The January 7 All-Star team
by Adam J. Morris on Jan 7, 2009 10:20 AM CST
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And of course, it includes former Rangers Alfonso Soriano and Kevin Mench...
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Happy birthday, bro.
You still suck.
"I know you're a bit dense but no, it doesn't. Obviously lying isn't a problem for me."
3rd Former Ranger on that list....
Eric Gagne
"that suzuki guy should go back to making cars" - My girlfriend after C.J.'s close in game 2
Give me February 6th
Babe Ruth’s birthday, a bunch of scrubs filling out the rest of the lineup, and I’ll beat your January 7th team any day.
Not bad...
found out that both LeBron James and Tiger Woods were born on December 30th which is the same day my daughter and brother were born on.
Not a bad couple of guys to share your birthday with.
Of course I share my birthday with the entire damn country so…
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Yeah...
it’s pretty nice to always have my birthday off.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
happy bday ajm!
"Sooner or later, prospects kill you, because you hang onto them." - Greggo, 11/22/2005
Happy Birthday
They don’t make nicknames like they used to.
Kitty Bransfield, and my personal favorite, Heinie Berger.
Heinie Berger >>> Mark Hamburger
It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin
The name Heinie
made me laugh also. With a name like Heinie Berger I bet elementary school was brutal
by BEW on Jan 7, 2009 1:56 PM CST up reply actions
Happy birthday
I only clicked on comments so I could make sure that someone has acknowledged what today really is.
And to nominate you for the attorney of the January 7 all-star team.
Me too
Though I have listened to the podcast, and I vote Adam as the color announcer.
That would be EPIC.
"You got a guy coming up there who can’t hit water if he fell out of a boat." - Tom Grieve on Richie Sexson, 5.8.2008
"I’ve been a Rangers fan all my life and I can tell you there’s been plenty of fucking crying in baseball…" - WhipSmart, 6.3.08
"When it comes to Jeff Mathis, the story ends with us putting one in his earhole." - AJM, 7.7.08
Happy Birthday Adam!
My list is as follows!
Thom Yorke – Radiohead
Nicolas Cage
John Cougar Mellencamp
oh sports!
Tom Hicks (Olympic Marathon Runner 04’) the other tom hicks!
and one of the best last names in baseball…
Tony Conigliaro (Red Sox) his name sounds like a dish at La Strada!
I guess nobody here reads Malcolm Gladwell
In his newest book, Outliers, he presents some compelling evidence to suggest that people born just after the cutoff dates for youth sports teams have a huge advantage.
For example, lets say you are born today, Jan. 7th, 2009, and your local league has teams of kids the same age with a cutoff date of Jan. 1st so that in 2019, you would be 10 years old and playing with everyone born in the 2009 calendar year. You would have a distinct advantage, from say, kids born in November or December because you would be older, taller, bigger, and faster than them. That would translate to more practice as a starter and more playing time. It’s not as much being born in January, but being born ASAP after the cutoff date that gives you an advantage over your peers, or so he argues.
Jay Zygmunt, now that you are going to fire yourself...have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Seems intuitive
the same thing is happening with kindergarten. Some parents are intentionally planning birth dates around kindergarten cutoffs in some vain attempt to have their kids older than most of their peers, or even holding them back a year so they are a year older. I say vain, because there is zero evidence of that paying off in the long term even though those kids do a bit better initially.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
Seems to me there is a farily large difference
between athletic advantages and social advantages based on age.
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
But in both cases
the advantages dissipate as the child grows older. The athletic advantages actually seem to last longer.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
"A ~.650 OPS from a COF should get you deported, not traded for."
- The Huntressatron
by inactive lsb user on Jan 7, 2009 4:21 PM CST reply actions
12-26
is pretty good.
Carlton Fisk
Ozzie Smith
Stu Miller
Ray Sadecki
Chris Chambliss
Storm Davis
Jeff King
Obama vs Palin in 2012. bring her on!
It's AJM's birthday?
Geez, I didn’t even click on this thread all day and now I feel bad.
Allow me do add my (now belated, by 17 minutes) salutations. Thanks for all your work AJM.
Did Jon Daniels downsize your old position at Dunking Donuts?
The REAL baseball Jesus would have known that already.
It's baseball. You don't always get what you want, and you don't always want what you get. --Ed Coffin
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