OldTimer’s Dugout - Off Topic Thread

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#19,354
VolPack22 said:
People can’t handle facts so they decide to make it personal instead of making a logical counter argument. I guess I just know how to piss people off 🤷‍♂️
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Getting pissed off over a discussion about Tahj Boyd is silly, but it’s hard to argue that the time period he was at Clemson swung momentum toward their program and siphoned our mojo.
 
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On December 4 in Baseball History...​
  • 1914 - Walter Johnson accepts an advance from the Federal League Chicago Whales. Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court, claiming he has paid Johnson for the reserve option in his contract. Griffith travels to Coffeyville, Kansas, to persuade his franchise player that the option clause is legal and binding. Whales manager Joe Tinker says he has signed Johnson for $16,000 and given him a $6,000 bonus. Two weeks later Griffith signs Johnson for three years at $12,500 per year and returns the bonus to the Feds.

  • 1927 - Pirates outfielder Paul Waner noses out Frank Frisch for NL MVP honors, 72 points to 66. Rogers Hornsby, Cubs pitcher Charlie Root, and Giants shortstop Travis Jackson also score high.

  • 1964 - Baseball approves a free agent draft. At their winter meetings in Houston, the minor-league and major-league organizations establish a system, basically like that of professional football, which will take effect in January 1965 and be held every four months thereafter. Choices will be exercised by clubs in inverse order of their previous year's standing. Draftees must be included in their club's forty-man roster or be susceptible to claim at the waiver price the following season.

  • 1965 - Masanori Murakami, 4-1 in 1965, does not renew his contract with the Giants, signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000.

  • 1976 - Aurelio Rodriguez becomes the first AL third baseman since 1959 to beat out Brooks Robinson for the Gold Glove Award. Other newcomers on The Sporting News fielding team include third baseman Mike Schmidt, outfielder Dwight Evans, and catcher Jim Sundberg. That trio will combine to win 24 Gold Gloves.

  • 1988 - The Orioles trade veteran first baseman Eddie Murray to the Dodgers for pitchers Ken Howell and Brian Holton and infield prospect Juan Bell.

  • 1997 - The White Sox hire Jerry Manuel as manager, replacing Terry Bevington, who was fired after a disappointing season. The Marlins, who have jettisoned their best and highest-paid stars weeks after winning the World Series, now lose their bench coach in Manuel. It is his first major-league managing job.
 
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VolPack22 said:
Do you remember Rod Smart?
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I vaguely remember the story being that it was supposed to say “THEY HATE ME” across the nameplate, but the manufacturer messed up or it wouldn’t fit or something like that, so it turned out as “HE HATE ME”
But now the narrative seems to have changed and Rod Smart claims it wa supposed to say that all along.
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cobbwebb0710 said:
I vaguely remember the story being that it was supposed to say “THEY HATE ME” across the nameplate, but the manufacturer messed up or it wouldn’t fit or something like that, so it turned out as “HE HATE ME”
But now the narrative seems to have changed and Rod Smart claims it wa supposed to say that all along.
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That’s what I thought I had read years ago. He must have just went along with it for marketing.
 
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