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2019-Whenever Misc. Grab Bag Thread

For the first time since May 7, 1957, a Major League Baseball player hit a home run on both the first and last pitch his team saw in the game. Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong led off the game with a first pitch homer and hit a walkoff to win it. That’s a span of 146,111 regular and post-season games. It was also his 8th career game with 10 or more total bases, the most by any player under 24 since 1900.


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andyt said:
For the first time since May 7, 1957, a Major League Baseball player hit a home run on both the first and last pitch his team saw in the game. Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong led off the game with a first pitch homer and hit a walkoff to win it. That’s a span of 146,111 regular and post-season games. It was also his 8th career game with 10 or more total bases, the most by any player under 24 since 1900.


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As a Cards fan, I loathe the Cubs but PCA is an entertaining little jerk to watch
 
HeyKurtz said:
It’s painful as a Mets fan to watch PCA’s success.

With that said, I thorough enjoyed this performance from one of our exciting young players last night…

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Benge reminds Padres you don't run on him. Twice. In the same inning.

NEW YORK -- Did the Padres read the scouting reports on Mets right fielder Carson Benge?
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Yeah. The Mets seemed to get spooked by a shoulder injury and just bailed on a real gem. They don’t even still have the two guys they got for him in the deal either.
 
Yeah, it was a different era for sure. Rasmussen took $9K and whatever he could put on his credit card (back then maybe $2500) and figured … hey, I’ll buy time on a satellite and basically do a regional sports network in Connecticut. Sure, dude. Except else was really doing that yet. Ted Turner had only got his station on cable networks in 1978 and Rasmussen was very much following Turner’s wake … except he was doing it on a smaller scale and with a sports focus. The fact that it ever worked at all is about half a miracle given the iron grip that the networks had on sports rights, but what they didn’t have was shelf space for games that were of mostly regional interest.

Any readers (or audio book listeners, I guess) interested in a really good book on the history of ESPN from the earliest days can check out Those Guys Have All the Fun by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller from 2010 or 2011. It’s an entertaining read. There’s a ton of info on the early, early years.
 
jeffbear said:
Yeah, it was a different era for sure. Rasmussen took $9K and whatever he could put on his credit card (back then maybe $2500) and figured … hey, I’ll buy time on a satellite and basically do a regional sports network in Connecticut. Sure, dude. Except else was really doing that yet. Ted Turner had only got his station on cable networks in 1978 and Rasmussen was very much following Turner’s wake … except he was doing it on a smaller scale and with a sports focus. The fact that it ever worked at all is about half a miracle given the iron grip that the networks had on sports rights, but what they didn’t have was shelf space for games that were of mostly regional interest.

Any readers (or audio book listeners, I guess) interested in a really good book on the history of ESPN from the earliest days can check out Those Guys Have All the Fun by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller from 2010 or 2011. It’s an entertaining read. There’s a ton of info on the early, early years.
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I read that book a long time ago. Well worth the read. I also read Linda Cohn’s book “Cohn-Head” from 2008. She was on Richard Deitsch’s sports media podcast with Neil Everett a few weeks ago. Both very bitter, Cohn for essentially being forced into retirement, Everett for being replaced on the Portland Trail Blazers broadcasts with no notice. He found out because a friend called him about an article in Forbes that noted the Blzers were replacing their broadcast teams.
 
It appears that the LIV Golf Tour will make its farewell appearance in Indianapolis this weekend. When the Saudi Public Investment Fund pulled the plug earlier this year, it was probably a foregone conclusion. But now Jon Raymond has reportedly agreed to terms for rejoining the PGA Tour and I’m sure others will follow. But the price is steep, similar to how Brooks Koepka got back on tour. He has to pay a $25 million fine, he has to play his way into Signature events, a public apology tour, etc.


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