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InkStainedWretch
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re: Dan Orlovsky thinks Ty was more impressive than Mendoza
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 3/1/26 at 6:28 pm to BamaBravesPackers
How long are you going to continue in this foxhole by yourself? Ty is gone, he’s not coming back, there’s probably not a damn thing we could have done to keep him, we have who we have, accept it and move on or go find someone else to root for.
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re: Kaydyn Proctor’s Jimmy John Experience
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 3/1/26 at 6:26 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze
Let’s see, Proctor is 6-7 and weighs God only knows how much, I would imagine he’s rather recognizable.
re: Dan Orlovsky thinks Ty was more impressive than Mendoza
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/27/26 at 1:56 pm to RollTide4Ever
Orlovsky was a pretty stout college quarterback and was a backup quarterback in the NFL for a dozen years so he’s actually worn a jock, read a playbook, watched film for real, been in position meetings, thrown touchdown passes and had his arse sacked. He’s not just a media talking head. He also takes his role with ESPN seriously, supposedly he watches and breaks down film of six or seven full NFL games, start to finish, before he does their NFL show on Monday morning.
I would think his credibility is quite strong and that if he says something it carries some weight. Of course people can be wrong, James Spann was wrong about the weather in Trussville and Pinson yesterday.
I would think his credibility is quite strong and that if he says something it carries some weight. Of course people can be wrong, James Spann was wrong about the weather in Trussville and Pinson yesterday.
re: Dan Orlovsky thinks Ty was more impressive than Mendoza
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/27/26 at 1:46 pm to tide06
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Its fair not to like the air raid, but it is the dominant system in football right now at both levels. Its also important to note we had one of the worst OLs from a run blocking perspective in modern program history. So were you wanting them to run power with a broken QB and an OL that they inherited that was so bad we could barely get people bent backwards against Eastern Illinois? Once a defense realizes you cant throw deep, you cant run and your QB is hurt there's really only so much you can do schematically to generate yardage and we were doing it at an elite level pre-injury (FEI top 10 offense with no run game post Missouri). As someone who watched us in person almost all year and at two road games we just weren't that talented offensively once Jam got hurt and RW had his mental and physical issues. There was no one they had to double team, nothing they needed to worry about on the ground and they could cheat safeties up because we couldn't stretch the field. None of that is coaching, its players who were injured or limited relative to past teams.
This, but the “run the damn bawll, Pawll” crowd will never hear it because it’s in their very DNA as to how they view the sport.
re: NFL Network: Ty was battling severe gastritis at the end of last season
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/24/26 at 11:59 am to Amarillo Tide
What is it they say about 800-pound gorillas?
re: NFL Network: Ty was battling severe gastritis at the end of last season
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/24/26 at 11:58 am to YStar
We’re also talking about illness not the injuries everyone gets.
re: NFL Network: Ty was battling severe gastritis at the end of last season
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/24/26 at 10:59 am to YStar
I don’t think we’re talking about his season-long issues, I think we are talking about his physical condition at the end of the season when we were in the running for the big trophy.
re: NFL Network: Ty was battling severe gastritis at the end of last season
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/24/26 at 10:58 am to Diego Ricardo
Diego I admire and enormously respect his guts and grit and toughness for going down with his sword in his hand but with what was at stake should he have been allowed to?
re: NFL Network: Ty was battling severe gastritis at the end of last season
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/24/26 at 10:55 am to VaBamaMan
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im more annoyed with his doctors. a healthy kid losing 25 lbs from a medication, and not switching him to another, is medical malpractice.
This …
re: NFL Network: Ty was battling severe gastritis at the end of last season
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/24/26 at 10:30 am to _Hurricane_
I support DeBoer but I question him and, significantly, the medical staff on this.
NFL Network: Ty was battling severe gastritis at the end of last season
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/24/26 at 10:06 am
From pills that he was taking for his back issues. His weight was in the 190s for the Rose Bowl. He’s put the weight back on and is feeling good as the combine approaches.
I’ve had gastritis. It is an utter bitch. It amazes me how anyone could think about playing football with a severe case of it. And I have to inquire, why was he asked to.
I’ve had gastritis. It is an utter bitch. It amazes me how anyone could think about playing football with a severe case of it. And I have to inquire, why was he asked to.
re: RIP: Pirates’ legend Bill Mazeroski
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/22/26 at 1:19 pm to 308
Mantle’s head fake to get back to the base and miss that tag attempt is IMO one of the greatest base running moments in MLB history.
re: RIP: Pirates’ legend Bill Mazeroski
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/22/26 at 12:30 pm to EphesianArmor
I love me some Whitey but coming into the 1960 World Series Whitey was 4-3 with a 3.22 ERA in the postseason. Good but not earth shattering. And he was 0-1 in three games with an ERA over 4 in the Yankees’ most recent Series appearance in 1958 against Milwaukee. His postseason performance up until then was not going to get him into Cooperstown.
In fact, aside from 1960 and 1961 when he dominated in the postseason and set a scoreless innings streak, he was under .500 in the postseason, 6-8, with a 3.47 ERA. His entire postseason legend is based on two World Series, 1960 and 1961.
If it had been me, I’d have started Whitey. But I think Stengel’s move was defensible. And I think the retroactive griping about the move from his players is out of bitterness over them thinking they lost to an inferior opponent, thinking those three lopsided victories meant more than they did and the fact that this those Yankee teams never thought they needed a manager anyway, and Mantle in particular always resented Stengel because Stengel thought Mantle could have been the GOAT but pissed away his talent.
And if we want to get revisionist, if Bob Friend who was the Pirates’ No. 2 pitcher that year and actually had some better numbers in some way than Law hadn’t completely s**t the bed every time Murtaugh handed him the ball, it might not have gone seven games.
In fact, aside from 1960 and 1961 when he dominated in the postseason and set a scoreless innings streak, he was under .500 in the postseason, 6-8, with a 3.47 ERA. His entire postseason legend is based on two World Series, 1960 and 1961.
If it had been me, I’d have started Whitey. But I think Stengel’s move was defensible. And I think the retroactive griping about the move from his players is out of bitterness over them thinking they lost to an inferior opponent, thinking those three lopsided victories meant more than they did and the fact that this those Yankee teams never thought they needed a manager anyway, and Mantle in particular always resented Stengel because Stengel thought Mantle could have been the GOAT but pissed away his talent.
And if we want to get revisionist, if Bob Friend who was the Pirates’ No. 2 pitcher that year and actually had some better numbers in some way than Law hadn’t completely s**t the bed every time Murtaugh handed him the ball, it might not have gone seven games.
re: RIP: Pirates’ legend Bill Mazeroski
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/22/26 at 6:37 am to SCLibertarian
Fantastic movie
re: RIP: Pirates’ legend Bill Mazeroski
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/22/26 at 6:16 am to 308
Murtaugh’s problem is that there were a lot of stops and starts to his career, he either had high blood pressure or some type of heart issue that kept manifesting itself and he’d have to step away. He always looked a lot older than he was and he was only 59 when he died of a stroke. But he was a damn good manager.
Re>1960, the Pirates don’t get enough credit, that was a damn good team and if you compare them to the Yankees position by position that matchup looks a lot closer. The view of the Yankees being some kind of juggernaut that year is based solely on the 3 lopsided Series wins, the truth is they pulled the pennant out of their asses by having a hot last two weeks and Baltimore, which seemed to have it locked up, fell apart in the last two weeks. I think it was Stengel’s weakest pennant winner.
Mantle was just always frustrated by that Series because he played so well, hit some monster home runs.
Trivia note; In that Game 7 there were 19 runs scored and four other home runs hit aside from Maz’s, but not one batter on either team struck out. That’s amazing given the way the game is played today.
Re>1960, the Pirates don’t get enough credit, that was a damn good team and if you compare them to the Yankees position by position that matchup looks a lot closer. The view of the Yankees being some kind of juggernaut that year is based solely on the 3 lopsided Series wins, the truth is they pulled the pennant out of their asses by having a hot last two weeks and Baltimore, which seemed to have it locked up, fell apart in the last two weeks. I think it was Stengel’s weakest pennant winner.
Mantle was just always frustrated by that Series because he played so well, hit some monster home runs.
Trivia note; In that Game 7 there were 19 runs scored and four other home runs hit aside from Maz’s, but not one batter on either team struck out. That’s amazing given the way the game is played today.
re: RIP: Pirates’ legend Bill Mazeroski
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/21/26 at 10:19 pm to 308
Art Ditmar who started Game 1 for the Yankees in 1960 had better numbers than Ford that year, and Ford had stunk it up in his most recent postseason appearances. Whitey was great but if he’d been run over by a bus the night before the World Series that year he’d have never seen Cooperstown, the stretch that got him in the Hall of Fame started in this Series. I’ve always thought Stengel got a bad rap over that.
But Danny Murtaugh … who IMO should be in Cooperstown … outmanaged him badly in other ways in that Series. He basically conceded those three games where the Yankees pounded them once they got out of hand, just stopped contesting them and left the weaker pitchers on his staff out there to take a beating. Stengel supposedly was running up and down the dugout during those games telling his players to pour it on, because the Yankee owners had told him before the Series that they weren’t going to bring him back and he was hoping a lopsided Yankee victory would change their minds.
But Murtaugh knew those games counted no more or less than a 1-0 game, he knew it was a seven-game Series and he was playing the long game in a very ballsy fashion.
But Danny Murtaugh … who IMO should be in Cooperstown … outmanaged him badly in other ways in that Series. He basically conceded those three games where the Yankees pounded them once they got out of hand, just stopped contesting them and left the weaker pitchers on his staff out there to take a beating. Stengel supposedly was running up and down the dugout during those games telling his players to pour it on, because the Yankee owners had told him before the Series that they weren’t going to bring him back and he was hoping a lopsided Yankee victory would change their minds.
But Murtaugh knew those games counted no more or less than a 1-0 game, he knew it was a seven-game Series and he was playing the long game in a very ballsy fashion.
re: Angels’ owner: ‘Winning not a top five priority for fans’
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/21/26 at 3:00 pm to SCLibertarian
Sitting here watching the Dodgers just beat the dogs**t out of the Angels in a spring training game. 9-0 in the second inning.
re: Angels’ owner: ‘Winning not a top five priority for fans’
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/21/26 at 1:56 pm to SoFla Tideroller
In fairness, at that point Maris actually didn’t break a record because the commissioner at the time, Ford Frick, who was a buddy of Babe Ruth and later admitted that he did it to protect Ruth’s record, had ruled that Maris would have to break the record within 154 games for it to count. (That was the first year of the 162-game schedule.)
It was stupidity and reprehensible and ultimately it was fixed, but I have always felt that was the reason for the slim crowd that day. The Yankees had a 10-game road trip before their final five games at home. Maris hit No. 59 in Baltimore in Game 154 but could go no farther in that number of games. The Yankees were drawing huge crowds before then, and they didn’t draw caca in those last five games, they only drew 7,500 for Game 159, the night after Maris hit No. 60.
It was stupidity and reprehensible and ultimately it was fixed, but I have always felt that was the reason for the slim crowd that day. The Yankees had a 10-game road trip before their final five games at home. Maris hit No. 59 in Baltimore in Game 154 but could go no farther in that number of games. The Yankees were drawing huge crowds before then, and they didn’t draw caca in those last five games, they only drew 7,500 for Game 159, the night after Maris hit No. 60.
re: Who is the oldest living MLB player that you remember?
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/21/26 at 10:49 am to LSUGrad9295
Sanford Braun Koufax, still my favorite pitcher who ever lived.
re: Angels’ owner: ‘Winning not a top five priority for fans’
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/21/26 at 10:48 am to GaryGator
I’m an old fart so I used to go see the Braves a LOT in 1970s. Many of those teams sucked horribly but even if the odds were against them winning you still had reasons to go like the Aaron chase, a chance to see another ATG in Phil Niekro or a chance to maybe see Evans or Horner hit one out. Or a chance to see some of the legends of that era from other teams. I had the first Chik-fil-A sandwich I ever ate at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, thought I had died and gone to poultry heaven because there wasn’t a Chik-fil-A on every other corner back then.
re: Angels’ owner: ‘Winning not a top five priority for fans’
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 2/21/26 at 10:20 am to 91TIGER
I love that cap, I have a couple of them, but my favorite is the original one they wore when they came into the AL as an expansion team, with a halo on top.
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