RE: [bomp] Re: And the 2008 Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Nominees Are...

[Michael Snider <lasciviumdei@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Joey Beretta <joeyb4@mindspring.com> wrote:

> 
> > > > > lou boudreau is as far as i go back
> > > >
> > > > My grandpa used to make jokes that only when
> he
> > > left
> > > > Cleveland ('47) did the Tribe get great
> > > >
> > > > Nevertheless he's quite pleased with the
> division
> > > > series, considering how often he saw the Yanks
> > > beat
> > > > the Indians (going as far back as 1927)
> > >
> > > He was there through 1950, and managed them to
> their
> > > world championship in
> > > 1948.
> >
> > Yes, I know Bourdreau was a key part of  the
> golden
> > age of the Indians.
> >
> > I was referring to my grandfather (and my grandma,
> and
> > my mom and her sister) who left Cleveland for LA
> in
> > 1947, and thus wound up becoming a Stars fan in
> those
> > PCL days not Boudreau.
> >
> > Growing up in the family I did, I certainly know
> that
> > Boudreau split in '50.
> 
> Sorry, I misread that.

It happens. While my grandpa would've been happy to
have seen Boudreau in person playing at Gilmore Field
just like he saw him play in person at Lakefront, the
Tribe's golden age wouldn't have been the same with a
different shortstop/manager. And no way would someone
as great as Boudreau have been sent to a minor league,
which the PCL was (despite interest in it on the West
Coast and the quality of playing being at major league
level....)
> 
> 
> 
> > > I'm quite pleased with the division series too,
> both
> > > of them in the AL
> > > actually, but disappointed with how the NL ones
> are
> > > going (I still don't
> > > think of Colorado and Arizona as real teams...)
> >
> > yes, something just isn't right about those teams.
> 
> I actually think I might not mind them as much if
> they had just called
> themselves Denver and Phoenix (and the Marlins if
> they had been Miami).  I
> don't like the trend toward geographic
> all-inclusiveness in team names.
> 
We can blame Gene Autry for that...

"In the long run, this country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless it is a reasonably good place for all of us to live in." - Theodore Roosevelt


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