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01-19-2013, 10:44 AM
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One of a kind. He will be missed.
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01-19-2013, 11:12 AM
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RIP Earl.
He had a great reason as to why baseball is the best game in the world... "You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." True words of wisdom from one of baseball's most colorful personalities. He will be missed.
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01-19-2013, 11:14 AM
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Rest In Peace, Earl Weaver.
As a Sox fan in the 70s and 80s I can say without reservation that I hated that sonofabitch.
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It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. - A. Bartlett Giamatti
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01-19-2013, 11:15 AM
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Profanity laced entertainment!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpS-X...yer_detailpage
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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape— the loneliness of it—the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. Andrew Wyeth
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01-19-2013, 11:29 AM
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01-19-2013, 01:15 PM
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Earl... You put the balls in Bal-ti-more. RIP Skipper. Too bad they didnt have WWF Rant Offs back in the day.. Would have loved to see you and Billy Martin go toe to toe..
I'm sure they got a bar stool waitin for ya to give Cobb the who's whats.. BK59
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01-19-2013, 01:45 PM
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 Sometimes I wish I was around for the older baseball moments and stories such as this one. RIP Earl.
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01-19-2013, 02:27 PM
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Earl waited on the 3 run homer way too much for my taste, but what a great manager.
Plus he poured his vast knowledge into Earl Weaver Baseball, the first serious computer baseball game, which still has the best lineup generation ever. I played in sim leagues with the Amiga version RIP, Earl.
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01-19-2013, 02:35 PM
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I'm going to say it. Yes, I'm a Sox fan and always will be but Earl Weaver is my all time favorite manager. JB is right about the sabermetrics comment. He loved the three run homer and didn't care much for the bunt. His teams rarely beat themselves, and IMO Earl was one of those rare managers that could get his team a few extra wins a year himself on his baseball smarts. Plus he was entertaining. Yes MtG he is another big reason why baseball is the greatest game in the world. RIP Earl Weaver.
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01-19-2013, 02:58 PM
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The other thing is that "wait for the three run homer" was the last part of the philosophy, only coming AFTER pitching and defense.
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The universe is the practical joke of the General at the expense of the Particular, quoth Frater Perdurabo, and laughed. The disciples nearest him wept, seeing the Universal Sorrow. Others laughed, seeing the Universal Joke. Others wept. Others laughed. Others wept because they couldn't see the Joke, and others laughed lest they should be thought not to see the Joke. But though FRATER laughed openly, he wept secretly; and really he neither laughed nor wept. Nor did he mean what he said.
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