Seeing that you had video in the #60 article, I thought to myself "Man, I would love to see Joe work with Jomboy on a couple of these." I love that Jomboy guy, and I think he could learn a lot from you, Joe.
Joe - Somebody has probably asked - but is there a chance that the Baseball 100 will be published as a book? I read them all and found your stories very well written and engaging. I loved them all.
Hello, I gotta chime in here. I am a big fan of CCR and Fogerty's music. I also play in an active* rock'n'roll band and have played in others in the past. My bands have put out LPs/CDs/etc of original material, toured across the USA in too many horrible foul-smelling cargo vans to mention (in other words, you've never heard of us and don't ask), and one of them once recorded a version of a home run song for the Minnesota Twins unfortunate Byung-ho Park experiment. I mention these things in the way one shows receipts. To put it another way: I love baseball, and I make and play rock'n'roll music.
"Centerfield" has horrible lyrics. Just stupid, thrown-together, blindly-toss-every-cliché-in-blender, ridiculous! The music's allright (Fogerty rarely messes that up) but yeesh, jeez. Ugh. Joe, I'm with you.
*well, not really ACTIVE active since mid-March ya know
Should The Athletic ever do some manner of market survey of Joe's readers, I would think one of the required questions would be: In the last 12 months, how many times have you thought, “It’s been a while since I’ve looked at Dale Murphy’s Baseball Reference page.”?
A. Once
B. A couple of times
C. A couple of times a month
D. A couple of times a week
E. A couple of times a day
I'm not sure what the answers would tell the surveyor, but, it would say something.
On the poscast, you mentioned watching Lego masters with the family - my kids and I love it. I keep hoping one of your random weekly posts will cover your thoughts on the show now that we have seen the finale and everyone's ridiculous talent on there. Just loved the show.
I loved the baseball 100 and will definitely buy the book. If you make changes to any of the players that's fine, but don't touch Phil Niekro.... it's perfect the way it is.
Who knows what Joe is going to do, but some of my possibly not-as-obvious nominations for the 60 moments, in no particular order
1. Obstruction call in the World Series. Some of the best umpiring ever.
2. Snydergaard's ejection -- love the interaction between Hallion and Terry Collins
3. Earl Weaver's classic ejection on a balk in the first inning
4. David Freese's triple (more awesome than the walk-off homer)
5. Luis Gonzales bloops a single off Mariano - Yankees seemed invincible for years until that moment.
6. Rangers-Blue Jays, 7th inning. Wackiest of all time
7. Hosmer runs home in the 9th
8. Bartolo's home run. Probably should be ranked #1 of all time.
9. Pick a Sweet Lou meltdown.
10. Randy Johnson vs. John Kruk in the All Star Game (Larry Walker a few years later almost as great)
11. Sid Bream is safe.
12. Kent Hrbek grabs Ron Gant, lifts him off the base, and gets the out. (my favorite baseball sign held by fans of all time is "Hrbek ... buy a vowel, dude!")
13. Tom Lawless's bat flip. No bat flip will ever top it.
14. Nolan Ryan vs. Robin Ventura.
15. The Pine Tar home run.
16. Sparky smiling at Kirk Gibson: "He don't wanna walk you!"
I'm inexplicably interested in the ranking of consonants, but never use Twitter and so have no idea how to actually find the list in the morass that is that website. I clicked on the link but could find very few actual rankings. Is there an easy way to see the list in order?
I love the Ultimate Dad Joke finalist (“moos-paper”) I think it might be the Willie Mays Ruth of Dad Jokes
I look forward to the 60 Moments list, Joe. I love most anything you write.
Hey, if Nik orJohn A or other Statheads are reading this, I was thinking it would be fun and wildly unscientific to calculate the highest career WAR or most Hall of Farmers for a given All Star game to try and determine the greatest five year period in baseball history (my guess is either 55-60 or 60-65). Get cracking, number crunchers!
Seeing that you had video in the #60 article, I thought to myself "Man, I would love to see Joe work with Jomboy on a couple of these." I love that Jomboy guy, and I think he could learn a lot from you, Joe.
Joe - Somebody has probably asked - but is there a chance that the Baseball 100 will be published as a book? I read them all and found your stories very well written and engaging. I loved them all.
Hello, I gotta chime in here. I am a big fan of CCR and Fogerty's music. I also play in an active* rock'n'roll band and have played in others in the past. My bands have put out LPs/CDs/etc of original material, toured across the USA in too many horrible foul-smelling cargo vans to mention (in other words, you've never heard of us and don't ask), and one of them once recorded a version of a home run song for the Minnesota Twins unfortunate Byung-ho Park experiment. I mention these things in the way one shows receipts. To put it another way: I love baseball, and I make and play rock'n'roll music.
"Centerfield" has horrible lyrics. Just stupid, thrown-together, blindly-toss-every-cliché-in-blender, ridiculous! The music's allright (Fogerty rarely messes that up) but yeesh, jeez. Ugh. Joe, I'm with you.
*well, not really ACTIVE active since mid-March ya know
Billy Martin has a bunch of great moments in baseball. Then again, maybe those are some of the worst moments.
Should The Athletic ever do some manner of market survey of Joe's readers, I would think one of the required questions would be: In the last 12 months, how many times have you thought, “It’s been a while since I’ve looked at Dale Murphy’s Baseball Reference page.”?
A. Once
B. A couple of times
C. A couple of times a month
D. A couple of times a week
E. A couple of times a day
I'm not sure what the answers would tell the surveyor, but, it would say something.
The Baseball (Moments) 60?
On the poscast, you mentioned watching Lego masters with the family - my kids and I love it. I keep hoping one of your random weekly posts will cover your thoughts on the show now that we have seen the finale and everyone's ridiculous talent on there. Just loved the show.
seconded, and so bummed the season is over! I was trying to stream the original British series but seems the rights are limited to the UK..
Very excited about the 60 moments!
I loved the baseball 100 and will definitely buy the book. If you make changes to any of the players that's fine, but don't touch Phil Niekro.... it's perfect the way it is.
Who knows what Joe is going to do, but some of my possibly not-as-obvious nominations for the 60 moments, in no particular order
1. Obstruction call in the World Series. Some of the best umpiring ever.
2. Snydergaard's ejection -- love the interaction between Hallion and Terry Collins
3. Earl Weaver's classic ejection on a balk in the first inning
4. David Freese's triple (more awesome than the walk-off homer)
5. Luis Gonzales bloops a single off Mariano - Yankees seemed invincible for years until that moment.
6. Rangers-Blue Jays, 7th inning. Wackiest of all time
7. Hosmer runs home in the 9th
8. Bartolo's home run. Probably should be ranked #1 of all time.
9. Pick a Sweet Lou meltdown.
10. Randy Johnson vs. John Kruk in the All Star Game (Larry Walker a few years later almost as great)
11. Sid Bream is safe.
12. Kent Hrbek grabs Ron Gant, lifts him off the base, and gets the out. (my favorite baseball sign held by fans of all time is "Hrbek ... buy a vowel, dude!")
13. Tom Lawless's bat flip. No bat flip will ever top it.
14. Nolan Ryan vs. Robin Ventura.
15. The Pine Tar home run.
16. Sparky smiling at Kirk Gibson: "He don't wanna walk you!"
Best moment ever for over the hill guys like myself - Sid (“Hey, that’s ME out there!!”) Bream
I'm inexplicably interested in the ranking of consonants, but never use Twitter and so have no idea how to actually find the list in the morass that is that website. I clicked on the link but could find very few actual rankings. Is there an easy way to see the list in order?
I love the Ultimate Dad Joke finalist (“moos-paper”) I think it might be the Willie Mays Ruth of Dad Jokes
I look forward to the 60 Moments list, Joe. I love most anything you write.
Hey, if Nik orJohn A or other Statheads are reading this, I was thinking it would be fun and wildly unscientific to calculate the highest career WAR or most Hall of Farmers for a given All Star game to try and determine the greatest five year period in baseball history (my guess is either 55-60 or 60-65). Get cracking, number crunchers!
That might be difficult because I think there are far more all-stars now than there were in the 50's and 60's. But, it would sure be fun.
Are you ready to be called names because you ranked Dave Roberts stolen base too low?
Centerfield is great. That is all.
It's got kind of a nice vibe (probably from a not really all that knowledgeable baseball perspective)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq3hEMUeBGQ
Instead of 60, how about using baseball numbers and writing four columns a week for nine weeks or nine columns month for four months?