National League Wild Card - What Would YOU Do?
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Gerrit Cole was born in the LA area. BUt his dad is from Syracuse and a staunch Yankees fan. Cole went to the 2001 World Series when he was 11. He was photographed with a sign "Yankee fan today tomorrow forever." He went home and forgot about the sign. But his parents kept it. When Cole signed with the Yankees in 2019, his parents pulled out the sign. He was shocked as hell. And did the only thing he could. He took the sign, weathered and battered, to his introductory press conference.
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Gerrit Cole was born in the LA area. BUt his dad is from Syracuse and a staunch Yankees fan. Cole went to the 2001 World Series when he was 11. He was photographed with a sign "Yankee fan today tomorrow forever." He went home and forgot about the sign. But his parents kept it. When Cole signed with the Yankees in 2019, his parents pulled out the sign. He was shocked as hell. And did the only thing he could. He took the sign, weathered and battered, to his introductory press conference.
June 5, 2008: Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 1st round (28th pick) of the 2008 amateur draft, but did not sign.
June 6, 2011: Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1st round (1st pick) of the 2011 amateur draft. Player signed August 15, 2011.
The Yankees wanted to sign him out of high school and were going to give him a 4 million dollar signing bonus...He declined opting to go to UCLA....Hmmm how much of a fan was he really?
His parents wanted him to get a degree in case baseball didnt pan out, which is why he declined the Yankees offer and went to UCLA, where, incidentally, he met his future wife
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And I suspect his dad told him never to root for the Dodgers because they were the same hated Yankees rivals from BrooklynGerrit Cole was born in the LA area. BUt his dad is from Syracuse and a staunch Yankees fan. Cole went to the 2001 World Series when he was 11. He was photographed with a sign "Yankee fan today tomorrow forever." He went home and forgot about the sign. But his parents kept it. When Cole signed with the Yankees in 2019, his parents pulled out the sign. He was shocked as hell. And did the only thing he could. He took the sign, weathered and battered, to his introductory press conference.
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Gerrit Cole was born in the LA area. BUt his dad is from Syracuse and a staunch Yankees fan. Cole went to the 2001 World Series when he was 11. He was photographed with a sign "Yankee fan today tomorrow forever." He went home and forgot about the sign. But his parents kept it. When Cole signed with the Yankees in 2019, his parents pulled out the sign. He was shocked as hell. And did the only thing he could. He took the sign, weathered and battered, to his introductory press conference.
I drove around Syracuse for the first time on my way to New York City at the end of September. I pulled over in Syracuse on some residential side street and I took a nap in my vehicle. That was my first time being in Syracuse since 1988 to watch the Chiefs play. I must say, it’s quite surprising for a town of that small size to have so many homeless people and street hustlers. Also a number of people with mental health issues walking the streets. I always thought Syracuse was a little town where everyone had a white picket fence….. it was both sad and surprising.
Philip
Game 1...Uggg!!...Well if you're going get walked off I can't think of a better person than Freddie Freeman.
No outfield wall and horse-drawn carriages at the 1905 World Series at the Polo Grounds where the New York Giants and Philadelphia Athletics were playing.
Okay I admit it...I'm distracting from the pain of that loss.
And that would be Coogan's Bluff seen behind the stands. Bobby Thomson's HR off of Ralph Branca to walk-off the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 3 of the 1951 NL playoffs to give NY Giants the pennant is known as The Miracle of Coogan's Bluff and also as The Shot Heard 'Round the World. Went to see the Mets play at the Polo Grounds when debuted there in 1962 (yeah, that old, eh!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coogan's_Bluff
Ben Johnson was asked what he thought of Garrit Cole and Giancarlo Stanton, "they are cheetahs".
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Freddie Freeman and his dad
Both of Freeman's parents are from Ontario, Canada. His mother was from Peterborough, while his father is from Windsor. Freeman holds Canadian citizenship in addition to American citizenship.
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Aside from Stanton's homer, I thought the game was kind of boring until the bottom of the 8th. But after that? Wow. 3 lead changes in 2 innings.
I've got my PVR primed and at the ready.
I've got my PVR primed and at the ready.
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Such a cool photo. Kind of reminds me where Leaside plays in the Toronto league at Bayview/Eglington. The most historic Toronto league team plays in the shittiest park. There’s only a home run fence for half of the outfield. And it’s a short porch that goes up a little hill and goes onto Eglington in left field. In right field there’s absolutely nothing lol
Philip
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I’ve spoken about this before here. That Cheetah energy drink was the absolute worst humiliating national pride, disaster of an ad campaign I have ever seen. I can’t believe Ben Johnson would ever do that.
Do you think Stanton is a cheater? He has spoken against the records held by Barry Bonds in the past because of his steroid use. Has anyone else ever noticed how Garrett Cole keeps rubbing his wrist and forearm of his left arm with his pitching hand when he pitches and rubs the baseball like pitchers usually do? And then he throws the most ridiculous hard knuckle curve with a 2 foot break drop….. I think Alek Manoah and Josh Donaldson both had it right about that guy.
Philip
That is baseball.
Sportsnet is showing NHL today not the World Series. Probably switched it to streaming. I am catching it on Fox