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Post by Peter - Boston Red Sox on Jan 27, 2017 18:28:39 GMT -5
A young Ryne Sandberg thumps 2 homers. In a battle of two future hall of famers, Sandberg brought the Wrigley crowd to its feet with a lead off home run to tie the game at nine. The joy at Wrigley seemed to be short-lived as the Cardinals plated two runs in the top of the 10th. Reality set in when Sutter retired the first two Cub batters in the bottom half of the inning. But then Dernier walked to bring Sandberg and his five RBI to the plate. He was having a career day, but asking him to hit another home run off of Sutter—the Mariano Rivera of his time—was perhaps too much.
Amazingly, it happened. Instead of just reaching base to keep the inning alive, Sandberg’s two-run home run tied the game at 11. What followed were loud cheers and pandemonium from the Cubs faithful and stunned silence and shock from Cardinals players and fans. Sandberg’s heroics opened the door for bench player Dave Owen. With the bases loaded and no outs in the bottom of the 11th, Owen delivered a game-winning, pinch-hit single to bring home Leon Durham and give the Cubs an unbelievable 12-11 triumph.
Sandberg finished the game 5 for 6 with 2 home runs and seven RBI.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2017 20:05:23 GMT -5
No bat-flip? No show-boating? Different times, different times. Good stuff, thank you for posting.
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Post by BlueJaysGM_Fin on Jan 27, 2017 21:25:50 GMT -5
No bat-flip? No show-boating? Different times, different times. Good stuff, thank you for posting. Ryne Sandberg would never be confused with a player who would bat-flip. Sandberg prescribed to the theory you must show respect as a ballplayer on and off the field. Of course, if you wanted epic bat-flips, Reggie Jackson would be a guy you could GIF over and over. lol articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-08-01/sports/0508010173_1_bases-respect-jackie-robinsonThe reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way. That I played the game the way it was supposed to be played. I don't know about that. But I do know this. I had too much respect for the game to play it any other way. And if there is a single reason I am here today it is because of one word: respect. I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. The game fit me because it was all about doing things right. If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen. That's what I love most about the game. How a groundout to second with a man on second and nobody out was a great thing. Respect. I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose--my hero growing up--and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo. I understood that. My parents, Durant and Elizabeth, who are no longer with us, understood that. My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine. My dad always said, "Keep your nose clean, your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open because you might learn something." I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager and never, ever your uniform. Make a great play? Act like you've done it before. Get a big hit? Look for the third-base coach and get ready to run the bases. Hit a home run? Put your head down, drop the bat and run around the bases.
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Post by Sean_RedsGM on Jan 27, 2017 21:47:27 GMT -5
Big Sandberg fan as a kid, even though he was a Cub. Hard to not love watching him play!
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Post by Wilson_DodgersGM on Jan 27, 2017 21:50:15 GMT -5
I 💘 batflips
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2017 22:28:03 GMT -5
I loved Sandberg and Mark Grace as a kid. I enjoyed playing Super Batters Up from 1992 on SNES with these rosters!
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Post by Texas Rangers on Jan 27, 2017 23:28:26 GMT -5
Loved Ryno as a kid. So I'm not knocking him, but just pointing out that he learned how to keep his mouth shut from...Pete Rose? A blabbering idiot who obnoxiously chased a record no one gives a fuck about, spending 8 years as roughly a replacement level player to do so, then goes around calling himself Hit King? A man who put himself over the team he managed, disrespecting fundamentally the game he adores?
Huh. Ryne Sandberg played with such class, I'd put this in the category of "those who can't do, teach."
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Post by Wilson_DodgersGM on Jan 28, 2017 1:20:01 GMT -5
There should be a list where managers put down their real team affiliation. I assume we all aren't managing our favorite teams. I'm a lifelong Cubs fan and frankly don't give a flying fuck about the Dodgers but I am proud to be their general manager. I do love watching Kershaw and Seager though. Gotta respect that kind of talent when you see it. I'll find a stream for any game Kershaw pitches if I can.
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Post by David_ExposGM on Jan 28, 2017 8:46:01 GMT -5
This is NOT meant to be a slight, in any way, to Sandberg or any other Hall of Famer that has gone before. * And, I am a Jays fan!Sandberg - 1985-1997 Hall of Fame career lifetime earnings - $24M. Jose Bautista - Age 36, after turning down a QO and not finding any luck in free agency and certainly (with all due respect) having vastly diminished outfield skills (HOPE he can still produce OBP and HR at the plate) just signed a 1-year $18M contract, with a mutual option for $17M the next and a third, vesting year for $20M. That would bring his lifetime earnings 2004-2019 to $85M. Bautista (and frankly only one of MANY examples) will, if the contract plays out, at age 38 in one season, make almost as much as a Hall of Famer...lifetime. * That's why you flip bats!
Totally unfair and arbitrary comparison, over effectively two different eras, I admit!
I'd even take one off the button from Rougned Odor for that kinda coin!!!
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Post by Peter - Boston Red Sox on Jan 28, 2017 9:41:44 GMT -5
And here is one from "The Hawk" Andre Dawson when he hit #47 on 9/27/1987. Another class act. Hits number 47 and just trots around the bases like it's just another homer. Isn't it funny how skinny the ballplayers were from this era? I mean there were big guys like Canseco and Big Mac and others but lots of the greats were in shape skinny guys. Compare them to today's baseball player and it's just mind blowing. Guys these days are just huge!
Sorry to take up the board with random home run clips from 2 of my favorite Cubs but as I am sitting here with a cup of hot coco this morning I am watching youtube clips and longing for the day when my PBL Cubbies will put it all together and start winning games again.
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Post by Peter - Boston Red Sox on Jan 28, 2017 9:42:55 GMT -5
THOU SHALT NOT TAKE EXTRA BASES ON THE HAWK!
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Post by BlueJaysGM_Fin on Jan 28, 2017 12:15:39 GMT -5
THOU SHALT NOT TAKE EXTRA BASES ON THE HAWK! A little bit of irony here, as Dawson, the former Expo, throws out a current Expo? On the topic of bat-flips, how players act on the field these days, it is a different era to be sure. If a batter attempted to "show-up" a pitcher with any histrionics in a previous era, they were liable to receive an "up and in" reminder at their next at-bat by the pitcher. Pitchers threw inside back in the day. Bob Gibson, and pitchers like him, "owned" the inside of the plate. Well, times sure have changed. Pitchers don't throw inside very much anymore. When they do, batters get "upset" and charge the mound. They are "sensitive" to a ball getting anywhere near them. They feel they "own" the inside of the plate. All the more, i suppose, to respect hitters like Aaron, Mays, Killebrew, Schmidt etc. They got their hacks in a time when pitchers didn't take jack from a batter. That said, this isn't a rant to suggest today's players are not worthy of their stats and stature in the game. Just pointing out, most likely an obvious point, that eras change and with them so does the "etiquette" in the game. I will leave with this. Whatever era you prefer, it's baseball and thank god for that!
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Post by Sean_RedsGM on Jan 28, 2017 12:34:23 GMT -5
Even if pitchers wanted to throw inside or at a batter to move them off the plate, they almost immediately get ejected or both benches get warned.
It's sad that this isn't allowed anymore. There's a difference in going head hunting and what guys like Gibson did. This video series with Gibson and Jackson is pretty interesting.
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Post by BlueJaysGM_Fin on Jan 28, 2017 12:57:54 GMT -5
Consequences occur when a pitcher gets too close to the batter. Throwing behind the batter? They will have none of it, it seems.
Case in point, witness this video from 1991. As a long-time Jays fan, this punch heard around the world was all the rage when it occurred. "Black Jack" McDowell threw behind Whiten and then hi-jinks ensued.
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Post by Peter - Boston Red Sox on Jan 28, 2017 13:47:23 GMT -5
Best hi-jinks was when Nolan Ryan threw at Robin Ventura. I'm sure you all have seen that one. 50 year old Ryan just beat the snot out of a much younger Ventura.
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