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Game 100 Tigers vs. red sox July 21, 2018

kalinecountry said:
Our Tigers just shut out the red sox 5 - 0!!

Lots of Massholes are going to be upset over this game.

Tigers Victory Cigar!!
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I always wondered I know you're not a Boston fan except for the Celtics was there just a player you like and that's why you became a fan?
 
Mitchrapp said:
Yep. It's like that had starters, and one or two more pitchers maybe. 100 pitches was nothing to them..
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Those guys threw more pitches and more innings than all the specialist in the bullpen and the 100 pitch ceiling of the more recent 10/20/30 years.

and..
I forgot to add I agree that there are more bigger and stronger players than 60/70/80 years ago.
 
Mitchrapp said:
I always wondered I know you're not a Boston fan except for the Celtics was there just a player you like and that's why you became a fan?
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You mean the Celtics Mitch?
When we moved here back in 1957 it was awful for me just turning 10 and going to a new school and kids etc.
but like everything in life you adapt. I could play ball, so I was always one of the first to be chosen in pickup games at school and after, so I fit in quicker than I had anticipated looking back.

Dad worked at North Station in a beige stucco building about 7 or 8 stories high and right next to the old Boston Garden.
On Saturdays when he worked, I would take a street bus down to the MBTA train station and take that line down there where dad worked and meet him for lunch. We would have lunch at this restaurant that was built into the first floor entrance of the old Garden. It was called either the Iron Horse or Iron Rail.
After lunch we went up to where he worked and hang out for a couple of hours and then drive home.

The Boston Celtics team offices were also in this building. So from late 1957 to the early/mid 1960's, every so often I would see Bob Cousey, Sharman, Ramsey, Sam and KC Jones, and probably my first really favorite Celtic the great John Havlicek. They knew dad to say hi and talk pleasantries, and were friendly to his son.

Stuff like that stays with a wide eyed kid looking at these tall men. One time we got on the elevator and Mel Counts who was a 7 foot backup for the legendary Bill Russell got on and had to duck to get into the elevator. He looked at us staring at him, dad smiled and me, my jaw was on the floor, I had never seen such a tall man. Counts just smiled hahaha.

So telling my friends at school, about all this, most all were red sox and bruins fans. The Patriots came into the AFL iirc back in 1960. Along with "my" Tigers, Lions, and Red Wings, I had the Celtics to root for.
 
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kalinecountry said:
You mean the Celtics Mitch?
When we moved here back in 1957 it was awful for me just turning 10 and going to a new school and kids etc.
but like everything in life you adapt. I could play ball, so I was always one of the first to be chosen in pickup games at school and after, so I fit in quicker than I had anticipated looking back.

Dad worked at North Station in a beige stucco building about 7 or 8 stories high and right next to the old Boston Garden.
On Saturdays when he worked, I would take a street bus down to the MBTA train station and take that line down there where dad worked and meet him for lunch. We would have lunch at this restaurant that was built into the first floor entrance of the old Garden. It was called either the Iron Horse or Iron Rail.
After lunch we went up to where he worked and hang out for a couple of hours and then drive home.

The Boston Celtics team offices were also in this building. So from late 1957 to the early/mid 1960's, every so often I would see Bob Cousey, Sharman, Ramsey, Sam and KC Jones, and probably my first really favorite Celtic the great John Havlicek. They knew dad to say hi and talk pleasantries, and were friendly to his son.

Stuff like that stays with a wide eyed kid looking at these tall men. One time we got on the elevator and Mel Counts who was a 7 foot backup for the legendary Bill Russell got on and had to duck to get into the elevator. He looked at us staring at him, dad smiled and me, my jaw was on the floor, I had never seen such a tall man. Counts just smiled hahaha.

So telling my friends at school, about all this, most all were red sox and bruins fans. The Patriots came into the AFL iirc back in 1960. Along with "my" Tigers, Lions, and Red Wings, I had the Celtics to root for.
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You know millennials won?t believe this actually happened, don?t you?

They?ll just equate it to Shakespeare, and the signing of the Constitution.

Both of which also happened in, era, Baaaashton, era, eh?
 
kalinecountry said:
You mean the Celtics Mitch?
When we moved here back in 1957 it was awful for me just turning 10 and going to a new school and kids etc.
but like everything in life you adapt. I could play ball, so I was always one of the first to be chosen in pickup games at school and after, so I fit in quicker than I had anticipated looking back.

Dad worked at North Station in a beige stucco building about 7 or 8 stories high and right next to the old Boston Garden.
On Saturdays when he worked, I would take a street bus down to the MBTA train station and take that line down there where dad worked and meet him for lunch. We would have lunch at this restaurant that was built into the first floor entrance of the old Garden. It was called either the Iron Horse or Iron Rail.
After lunch we went up to where he worked and hang out for a couple of hours and then drive home.

The Boston Celtics team offices were also in this building. So from late 1957 to the early/mid 1960's, every so often I would see Bob Cousey, Sharman, Ramsey, Sam and KC Jones, and probably my first really favorite Celtic the great John Havlicek. They knew dad to say hi and talk pleasantries, and were friendly to his son.

Stuff like that stays with a wide eyed kid looking at these tall men. One time we got on the elevator and Mel Counts who was a 7 foot backup for the legendary Bill Russell got on and had to duck to get into the elevator. He looked at us staring at him, dad smiled and me, my jaw was on the floor, I had never seen such a tall man. Counts just smiled hahaha.

So telling my friends at school, about all this, most all were red sox and bruins fans. The Patriots came into the AFL iirc back in 1960. Along with "my" Tigers, Lions, and Red Wings, I had the Celtics to root for.
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That's a cool story. Thank you.
 
The Bird to DJ play that ended the Pistons hope. Thought that was the year..
 
Mitchrapp said:
No way they were going to win after that so it was lost hope. Thanks for reliving a bad memory. What was worse than the Celtics, Johnny Most - I hated that guy.
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Dude, you re-lived the bad memory.

I just found what you re-lived on YouTube.

YouTube or not I still have nightmares.
 
Yeah who didn't love Bird and that team with Parrish and McHale with DJ.
Only fans of other good teams.

Mitch, we would watch the game on tv with the volume down and listen to the greatest "homer" announcer anywhere Johnny Most.

Before that group there was Big Red Dave Cowens, JoJo White, Paul Silas,

But this guy way back in the day and those guys John Havlicek.
I still get goose bumps listening to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4fTjcJwImw
 
I'll give you that "homer" and probably the best. More teams need that.. I actually was a fan of Bird's since Indiana State. And I liked McHale. Parrish not so much, probably what other teams thought of Laimbeer.

In that 'Bird to DJ" play it's the, usually reliable, Zeke's fault. He didn't take his time on the inbound pass. But it was a great play. No one else does that besides Bird..
 
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