--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: E4K00002 Date: 04/14/97 From: VIRGINIA BLALOCK Time: 07:59am \/To: RAYMOND MARTIN (Read 1 times) Subj: Dome Raymond Martin was chewing the fat with Virginia Blalock about Dome on 30 Mar 97 00:19: > And now Bud is leaving.. But I bet the new stadium has at least some > version of that old scoreboard in it.. RM> No, the old scoreboard was sold at an auction... Yes, but I was talking about making a new scoreboard that may resemble the old one.. ... Christmas Movies in Times Square: Yes, Yes, Oh God Yes, Virginia. --- 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: E4K00003 Date: 04/14/97 From: VIRGINIA BLALOCK Time: 08:01am \/To: MARK YODER (Read 1 times) Subj: Opening Day! Mark Yoder was chewing the fat with All about Opening Day! on 01 Apr 97 17:33: MY> On a side note, it is GREAT to see that Cubbies pitching is already in MY> September form. Jeez... a long year awaits. Hey, Cubbies fans are gonna have a LONG year if they don't get over the Mendoza line in team batting average.. 17 errors in the first two weeks? Yikes. Hope the Cubbies do better! ... Test subjects? Hey! Sign me up! --- 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: E4K00004 Date: 04/16/97 From: RAYMOND MARTIN Time: 12:22am \/To: VIRGINIA BLALOCK (Read 1 times) Subj: Astros... *** Quoting Virginia Blalock to Raymond Martin dated 04-14-97 *** > Yeah, they were looking sharp until this first road trip. Let's hope > they play better on the road! > > > ... Go Astros! They got a split in St. Louis...that helps... --- T.A.G. 2.7 Standard * Origin: Grasshopper Nest__TAG Beta Site__USR v.e (1:106/1119) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: E4K00005 Date: 04/16/97 From: RAYMOND MARTIN Time: 12:24am \/To: VIRGINIA BLALOCK (Read 1 times) Subj: Dome *** Quoting Virginia Blalock to Raymond Martin dated 04-14-97 *** > > version of that old scoreboard in it.. > > RM> No, the old scoreboard was sold at an auction... > > Yes, but I was talking about making a new scoreboard that may > resemble the old one.. > > > > ... Christmas Movies in Times Square: Yes, Yes, Oh God Yes, Virginia. They will have something like that in the new stadium.... --- T.A.G. 2.7 Standard * Origin: Grasshopper Nest__TAG Beta Site__USR v.e (1:106/1119) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: E4K00006 Date: 04/15/97 From: ALAN HESS Time: 10:27pm \/To: VIRGINIA BLALOCK (Read 1 times) Subj: Opening Day! Whilst masticating on , Virginia Blalock (1:106/7315) wrote to Mark Yoder: VB> Hey, Cubbies fans are gonna have a LONG year if they don't get VB> over the Mendoza line in team batting average.. 17 errors in the VB> first two weeks? Yikes. Hope the Cubbies do better! At least let them lose 22 straight first. :-) *adh* (I remember 1988) --- Msged 4.10 * Origin: Nerve Center - Source of the SPINAL_INJURY echo! (1:261/1000) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: E4K00007 Date: 04/13/97 From: JEFFREY BELL Time: 09:18pm \/To: ANDREW SERRANO (Read 1 times) Subj: Team's nicknames .-=Andrew Serrano said to Jeffrey Bell on 03-24-97=-. > JB> Yeah, I heard Luis Polinia for > JB>Detroit and California> signed with Tampa Bay for next year... > He also played for the Yankees, Orioles, and Braves. I didn't know > he signed with them, thanks for telling me. .-=End of Quote=-. It's a law that every major league team has to have Luis Polonia at least for 1 year...at this rate, by the year 2005, he should have played for all 30 major league teams... --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: Rosie's Place! 2400-28800bps; 24hrs; (313) 941-0865 (1:2410/520) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: E4K00008 Date: 04/13/97 From: JEFFREY BELL Time: 09:20pm \/To: RON KENNEDY (Read 1 times) Subj: Brave's .-=Ron Kennedy said to All on 03-27-97=-. > Well it seems that the Braves have decided that they will trade away > players that cost alot so as to sign their pitchers next year who > become free agents. > Now i know it cost alot of money to sign their pitchers but can they > win it on pitching alone. And what will they do with Lofton after this > season can they also afford to sign him too? > Well as for me i'm a yankees fan and am hoping for another year like > last but you know it hard to repeat after losing some quality pitchers > like they did. > .-=End of Quote=-. Chipper is there for anohter few years, that right there is the franchise player...McGriff still can hit...Klesko has great potential, same with Javy...that's a 3-4-5-6 that's fairly good, in fact, better then most teams...Andy Jones should be a star in years to come...they prolly won't go after lofton tho... --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: Rosie's Place! 2400-28800bps; 24hrs; (313) 941-0865 (1:2410/520) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: E4K00009 Date: 04/13/97 From: JEFFREY BELL Time: 09:21pm \/To: GEORGE HARPER (Read 1 times) Subj: Season Countdown .-=George Harper said to Jeffrey Bell on 03-27-97=-. > JB> I'm excited to see the first ever time when a team gets no-hit 3 > straig > JB> tiems, when the Braves come and visit > the > JB> tigers...that should be oh so fun... > > Who's gonna get the no-hitters? Maddux, Smoltz, and who else? .-=End of Quote=-. The best left handed pitcher in baseball in the 90's, Tommy Glavine... --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: Rosie's Place! 2400-28800bps; 24hrs; (313) 941-0865 (1:2410/520) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: E4K00010 Date: 04/13/97 From: JEFFREY BELL Time: 09:22pm \/To: ED GRINNELL (Read 1 times) Subj: Laugh of the week .-=Ed Grinnell said to All on 03-29-97=-. > You'd have thought that Atlanta and Cleveland had traded away 5 or 6 > future hall of famers with all the talk about "The biggest trade in 10 > years" or "The biggest trade in the '90s" that was being circulated. > Ok, it WAS a big trade but it wasn't any bigger than anything that's > happened in the last 5 years, let alone, 10. Hal Bodley pointed out > several in his column yesterday and they were some of the ones that I > was thinking about when I first read about how *big* this trade was. > > *!* TrekEd 1.00 > * Origin: Where did you go, Joe Charboneau? (1:170/1701) .-=End of Quote=-. I don't remmeber a trade in the past 10 years that had 3 big name players like this one...the Houston/San Diego trade was big, but I just don't remember a trade of this magnitude.. --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: Rosie's Place! 2400-28800bps; 24hrs; (313) 941-0865 (1:2410/520) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 234 BASEBALL Ref: E4K00011 Date: 04/13/97 From: JEFFREY BELL Time: 09:24pm \/To: MARK YODER (Read 1 times) Subj: Opening Day! .-=Mark Yoder said to All on 04-01-97=-. > On a side note, it is GREAT to see that Cubbies pitching is already in > September form. Jeez... a long year awaits. .-=End of Quote=-. I honestly had the cubbies doing good this year, possibly contending for the central with St. Louis and Houston...but I mean, them schedule makers are cruel, playing Florida and Atlanta for their first 10 games...that's just mean... --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: Rosie's Place! 2400-28800bps; 24hrs; (313) 941-0865 (1:2410/520)