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    Barry Bonds 700 Club

    There is a lot to be said for that and I come from the National League side (North Side, that is) and believe me the Cubs have generally been horrible in my lifetime. There is nothing more sad than the last day of the season.
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    Barry Bonds 700 Club

    No I'm note delusional. They didn't start testing for steroids until 2003. So, anything that happened before that is enormous conjecture. Did Bonds use steroids, of course. There is nothing so sanctified as to use the full arsenal of what was available at the time, and anyone would do the...
  3. J

    The wrist watch.

    Yeah, those make my 1930 Illinois Medalist wristwatch look pretty tiny. I don't think the Seiko would be that much better than my 1957 Seamaster though.
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    AE Dalton Cordovan Boots

    I love mine. I've been wearing AE all of my life. I probably have 40 pairs on hand at given time. The Daltons are exceptional. I'm not sure if I like them better than my Loake boots but the Daltons are very cool. I also got them in chili and black.
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    Barry Bonds 700 Club

    There is nothing Reggie Jackson did that David Ortiz doesn't do on any given day. He recently gave a long, colorful airing of his feeling about the new rules. I know this forum is all about loving the past and I'm all about that, but being silly about sports is off the meter. Having been a...
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    Barry Bonds 700 Club

    Its always been that way. Were you tossing Coke bottles at Ty Cobb? Baseball is a degenerate sport. Cap Anson was a tremendous star and was so effusive he maintained segregation of the sport until modern times. Baseball is not a sandbox.
  8. J

    Barry Bonds 700 Club

    Did you bury your head in the sand for the 30 years Pete Rose played baseball? Where he won 3 WS and took the all time hits record?
  9. J

    Barry Bonds 700 Club

    Bonds never broke the rules and Aaron ate amphetamines like jelly beans. He is a good gent and he and Johnny Logan are old friends of mine. You will not hear Aaron speak ill of the steroid era, because he knows what the game is about. Johnny on the other hand will tell you fantastic stories...
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    Barry Bonds 700 Club

    And amazingly Bonds did it while facing black players, and pitchers that never would have used steroids (quiet over there Clemens). Baseball goes through remarkable changes about every ten years, and while old people like to wax poetic about the sanctity of its records that's bull**** and...
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    The general decline in standards today

    I tried for a long time to keep a productive journal. It was never organic, and it seemed kind of a chore. I have made peace with the fact that my written legacy beyond professional publications will be the weight of the baseball scorecards I have been filling out since I was just a kid...
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    What's on your keychain?

    I know exactly those tags from my grandfather who worked for Mobil for about 65 years. He was a suit and tie guy but he could (and by default probably still could) load or unload bulk tank cars, trucks, etc. Or, deliver heating oil to your home. Nothing like the smell of getting doused in #2...
  14. J

    Red Wing Boot Instep Question

    Yeah, I wear the lined 608 model and the ones I'm looking at (20 years old or so) indicate Red Wing, MN construction under the cushy removable footbed. I have a brand new pair in the box in my storage locker. I'm plenty outdoorsy chasing pheasants in S. Dakota in the winter, etc, and they show...
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    What's on your keychain?

    For about 15 years I've been using the Barbour "loop" style zipper pull off my first Barbour. After years of heavy field use the bottom stop of the zipper gave way and I had the loose pull in my hand. I kept it and sent the jacket back for repair (that was by far the least of the old friend's...
  16. J

    The general decline in standards today

    When I was an underclassman in college I read a lot of Wouk. "Margerie Morningstar" taught me a lot about women.
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    Ebbets Field baseball jackets

  19. J

    The general decline in standards today

    Pardon me butting in, Gents as I am knew to these parts. One of the things that was very lucking in my then wife and I finding each other was that neither of us wanted children. Nephews great our own. Not so much. My office was going through a rather voracious spat of breeding and one day a...

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