Similarity scores for Bacon.

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The Blue Jays offered Roy Halliday straight up for Gordon Beckham.

At the height of Bacon-Mania, I compared him to Kevin Orie. I took the slings and arrows.

Avg. 162 game season -

Beckham - .239/12/56
Orie - .249/11/59

I declare victory.

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That’s something. The Orie and Zimmer thing. At least he fared better than Gary Scott.

And Lefebvre and Sveum and that's only 10 deep. I'll bet Jim Essian is in there somewhere.

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no fucking way

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Agree. DID. NOT. HAPPEN.

The Jays were probably trying to trick KW and offered some bum named Roy Holiday.

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Herman Franks has to be #18.

Did Quade play in the majors?

I don’t think he or Bruce Kim managed that. But if they did...

I think Doc is on to something. Or on something. Not sure yet.

Kimm played with the Cubs and Sox.

That is right at the beginning my my baseball memories. 2 years later and I’d probably remember.

He was not much of an offensive threat.

Does this help?

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I remember those jerseys. But I was like 5, I think our only tv at the time was a black and white 13” zenith with rabbit ears.

I don't think b&w mattered back then with the Sox.

They didn't get color until Carlton and Tom showed up.

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The Halladay thing is true. You wonder how that could've worked out for the Sox had they done it.

Saw those live. Had the hat.

I dont doubt the Sox wanted Halladay, but I dont believe the Jays offered him straight up for Beckham

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I had about 300 of those cards. Kimm and Dan Dressen. Every single pack.

No, no. That was Minnie Minoso.

My man. Ours had two separate antennae but yours is close enough. Saw a lot of Cubs, DePaul, and MLB Games of the Week watched on that thing.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I can still hear Brickhouse say ‘here comes Herman’ when Franks would waddle out to the mound for a pitching change.

Hey, Hey...

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

I honestly think back in the day I heard more games on radio than I watched in TV. There are days I still prefer baseball on radio.

My parents finally acquiesced to a color tv when they couldn’t get baby sitters anymore without one.

Kinky.

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Lucky bastard. I had a ton of older sisters.

Heard of a bag of balls for a player, but an urn of ashes? That's harsh.

The Stone girls were something.

That would have been a fantastic deal for the Blue Jays since you proclaimed Beckham to be a future HOF'er.

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Rfdc called him Paul Molitor. Terry Boers wouldn't trade him for Adrian Gonzalez.

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That uniform needs the collar cut off.