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Apr 7, 2019 10:52:52 GMT -5
Post by pcdad on Apr 7, 2019 10:52:52 GMT -5
Baseball really is the best of the major spectator sports. There is a chance that something happens that you have rarely seen before. The game links generations of fans to the players of old like Fred Lynn and more so to some immortals from the 50's and especially the 60's for me - both National League and American League for me.
Shamefully, I have largely missed out on LeBron, Harden, and Curry's playing days.
Try being a Jets fan before dismissing the arrival of Sam Darnold. Giving Jets fans a reason to hope for any better days.
Thought Ryan Fitzpatrick was decent while a Jet and certainly was a mentor to Darnold who is near The age of Fitzpatrick's eldest daughters. Right dad?
Guessed Bunky's quiz correctly... " What A drag it is getting old".... Indeed Bunky. Indeed.
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Bunky
Apr 8, 2019 9:06:45 GMT -5
Post by dex on Apr 8, 2019 9:06:45 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY The Associated Press
Today is April 8, the 98th day of 2019. There are 267 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history
In 1994, Kurt Cobain, singer and guitarist for the grunge band Nirvana, was found dead in Seattle from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was 27.
On this date
In 1864, the United States Senate passed, 38-6, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery. (The House of Representatives passed it in January 1865; the amendment was ratified and adopted in December 1865.)
In 1952, President Harry S. Truman seized the American steel industry to avert a nationwide strike. (The Supreme Court later ruled that Truman had overstepped his authority, opening the way for a seven-week strike by steelworkers.)
In 1961, a suspected bomb exploded aboard the passenger liner MV Dara in the Persian Gulf, causing it to sink; 238 of the 819 people aboard were killed.
In 1963, “Lawrence of Arabia” won the Oscar for best picture at the Academy Awards; Gregory Peck won best actor for “To Kill a Mockingbird” while Anne Bancroft received best actress honors for “The Miracle Worker.”
In 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth’s record.
In 1988, TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart resigned from the Assemblies of God after he was defrocked for rejecting an order from the church’s national leaders to stop preaching for a year amid reports he had consorted with a prostitute.
In 1990, Ryan White, the teenage AIDS patient whose battle for acceptance had gained national attention, died in Indianapolis at age
18.
Today’s birthdays Comedian Shecky Greene is
93. Author and Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter Seymour Hersh is 82. Basketball Hall of Famer John Havlicek is 79. “Mouseketeer” Darlene Gillespie is 78. Singer Peggy Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 78. Rock musician Steve Howe is 72. Movie director John Madden is 70. “Survivor” winner Richard Hatch is 58. Singer Julian Lennon is 56. Actress Robin Wright is 53. Actress Patricia Arquette is
51. Rock singer-musician Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend) is 35. Actress Kirsten Storms is 35.
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Bunky
Apr 8, 2019 20:57:11 GMT -5
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Post by pcdad on Apr 8, 2019 20:57:11 GMT -5
Anne Bancroft impresses dex with her performance some four years later.
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Bunky
Apr 9, 2019 8:54:24 GMT -5
Post by dex on Apr 9, 2019 8:54:24 GMT -5
Oh Baby Yes Indeed
The Graduate
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Bunky
Apr 13, 2019 8:39:12 GMT -5
Post by dex on Apr 13, 2019 8:39:12 GMT -5
COMMENTARY Money changed the entire equation BILL REYNOLDS
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH:
■ Professional sports were better when no one knew what the players made.
Or cared.
Now everyone knows, or at least they think they do.
But to what end really? To make others envious? To create athletes as the new royalty, one more example that this is what society really cares about?
“Respect” in pro sports today is measured in dollars.
It’s a message that more and more student-athletes are hearing loud and clear. That college is just a pathway to the pros, and all the riches that await.
It’s a message that academics are just something to sit through before practice starts.
It's not a good one.
■ You've seen too much TV in your life, Bunky, if you remember who Charles Van Doren was.
■ Tiger hasn't won a major since 2008, and the Masters since 2005.
■ But he has won 14 majors, and 80 professional tournaments, if you're keeping score at home.
■ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: I hold the career record for the most blocked shots by a Boston Celtic, and I'm not Bill Russell. Who am I? (Answer near the bottom of the column.)
■ Chris Mullin has bailed out of St. John's after just four years coaching the Red Storm.
■ LINE OF THE WEEK comes from Rick Pitino on the opening of the St. John's job: "I would bring St. John’s to the elite level not seen since Louie [Carnesecca] roamed the sidelines."
■ LINE OF THE WEEK II also comes from Pitino: "I've never, ever in 40-plus years of coaching ever given $5 for a player to come play for me.''
■ LINE OF THE WEEK III comes from Sox ace Chris Sale on his early season problems: "If I knew what it was, I'd fix it.''
■ LINE OF THE WEEK IV is this all-time classic from onetime actor George Raft on where his fortune went: "Part of it went for gambling, and part of it went for women. The rest I spent foolishly.''
■ LINE OF THE WEEK V comes from UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma: "Any other team in America, they lose the game, it's in the newspaper tomorrow, probably on page 4, or can't find it on dot-com anywhere. We lose a game, it's at Baylor, it's on the CBS Evening News.''
■ Chris Sale said the other day that he's never felt this lost on the mound.
■ I felt that way when I got out of college and realized I had to go to work for a living, but what are you going to do?
■ Bill Raftery, the former Seton Hall basketball coach, long ago found a great second act as a broadcaster.
■ This from colleague Kevin McNamara's column the other day: "Sox starters Chris Sale, David Price, Rick Porcello and Eduardo Rodriguez are set to make $84 million in 2019, more than the entire Blue Jays active roster, not to mention the Orioles and "
■ You don't believe you're getting older, Bunky? Try listening to the top 40 on the radio. You'll think you're on a different planet.
■ The Marlins are averaging 9,577 fans per game. Remove the 25,423 that came on Opening Day and it's 6,936.
■ The hot NBA rumor is Kevin Durant will be playing for the Knicks next year.
■ Like him, don't like him, so what. Golf is better when Tiger's in the hunt.
■ "Gloria Bell" is a decent movie.
■ The Celtics' Gordon Hayward seems to have his game back.
■ Do you invite Kyrie Irving and Brad Stevens to the same party?
■ UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma says the majority of coaches in America are afraid of their players.
■ Say what?
■ If the General Assembly were an NBA team, it would be the Knicks: lots of attention, too little success.
■ QUIZ ANSWER: Robert Parrish, with 1,703. (Blocks were not an official stat before the 1973-74 season.
■ Is it getting close to the end for Dustin Pedroia, or does it just feel that way?
■ Ron Darling, in his new book "108 Stitches'' writes that his Mets' teammate Lenny Dykstra called the Red Sox' "Oil Can'' Boyd "every imaginable" racial taunt in the '86 World Series.
■ Best of luck to my dear friend Amanda Milkovits, leaving The Journal for the Boston Globe.
■ The Masters means spring to me.
■ But the only time I ever covered it I fell asleep behind one of the greens on the front nine at Augusta National. Not my finest journalistic moment.
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Bunky
May 4, 2019 9:05:32 GMT -5
Post by dex on May 4, 2019 9:05:32 GMT -5
COMMENTARY Wake-up call finally reached Red Sox BILL REYNOLDS
Picture FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH:
■ Have the Red Sox realized that — like, you know — the season has actually started?
Seems like it.
Finally.
Because their start has all but been embarrassing.
And maybe it's this simple, as cruel as it might sound. Their payroll is too big for them to be this bad.
■ Old friend Rick Barnes, the former Friars' basketball coach, will make $26 million over the next five years at Tennessee after saying no to UCLA. Who would have ever believed that was possible way back when he was here in Providence trying to chase Rick Pitino's ghost.
■ Ah, spring in Rhode Island: varying shades of gray.
■ Is it fair to say that the NFL doesn't have a real offseason anymore?
■ Or that being a big-time athlete in anything is virtually a full time job.
■ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: John Havlicek, who died last week, is the all-time points leader for the Celtics with 26,395. Who are Nos. 2 through 5? (Answer near bottom of column.)
■ LINE OF THE WEEK who has been dealing with a chronic knee problem: "If my knee can’t do it and I don’t play again, I don’t have one regret."
■ LINE OF THE WEEK II comes from Joe Biden: "We are in a battle for the soul of this nation.''
■ LINE OF THE WEEK III comes from Donald Trump on Joe Biden: "Welcome to the race, Sleepy Joe.''
■ LINE OF THE WEEK IV comes Ed Zwirn in the New York Post: "And she'll have funds, funds, funds, until her daddy takes the Visa away.''
■ Once he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Now Sebastian Telfair, the one-time Brooklyn playground basketball legend, was convicted of possessing weapons, including a sub-machine gun.
■ Or as one New York tabloid said in a headline the other day: "He's Fouled Out.''
■ R.I.P. Gino Marchetti, the Colts' great defensive end of the late '50s.
■ Something called Juul is the top-selling E-cigarette in the country.
■ Nobody recruits better in college basketball than Duke.
■ Than again, maybe "recruit'' is the wrong word. Duke selects.
■ The Yankees and Flyers no longer play Kate Smith's version of "God Bless America,'' because of her alleged racist lyrics in other songs 80 years ago.
■ Best wishes to Celtics' boss Danny Ainge, who suffered what was called a "mild heart attack'' Tuesday night in Milwaukee.
■ This from Betsy McCaughey in the Boston Herald: "A shocking 34 percent of public college students can't make it through four years of college in six years."
■ The word is that the Nets will be making a big run at Kyrie this summer.
■ So Rhode Island was rainier than Seattle this April.
■ And grayer than a senior center, too.
■ What up with that?
■ More than $106 million reportedly was bet in New Jersey on the NCAA Tournament, more than three times what was bet on the Super Bowl.
■ Do all NBA teams play the same way, or does it just seem that way?
■ Did you see where Kyrie is shooting 42 percent in the playoffs, down 7 percent from the regular season?
■ If you've seen one punk rocker, you've just about seen them all.
■ "Beyond Broadway Joe: The Super Bowl Team That Changed Football,'' by Bob Lederer, is a very good book about a very good era.
■ QUIZ ANSWER: Paul Pierce (24,021), Larry Bird (21,791), Robert Parish (18,245) and Kevin McHale (17,335).
■ "Avengers: Endgame'' made $1.2 billion in its opening weekend, the biggest ever.
■ ESPN is doing a documentary on Felipe Lopez. Raise your hand if you know who he is, Bunky.
■ Books over TV shows, and it's not even close.
■ Beto O'Rourke is a former punk rocker? Perfect.
■ I don't know how we did it, Bunky, but we all seemed to survive before anyone ever heard of Twitter.
■ One of the rumors floating around is that Kevin Durant will play for the Knicks next year.
■ Another? Kyrie will, too.
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May 5, 2019 15:17:30 GMT -5
Post by pcdad on May 5, 2019 15:17:30 GMT -5
Bill, if one is college basketball fan, one certainly has heard of Felipe Lopez. On his college signing press conference he donned a headdress and gave a RedMan whoop as signed with St. John's University. How many high school basketball players have been on the cover of Sports Illustrated? Perhaps you can Make it one of your quiz questions.
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Post by thefriarman on May 7, 2019 8:07:45 GMT -5
Put a fork in the Celtics tomorrow night and the end of Kyrie's career in Boston....
Danny will have some big work to do, hope his heart is up to the it...
Meanwhile, the Bruins play the Whalers...oops...I mean the Hurricanes for the chance to go to the Stanley Cup Finals...
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Post by dex on May 8, 2019 8:17:14 GMT -5
Bye-rie Irving
Hopefully he's the Knicks problem now
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Bunky
May 11, 2019 7:51:23 GMT -5
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COMMENTARY Celtic Pride took a beating this year BILL REYNOLDS
Picture FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH:
■ Bye, bye Celtics. And the worst part? It wasn't even close. Not only did the Bucks beat them in five games, they embarrassed them. Celtic Pride? Not against the Bucks.
■ The number of batters hit by a pitch in major-league baseball is up for the fourth straight year.
■ The Sox already have called up seven pitchers from the minor leagues.
■ Sports betting in Rhode Island is now expected to bring in $15 million, half of what was projected.
■ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Who was the first baseball player to have his number retired? (Answer near the bottom of the column.)
■ LINE OF THE WEEK is from the great Phil Mushnick in the New York Post: Seems pitcher Dave Righetti was visited on the mound by manager Lou Piniella, who asked for the ball: “Lou, I don't have the ball. It's over the fence.”
■ The audience for TV news is aging faster than I am.
■ Duke freshman Zion Williamson will be the top pick in the NBA Draft, and it’s not even close.
■ Is WPRO still “the station that reaches the beaches?” ■ And is bunting a lost art in baseball, or does it just seem that way?
■ Elbow problems for David Price?
■ Few things separate the generations more than music.
■ There's no truth to the rumor that the Celtics were so bad that the Original Celtics, up there in Basketball Heaven, had tears in their eyes.
■ Even Johnny Most was trashing them.
■ Raise your hand if you ever thought “vaping'' was going to be the next big thing.
■ Only in sports and beauty pageants are your 30s considered old.
■ Phil Mickelson has committed to play in Connecticut's Travelers Championship, which will be held from June 17-23 at TPC River Hjghlands in Cromwell.
■ I never thought I'd live long enough to know what “non-binary'' means, Bunky.
■ There were very few stories any more dramatic in Red Sox history than that of Tony Conigliaro.
■ I'm not real sure you can be a truly effective guard anymore in basketball if you can't make a 3-point shot.
■ “Final Rounds: A Father, A Son, The Golf Journey of a Lifetime,” by James Dodson, is a wonderful little book.
■ I'm not sure anyone ever had sweeter swing than Fred Lynn.
■ Is there anything in sports any harder than hitting a baseball?
■ In my next life I'm coming back as a golfer.
■ Enough of guys guarding me.
■ Speaking of guarding, what would the Pats do with TB12 if football players had to play both ways?
■ “Elevated: The Global Rise of the N.B.A.,” by the staff of the New York Times and edited by Harvey Araton, is a virtual month to month history of the NBA.
■ Remember when there were no signs in Fenway Park except for The Jimmy Fund?
■ Those days are “gone, baby, gone.''
■ Now it's a virtual signboard. Who said things get better?
■ Why don't we just admit that we lost “The War On Drugs'' a long time ago, and just beg for mercy?
■ QUIZ ANSWER: The Yankees' Lou Gehrig, No. 4, in 1939.
■ A new book: “LeBron Inc.: The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete” by Brian Windhorst, is well worth it.
■ There were an amazing 75 3-pointers taken between the Celtics and the Bucks the other night.
■ The line's too close? You think?
■ Has there ever been a worse spring for baseball around here?
■ There's no truth to the rumor that the guy you saw at the bus station the other morning was Kyrie Irving.
■ And all the buses were headed out of town.
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Bunky
May 18, 2019 5:44:31 GMT -5
Post by dex on May 18, 2019 5:44:31 GMT -5
COMMENTARY Kyrie made it difficult for everyone BILL REYNOLDS
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH:
■ Has it played out for Kyrie Irving in Boston? Sure seems to be. Or as Mark Murphy recently wrote in the Boston Herald: “To the end, Irving made it all about him and, intentionally or not, undermined the product.” Ouch. For all his great ability, Irving always has been a basketball diva, someone who always has been in the center of his own spotlight. Uber-talented? No doubt. Difficult? His history says yes. Or Yin and Yang in the same uniform. This always has been the scouting report on Irving, the price teams pay for his vast talent. In short, it's a complex world. Even in the NBA.
■ You can make the case that the NBA has more superstars known to the general public than any other sport.
■ Do all the NBA teams seem to play the same way or does it just seem that way?
■ The Celtics are still better with Kyrie than without him.
■ If you see spring one of these days in your travels, Bunky, pass the word.
■ Memo from the “Clueless Department:” Did you see where the White House last week welcomed “The Red Socks” to Washington?
■ Jordan Spieth hasn't won a tournament since 2017, and has played in 13 tournaments this year without a top-20 finish.
■ QUIZ OF THE WEEK: Who had the most points ever in a single game against the Celtics? (Answer near the bottom of the column.)
■ LINE OF THE WEEK comes from UMass Lowell Weather Center meteorologist David Coe, who says “New England winter is now from December to April. Blame Global Warming.”
■ LINE OF THE WEEK II is this classic from the famed actress Doris Day, who died this week at age 97: “The more I study human beings, the more I love animals.”
■ LINE OF THE WEEK III is another classic: “If the product is free, you’re what’s for sale.”
■ When the Warriors get it going, they're still the biggest treat in basketball.
■ And Steph Curry still could pass for a junior in high school.
■ There's no truth to the rumor that a couple of more years of this nonsense and “spring” is officially off the calendar.
■ Or that the new state slogan will be: “Rhode Island: The No-Spring State.”
■ Or that if you look up “disaster” in the dictionary, there is a team picture of the Jets.
■ And the Celtics as the backup.
■ Al Horford is due to make $30 million next season? What would Bill Russell make in today's basketball world?
■ Red Socks?
■ Suffolk Downs, the East Boston racetrack that opened in 1935, is closing next month.
■ Yeah, he's a physical freak, but Zion Williamson is going to have to expand his game if he wants to be a great pro.
■ Back to Horford for a second. He's a good player, not a great one.
■ Fox is saying that its new focus is on programming almost entirely on live events, like news and sports.
■ Raise your hand if you're shocked, Bunky.
■ The Cavaliers, who have just hired 66-year-old John Beilein as their new head coach, have had six previous head coaches since 2009.
■ African Americans comprised 7.7 percent of Opening Day rosters in the major leagues this year, down from a peak of 18.7 in 1981.
■ For the first time, the crowns of all three major beauty pageants — Miss America, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA — are held by African-American women.
■ The best thing about golf? No one guards you.
■ The worst thing? There's no one to blame when you stink.
■ QUIZ ANSWER: Elgin Baylor of the Lakers had 64 points against the Celtics on Nov. 8, 1959.
■ Three words to Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, who says he's going to run for president: president of what?
■ Fox also is saying it's moving big-time into sports gambling.
■ Raise your hand if you're shocked, Bunky, for legalized sports gambling is going to be a tide no one can turn back.
■ You can almost bet on it.
■ Red Socks?
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May 22, 2019 10:31:16 GMT -5
Post by pcdad on May 22, 2019 10:31:16 GMT -5
Elgin Baylor! Played better on one good leg than most with two good ones. I loved Elgin Baylor in his waning years as I did Oscar Robinson. Saw so many of the immortals play on the downward slope of their careers. Especially 1. The Mick and 2. The Say Hey Kid...
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Bunky
May 22, 2019 15:26:01 GMT -5
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Post by dex on May 22, 2019 15:26:01 GMT -5
Well said Daddy-O
I've got a bunch of years on you so I saw all those guys in their prime.
The ONE I missed was Joltin Joe DiMaggio...too young to ever see him play
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May 23, 2019 17:06:37 GMT -5
Post by pcdad on May 23, 2019 17:06:37 GMT -5
Let me Romanticize him for you Dex:
1951 WS an aging Yankee Clipper hobbled by bone spurs was late calling a fly ball to centerfield. A rookie outfielder was coached by Stengel to get to any ball in the area that Joe may not be able field. By Joe waiting until the last moment to call off the kid racing to catch the ball, avoiding a sudden collision with the Great, the rookie's spike caught in the outfield drain tearing up his knee and landing him in Lenox Hill Hospital.
Joe had his own torn up knee from the Pacific Coast League days but his greatness was immortalized by Ernest Hemingway in The Old Man in the Sea
He was good to Marilyn after the marriage ended. Give the man credit for his devotion to her.
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