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04.18.08

L.A., as in Lingering Anderson

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When you think of Sparky Anderson, you probably picture him being dressed one of two ways: as a Red or a Tiger. But Sparky wore lots of other uniforms prior to assuming the managerial chair. His one season as a big league infielder was spent with the Phillies, he played for lots of minor league teams (including the gorgeously attired Toronto Maple Leafs), and let’s not forget this uniform.

But if you grew up watching Sparky skipper the Reds, as I did, there’s one uniform — that of a certain division rival — that it’s simply impossible to picture him wearing. Or at least that’s what I thought until reader Richard Craig got in touch with me the other day. He attended the recent Dodgers/Bosox exhibition game at the L.A. Coliseum, where he picked up a scorecard that included this photo of the 1958 Dodgers (the franchise’s first squad in L.A. — 50th anniversary and all). I’ll let Richard pick up the story from there:

I didn’t look closely at this team photo until last night, and I noticed some very strange things about it. First, it wasn’t the team photo I’d seen before. … Furthermore, the uniforms seem to have no numbers on the front, unlike those in the [other] team photo or the previous one taken in Brooklyn.

I concluded this must have been some sort of spring training picture where they rounded up everyone they could find and posed them around a “Los Angeles” flag to make a point about the team’s move west.

That’s really interesting to me, though, is something I’d never seen before — what appears to be an image of Sparky Anderson in an L.A. Dodgers cap. He’s on the far right in the third row from the top. Here’s a close-up.

I knew Sparky had been a Brooklyn farmhand, but I also know that he never played for the Dodgers in the big leagues, and I’ve definitely never seen an image of him in an L.A. uniform. For those of us who grew up in the ’70s with the N.L. West being a battleground between the Dodgers and Sparky’s Cincinnati Reds, the sight of him in an L.A. hat is truly bizarre.

Indeed it is. But it turns out that Anderson had already worn an L.A. cap — although not an L.A. Dodgers cap — by the time that 1958 photo was taken. That’s because he had been a member of the minor league Los Angeles Angels. I’m not sure of the date of that photo, but note that the jersey features shoulder gussets, a style that the Angels wore in 1956 and ’57, so that narrows it down.

If you look again at the photo of Sparky as an Angel, you can sort of see in that the Angels’ “LA” cap lettering was white and red, not just white (plus there’s an extra serif at the top of the “A”). But in the ’58 spring training photo, Sparky does indeed appear to be wearing a white-lettered Dodgers cap — a stunner.

Two final thoughts: First, I found one other shot of Sparky as a Toronto Maple Leaf — with eyeglasses! And second, you can hear Sparky’s finest recorded moment (definitely NSFW) here.

Philly Reminder: Uni Watch party tomorrow at Bob & Barbara’s Lounge, Philadelphia, 4:30pm. See you there.

Uni Watch News Ticker: Check out Mickey Mantle’s cuffed sleeve cuff. … Tytus Abrahmason notes that Vlad Guerrero was wearing his usual tar-gunked helmet in the 1st inning of Wednesday night’s Angels/Royals game but wore a clean, shiny helmet for the rest of the game. Vlad hit into a disputed double play in that 1st inning plate appearance and was pretty upset afterward, leading to Tytus to wonder, “Could it be that he bashed his helmet to pieces during a 1st inning tantrum in the dugout?” … Ohio State football note from Matthew Hager: “I was at the Buckeyes’ spring draft Wednesday afternoon and they mentioned they will be wearing a special helmet decal on Saturday. It will be the initals D.S., in honor of elementary school crossing guard Dianna Sharp, who was killed a week ago when she attempted to push an eight-year-old out of the road before a dump truck hit them both. The kid survived, she didn’t.” … Fascinating note from Jeffrey Soderberg, who writes: “On Wednesday night, when Melky Cabrera ended the 7th inning by being thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double, the 2nd base umpire pulled out a stopwatch — I guess to time the TV break — but I had never seen it before and I wasn’t aware that they carried them.” Anyone know more about this? … Logos in public space have officially gotten Orwellian (disturbing find by Mike Cusack). … Here’s a slightly clearer view of those Yankees capes from Opening Day, 1933 (big thanks to Eric Hoey). … Great video clip here about a little kid who’s basically a minature version of Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff (with thanks to Mike McAllister). … Lots of Papal uni-watching currently floating around out there — looks here and here … Hmmm, Black Sox? … The latest installment of “Equipped with Joe Skiba,” featuring newly signed backup QB David Carr, is up on Giants.com, and it’s a doozy, with discussion of Carr’s facemask, sleeves, socks, and, of course, gloves. Recommended viewing. … Check out this amazing Sabres patch that Zac Neubauer found. … Remember the question of whether a pitcher who enters the game as a pinch-hitter would be allowed to wear a jacket on the bases? A source who prefers to remain nameless was so intrigued by that question that he posed it to someone in the MLB office, who responded thusly: “I believe that the pitcher would be permitted to wear a jacket on the bases regardless if he was actively pitching in the game at that point. The Major League Baseball Umpires Manual section 2.15 covers Jackets by stating that, ‘A pitcher may wear a jacket while a baserunner. A pitcher may not wear a jacket while batting. No other player is permitted to wear a jacket while a baserunner, a batter, a defensive player, or a coach on the baselines. If worn (by a pitcher on the bases), the jacket [shall] be buttoned.” … Check out Larry Doby in the striped cap — when did the Tribe wear that? … Chris Mycoskie reports that Louisiana-Lafayette wore 1930s throwbacks on Wednesday night (lots of additional pics here) The “S” dates back to the days when the school was called Southwestern Louisiana Institute, but Chris says the “Ragin Cajuns” lettering on the placket is inaccurate, since the school’s teams were called the Bulldogs until the 1960s. … Kenny Chesney threw out the first pitch in Baltimore last night, and wore a bottom-hemmed Cool Base jersey for the occasion (thanks, Bryan). … “A few weekends ago we went to a park here in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they were staging a reenactment from a Revolutionary War,” writes Jake Keys. “I thought you might enjoy this picture. The kid has style.” … Big surprise.

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The stopwatch for the ump is for timing the pitcher. The second base ump did that last year here in Detroit when a Cleveland pitcher was taking way too much time between pitches.

Pitchers are supposed to only take 12 seconds to pitch the ball when there are no runners on base. Its supposed to speed up the game. That game took over 4 hours with the stopwatches tho!

How do we know for sure that is Sparky in the Dodgers photo?

The umpires will only put the stopwatch on pitchers in cases where they believe he is taking too long, or if there is a complaint by the opposing manager. In this case, the umpire was timing the commercial break. Usually, it’s the junior umpire on the crew who has this task. If you attend a game, you’ll be able to see there is always an umpire timing between every inning.

shout out to UW favorite matt powers, who submitted the top story (or at least it was on april 17 with the spree jersey) over at straightcashhomey

Should the heading say “as in”?

shout out to UW favorite matt powers, who submitted the top story (or at least it was on april 17 with the spree jersey) over at straightcashhomey

whoops…my bad

here’s the link

The striped Indians cap worn by Larry Doby were only for the coaches for a season or two in the mid-70’s. It might have been along the same idea as the A’s coaches wearing white caps.

I was ready to get my dander up about the Flogo story until I watched the video. Those things are almost so small as to be pointless.

Rafael Betencourt of the Tribe is the worst. He takes about 30 seconds between pitches. A couple of times last year the batter was issued a walk because of him not meeting the time requirements.

I was ready to get my dander up about the Flogo story until I watched the video. Those things are almost so small as to be pointless.

It’s like outsourcing for the pilots that fly banners. Dey took yer jahb!

The umpys time the commercial breaks. It’s like 1.5 mins for normal games, and 2.5 mins for national television games. If the pitcher finishes before the time for the break is up the umpy that’s holding the stopwatch will hold up the game until the break is done. It would be akin to the person that has the bright arm sleeves and headphone that stands on the sideline at football games.

The striped Indians cap worn by Larry Doby were only for the coaches for a season or two in the mid-70’s. It might have been along the same idea as the A’s coaches wearing white caps.

Interesting. I like stripes on a baseball cap and wish some team would create an alternate cap with that style.

I was ready to get my dander up about the Flogo story until I watched the video. Those things are almost so small as to be pointless.

Advertising/messaging in the sky, hardly a novel concept.

Don’t know if anybody has posted this yet, but…….
If only they were green ;-)

Should the heading say “as in”?

Ugh — yes. Now fixed. Guess who was trying to do too many things at once this morning….

I was ready to get my dander up about the Flogo story until I watched the video. Those things are almost so small as to be pointless.

It’s like outsourcing for the pilots that fly banners. Dey took yer jahb!

Oh, didn’t know there was a personal connection.

Not quite sure how the O’s can outfit Kenny Chesney with a jersey (modified at that) and glove and then not give him an Orioles hat. The jersey becomes a little pointless when he walks out wearing a USC Gamecocks hat.

Signs Of The Apolcalypse

Isn’t it sad that I clicked on the pictures of Pope Benedict and said “What does this have to do with David Ortiz?” and had to re-read it to realize it said Papal, not Papi…

This Has Been: Signs Of The Apolcalypse

So since Prince Fielder hit his first Home Run yesterday wearing pants that were so long they stretched under his heels

… does that mean he’ll be done wearing the Josh Gibson look in 2008?

(cue the “Dragnet” theme)…
DAAAAH DUH DUH DUH

haha I typed it wrong twice ! What a dingbat.

haha I typed it wrong twice ! What a dingbat.

Agreed ;-)

. No other player is permitted to wear a jacket while a baserunner, a batter, a defensive player, or a coach on the baselines.

There was that time Jim Edmonds wore a jacket under his jersey..

Knock it out the box, Hank.

haha I typed it wrong twice ! What a dingbat.

Agreed ;-)

Oh Really!?

haha I typed it wrong twice ! What a dingbat.

Agreed ;-)

Oh Really!?

Yes, now stifle
:-)

Hey Paul: Over at Steve’s Baseball Photography pages, he’s posted a couple of photos of Brooks Robinson wearing the all-orange Oriole uniform of 1971. However, he has them dated April 1972. He gave a shout-out to Uniwatch to see if anybody knew how often those uniforms were worn. I had always thought they were worn only a couple of times in 1971, and 1972. You might want to check those photos out.

So the Blackhawks wore the special White Sox sweaters, but wouldn’t wear their white socks with them? Oversight, or homage to the Sox never actually wearing white socks?

I was ready to get my dander up about the Flogo story until I watched the video. Those things are almost so small as to be pointless.

Advertising/messaging in the sky, hardly a novel concept.

Let’s try to be a little more current with our sky advertising references, OK?

Re.:Larry Doby cap.

The Washington Senators had a striped cap
during the 1965-68 period. The cap was navy with the red prezel W outlined in white. The red stripes were
outlined in the same manner as Doby’s Indians cap.

So I was in Mass today and I got to thinking…the coolest (or one of the coolest) ever memorial on a jersey/ helmet was the Carl “Spider” Lockhart jersey patch from the 86 Giants…which led me to wonder, is there a specific NFL rule banning patches like this? Wouldn’t the Sean Taylor memorial been cooler if it looked something like the ‘Skins 75th anniversary patch?

So the Blackhawks wore the special White Sox sweaters, but wouldn’t wear their white socks with them? Oversight, or homage to the Sox never actually wearing white socks?

Not true. They wore white with dark blue sanitaries in ‘69 and ‘70. Plus, those odd, untucked, stirrup-less outfits of ‘76 through ‘81 (those of the infamous shorts) were white socks with blue stripes.

haha I typed it wrong twice ! What a dingbat.

Agreed ;-)

Oh Really!?

Will you meatheads quit already!! Jeez……

So were Mantle’s cuffed sleeves the 1950’s equivalent of Sammy Sosa’s elastic sleeves?

I would imagine the main purpose would be to show off the Mick’s massive 14 inch pythons.

Be thankful Chesney didn’t have the sleeves of his jersey hemmed off– he loves the gun show.

Wow, having watched Joe Skiba’s interview with David Carr, I’m shocked at how few of Carr’s unform and equipemtn “quirks” actually relate to playing the game. He cuts his sleeves short to “show off the guns”, wears a bulky facemask to look “tough”, and wears embarassing white gloves because he finds the backsides of offensive linemen “unhygenic”. Not exactly the same approach Y.A. Tittle took, I’m guessing.

I love you guys. :)

Add to Sparky’s uniforms: Alas, I no longer have it, but the 1967 St. Louis Cardinals yearbook featured a shot of the organization’s minor-league managers wearing the big club’s uniforms in Spring Training… including one George Anderson!

“Sparky” led the St. Petersburg Cardinals to a 91-45 record in 1966, and managed the Birds’ Modesto Reds farm to a 79-61 record in 1967.

haha I typed it wrong twice ! What a dingbat.

Agreed ;-)

Oh Really!?

Will you meatheads quit already!! Jeez……

Haha, I love you guys. :)

the Mick’s massive 14 inch pythons.

not to be confused with the porno bearing the same title

Just jumped online to find out news on the just-occuring aftershock to this morning’s earthquake (hey, we don’t get many of those in the midwest!), and found this interesting tidbit - call it a “Uniwatch Mystery“!

the Mick’s massive 14 inch pythons.

not to be confused with the porno bearing the same title

[boom chicka wow-wow]

Not be confused with the other new porno:

“Girardi Pulls Wang Early”

i know there has been in the past discussion about NBA and MLB teams that have had hispanic heritage night and ‘dressed’ their teams in their respective hispanic unis (i.e. here, here, and here).

the kc royals have just announced (second to last ‘graf) that their official mlb website is www.losroyals.com (its even highlighted in the banner at the top of the site). i know that most if not all major sports websites are translated into spanish, but are their domains officially the bastardized spanish version?

i believe that an entire article was written on uw about the uni aspect of this, but what about the website or any promo stuff? my espanol is very limited (the only thing i know is that ‘el nino’ is spanish for…’the nino’), but wouldn’t ‘los royals’ be something close to ‘los reals’ or ‘realkc’? although this isn’t a football/soccer team (i.e. real madrid, real salt lake)

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So I was in Mass today and I got to thinking…the coolest (or one of the coolest) ever memorial on a jersey/ helmet was the Carl “Spider” Lockhart jersey patch from the 86 Giants…which led me to wonder, is there a specific NFL rule banning patches like this? Wouldn’t the Sean Taylor memorial been cooler if it looked something like the ‘Skins 75th anniversary patch?

This is what you think of at church? ;=) If they made it look like the 75th Anniversary patch, then it would look like the 75th Anniversary patch, you dig?

So I was in Mass today and I got to thinking…the coolest (or one of the coolest) ever memorial on a jersey/ helmet was the Carl “Spider” Lockhart jersey patch from the 86 Giants…which led me to wonder, is there a specific NFL rule banning patches like this? Wouldn’t the Sean Taylor memorial been cooler if it looked something like the ‘Skins 75th anniversary patch?

This is what you think of at church? ;=) If they made it look like the 75th Anniversary patch, then it would look like the 75th Anniversary patch, you dig?

oh christ…i thought he was in the STATE

So I was in Mass today and I got to thinking…the coolest (or one of the coolest) ever memorial on a jersey/ helmet was the Carl “Spider” Lockhart jersey patch from the 86 Giants…which led me to wonder, is there a specific NFL rule banning patches like this? Wouldn’t the Sean Taylor memorial been cooler if it looked something like the ‘Skins 75th anniversary patch?

This is what you think of at church? ;=) If they made it look like the 75th Anniversary patch, then it would look like the 75th Anniversary patch, you dig?

oh christ…i thought he was in the STATE

Oh Christ, indeed! Who knows, you could be right but I think of peculiar things in church, I see them in Massachusetts.

i know there has been in the past discussion about NBA and MLB teams that have had hispanic heritage night and ‘dressed’ their teams in their respective hispanic unis (i.e. here, here, and here).

the kc royals have just announced (second to last ‘graf) that their official mlb website is www.losroyals.com (its even highlighted in the banner at the top of the site). i know that most if not all major sports websites are translated into spanish, but are their domains officially the bastardized spanish version?

i believe that an entire article was written on uw about the uni aspect of this, but what about the website or any promo stuff? my espanol is very limited (the only thing i know is that ‘el nino’ is spanish for…’the nino’), but wouldn’t ‘los royals’ be something close to ‘los reals’ or ‘realkc’? although this isn’t a football/soccer team (i.e. real madrid, real salt lake)

The Royals are the 12th MLB team to have a website en espanol. Joining the D-Backs, White Sox, Cubs, Marlins, Astros, Yanks, Dodgers, Mets, Rays, Padres and Giants. The others make sense to me. Is there a large Hispanic constituency in KC?

i know there has been in the past discussion about NBA and MLB teams that have had hispanic heritage night and ‘dressed’ their teams in their respective hispanic unis (i.e. here, here, and here).

the kc royals have just announced (second to last ‘graf) that their official mlb website is www.losroyals.com (its even highlighted in the banner at the top of the site). i know that most if not all major sports websites are translated into spanish, but are their domains officially the bastardized spanish version?

i believe that an entire article was written on uw about the uni aspect of this, but what about the website or any promo stuff? my espanol is very limited (the only thing i know is that ‘el nino’ is spanish for…’the nino’), but wouldn’t ‘los royals’ be something close to ‘los reals’ or ‘realkc’? although this isn’t a football/soccer team (i.e. real madrid, real salt lake)

The Royals are the 12th MLB team to have a website en espanol. Joining the D-Backs, White Sox, Cubs, Marlins, Astros, Yanks, Dodgers, Mets, Rays, Padres and Giants. The others make sense to me. Is there a large Hispanic constituency in KC?

i moved out of KC a few years ago (now in NYC), and there was a fairly decent mexican community in the northeast part of town and on southwest boulevard (for all you kc’ers out there please correct me if anything has changed in the last five years).

i was curious to know if any of those other 11 teams have their domain names in the beforementioned ‘bastardized spanish.’ after a quick check, my question was answered, and indeed, ‘los dbacks’ and ‘los white sox’ do indeed have their own terrible domain names.

at least i still have my tony pena (sr.) ‘nosotros creemos’ t-shirt from 2003 that has some real spanish on there at least. (and yes…i do still believe!)

i know there has been in the past discussion about NBA and MLB teams that have had hispanic heritage night and ‘dressed’ their teams in their respective hispanic unis (i.e. here, here, and here).

the kc royals have just announced (second to last ‘graf) that their official mlb website is www.losroyals.com (its even highlighted in the banner at the top of the site). i know that most if not all major sports websites are translated into spanish, but are their domains officially the bastardized spanish version?

i believe that an entire article was written on uw about the uni aspect of this, but what about the website or any promo stuff? my espanol is very limited (the only thing i know is that ‘el nino’ is spanish for…’the nino’), but wouldn’t ‘los royals’ be something close to ‘los reals’ or ‘realkc’? although this isn’t a football/soccer team (i.e. real madrid, real salt lake)

The Royals are the 12th MLB team to have a website en espanol. Joining the D-Backs, White Sox, Cubs, Marlins, Astros, Yanks, Dodgers, Mets, Rays, Padres and Giants. The others make sense to me. Is there a large Hispanic constituency in KC?

Also note this is not THE official website, but actually ONE OF the official websites. The main website will continue to be … well, whatever it was before, though I would assume, if the Spanish version is “LosRoyals.com”, then the original version should probably be “TheRoyals.com”, right? Just like the Lakers standard jerseys say “The Lakers”, and so on …

i know there has been in the past discussion about NBA and MLB teams that have had hispanic heritage night and ‘dressed’ their teams in their respective hispanic unis (i.e. here, here, and here).

the kc royals have just announced (second to last ‘graf) that their official mlb website is www.losroyals.com (its even highlighted in the banner at the top of the site). i know that most if not all major sports websites are translated into spanish, but are their domains officially the bastardized spanish version?

i believe that an entire article was written on uw about the uni aspect of this, but what about the website or any promo stuff? my espanol is very limited (the only thing i know is that ‘el nino’ is spanish for…’the nino’), but wouldn’t ‘los royals’ be something close to ‘los reals’ or ‘realkc’? although this isn’t a football/soccer team (i.e. real madrid, real salt lake)

The Royals are the 12th MLB team to have a website en espanol. Joining the D-Backs, White Sox, Cubs, Marlins, Astros, Yanks, Dodgers, Mets, Rays, Padres and Giants. The others make sense to me. Is there a large Hispanic constituency in KC?

It is strange that the Astros and Rangers do not have Spanish-language sites.

As for whether KC has a large Hispanic constituency, nearly every Midwestern city does these days. The percentages are not as high as those in the border states, but they are increasing all the time.

i know there has been in the past discussion about NBA and MLB teams that have had hispanic heritage night and ‘dressed’ their teams in their respective hispanic unis (i.e. here, here, and here).

the kc royals have just announced (second to last ‘graf) that their official mlb website is www.losroyals.com (its even highlighted in the banner at the top of the site). i know that most if not all major sports websites are translated into spanish, but are their domains officially the bastardized spanish version?

i believe that an entire article was written on uw about the uni aspect of this, but what about the website or any promo stuff? my espanol is very limited (the only thing i know is that ‘el nino’ is spanish for…’the nino’), but wouldn’t ‘los royals’ be something close to ‘los reals’ or ‘realkc’? although this isn’t a football/soccer team (i.e. real madrid, real salt lake)

The Royals are the 12th MLB team to have a website en espanol. Joining the D-Backs, White Sox, Cubs, Marlins, Astros, Yanks, Dodgers, Mets, Rays, Padres and Giants. The others make sense to me. Is there a large Hispanic constituency in KC?

Also note this is not THE official website, but actually ONE OF the official websites. The main website will continue to be … well, whatever it was before, though I would assume, if the Spanish version is “LosRoyals.com”, then the original version should probably be “TheRoyals.com”, right? Just like the Lakers standard jerseys say “The Lakers”, and so on …

yeah…my bad. i noticed this right after i posted it that indeed this (’losroyals.com’) is just the translated version of the official website which is ‘kcroyals.com.’ (but i’m sure there are many iterations of this that will re-direct you to the official site)

Does anyone remember what day several people posted the start of an auction for the Ortiz jersey? I couldn’t find it. I distinctly remember that auction included a photo of them digging up the jersey and no mention of the proceeds going to the Jimmy Fund.

This started yesterday. Please tell me that someone was not trying to pull this one off?

THAT was one of the funniest things i ever heard…

ah sparky…we hardly knew ye were so colorful

Is there a large Hispanic constituency in KC?

According to Census numbers, Hispanics make up at least 9% of KC’s population–a number that is surely growing. Lost in talk of “diversity” (which usually focuses on just blacks) is that the numbers of Hispanics and Asians are growing rapidly all over the U.S. Little Rock, where I live, even has a Mexican consulate now. It is not surprising that sports team reach out to these demographics.

Speaking of the Reds, I thought I remember reading that they were going to get rid of their black and replace it with dark blue…like the ‘old days’. I guess that is not the case? I still see them wearing the black billed hat, etc.

(I searched the site for Reds comments, but I will admit, I did not spend too long on looking around. Sorry Paul.)

Wait. Brett Favre retired? How come nobody ever covered this?

I was texting with a friend of mine last night that now lives in Minnesota and he brought up an interesting point. He wondered if the Wild were the only team with a nickname that is an adjective.

I said I thought so, although language buffs might argue that it actually is a noun insofar as referring to “The Wild” as in “Go out into the wild”. You could argue even in that context, it still is an adjective because it is referring to an assumed noun like “outdoors”.

All the other singular team nicknames I can think of are nouns though. Any thoughts?

Wait. Brett Favre retired? How come nobody ever covered this?

So what do you think would be worth more money in Wisconsin? Tickets to the Brett Favre jersey retirement ceremony OR if the Packers went to the Super Bowl last year with everyone thinking Brett was retiring? Hmmmm, see Favre in his last game at the Super Bowl or see his retirement ceremony?

Re.:Larry Doby cap.

The Washington Senators had a striped cap
during the 1965-68 period. The cap was navy with the red prezel W outlined in white. The red stripes were
outlined in the same manner as Doby’s Indians cap.

I wish teams were more creative with their caps these days. Some varying cap styles would be nice, trucker style with a white or yellow panel, the old Padres curved front panel, pinstripes (last used by the Reds in 1998), panel stripes, pinwheel (old Expos) and hell, even a pillbox cap would be something. Caps are just so dark & dull these days.

Re.:Larry Doby cap.

The Washington Senators had a striped cap
during the 1965-68 period. The cap was navy with the red prezel W outlined in white. The red stripes were
outlined in the same manner as Doby’s Indians cap.

I wish teams were more creative with their caps these days. Some varying cap styles would be nice, trucker style with a white or yellow panel, the old Padres curved front panel, pinstripes (last used by the Reds in 1998), panel stripes, pinwheel (old Expos) and hell, even a pillbox cap would be something. Caps are just so dark & dull these days.

That’s a hard one, I went to the Steve Yzerman number retirement and also wish I was at his last game. Too bad it was in Edmonton. If I had to choose, between going to one of them, it would be tough.

I was texting with a friend of mine last night that now lives in Minnesota and he brought up an interesting point. He wondered if the Wild were the only team with a nickname that is an adjective.

I said I thought so, although language buffs might argue that it actually is a noun insofar as referring to “The Wild” as in “Go out into the wild”. You could argue even in that context, it still is an adjective because it is referring to an assumed noun like “outdoors”.

All the other singular team nicknames I can think of are nouns though. Any thoughts?

Better question: Are there any teams in the WNBA that DON’T meet this criteria (assuming there still IS a WNBA, of course)?

Wait. Brett Favre retired? How come nobody ever covered this?

So what do you think would be worth more money in Wisconsin? Tickets to the Brett Favre jersey retirement ceremony OR if the Packers went to the Super Bowl last year with everyone thinking Brett was retiring? Hmmmm, see Favre in his last game at the Super Bowl or see his retirement ceremony?

It would be hard to choose between a player’s last game and his number retirement ceremony. I was at Steve Yzerman’s number retirement ceremony, and if I had to choose between that game and his last game ever, it’d be tough. Too bad his last game was in Edmonton.

Re.:Larry Doby cap.

The Washington Senators had a striped cap
during the 1965-68 period. The cap was navy with the red prezel W outlined in white. The red stripes were
outlined in the same manner as Doby’s Indians cap.

I wish teams were more creative with their caps these days. Some varying cap styles would be nice, trucker style with a white or yellow panel, the old Padres curved front panel, pinstripes (last used by the Reds in 1998), panel stripes, pinwheel (old Expos) and hell, even a pillbox cap would be something. Caps are just so dark & dull these days.

That’s a hard one, I went to the Steve Yzerman number retirement and also wish I was at his last game. Too bad it was in Edmonton. If I had to choose, between going to one of them, it would be tough.

wait…what?

Re.:Larry Doby cap.

The Washington Senators had a striped cap
during the 1965-68 period. The cap was navy with the red prezel W outlined in white. The red stripes were
outlined in the same manner as Doby’s Indians cap.

I wish teams were more creative with their caps these days. Some varying cap styles would be nice, trucker style with a white or yellow panel, the old Padres curved front panel, pinstripes (last used by the Reds in 1998), panel stripes, pinwheel (old Expos) and hell, even a pillbox cap would be something. Caps are just so dark & dull these days.

agreed. as much as i dislike the color, the marlins aqua colored caps struck a chord with me. i liked those for some reason. maybe because they were different. i loved the mets ice cream man caps, too.

Re.:Larry Doby cap.

The Washington Senators had a striped cap
during the 1965-68 period. The cap was navy with the red prezel W outlined in white. The red stripes were
outlined in the same manner as Doby’s Indians cap.

I wish teams were more creative with their caps these days. Some varying cap styles would be nice, trucker style with a white or yellow panel, the old Padres curved front panel, pinstripes (last used by the Reds in 1998), panel stripes, pinwheel (old Expos) and hell, even a pillbox cap would be something. Caps are just so dark & dull these days.

That’s a hard one, I went to the Steve Yzerman number retirement and also wish I was at his last game. Too bad it was in Edmonton. If I had to choose, between going to one of them, it would be tough.

Realized I quoted wrong post…. dumbass

I was texting with a friend of mine last night that now lives in Minnesota and he brought up an interesting point. He wondered if the Wild were the only team with a nickname that is an adjective.

I said I thought so, although language buffs might argue that it actually is a noun insofar as referring to “The Wild” as in “Go out into the wild”. You could argue even in that context, it still is an adjective because it is referring to an assumed noun like “outdoors”.

All the other singular team nicknames I can think of are nouns though. Any thoughts?

Better question: Are there any teams in the WNBA that DON’T meet this criteria (assuming there still IS a WNBA, of course)?

Apparently you were asleep during English class friend!!!

My question wasn’t “are there any teams with a singular nickname?”, it was regarding whether or not the singular nickname was an adjective (they modify nouns)

I’m pretty sure the words Dream, Sky, Sun, Shock, Fever, Liberty, Lynx and Mercury are all nouns.

Re.:Larry Doby cap.

The Washington Senators had a striped cap
during the 1965-68 period. The cap was navy with the red prezel W outlined in white. The red stripes were
outlined in the same manner as Doby’s Indians cap.

I wish teams were more creative with their caps these days. Some varying cap styles would be nice, trucker style with a white or yellow panel, the old Padres curved front panel, pinstripes (last used by the Reds in 1998), panel stripes, pinwheel (old Expos) and hell, even a pillbox cap would be something. Caps are just so dark & dull these days.

agreed. as much as i dislike the color, the marlins aqua colored caps struck a chord with me. i liked those for some reason. maybe because they were different. i loved the mets ice cream man caps, too.

Retail may have something to do with some of that. I know for certain the Angels wanted to bring back the halo in the early 1990’s and New Era frowned upon that, too labor intensive to mass produce.

I was texting with a friend of mine last night that now lives in Minnesota and he brought up an interesting point. He wondered if the Wild were the only team with a nickname that is an adjective.

I said I thought so, although language buffs might argue that it actually is a noun insofar as referring to “The Wild” as in “Go out into the wild”. You could argue even in that context, it still is an adjective because it is referring to an assumed noun like “outdoors”.

All the other singular team nicknames I can think of are nouns though. Any thoughts?

Better question: Are there any teams in the WNBA that DON’T meet this criteria (assuming there still IS a WNBA, of course)?

Apparently you were asleep during English class friend!!!

My question wasn’t “are there any teams with a singular nickname?”, it was regarding whether or not the singular nickname was an adjective (they modify nouns)

I’m pretty sure the words Dream, Sky, Sun, Shock, Fever, Liberty, Lynx and Mercury are all nouns.

One could argue that “Dream” and “Shock” are verbs

I was texting with a friend of mine last night that now lives in Minnesota and he brought up an interesting point. He wondered if the Wild were the only team with a nickname that is an adjective.

I said I thought so, although language buffs might argue that it actually is a noun insofar as referring to “The Wild” as in “Go out into the wild”. You could argue even in that context, it still is an adjective because it is referring to an assumed noun like “outdoors”.

All the other singular team nicknames I can think of are nouns though. Any thoughts?

Better question: Are there any teams in the WNBA that DON’T meet this criteria (assuming there still IS a WNBA, of course)?

Apparently you were asleep during English class friend!!!

My question wasn’t “are there any teams with a singular nickname?”, it was regarding whether or not the singular nickname was an adjective (they modify nouns)

I’m pretty sure the words Dream, Sky, Sun, Shock, Fever, Liberty, Lynx and Mercury are all nouns.

Wow. More tireder than I thought I was today.

Doesn’t former Yankee employee George Costanza’s father’s lawyer wear a cape?

I was texting with a friend of mine last night that now lives in Minnesota and he brought up an interesting point. He wondered if the Wild were the only team with a nickname that is an adjective.

I said I thought so, although language buffs might argue that it actually is a noun insofar as referring to “The Wild” as in “Go out into the wild”. You could argue even in that context, it still is an adjective because it is referring to an assumed noun like “outdoors”.

All the other singular team nicknames I can think of are nouns though. Any thoughts?

Better question: Are there any teams in the WNBA that DON’T meet this criteria (assuming there still IS a WNBA, of course)?

Apparently you were asleep during English class friend!!!

My question wasn’t “are there any teams with a singular nickname?”, it was regarding whether or not the singular nickname was an adjective (they modify nouns)

I’m pretty sure the words Dream, Sky, Sun, Shock, Fever, Liberty, Lynx and Mercury are all nouns.

One could argue that “Dream” and “Shock” are verbs

one could even argue that ’sox’ technically isn’t even a word

if one were so inclined

Doesn’t former Yankee employee George Costanza’s father’s lawyer wear a cape?

you can’t cast dispersions on someone just because they’re wearing a cape…superman wore a cape

Usually, it’s the junior umpire on the crew who has this task. If you attend a game, you’ll be able to see there is always an umpire timing between every inning.

im pretty sure its always the 2nd base umpire, regardless if he is junior, crew chief, whatever. 90% sure on this. as for timing pitches…only really happens when the other manager complains. the stopwatch is used almost exclusively for commercial breaks.

Doesn’t former Yankee employee George Costanza’s father’s lawyer wear a cape?

you can’t cast dispersions on someone just because they’re wearing a cape…superman wore a cape

As did Elvis.

Doesn’t former Yankee employee George Costanza’s father’s lawyer wear a cape?

you can’t cast dispersions on someone just because they’re wearing a cape…superman wore a cape

…or aspersions, if one were so inclined ;-)
(said the guy who graduated from C.W. Post)

Im not a fan of the Los (fill in the blank) phenomena. At least the Pirates get it right there, they had the first big time Latin star but at least the aren’t not the Los Buccos. Which brings me to another topic, Roberto Clemente had the affect on the Latin players similar to that of the Jackie Robinson on African American players yet no one mentions his name in the ground breakers discussion. And last season when a movement was started to retire the 21 in the same manner as Robinson’s 42 Robinson’s family came out and essentially called it blasphemy to even mention anyone in the same breath as Jackie… absolute hypocrisy.

I was texting with a friend of mine last night that now lives in Minnesota and he brought up an interesting point. He wondered if the Wild were the only team with a nickname that is an adjective.

I said I thought so, although language buffs might argue that it actually is a noun insofar as referring to “The Wild” as in “Go out into the wild”. You could argue even in that context, it still is an adjective because it is referring to an assumed noun like “outdoors”.

All the other singular team nicknames I can think of are nouns though. Any thoughts?

Better question: Are there any teams in the WNBA that DON’T meet this criteria (assuming there still IS a WNBA, of course)?

Apparently you were asleep during English class friend!!!

My question wasn’t “are there any teams with a singular nickname?”, it was regarding whether or not the singular nickname was an adjective (they modify nouns)

I’m pretty sure the words Dream, Sky, Sun, Shock, Fever, Liberty, Lynx and Mercury are all nouns.

One could argue that “Dream” and “Shock” are verbs

True, but they aren’t adjectives. “Dreamy” or “Shocking” would fit that bill.

I guess I was thinking more like “a dream” rather than “I dream at night”. And in the context of a sports team “the dream” of a title was what I had thought.

I was texting with a friend of mine last night that now lives in Minnesota and he brought up an interesting point. He wondered if the Wild were the only team with a nickname that is an adjective.

I said I thought so, although language buffs might argue that it actually is a noun insofar as referring to “The Wild” as in “Go out into the wild”. You could argue even in that context, it still is an adjective because it is referring to an assumed noun like “outdoors”.

All the other singular team nicknames I can think of are nouns though. Any thoughts?

Better question: Are there any teams in the WNBA that DON’T meet this criteria (assuming there still IS a WNBA, of course)?

Apparently you were asleep during English class friend!!!

My question wasn’t “are there any teams with a singular nickname?”, it was regarding whether or not the singular nickname was an adjective (they modify nouns)

I’m pretty sure the words Dream, Sky, Sun, Shock, Fever, Liberty, Lynx and Mercury are all nouns.

One could argue that “Dream” and “Shock” are verbs

one could even argue that ’sox’ technically isn’t even a word

if one were so inclined

The problem is that you can use an adjective to descirbe a person/thing so well, that simply saying the adjective implies you are talking about said person/thing, therefore it becomes a noun, of sorts. Even so, here are a few: DC United, Nationals, Reds(red)…so on a so forth. It’s hard to say that they’re not nouns, even though if just shown that word out of context I’d say they’re all adjectives. But then again, I was always terrible in English classes, so I’m probably way off. Also, I’ve only seen about 6-7 White Sox games this year, and they’ve worn the black alternate all but one game, kinda sad.

I was texting with a friend of mine last night that now lives in Minnesota and he brought up an interesting point. He wondered if the Wild were the only team with a nickname that is an adjective.

I said I thought so, although language buffs might argue that it actually is a noun insofar as referring to “The Wild” as in “Go out into the wild”. You could argue even in that context, it still is an adjective because it is referring to an assumed noun like “outdoors”.

All the other singular team nicknames I can think of are nouns though. Any thoughts?

Better question: Are there any teams in the WNBA that DON’T meet this criteria (assuming there still IS a WNBA, of course)?

Apparently you were asleep during English class friend!!!

My question wasn’t “are there any teams with a singular nickname?”, it was regarding whether or not the singular nickname was an adjective (they modify nouns)

I’m pretty sure the words Dream, Sky, Sun, Shock, Fever, Liberty, Lynx and Mercury are all nouns.

One could argue that “Dream” and “Shock” are verbs

True, but they aren’t adjectives. “Dreamy” or “Shocking” would fit that bill.

I guess I was thinking more like “a dream” rather than “I dream at night”. And in the context of a sports team “the dream” of a title was what I had thought.

Or as in “I have a dream…”, from which it is derived, I believe. I always thought the Detroit Shock name was in reference to shock absorbers.

Doesn’t former Yankee employee George Costanza’s father’s lawyer wear a cape?

you can’t cast dispersions on someone just because they’re wearing a cape…superman wore a cape

…or aspersions, if one were so inclined ;-)
(said the guy who graduated from C.W. Post)

agreed…i was directly quoting seinfeld…and i was actually thinking about chinging the quote, because one of my (million) pet peeves is (are) malapropisms such as this

/and FWIW, my ex-wife got her MBA and my old man got his MPA, from post

I always thought the Detroit Shock name was in reference to shock absorbers.

yup…

piston…shock

all those (for the most part) WNBA teams take their names from their NBA counterparts, as we all know

now that isiah is out of a job again, perhaps he can become commish of the wnba and take care of that

Doesn’t former Yankee employee George Costanza’s father’s lawyer wear a cape?

He’s always worn a cape!

Virginia Tech will be wearing special unis for a white out their first game of the year. Don’t know if the link will work or not (first attempt at one) but here is the info on it

try again.
http://www.hokiespor...

I was texting with a friend of mine last night that now lives in Minnesota and he brought up an interesting point. He wondered if the Wild were the only team with a nickname that is an adjective.

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