Baseball #12

September 30, 2011  

Daniel Gould to Jim Driscoll  

Hi JD;
 
"It is impossible to hit .350 on opening day." If you double check you see that the remark was set in quotes. Send you correction to Lefty Gomez. Not sure if you should fax heaven, purgatory or hell. Try all three. (Of course, it IS possible to bat .350 on opening day. It would depend on how many at bats and hits. Waht if the game went 18 innings?)
 
"Liking the Angels" means accepting the rules they play under. It's akin to "liking sin" and not liking the rules of the league that declares "Just say NO!' Or something like that. (This is conservative logic.)
 
The Cubs still stink?  I know THAT! And that is one of the reason I follow them. It shows I love the game more than I love a winner. Sure I want both, but I'll take the Cubs consistency than a yearly roller coaster ride that, say, the Arizona and Tampa teams seem to provide. How conventional. Jeeeeeez. Us librals like the unconventional.
 
Sincerely;
 
Dan
 

September 30, 2011  

Jim Driscoll to Daniel Gould  

NO....DO THE MATH...........................   .350 IS 35 FOR 100....OR IT'S COMMON DENOMINATORS.....UNLESS THE GAME WENT 45+ INNINGS AND THE BATTER WENT 7 FOR 20.....................  

October 1, 2011  

Daniel Gould to Jim Driscoll  

Hi JD;
 
...There you go again...Completely missing the point.
 
I think that what Gomez was saying was that Gehringer was more than a consistent one hit for every three at bats. He was saying that on opening day he may have gone 2 for 4, and the following day slumping to one for three. It wasn't the math that is important but the concept that he "was in a rut" for the whole season by maintaining a way above average of consistency...But, oh, what a rut.
 
Sincerely;
 
Dan 

October 1, 2011

Jim Driscoll to Daniel Gould

DEAR DAN................FOR A LIBERAL, YOU'RE PRETTY SMART....BUT NOT SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW WHEN SOMEONE'S PUTTING YOU ON..................................................................................JD  

October 2, 2011

Daniel Gould to Jim Driscoll

Hi JD;  
 
This is  a good point. And you are right. But you have made so many scurrilous and unconscionable statements I NO longer know when you are being sarcastic or satirical. I still haven't resolved if you were being cute with the remark "That you [me] can be bought cheap." And that's because when I gave you a falacious reply you came back with a serious contention that your "morals" and "ethics" cannot be bought.
 
Dan

October 5, 2011

Jim Driscoll to Daniel Gould

ANYONE WHO MAKES A REMARK THAT A LIBERAL COMMUNIST DOES NOT AGREE WITH IS OFTEN ACCUSED OF MAKING  A " SCURRILOUS AND INCONSCIONABLE STATEMENT", ..................BECAUSE IT DOES NOT CONCUR WITH PARTY DOCTRINE.

November 25, 2011

Daniel Gould to Jim Driscoll

Hi JD;
 
I divide the year into two segments: The Major League Baseball season and the College Basketball merry-go-round.
 
Since my college was Saint Louis Univ., I check the Post Dispatch/stltoday website for their coverage. Another sports' article caught my attention today. Pujols contract is up and their has been talk, for the last year, that the Cubs may make a bid for him and/or Fielder of Milwaukee. But what really got my attention, in this article, were the stats for the great Babe and what he accomplished from the age of 32 onward. Remarkable...Even more so when you consider he was an overweight drinker and carouser. Here's for living on the wildside.
 
As to my alma mater, they won their third game of the year---against no losses---by defeating the Washington Huskies last Tues. They won, again, last night. This could be a very good year. It will get me through the long winter with a smile on my face.
 
Oh, yeah...Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat a coincidence! I visited a friend, the other night, and he had the TV tuned to an American reality program about customs and border control. I happened to glance at the TV screen to see a snow capped mountain and scrolled across the bottom of the screen was: Blaine Washington. Hey, it does exist! And, Dorothy, you are not in LA anymore.
 
On one of my trips to LA, I was staying with Bob (the man who talks to God) and his wife. I had arrived at midnight. I awoke, in the late morning, in their guest room, and opened to drapes to a beautiful and clear day in January. I came into the kitchen and said, "Well, I like the view from my window...A mountain range." They both jumped up and rushed to the room saying "We have been here six months and have yet to have seen them." Aaaaaah, LA: you gotta hate it to love it!  Hey, that's not a bad motto. Better than Randy Newman's pedestrian "I love LA."
 
Sincerely;
 
Dan  

Photo: Babe Ruth