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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
This is what boggles my mind so bad .... each star has a planet that rotates around it.
Yet, they say we are alone. We are the only life w/intelligence out in this vast universe?
I bet you can't find Waldo in this enormous small frame picture of 2 billion stars.
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Have you been to the FF lately? I wouldn’t necessarily call it “intelligence!”
 
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knoxvol52 said:
I can smell it in the air first Preseason NFL game is Thursday Browns vs Jets HOF Game!!!!!!
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Gonna be a pretty good year for some of my pro teams.
The Braves are going to win the World Series.
The Mets will sign Shohei.
And...
The Dolphins will hoist the Lombardi trophy as Super Bowl champs!!
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knoxvol52 said:
@chuckiepoo wish list for Astros at trade deadline !!!!
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They better push for Hader, because the Rangers landed 2 aces in Scherzer and Montgomery and that’s going to be a tight race!
I don’t think Verlander is up for grabs any longer, unless it’s just an absolutely too good to be true offer.
 
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On July 31 in Baseball History...​
  • 1897 - Brooklyn pitcher Brickyard Kennedy becomes so upset at umpire Hank O'Day that he throws the ball at him. The baseball misses O'Day, who has his back turned, allowing George Davis to score the winning run for the Giants.

  • 1909 - For the second time in two years, Bill Burns has a no-hitter broken up with two outs in the ninth, when Washington's Otis Clymer singles. Burns and the White Sox win 1-0. Burns is the only pitcher to suffer this fate twice until Dave Stieb of Toronto does on September 24 and 30, 1988.

  • 1930 - Lou Gehrig drove in eight runs with a grand slam and two doubles as the New York Yankees outlasted the Boston Red Sox 14-13.

  • 1932 - Cleveland's Municipal Stadium opened and Lefty Grove and the Philadelphia A's beat the Indians 1-0 before 76,979 fans.

  • 1935 - The Reds oversell their night game, and 30,000 jam in for the match against the Cards. Kitty Burke, a female fan, slips under the ropes around the infield and grabs a bat. Paul Deanlobs a pitch and she grounds out. St. Louis manager Frankie Frisch demands it count as an at bat.

  • 1935 - Two American League pitchers, Wes Ferrell and Mel Harder, each hit two home runs in a game.

  • 1954 - Joe Adcock hit four home runs and a double to lead the Milwaukee Braves to a 15-7 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Adcock's eighteen total bases is a new Major League record.

  • 1961 - The All-Star Game ended in a 1-1 tie at Fenway Park as heavy rain halted play. It is the only tie in All-Star history.

  • 1962 - The National League rejects Commissioner Ford Frick's proposal for interleague play in 1963.

  • 1972 - Dick Allen becomes the first player since 1950, and the seventh in history, to hit two inside-the-park homers in a game. Chicago beats the Twins 8-1.

  • 1978 - Pete Rose singles off Phil Niekro to extend his streak to forty-four games, as the Reds edge the Braves 3-2. Rose ties Willie Keeler's 81-year-old National League record, achieved when foul balls didn't count as strikes.

  • 1981 - The second baseball strike ended after forty-two days.

  • 1983 - Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, George Kell, and Walter Alston are inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York, bringing the total number of inductees to 184.

  • 1988 - Jose Canseco belts two home runs in the A's 6-2 win over Seattle to become the first player to hit thirty or more home runs in each of his first three Major League seasons.

  • 1989 - The Twins trade American League Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to the Mets for five players, including pitchers Rick Aguilera, David West and minor leaguer Kevin Tapani. Viola is the first Cy Young winner to be traded during the following season.

  • 1997 - The trading deadline makes for a busy day. One big name goes (Mark McGwire to St. Louis); one stays put (Ivan Rodriguez signs a five-year, $42 million contract with Texas); the Mariners trade away two of their best prospects (Jose Cruz, Jr., Jason Varitek) for three mediocre relievers (Mike Timlin, Paul Spoljaric, Heathcliff Slocumb); and a couple of veteran pitchers find their way to Cleveland (John Smiley, Jeff Juden). But no trade is as shocking as the one pulled off by the Giants, who get Wilson Alvarez, Roberto Hernandez, and Danny Darwin for six minor leaguers.

  • 1998 - The annual trading deadline results in several significant deals, but none is bigger than the last-second swap between Houston and Seattle. The Astros get Randy Johnson shortly before midnight in return for minor leaguers John Halama, Freddy Garcia and Carlos Guillen. Two days later, Johnson wins his Astros debut against Pittsburgh.

Baseball Birthdays on July 31... ​


Baseball Deaths on July 31... ​

 
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