--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: DBY00039 Date: 07/26/96 From: VIRGINIA BLALOCK Time: 11:26pm \/To: JIM LEMAY (Read 2 times) Subj: All-star (?) game -=> Quoting Jim Lemay to Pamela Tabar <=- >"Best of the NL and then everybody else" Game? I didn't miss the fact that >least 4 of the NL pitchers were Braves -- signed, shivering horrors in >Cleveland :) JL> I guess it all depends on your point of view. I can think of very few JL> things more pleasurable than watching the American League take a JL> beating. Hehehe.. me, too! Well, they do say good pitching beats good hitting... ... Here's a partial score: Cleveland 10 --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: The Wizards Realm 1-713-9467315 1:106/7315 (1:106/7315) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: DBY00040 Date: 07/26/96 From: VIRGINIA BLALOCK Time: 11:26pm \/To: JAMES DUNLOP (Read 2 times) Subj: All-Star Picks -=> Quoting James Dunlop to LEONARD KEEFER <=- MB> Chipper Jones is better than Ken Caminiti??? LK> Yep, in the All Star Game, Cammy hit a home run in his first at LK> bat and Chipper hit... Hmmmmmm. JD> Oh, wow. I guess since Caminiti hit a home run in the All-Star game, JD> and Barry Bonds didn't, Caminiti must be a better ball player than JD> Bonds. AH! But if you count the home run contest... Bonds is the best player of all! :) ... Damn! My family tree was just wood-chipped. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: The Wizards Realm 1-713-9467315 1:106/7315 (1:106/7315) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: DBY00041 Date: 07/26/96 From: VIRGINIA BLALOCK Time: 11:28pm \/To: BRUCE MARSHALL (Read 2 times) Subj: All-Star Picks -=> Quoting Bruce Marshall to James Dunlop <=- JD> Grissom's another overrated player. For a leadoff hitter to have an OBP JD> of .336 is terrible. BM> Like I sai, to me he is one of the best, if not the best defensive CF BM> in baseball (yes, even above JR.). But, like I said, defensive CF. BM> I also beleive that Grisso was the reason that the Braves were able to BM> go from contenders to champions. I don't know.. Grissom was pretty weak for a good part of the season. He did help them in post season, but I don't know how much he helped actually get them there.. ... Drive defensively -- buy a tank. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: The Wizards Realm 1-713-9467315 1:106/7315 (1:106/7315) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: DBY00042 Date: 07/26/96 From: VIRGINIA BLALOCK Time: 11:38pm \/To: ISRAEL VELEZ (Read 2 times) Subj: Mets suck again -=> Quoting Israel Velez to Virginia Blalock <=- VB> The Mets counted on some pitching that isn't quite there yet. But VB> they are a good young club that will be better in the next few years. VB> That Alex Ochoa is something else so far, huh? IV> Hey. It's true. I don't think Paul wilson should've been up here this IV> early. This is true for lots of young pitchers right now. With expansion and so forth, pitchers that really should be in AAA are pitching in the majors. ... >=<)))('> something fish going on --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: The Wizards Realm 1-713-9467315 1:106/7315 (1:106/7315) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: DBY00043 Date: 07/26/96 From: VIRGINIA BLALOCK Time: 11:39pm \/To: ED GRINNELL (Read 2 times) Subj: MLB Shedules -=> Quoting Ed Grinnell to Virginia Blalock <=- VB> Fans who only support the team when they're winning bug me. The fans VB> that also bug me are the ones who think a player is only as good as VB> his last game. EG> I agree with you on that one. How would some of those idiots like it EG> if a player were to go to their work place while they were having a EG> problem with their job and boo them? Gad, I expect a player to have an EG> extended slump (regular) or several bad starts because that's the way EG> it goes when you play so many games. It's hard to get 162 great games EG> from a player so you have to expect a bad game or two or eight..:-) Hehe.. or twelve! :) Doug Drabek is getting this sort of thing from the fans this year. If he has a bad or even so-so outing, they are all over him. But heck, if Doug Drabek is our fifth starter, I will take him over the fifth starters on many other teams! ... Don't try this at home....we are PROFESSIONAL idiots. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: The Wizards Realm 1-713-9467315 1:106/7315 (1:106/7315) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: DBY00044 Date: 07/26/96 From: VIRGINIA BLALOCK Time: 11:44pm \/To: ED GRINNELL (Read 2 times) Subj: Ozzie Smith, an All-star!?!?!? -=> Quoting Ed Grinnell to Scott Zolnoski <=- SZ> Am I the only one REALLY bothered by Ozzie Smith's selection to this EG> I sure didn't mind it. Look, Ozzie EARNED his spot by being the best EG> that I've ever seen and if the NL wants to give him one last accolade EG> before he retires, who cares. I agree! His ovation was the best thing about the whole game besides the NL winning.. ... A penny saved is a dollar earned. The rest is the IRS's. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: The Wizards Realm 1-713-9467315 1:106/7315 (1:106/7315) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: DBY00045 Date: 07/26/96 From: VIRGINIA BLALOCK Time: 11:47pm \/To: ALAN HESS (Read 2 times) Subj: why the Orioles suck -=> Quoting Alan Hess to all <=- AH> 1. Can't hit in the clutch. AH> 2. Can't win at home. AH> 3. Can't pitch in the clutch. AH> 4. Have no heart. And here we all were thinking Davy Johnson would save them. ... It is the dead wood that holds up the tree. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: The Wizards Realm 1-713-9467315 1:106/7315 (1:106/7315) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: DBY00046 Date: 07/24/96 From: ALLAN KAUFMAN Time: 01:38pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Not in world series yet -=> Quoting Tim Repine to Allan Kaufman <=- MB> Other than the Houston Astros, are there any ML teams that have MB> never appeared in a World Series? NL Expos arlins Rockies -> -> AL Mariners Brewers Rangers Angels TR> Not true...The Brewers were in the 82 series vs. St. Louis!! I TR> forgot. :( -> Was that the year of the split season due to strike. TR> Nope....That was the year before...The Yankees and the TR> Dodgers,.... I think the Brewers were in the 1982 World Series. ... I call things as I see them; If I didn't see them, I make them up! --- OLMS 2.53p+ [EJCCF667] * Origin: Computer Castle / 20 Lines / Newton, NH / 603-382-0338 (1:324/127) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: DBY00047 Date: 07/27/96 From: STEVE SMITH Time: 05:22pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Red Sox Red Sox rule and that is all there is too it anyone else think the same talk to me anyone who thinks otherwise just plain sux! --- * Origin: Computer Castle / 20 Lines / Newton, NH / 603-382-0338 (1:324/127) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: DBY00048 Date: 07/26/96 From: DAMIAN STAMM Time: 01:04pm \/To: DON MCQUILLAN (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Phillies Down Slide Don Mcquillan said this about Phillies Down Slide to All..... DM> What are the Phillie's waiting... True - dump Inky, Santiago and Zeile and get fresh blook in here. DM> Jim Fregosi should have been out of the dugout DM> before the ALL-STAR break...Heck, Bobby Cox picked him Will never happen as long as Lee Thomas is here. Thomas and Fregosi are best pals. DM> as NL Dugout Coach out of Pitty (Plus Philly was the Game Site) It is tradition that the home coach is a part of the coaching staff. DM> I'm already thinking about Eagles season... DM> and July isn't even done yet... I'm already thinking of HOCKEY. That's how bad it is. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: From the Sports Desk of Damian Stamm (1:273/406)