner jersey at the bar and the guys there will start the therapy. :)
- Jeff |
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| To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (79324) | 5/19/2024 10:36:20 PM | | From: Zen Dollar Round | | | | > Just wear a Mariner jersey at the bar and the guys there will start the therapy.
Lol. It would be even dumber to wear a Red Sox jersey there, or more to the point, for someone to wear a Yankees jersey in the Southie area in Boston. Guaranteed therapy in that case, ending with inpatient treatment at a local hospital. Or morgue. :-) |
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| To: Broken_Clock who wrote (79327) | 5/19/2024 11:58:59 PM | | From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell | | | | Apparently Koufax began his baseball career as a left handed catcher before moving to first base.
In 1951, Koufax joined a local youth baseball league known as the "Ice Cream League", playing for the Tomahawks. He started out as a left-handed catcher before moving to first base. He joined Lafayette's baseball team as a first baseman in his senior year at the urging of his friend Fred Wilpon.[7] While playing with the high school team, he was spotted by Milt Laurie, a newspaper deliveryman and baseball coach who was the father of two Lafayette baseball players. Laurie noticed Koufax's strong throwing arm and recognized that he might be able to pitch. He recruited the 17-year-old to pitch for the Coney Island Sports League's Parkviews.[8] en.wikipedia.org - Jeff |
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