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I feel as though my understanding of the word "phonetically" must be somehow out of whack....
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Did my #Oakland #Athletics win last night? Is that really the most important question? I don't think so.
The real issue is, did my Oakland Athletics maintain their half-game lead over @YakyuNightOwl 's #Seattle #Mariners?
Yes. Yes, they did.
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Do either of you two have a NL team as a backup?
MLB Rule 3.14159 says that you are allowed to have an opposite-league favourite team.
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GIANTS SPLIT SERIES WITH TIGERS
Joe Black turned in a quality start. Ed Steele homered. New York, recently deprived of superstars, took its 2nd win in a row over Detroit. Maybe it's a clubhouse vibe thing.
DET (32-35) 371
NYG (31-35)590
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by the #GratefulDead , natch, with a song that feels more relevant today than ever...
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Today's #1947league game also brought to you by #ELO, and a #SpotTheConnection puzzle that's a little easier than yesterday's. Hint: It involves lyrics. For a No-Prize, what connects these two songs?
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Today's #1947League hero, Joe Black, is not in the Hall of Fame, but he teamed up with a future Hall of Famer, and future roommate, to lobby for pensions for NAL and NNL players.
Bloody socialists.
Name the famous ally Joe Black worked with on this cause.
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"Wow -- the Rays are off to this historic hot start -- I wonder who they're playing next... (gulp) Oh."
Somebody give me a reason to feel optimistic about this, please. #Athletics #baseball
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YANKS SPLIT, NOW WITHIN A GAME OF BROWNS
Paige allows HRs from the big guys (Gibson, Heath--who went long twice); Browns otherwise inert. NY erupts for 13 hits.
The game featured two bench-clearing brawls.
NYY (38-29) 9 13 1
STLB(39-28)3 9 0
#1947League
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Today's #1947league game also brought to you by #PeterGabriel.
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So.... Jeff Heath of the Browns hit two home runs in a 9-3 loss. When a batter hits two dingers in one game, we put another star on the #1947League Wall of Fame. Who should be immortalized?
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You asked for her, you got her. The one and only #LenaHorne is officially elevated to the #1947League Wall of Fame.
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#1947league update:
Expect a pause for the next few days as we go on what they call a "holiday" here in Ireland. (I think we all know it's actually a "vacation," but I humor the locals about that.)
Games should resume this time next week.
See you then!
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This is #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season with 13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%
#MLB #BLM #Baseball #nowplaying
#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click link to check your guess. Anyone can play.
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#1947League preview, and it's a doozy:
Phillies, a half game back, send Groundhog Thompson (8-3. 2.05) to the mound in search of a tie for first with Brooklyn.
Cardinals counter with "Mississippi" Lewis (7-7, 3.05, 128 Ks.*)
*Leads league
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PHILS REGAIN TIE FOR FIRST
A 5th-inning unearned run (scored by Artie Wilson, of course) was the margin, as Groundhog Thompson picked up his 9th win.
Lewis K'd 14 (!) Phillies in a losing cause for Cardinals.
STLC (32-33) 371
PHI (456-23) 471
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @RuthODay , Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper, and the enduring mystery about #Elvis we just cannot seem to shake.
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With what team did today's hero, Groundhog Thompson, finally win a World Series?
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This is #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season with 13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%
#MLB #BLM #Baseball #nowplaying
#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click link to check your guess. Anyone can play.
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#1947League preview:
The Pirates' Luis E. Tiant (8-5, 2.66) aims to even the four-game series with the Red Sox.
Bill Powell (6-6, 3.72) looking to take three out of four at Fenway -- and get a bit closer to the .500 mark that has eluded the Sox all season.
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PIRATES' BULLPEN IMPLODES; SOX TAKE 3 OF 4 AT FENWAY
Handed a 3-2 lead, Leniel Hooker coughs up 4 runs in the 8th.
Galehouse gets the W. Williams: 2-4, R.
Pirates continue their long-running lost weekend. #1947league
PIT (35-32)3 12 1
BOS (29-38)6 9 0
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @tabletopmania and #Semisonic and the red-hot #MNTwins ...
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... and by #Prince.
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#1947League question:
Pittsburgh's starter in today's game would, in real life, throw out the ceremonial first pitch in a World Series game.
Name the city where he did that.
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Not Atlanta or St. Louis. Multiple guesses ok.
The key to this one is knowing who started for Pittsburgh in #1947League today. (He got a no-decision.)
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CORRECT! It was Luis E. Tiant, father of Red Sox hurler Luis Tiant. The year was 1975 and the city was Boston.
What would you like to hear, @RuthODay ?
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I have to balance out Mojo Nixon with something classy: how about the Flower Duet from Lakmé, by Mady Mesplé and Danielle Millet?
IMO the best version on youtube is
https://m.youtube. com/watch?v=jBLktLkdw8o
(If you delete the space in the URL)
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So the Blue Jays seem to have challenged the popular conception that the AL East race is over in mid-April...
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“Over? Nothing’s “over” until we decide it is!”
John Blutarski
Three of the top MLB seven in batting average. Three of the top six in HR. Don’t you mind the Blue Jays. : )
PS BTW, that would be “misconception” that the race is over. : )
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High praise! Those early '90s Blue Jays teams were amazing.
So (note deft transition) were #Eurythmics. Been bingeing on them and on #AnnieLennox lately and came across this mini-documentary, which casts a new light on Sweet Dreams.
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May or may not get a #1947League game in today.To tide us over, here's a tight condensation of the book ONLY THE BALL WAS WHITE that features cool interviews with Effa Manley, Don Newcombe, Ted Page, Satchel Paige, on and on... #nlbm
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20-second documentary: Don Newcombe on Josh Gibson's astonishing power at the plate.
#baseball #nlbm #jg20mvp #1947league
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxmnknNYtPH23VDJYTaPufq_PZ8Uk5-Ncp
26 seconds · Clipped by Yusuf Toropov · Original video "Only the Ball Was White" by Ryan Vooris
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This is #1947League, a dice/cards replay of '47 #baseball season with 13% #Black players from the era, not 0.01%
#MLB #BLM #Baseball #nowplaying
#GuesstheSong based on lyric below. Click link to check your guess. Anyone can play.
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Bottom-most entries in MLB power rankings right now. Any guesses about which team checks in at #30? (sigh.)
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On the bright side, they have the greatest potential for advancement! (Work with me here, Yusuf!)
PS Note to Sally: that’s cold.
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Yes, focusing on the positive with my beloved #Athletices.
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#1947League preview:
At Edward John Coyle Memorial Stadium, Senators player-manager Buck O'Neil sends Gene Richardson (2-1, 2.36) to the mound to face the Indians, who counter with Mel Harder (1-3, 5.25).
First of a three-game series.
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TRIBE TAKES GAME ONE
The Senators' ninth-inning rally fell short. Mel Harder picked up his second win of the year; Tetelo Vargas got the game's big hit, a triple with two men aboard.
CLE (27-41) 582
WAS (18-50) 270
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One toke over the line.
My favourite version was performed on the Lawrence Welk show (you can look it up!):
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It's like you read my mind. Love that Welk clip. The earnestness of it all. The cluelessness of it all.
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“It's like you read my mind”
I just *knew* that you were going to say that!
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Actually, I just now watched it to the end and caught that Lawrence Welk called it a “modern spiritual”.
Wow!
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Today's #1947League game brought to you by @RuthODay and... these very classy classical musicians. Beautiful stuff.
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In #1947League, Buck O'Neil is player-manager of the Washington Senators.
Can you name a team he managed in real life?
Yusuf Toropov
Ruth O’Day
Nolan