this year has been brutal, ugh
This scene haunted me as a kid
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I love this quote from Donald Sutherland in āAnimal Houseā:
āDonāt write this down, but I find Milton probably as boring as you find Milton. Mrs. Milton found him boring, too. Heās a little bit long-winded, he doesnāt translate well into our generation, and his jokes are terrible. But that doesnāt relieve you of your responsibility for this material. Now, Iām waiting for reports from some of youā¦ Listen, Iām not joking, this is my job!ā
It perfectly encapsulated the hopelessness of teaching the students at Faber College.
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Memorable in every single thing he ever did.
Itās odd, but I remember him most as the super-creepy arsonist in Backdraft.
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The original Hawkeye Pierce, with the original Frank Burns played by Robert Duvall.
Weāve been spoiled by iconic actors.
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Not to mention Elliot Gould as Trapper and Tom Skerritt as Duke.
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Some who agree with you:
āOutside of Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays is the greatest all-around baseball player of my time. Certainly, heās been the most daring. Mays would steal home, a tough play and one in which youāve got a great chance to look bad. Willie didnāt even think of that, heād just go. Nine times out of ten, heād make it.ā ā Mickey Mantle
āThey invented the All-Star Game for Willie Mays.ā ā Ted Williams
āHopefully, they can say, āThere goes the best baseball player in the world.ā I honestly believe I did everything in baseball that a baseball player can do, and I did it with love.ā ā Willie Mays
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Farewell message from Pac-12 Networks
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Interesting piece about Willie Maysā life and place in history. This is just an excerpt. I urge all baseball fans here to read the whole thing:
On an October night in 1918, one month after Babe Ruth led the Boston Red Sox to a World Series victory, a successful New York stockbroker named Charles Stoneham came home with some unusual news for his 15-year-old son Horace. āHorrie,ā he said, āI bought you a ball club.ā
The team was the New York Giants, a prestigious franchise even then, and when Charles Stoneham died in 1936, Horace became the youngest owner in baseball. He promptly set his sights on winning the World Series, which was an elusive quest, and not just for the Giants. New York City had three major league teams then, and one of them, the Yankees, played in the World Series nearly every year (and would win it in 12 of the next 16 seasons).
Center fielder was the sportās glamor position in those years, and the Yankeesā dynasty featured successive Hall of Fame legends in center field ā Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle. But on June 21, 1950 ā 74 years ago ā Horace Stoneham made a bold move to change the equation. His gambit came in the form of a Western Union telegram to the Memphis offices of African American entrepreneur Tom Hayes.
A successful mortician, Hayes owned many businesses, including the Birmingham Black Barons, a storied team in the Negro American League. The telegram from Stoneham promised Tom Hayes $10,000 for the contract of his youngest star, along with a $4,000 signing bonus for the teenager. His name was Willie Howard Mays Jr.
Willie Mays, the electrifying āSay Hey Kidā whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseballās greatest and most beloved players, poses at the Polo Grounds in New York, June 9, 1951. (AP)
He was the son of Willie Howard Mays Sr., known as āCatā Mays on the sandlot ballfields of Alabama. Willie Jr. was called āBuckā by his family and friends. His mother was a high school track star and basketball player. Willie averaged 20 points a game on the hardwood and was a talented quarterback on his high school football team. But his destiny was as a center fielder, the position then being defined by the great DiMaggioā¦
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Hereās a third to consider: Ty Cobb
Hereās a third player to consider. Ty Cobb.
Played 24 years holding the all-time best lifetime batting average of .366
During his career he held over 90 baseball records. At least two, career BA and career batting titles are still in the books today.
11 batting titles, including 9 in a row
897 stolen bases, including home 54 times. On four occasions, he stole 2nd, 3rd and home on consecutive pitches.
In 1909 he led the league with 9 HRās (during the ādead ballā era). All of them were inside the parkāers.
He was a āsmall ballā advocate. In 1925 he declared his sister could hit HRās in Yankee Stadiums RF short porch. To prove HR were not that difficult, he announced the next two games heād become a āpower hitterā like Babe Ruth. Against the St Louis Browns, in game one, he went 6 for 6 with 3 HR, and in game 2 went 3 for 4 with 2 HR.
First player inducted into HOF
Hit lifetime .391 vs Walter Johnson in 161 AB
Hit .300 or better in 23 consecutive seasons. Like Gwynn, the only year he didnāt touch .300 was his rookie year.
Won the triple crown in 1909
Would have to go 0 for 2,541 to drop to .300 BA
In 1926 struck out twice in 273 PA
Has a WAR of 151.5
Over 4,100 hits and over 1,900 RBI
897 stolen bases putting him 4th all-time behind Henderson, Brock and Hamilton
OPS .944 and OPS+ .168 which is 68 percent above player average accounting for outside influences like league and park.
1X MVP
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Cobb also famously said the only player heād pay to watch was Willie Mays.
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Despite having a reputation for some rather rough play and harsh statements, was a phenomenal player.
Extraordinary story, especially considering the timeline and the cast of characters and where in the nation they were.
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Yes, legendary. Itās hard to compare players from different eras. Iām not sure where to draw that line, however.
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Ah one of the joys of stats in baseball. At least a superficial comparison can be made. But weāve all talked about that in the past.
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Reminds me of this scene from Field of Dreams.
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I donāt.
MLB was a much smaller league way back, the Latin players and African American and Asian players werenāt playing, yet, jet travel hadnāt expanded the leagues, the US population was smaller.
But they were still great, great players, did what it took to be great within the game in that era. Would they have been pushed to become even greater in todayās game?
Who knows? Just appreciate what they did, when they did it.
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I endorse this approach.
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Utah putting campus cultural centers on ice
While I generally try to avoid anything R&P-related in non R&P threads, this one pisses me off.
Because heaven forbid students in minority groups have support and a safe place to gather. How awful that would be!
Cowardly nonsense by both the legislature (for passing the bill in the first place) and by the U.
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In fairness the Uās hands are completely tied by the morons in the Legislature. The work will continue just the nomenclature will change and some of the processes will be altered and titles will change.
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