2016: The Battle of Waterloo with Barry Jacobsen

 

Another anniversary of The Battle of Waterloo with Barry Jacobsen..........https://t.co/E2RLEozC54

— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) April 11, 2016

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April 2008: Rockies vs Padres in 22 innings!

On this day in 2008, they played 22 innings and the Rockies beat the Padres, 2-1. 

This is like playing one game and a second game with extra innings.  It was the longest Major League game since August 31, 1993.

The box score shows that Willie Taveras was 3 for 10.....everybody else did not do much for their batting average. (Todd Helton was 1 for 9!)

The pitching was great. Peavy threw 8 scoreless innings. The bullpens were almost perfect for both teams.

Moral of the story: You can't run out the clock in baseball or do penalty kicks like soccer. You have to make the last out! In this case, it was not 27 but 66 outs!

We remember Willie Davis (1940-2010)

We remember Wille Davis, who was born in Arkansas on this day in 1940.    He died in 2010.

He played most of his career with the LA Dodgers, including trips to the World Series in 1963, 1965 and 1966.      His career numbers were really rather impressive:  .279 average, 2,561 hits, 1,217 runs scored, 396 doubles and 1,053 RBI.

Davis holds a lot of LA Dodgers records:  career hits (2091), runs (1004), triples (110), at bats (7495), total bases (3094) and extra base hits (585).

And he had a 31-game hit streak in 1969, also tops in LA Dodgers history.

Davis was a magnificent outfielder as well and huge fan favorite.

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"Where have all the flowers gone", a gem by The Kingston Trio

Once in a while, we drop the politics and go musical.  Today, I will tell you about one of my very favorite songs.  This is a folk classic written by Pete Seeger and performed by The Kingston Trio:

This song has been recorded by just about everyone. It was also one of the first tunes that I tried playing on the guitar. The big hit version belongs to The Kingston Trio but Peter Paul & Mary also had a very nice arrangement of it.

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April 2007: Mother Nature, April snow and the global warming zealots

A post from April 2007:

A few days ago, the UN released another one of those "end of the world" reports regarding global warming.

I guess that's a little tough to think of global warming these days.

On Saturday night, the Rangers played the Bosox and it was 36 degrees. I don't recall cold temperatures like that at any outdoors sporting event since the infamous snow in Thanksgiving '93 and the Cowboys-Dolphins game!

In fact, I don't recall such a cold day for baseball since I watched a Brewers-White Sox game in April 1970. Back then, my dad, brother, a friend and I went to watch Luis Aparicio at the old County Stadium and froze to death.

So what's going on?  We are having a freaky Easter, at least as far as the temperatures are concerned.

What else is going on? There is a little too much hype about global warming. Al Gore and his pals need to sit back and enjoy the April snow!

Is it time to panic? Not at all.

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