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  1. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    I could make a suggestion, if you're interested!
  2. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    I was at the Game 6 last night, and will be there again tonight for Game 7. I'm like a kid the night before his first trip to Disney World, and it's comical to watch me and my friend go to great lengths to do exactly the same thing we did on a day our team won. I don't have Biff Tannen's...
  3. HudsonHawk

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Speaking of Halloween...we have a Halloween Tree set up in our house. It's essentially a black Christmas tree, with orange lights and various Halloween themed ornaments. Yes, my wife is kind of a holiday decorating nut. Don't get me started on the yard art...
  4. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    I haven't read the article, but just a comment about "moneyball": Beane and the concept of "moneyball" sometimes gets a bad rap, and is blamed for the over-analytical nature of much of the game today, but that wasn't what Beane was doing or what "moneyball" really was. The goal wasn't to use...
  5. HudsonHawk

    Movie locations

    The movie Rushmore was filmed in Houston, with several notable filming locations around. St. John's School is the fictional "Rushmore Academy" and the local Lamar High School was used for the film's "Grover Cleveland High". One of the more famous locations was the barber shop owned by the main...
  7. HudsonHawk

    Dinner or Supper?

    We occasionally had a Citra Sipper: But often we'd cut a hole in the orange and suck the juice out.
  8. HudsonHawk

    Dinner or Supper?

    One of the best things about growing up in Florida was a couple of grocery sacks full of fresh oranges at the ready, or a walk out to the backyard. We made fresh squeezed OJ like one makes coffee.
  9. HudsonHawk

    Dinner or Supper?

    Same here. You didn't eat dinner every day. But dinner wasn't at noon (heck you didn't home from church until at least noon and the chicken still had to cook), it was always around 2:00. And never at 6:00. If you ate dinner, you didn't eat lunch or supper, it was the one big meal of the day...
  10. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    The "Jazz" nickname worked a whole lot better when they were in New Orleans.
  11. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    For many years, my hometown of Tampa, known as Cigar City, fielded the Tampa Smokers, who for a time, included a big stogie on their jersey logo. Said logo was the source of some controversy a few years ago during "throwback night", when the Rays wore old Smokers jerseys, but without the cigar...
  13. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    Well, the nickname of the University of Maryland sports collective is "Terrapins". The good folks of the Old Line State probably don't think it's all that stupid.
  14. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    This has definitely been the trend in recent years, but at times I think they overdo it. As a catcher, I was always tuned into all of this, and can still remember pitch sequences to guys 30 years ago. But as a fan watching a game, I'd honestly like a little less jibber jabber. They spend...
  15. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    I was just gonna post...those are really sharp looking.
  16. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    On another note...Braves Field was an enormous yard. It was 402 down the LF line, and a whopping 550 to CF. By comparison, the Polo Grounds in NY at the same time was 277 to LF and 433 to CF.
  17. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    I would actually love to attend games in a suit and hat, smoking a cigar. Of course, that's one of the reasons I wouldn't make it through Lizzie's Purge. Both stadium were fairly new, Fenway being only a few years old, and Braves Feld being basically brand new (it opened midway through the...
  19. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    But they didn't do that is my point. The cash price did not change, they simply offered a discount for the EZ pass.
  20. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    You just don't see a lot of great nicknames like Pickles Dillhoefer anymore.
  21. HudsonHawk

    BATTER UP!

    Big Klu was also famous for his muscles He started cutting the sleeves off of his jersey so the girls in the stands could get a good look, and it became his trademark:
  22. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I guess that's one way of looking at it. They started tolls off at 50 cents, so that when they got around to the EZ Pass years later, the discount price of 25 cents would still be what they wanted all along, and they just tricked people. That takes a heck of a lot of foresight. Perhaps they...
  23. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Some are only 25 cents. Some are $1.50. Depends on how far you're going. If you're going a long way, you could end up paying 10 bucks. And using an EZ tag is cheaper. If the toll is 50 cents for cash, it's only 25 cents if you use the EZ tag.

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