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Author:  Nas [ Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Bill Walton
:lol: :lol: :lol: Has he ever watched a baseball game.
Author:  Regular Reader [ Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Nas wrote:
:lol: :lol: :lol: Has he ever watched a baseball game.


He still hasn't :alien:
Author:  FavreFan [ Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Nas wrote:
:lol: :lol: :lol: Has he ever watched a baseball game.

He has. It’s schtick but it’s entertaining.
Author:  Nas [ Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
FavreFan wrote:
Nas wrote:
:lol: :lol: :lol: Has he ever watched a baseball game.

He has. It’s schtick but it’s entertaining.


I love it either way.
Author:  Regular Reader [ Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Nas wrote:
FavreFan wrote:
Nas wrote:
:lol: :lol: :lol: Has he ever watched a baseball game.

He has. It’s schtick but it’s entertaining.


I love it either way.


When he asked why Marvin Miller wasn't in the HOF, it should've been apparent to the most dense.
Author:  Regular Reader [ Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
"If the Pilgrims had landed on Laguna Beach, everything east would be wilderness, or a national park. No one would've left"
Author:  Rod [ Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Regular Reader wrote:
Nas wrote:
FavreFan wrote:
Nas wrote:
:lol: :lol: :lol: Has he ever watched a baseball game.

He has. It’s schtick but it’s entertaining.


I love it either way.


When he asked why Marvin Miller wasn't in the HOF, it should've been apparent to the most dense.


It's pretty silly that he's not. Probably the fourth or fifth most important guy in baseball history.
Author:  Regular Reader [ Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Nas wrote:
FavreFan wrote:
Nas wrote:
:lol: :lol: :lol: Has he ever watched a baseball game.

He has. It’s schtick but it’s entertaining.


I love it either way.


When he asked why Marvin Miller wasn't in the HOF, it should've been apparent to the most dense.


It's pretty silly that he's not. Probably the fourth or fifth most important guy in baseball history.


Wholeheartedly agreed. Maybe the third most important in the last 75 years as well.
Author:  Jaw Breaker [ Sat Aug 17, 2019 12:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
“Eloy...is that like ‘alloy,’ a combination of rare earth minerals that a computer created to be a baseball stud?”

:lol: :lol:
Author:  One Post [ Sun Aug 18, 2019 12:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Nas wrote:
FavreFan wrote:
Nas wrote:
:lol: :lol: :lol: Has he ever watched a baseball game.

He has. It’s schtick but it’s entertaining.


I love it either way.


When he asked why Marvin Miller wasn't in the HOF, it should've been apparent to the most dense.


It's pretty silly that he's not. Probably the fourth or fifth most important guy in baseball history.



I mean isn’t he number 1?
Author:  Nardi [ Sun Aug 18, 2019 9:09 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
One Post wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Nas wrote:
FavreFan wrote:
Nas wrote:
:lol: :lol: :lol: Has he ever watched a baseball game.

He has. It’s schtick but it’s entertaining.


I love it either way.


When he asked why Marvin Miller wasn't in the HOF, it should've been apparent to the most dense.


It's pretty silly that he's not. Probably the fourth or fifth most important guy in baseball history.



I mean isn’t he number 1?

"Miller is important but it wasn't his dick on the chopping block."
-Curt Flood
Author:  Rod [ Sun Aug 18, 2019 10:10 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
One Post wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Nas wrote:
FavreFan wrote:
Nas wrote:
:lol: :lol: :lol: Has he ever watched a baseball game.

He has. It’s schtick but it’s entertaining.


I love it either way.


When he asked why Marvin Miller wasn't in the HOF, it should've been apparent to the most dense.


It's pretty silly that he's not. Probably the fourth or fifth most important guy in baseball history.



I mean isn’t he number 1?



I'd say Alexander Cartwright, Babe Ruth, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and Jackie Robinson are all more important. Maybe Flood is too.
Author:  Nardi [ Sun Aug 18, 2019 10:43 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
What about the first guy to grab the seams and spin it? Pitchers to this day are still dreaming about inventing the pitch of all pitches. Blyleven's curve. Rivera's cutter. And of course guys who didn't spin it. Wilhelm and Wood. And guys who spit on it and scuffed it.

For me it's always been the most fascinating thing about baseball.
Author:  tommy [ Sun Aug 18, 2019 1:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

I'd say Alexander Cartwright, Babe Ruth, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and Jackie Robinson are all more important. Maybe Flood is too.

+ Ban Johnson and Branch Rickey. Maybe they are in the second five.

Edit: And Tyrus.
Author:  Regular Reader [ Sun Aug 18, 2019 5:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
tommy wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

I'd say Alexander Cartwright, Babe Ruth, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and Jackie Robinson are all more important. Maybe Flood is too.

+ Ban Johnson and Branch Rickey. Maybe they are in the second five.

Edit: And Tyrus.


Imo, you can swap Johnson and Rickey in for the potential myth of Cartwright and Landis
Author:  Rod [ Sun Aug 18, 2019 5:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Regular Reader wrote:
tommy wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

I'd say Alexander Cartwright, Babe Ruth, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and Jackie Robinson are all more important. Maybe Flood is too.

+ Ban Johnson and Branch Rickey. Maybe they are in the second five.

Edit: And Tyrus.


Imo, you can swap Johnson and Rickey in for the potential myth of Cartwright and Landis


Doubleday is the myth. Cartwright actually set up the basics of the game we have today
Author:  Regular Reader [ Sun Aug 18, 2019 6:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
tommy wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

I'd say Alexander Cartwright, Babe Ruth, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and Jackie Robinson are all more important. Maybe Flood is too.

+ Ban Johnson and Branch Rickey. Maybe they are in the second five.

Edit: And Tyrus.


Imo, you can swap Johnson and Rickey in for the potential myth of Cartwright and Landis


Doubleday is the myth. Cartwright actually set up the basics of the game we have today


That MLB venerates both of them makes them both look illegitimate in my book. And as embarrassing as Landis.
Author:  good dolphin [ Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:06 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
I know this is the unpopular opinion but I find Walton's announcing to be contrived shit. If those words were coming out of Henry Rollins mouth...well, some would still think it was brilliant but more of us would recognize it for the incoherence that it is. I've never been a fan.

Also, I understand liking a band but you have to be a real douche to let yourself be defined by your fandom. Bill, like most of the hippies proved to be, is a fraud.
Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:10 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
good dolphin wrote:
I know this is the unpopular opinion but I find Walton's announcing to be contrived shit. If those words were coming out of Henry Rollins mouth...well, some would still think it was brilliant but more of us would recognize it for the incoherence that it is. I've never been a fan.

Also, I understand liking a band but you have to be a real douche to let yourself be defined by your fandom. Bill, like most of the hippies proved to be, is a fraud.
Ahem;
FavreFan wrote:
It’s schtick but it’s entertaining.
For once or twice a season, its fine.
Author:  good dolphin [ Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:19 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Frank Coztansa wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
I know this is the unpopular opinion but I find Walton's announcing to be contrived shit. If those words were coming out of Henry Rollins mouth...well, some would still think it was brilliant but more of us would recognize it for the incoherence that it is. I've never been a fan.

Also, I understand liking a band but you have to be a real douche to let yourself be defined by your fandom. Bill, like most of the hippies proved to be, is a fraud.
Ahem;
FavreFan wrote:
It’s schtick but it’s entertaining.
For once or twice a season, its fine.


I agree.

The internet has blowed up with how super awesome Bill Walton was
Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:27 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Because it was entertaining. It was a one off thing, and that makes it great.

He was still better than Ed Farmer.
Author:  good dolphin [ Mon Aug 19, 2019 8:31 am ]
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I hate Ed Farmer with all my heart and soul
Author:  Terry's Peeps [ Mon Aug 19, 2019 9:10 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Yeah as a one-off it was entertaining.

Sox need as many gimmicks as they can get to drum up interest.
Author:  good dolphin [ Mon Aug 19, 2019 9:13 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Terry's Peeps wrote:
Yeah as a one-off it was entertaining.

Sox need as many gimmicks as they can get to drum up interest.


absolutely true. I haven't seen this much national attention in a while
Author:  Nardi [ Mon Aug 19, 2019 9:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Bill Walton
Arizona has a pool. Sox have a shower.
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