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Yes, 1992. My sophomore year in college. I remember seeing his name all over the agate and highlights. Read more

Greenwell-Rice-Yaz-Williams. Last in a great legacy of Red Sox left fielders. Read more

In the clubhouse after this disaster Dad and I went up to Dempsey to ask him about pitching as a position player. He laughed it off, but he did say that when he was with the Dodgers he saw Jeff Hamilton take it too seriously and ruin his arm, and his career.

Jeff Hamilton as a pitcher here: https://www.baseball-referen Read more

Also saw Rick Dempsey mop up in relief of a Sox-Brewers blowout in Milwaukee. Dad and I were sitting in comp seating behind home plate, the so-called “wives section.” Dempsey jammed Ellis Burks into a groundout at short for the second out of the inning. “If the Brewers can get 10 runs in the bottom of the ninth, Read more

On the trip where I met Greenwell we saw the Pirates in Three Rivers. I brought home the day’s give-out, a plastic Iron City mug.

On the same baseball trip, Orlando Merced hit a grand slam in the July 4 game in Chicago in 1991, which I watched from the press box. The WGN booth was to the left. When the inning ended, Read more

Mike Greenwell is my favorite player of all time. I met him when I was 17, credentialed for pre-game field access, at Fenway Park, June 26, 1991.

On Sept. 2, 1996, he drove in all 9 runs in a 9-8 victory over Seattle, setting a major league record for most runs driven in by a player accounting for all of his team’s

Jose Lind whiffed on a ground ball begetting the Braves’ bottom-of-the-ninth comeback in the 1992 NLCS. Read more

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A smooth listen. Never interfered on the action. Enberg, Bud Collins, great company in the living room for a great decade of tennis.

Deploying that punchline for a real-life instance must have been like waiting on the world’s slowest curveball and then smashing it a mile. +1 bat flip. Read more

I got about a zillion trade offers for James Brown last night. Dude was a steal in the sixth round. Read more

I can guarantee you his family doesn’t give a crap for the unexpressed (to them) “support” of nameless people in a commenting thread, and I don’t even know them.

As for not being a dick, does that include virtue signaling? Read more

Can you let me know his address so I can send him and his family a card, too? Read more

Straight to the bottom of the sympathy pile. Read more

Somebody ask ol’ Jerry how he feels about all the dang women in that Star Wars movie. Read more

Ancient commenting alumnus Arkansas Fred had the TOTD on this subject.
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I tap out right after that. I’ve never actually listened to the whole thing. Read more