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Oct 12, 2020 - 11:54 AM
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Jim Phelps
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Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Al Kaline, Bob Watson, Tom Seaver, Whitey Ford, Ron Perranoski, and Joe Morgan all died this year. Hank Steinbrenner... We even lost Biff Pocoroba, one of the all-time great baseball names. An awful year and an awful year for baseball, too.
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Oct 12, 2020 - 5:34 PM
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Eric Paddon
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I haven't made any updates to this thread, for so many years my favorite at FSM for a simple and sad reason. This past summer I made a painful but ultimately necessary decision on my part after 44 years to divorce myself forever from the current game of baseball. The reasons for why I came to this decision which would have once been unthinkable given how much baseball has been part of my life since age 7 and the 1976 season, are ones that I shouldn't go into. Suffice to say, the decision is permanent. My love for what baseball meant to me will never go away. I have my memories of living through 11 pennants and 7 championships and I have an extensive library of great baseball history books and thousands and thousands of vintage baseball telecasts and radio broadcasts that give me a baseball fix when I need it. Recently, through the miracle of e-bay, I came into possession of a reel to reel tape that had audio of a 22 inning Yankees game from June 1962 that ended in the 22nd when an obscure outfielder named Jack Reed hit the only HR of his major league career. *That* is baseball as it was, and when it was special. What exists today is not special but a cheap echo of what once was, and I for one decided I wasn't going to invest any more of my time or my money or my emotional well-being to the current game. Unless baseball makes some major amends, I'm not coming back. The passing of so many legends in recent months including Joe Morgan and Whitey Ford is a reminder of what legends truly were, and how the age of them is now gone. I prefer to lose myself in the time when they defined the game then bother with what passes for it today.
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