paintedblue2
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
1925-2015 RIP
(This post was last modified: 09-23-2015 06:24 AM by paintedblue2.)
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CoachMaclid
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
- Yogi.
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
(08-31-2015 07:31 PM)CoachMaclid Wrote: They are unbeaten in games when they score more than their opponents.
Beat me too this one, but Yogi would say "the team with the most points usually win".
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
Sometimes adequate is good enough.
I said that to my old boss and he didn't get it.
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
Old shop teacher with a lisp used to get mad if we were wasting wood in shop. "What you tink boy, wood grow on trees?"
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pilot172000
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
A classic example of what a baseball player should be. Even as a yankee hater, I respected him so much! RIP Yogi.
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head.
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shiftyeagle
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
I feel like a whole generation just died. What an amazing generation that was.....wish baseball was still like that.
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
You got to know where you are going or you will wind up somewhere else
RIP Yogi
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Thegoldstandard
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
(09-23-2015 12:03 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote: I feel like a whole generation just died. What an amazing generation that was.....wish baseball was still like that.
True, when i hear yogi's name i think back to the good ole days of his childhood friend Joe Grageolia (sp?) doing the saturday baseball games. Wont ever forget the very much endowed woman known as the kissing bandit running thru the stands one saturday. They were bouncing back and forth and all Joe could way was "They cant be real".
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shiftyeagle
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
Joe DiMaggio
Yogi Berra
Ted Williams
Willie Mays
Jackie Robinson
Stan Musial
That's how the game was meant to be played.
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pilot172000
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
Duke Snider
Don Newcombe
Warren Spahn
Sandy Koufax
Could be added to that list too !!
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
"Only cut that pizza into four slices because I'm not hungry enough to eat 6." - Yogi Berra
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
I saw a good one on Twitter earlier. A guy said he played golf with Yogi once and while putting the guy left one short. Yogi said to him, "if you had putted it harder, you would have missed it closer."
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
Since he also died this year, how about we add ("Let's Play Two!") Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks?
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
"I really didn't say everything I said," Yogi Berra said in his book, "The Yogi Book: I Really Didn't Say everything I Said," in 1998.
Don Larson throws the perfect game, and Berra - the catcher who leaped into Larson's arms at the end of the game, to reporters crowded around his locker,
"So, what's new?"
On a visit to Italy to his families village of Malvaglio, Berra took in opera of "Tosca" at La Scala,
"It was pretty good. Even the music was nice."
When his wife asked Yogi where he wanted to be buried, in his hometown of St. Louis or in his residential area of Montclair or back in New York City,
"I don't know. Why don't you surprise me!"
When a member of the press asked about his promotional deal with "Yoo-Hoo," if that was hyphenated, Yogi said,
"No. It's not even carbonated."
And how did the man who inspired the cartoon character of Yogi Bear, and also was the drive-in movie promoter of "Yoo-Hoo" for all my years of going to the drive-in here in W.Va. say about getting ready for a game?
"I take a two-hour nap, from 1-to-4."
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
(09-23-2015 12:03 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote: I feel like a whole generation just died. What an amazing generation that was.....wish baseball was still like that.
You mean white and purely Anglo American?
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pilot172000
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RE: Things Yogi Berra might say
(09-23-2015 03:59 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote: (09-23-2015 12:03 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote: I feel like a whole generation just died. What an amazing generation that was.....wish baseball was still like that.
You mean white and purely Anglo American?
I am certain that's not what he meant. Yogi Berra was Italian so Anglo-American doesn't even fly. Willie Mays, Don Newcombe, Roy Campinela, Jacki Robinson, Larry Doby were all part of that generation. Please don't make this a race thing.
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ThreeifbyLightning
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I wasn't necessarily trying to make it a race thing. Was just curious. MLB was never less than 80% white during Yogi's 18 years and was 90% or higher for a good portion so make it whatever you want it to be.
What else other than the three things below are different now vs that era...
1. The mound was slightly higher
2. MLB was just beginning to desegregate
3. And there were few Latin players whereas there are many now.
If not that then his post implies this generation of players such as Miguel Cabrera, Albert Pujols, Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Andrew McCutchen, Clayton Kershaw, etc., etc., can't hold up to that generation. If it's about talent I would beg to differ. If it's something else other than those three I mentioned above I would love to know what they are.
IMO, the biggest difference today is the people don't value baseball in the same way they did back then. But that doesn't really have anything to do with that generation of players and is more about the fans than it is the baseball.
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