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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, 01:09 PM
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One of the great characters of the game. I still watch some of his tirades on YouTube.
In a lot of ways, Earl Weaver was before his time. Weaver despised the bunt because he knew that man at first, no outs creates a better scoring probability for the offense than man at second, one out. Weaver was a sabermetric manager well before people started talking about sabermetrics.
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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, 01:40 PM
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RIP Earl. You brought a fire and passion to the game few managers since have displayed. May you have every call go your way up there (except when playing the Sox of the past).
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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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