I think one of the many things that sunk that movie was really negative publicity about Domino Harvey (including her death) before the film was released, that ended up making it seem even phonier than many of these "based on a true stories" films are.

And that's just the start of the list…..

They'll never have trouble finding good bowling shoes?

Well, what did we expect?

Just the one jug?

Yeah, but at least Trout is a great player- the Angels beat us with a team whose second-best player was David F. Eckstein……

And the irony is, his bat was never as good as they thought it was and was basically gone by the 1986 World Series- had he been able to hit worth a damn, they would have won easily.

Same way that, had Steinbrenner owned the Indians instead of the Yankees, he would have been forced to sell the team and been banned for life from the sport either in the 1970s or the early 1990s- the Yankees seem to be given a different set of rules than every other team in the sport…..

And it doesn't seem to help that a lot of other folk have responded to all this by either quitting the site or by not coming by nearly as much as they used to- it seems that a lot of the great folk who knew their stuff aren't around anymore, while too many of the folk we have left would be too damn satisfied with us…

It didn't help that that was a team built almost entirely around pitching- the team in the aggregate was severely below-average with their hitting (even Sosa had a mediocre year in those terms), and the way in which they crashed and burned is ultimately no surprise.

Quite- I follow the team that probably has the best broadcast team in the majors, and I'd never listen to them if I'm actually attending the game.

And the 2003 Marlins were more John Henry's team anyway…..

Same way the Cardinals in 1985 chose to throw a fit over Denkinger rather than try to win Game 7 (and, at any rate, it's more Darrell Porter's fault they lost Game 6 anyway)……

And the fact that he was the one giving Ivan Rodriguez his "vitamin" shots, which is why Ivan thanked him at Cooperstown yesterday.

And it's not like most of the country was watching all of their games on WGN for thirty-five or so years…..

Hell, there's a chance that, given the timing and other events, that his not doing so is why there's still a Chicago Tribune at the moment….

*Watches as Rockies and Astros somehow end up playing each other in the World Series, resulting in one that no one manages to win*

Or Puerto Rico, or the baseball stadium on Disney grounds, or at Ft. Bragg, or Sacramento, or Portland, or even Jersey City…..

No, not the one with a lifetime WAA severely below replacement level- the other one with the lifetime WAA severely below replacement level.

Right- the last Cubs pennant pre-2016 was in 1945, and it was World Series that they hadn't won since 1908.