OldTimer’s Dugout - Off Topic Thread

Isn’t that the guy who loves Kirby Smart?
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Boy, what a long week. Glad today is here, and anxious for this game to arrive. Not anxious about the game, as I think we are in a win-win situation. Yes, I hope we win and know we can win, but I rarely predict because sports is sports. We all know how that can work out at times. Hoping each of you has a restful, peaceful day and can enjoy what appears to be some beautiful weather around us. GO VOLS!
 
On November 5 in Baseball History...
  • 1940 - Former Washington hurler Walter Johnson, who won four-hundred sixteen games for the Senators, goes down in defeat as a Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland.

  • 1968 - Denny McLain, a thirty-one game winner for the American League champion Tigers, is the unanimous choice as American League Most Valuable Player.

  • 1976 - Baltimore's Jim Palmer, who led the American League with twenty-two wins and three-hundred fifteen innings pitched, easily outpoints Detroit's sensational rookie Mark Fidrych to win the American League Cy Young Award.

  • 1996 - Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as American League Rookie of the Year. He is the eighth Yankees player to win the award and the fifth unanimous choice in American League history.

  • 1997 - In an unprecedented move, Davey Johnson resigns the same day he is named American League Manager of the Year. Despite the fact that Johnson ended Baltimore's 13-year playoff drought in 1996 and led the Orioles to the league's best record in 1997, a dispute over $10,500 in fines to second baseman Roberto Alomar ends Johnson's reign in Baltimore. Johnson directed the fines to be paid to a charity where his wife, Susan, served as managing director. Cantankerous Orioles owner Peter Angelos is upset with the way the matter is handled and Johnson resigns.
 
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Boy, what a long week. Glad today is here, and anxious for this game to arrive. Not anxious about the game, as I think we are in a win-win situation. Yes, I hope we win and know we can win, but I rarely predict because sports is sports. We all know how that can work out at times. Hoping each of you has a restful, peaceful day and can enjoy what appears to be some beautiful weather around us. GO VOLS!
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