Re: t-and-f: Barry's pedigree

2001-10-10 Thread JimRTimes
In a message dated 10/9/01 11:52:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >In the old days farming skimmed away many of the better >athletes. I recall hearing an interview w/ Bob Feller in which he said he developed his basic core strength hefting hay bales all day as a youth. He said today's athlete

RE: t-and-f: Barry's pedigree

2001-10-10 Thread Bettwy, Bob
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: t-and-f-digest V1 #3828 -- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 11:13:14 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: t-and-f: Barry's pedigree Alan wrote: >I wonder i

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2001-10-09 Thread malmo
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2001-10-09 Thread vincent duncan
GH you are so right it's sometimes just not called for. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:52:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "alan tobin" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I wonder if Barry is on nadro? >> > > how about an amendment to the list char

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2001-10-09 Thread Edward Koch
PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 11:52 AM Subject: RE: t-and-f: Barry's pedigree >Concerning the alleged diminution of talent as the Major Leag

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2001-10-09 Thread alan tobin
S. I, too wonder - and worry - about Bonds and andro. I sure hope he is >clean. He - and McGwire - are great athletes regardless, but it's pretty >hard to root for someone (like McGwire) who benefits from >performance-enhancing drugs. > > >>From: "alan tobin" &

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2001-10-09 Thread Harold Richards
Therefore I call for an allowance of 5.479% for altitude. >From: "Kurt Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Kurt Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Su

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2001-10-09 Thread Kurt Bray
>Better yet! >There needs to be an * next to this record to indicate an altitude >allowance for >the number of home runs hit in Denver against the Rockies. Four of the 73 homeruns were hit at Coors Field Kurt Bray _ Get your FR

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2001-10-09 Thread GHTFNedit
In a message dated Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:52:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "alan tobin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder if Barry is on nadro? >> how about an amendment to the list charter that anybody who scurrilously injects drugs into an unrelated post be suspended? gh

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2001-10-09 Thread philip_ponebshek
Alan wrote: >I wonder if Barry is on nadro? Or better yet, if the pitching wasn't so damn >diluted what would either Barry or Micky G have hit? I'm trying to figure out who the heck Micky G is. I'm stymied. >My guess is that >niether would have topped 50. Ponder this: >There are now 30 ML

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2001-10-09 Thread Gerald Woodward
e also ran the 100 Yd Dash in 9.5, and around 21.0 for the 220 Yd Dash off of his baseball training! Gerald -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of malmo Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 5:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R

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2001-10-09 Thread Geoff Pietsch
ED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: t-and-f: Barry's pedigree >Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:52:10 + > >I wonder if Barry is on nadro? Or better yet, if the pitching wasn't so >damn >diluted what would either Barry or Mi

Re: t-and-f: Barry's pedigree

2001-10-09 Thread John Lunn
Better yet! There needs to be an * next to this record to indicate an altitude allowance for the number of home runs hit in Denver against the Rockies. alan tobin wrote: > I wonder if Barry is on nadro? Or better yet, if the pitching wasn't so damn > diluted what would either Barry or Micky G ha

RE: t-and-f: Barry's pedigree

2001-10-09 Thread alan tobin
I wonder if Barry is on nadro? Or better yet, if the pitching wasn't so damn diluted what would either Barry or Micky G have hit? My guess is that niether would have topped 50. Ponder this: There are now 30 MLB teams. A few years ago there were only 26. Say 15 pitchers per team, that's an extr

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2001-10-08 Thread koala
>gh > >ps--the guy with whom Bobby was tied on the all-time list was a Willie Davis of LA >Roosevelt, 25-3 in ’58. Any masters of arcanaa out there who know if that's by any >chance the same WD who became great outfielder w/ the Dodgers just a few years later? Well, the Willie Davis of L.A. Do

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2001-10-08 Thread malmo
Barry Bonds, who in 15 years averaged only 30 home runs per year with a best of 46 chose his parents well. Imagine if Bobby Bonds had hung in there for fifteen years. Would his "genes" then kick in too and result in a jump of 39'10 3/4"? malmo (it's OK to go to the calculator) > > I think I

t-and-f: Barry's pedigree

2001-10-08 Thread GHTFNedit
I think I may have posted this to the list in the past, but after sitting in the stands watching Bonds deposit 71 and 72 on Friday night, and seeing on-screen views of his father all weekend, I was reminded of our thread of where good talent goes. Dad, Bobby Bonds (Poly, Riverside, CA), was the