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Tony Nun
posted the following message
7/22/2023 1:10:42 PM:
The alleged 'Hockey Puck' killed everybody in the league this season, and now he's giving advice on how to change the change the rules in his favor? I like it. Forward thing, Mr. Shark. As a judge in these matters I always lean on parables from the lips of Mr. Warmth: “Sinatra was headlining at the Sands, and I was with this girl having dinner in the lounge. She wasn’t anybody I would bring home to my mother, but I really wanted to score big. Frank was in the lounge at his table with Lena Horne and some other celebrities and all his security guards. And my date says, ‘My God, there’s Frank Sinatra! Do you know him?’ “I said, ‘Sure, he’s a friend of mine.’ Which he was. But I made it sound like my whole life. ‘We’re like brothers!’ She didn’t believe me. So I said, ‘Wait here, sweetheart,’ and I went over to Frank’s table. ‘What do you want, Bullethead?’ he said. That was his nickname for me. I told him I was trying to impress this girl and would he do me a very big favor and come over and just say hello. He said, ‘For you, Bullethead, I’ll do it.'” “Five minutes later, Sinatra strolled over and said, ‘Don, how the hell are you?’ “And Don Rickles looked up and replied, ‘Not now, Frank. Can’t you see I’m with somebody?'” In other words, it sounds like this league needs some dusting of the cobwebs. |
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John Deodato
posted the following message
7/15/2023 12:17:15 PM:
Hello men King Shark AKA hockey puck here to run an idea we here at the research and development dept have been tossing around. The strato-matic company has in its stock 7 consecutive seasons from 1960 -1966. The idea is that we start at 1960 hold a draft at the end the season we start the 61 season but each team remains the same we retain our players from the previous season hold a small player draft maybe 10 rounds to fill holes for such things as player from 1960 may have retired or did not play that season and you have a hole in your roster .We then precede thru the remaining seasons until we play the 1966 season. After the 1966 season we play one more season under this format but with a twist. You to use any player on your final 1966 roster best season from 1960- 1966. so you can have 1961 Roger Marris in right field and the 1965 Maury Wills at Shortstop on the same team. The committee feels this will be away to test our skills not only as managers but as General managers ,it will encourage making decisions for not only the current season but with the future of the team in mind, It should encourage trades. This suggestion is open to all current and former members and our beloved Tony Nun aka coach. I looking forward to hearing your thoughts please feel free to post them for everyone to see. Thank you in advance for your time and thoughts yours truly Hockey Puck I mean John Deodato head of research and development. |
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Mike Aquilina
posted the following message
7/14/2023 9:32:35 AM:
Thank you for your extensive research, Mr. Shark. Speaking of Mr. Shark, do you remember the TV show 'CPO Sharkey' starring the great Don Rickles? In honor of this I will now refer to you as a hockey puck. So nice job, Hockey Puck. I concur about the 1977 season. 1977 brings back memories of the great Mets teams of my youth. I can only hope that Kevin Kobel is available when my spot in the draft comes around. |
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John Deodato
posted the following message
7/13/2023 8:42:54 PM:
As the season comes to end it is time to start preparing for the next season. As head of the research and development I have done some extensive studying into the available seasons the strato-matic has available. My recommendation is that we play the 1977 season. I feel it would be interesting to play a season we once played and see how the cards are under the new format strato matic uses. If anyone has any thoughts feel free to post them on the message board for all to see.Thank you in advance John J Deodato Jr. head of research and development. |
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Tony Nun
posted the following message
5/27/2023 12:05:50 PM:
Are you calling our friends 'pinheads'? I concur. |
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Eugene Cucinello
posted the following message
5/27/2023 5:53:56 AM:
Looks like this Strato season is as long as a bowling season. Yeesh! |
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Tony Nun
posted the following message
5/16/2023 6:14:55 PM:
With the JCAS! (Jackass?) and the Black Sox both winning series' this late, it looks like this dog of a season has ceased to bark. So congrats to the Sharks and manager John for a well-earned (soon to be) pennant victory! Funny thing is, he did it by beating up on Mike and Joe, whereas the two top contenders, Dan and Frank, were both slaughtered by the Black Sox all year, basically keeping them near the .500 mark all by themselves. Mike's team almost single-handedly gave the Sharks the pennant by losing to him and beating others. Does anyone else smell fix? I guess anything can happen in the playoffs but these head-to-head season records might be a preview. I hope the commissioner looks into these oddities. |
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Tony Nun
posted the following message
5/6/2023 8:54:42 AM:
So I'm in Colorado with the manager of the Jesus Christ All-Stars and former league participant Louis. A one-act play: TONY: So, Joe, you had a nice run in the middle of the season. Do you think you can catch John? JOE: I've lost interest. LOUIS: Maybe Dan will update his stats before the end of the year. TONY: Come on! That's not the Joe I know! Fight like you mean it, and maybe, just maybe, you can turn this thing around! JOE: I'm getting another beer. LOUIS: Make it two. CHRIS: I'm going to bed. TONY: Really? That's it? You're all conceding the World Series to the Sharks? JOE: Well, maybe if I shake up my lineup and pitch my relievers for nine innings . . . TONY: That's the spirit! Your mental acuity will turn this baby around! LOUIS: Yeah. That, and lots of hashish. |
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Eugene Cucinello
posted the following message
5/1/2023 11:09:48 AM:
Little known fact: According to Baseball-Reference.com in 1971, the MLB leader with 20 outfield assists was Rusty Staub with the Montreal Expos. Well short of the single season record by Orator Shafer with 50 in 1879 while playing with the Chicago White Stockings. |
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Tony Nun
posted the following message
4/28/2023 6:24:33 PM:
Your Latino and Asian players eat a lot of rice and beans, and yet they make up 75% of the league. Huh! Here's some advice: Take the hot dogs and fried chicken off the post-game losers' snack table and maybe with a little more energy from de-clogged arteries the Black Sox can eek out a series victory before the season is over. |
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Mike Aquilina
posted the following message
4/27/2023 2:55:07 PM:
I guess that since Tony Nun went vegan he no longer can chew the fat on the message board. |
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Mike Aquilina
posted the following message
3/30/2023 3:54:38 PM:
The modern major league record for HBP in a season is 50 (Ron Hunt, 1971). Ron Hunt of the Black Sox has broken this record. Hunt has been plunked 52 times thus far. After breaking the record Hunt was quoted as saying, “take that Hunt.” When reminded that this quote wasn’t very sportsmanlike, Hunt replied, “what’s he going to do, hit me?” |
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Tony Nun
posted the following message
3/21/2023 5:24:06 PM:
The Black Sox are on the move! Finally! Does anyone else smell fourth place in a five-team division? Hello! |
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Mike Aquilina
posted the following message
3/16/2023 10:57:32 AM:
Our analytics team determined that we were missing just one piece: Duke Sims. With the signing of The Duke the Black Sox are poised to make Strat-O-Matic history by leap-frogging all other teams and climbing to the top of the mountain. How's that for a mixed metaphor? What is this Prof. Agostino's freshman writing seminar? I submit that it is not. It is war and Duke Sims is the generalissimo of destruction. |
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Eugene Cucinello
posted the following message
3/15/2023 10:22:31 AM:
Little known fact: Ted Abernathy changed his pitching motion from an overhead delivery to a three-quarter delivery after tearing two muscles in his shoulder making a throw from the outfield during his freshman year of high school. After shoulder surgery in 1959 left his career in doubt, he switched from the three-quarter delivery and become an effective sidearmer who developed a submarine pitch.[ |
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Mike Aquilina
posted the following message
3/14/2023 4:02:17 PM:
I was looking at Eunice’s pitching rotation and I saw that it could go Fingers-Blue-Wilson. Or it could go Splitorff-Fingers-Blue. No matter how you slice it there are some shenanigans going on in the Eunice showers. That Flank is one sick bastard. |
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Eugene Cucinello
posted the following message
3/8/2023 7:20:25 AM:
Little known fact: Dick Dietz was featured prominently in a controversial umpiring decision during the 1968 season. Dietz was facing Don Drysdale, who was pitching a consecutive scoreless inning streak. The bases were loaded when Dietz was apparently struck by a pitched ball, but the home plate umpire, Harry Wendelstedt, did not grant Dietz first base on the little enforced rule of not trying to avoid the pitch. Dietz was then retired along with the following batters by Drysdale, keeping the scoreless streak alive. |
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Tony Nun
posted the following message
3/2/2023 11:34:44 AM:
Seeing that the JC All-Stars! have been shut out in three of their last four games reminds me of an old baseball story . . . The year was 1934 and American baseball greats visited Japan to barnstorm. The U.S. easily won 15 of 16. During some of the games, Babe Ruth was in rightfield with an umbrella and Lou Gehrig was at first in galoshes, all the Americans joking around, insulting their outmatched foes. Until, that is, a high school boy named Eiji Sawamura almost shut them out, losing, 1-0, on a ninth-inning homer by Gehrig. Eiji became a national hero and thousands paid their respects upon his death. At age 26. In WWII. Oh well! As the Nips say in Japland, Sayonara! |
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Mike Aquilina
posted the following message
2/24/2023 1:08:30 PM:
In addition to Justin Pope, there was Johnny Priest who played 2B for the Yankees (1911-12) and Max Bishop who played 2B for Philadelphia (1924-35). A Priest, a Bishop and a Pope. But not one Rabbi to be found. Oy vey. |
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Tony Nun
posted the following message
2/23/2023 5:33:05 PM:
Little known fact: Justin Pope, the last Pope in baseball history, is currently a pitching coach who once played in the Yankees' farm system. Though he couldn't be elected dog catcher (he's a cat man) perhaps the Black Sox can use his expertise after the franchise has fallen behind the lowly JC All-Stars! in the standings. Or just tell Willie Stargell he's getting a pay cut: 'We can come in last place without you, pal.' |
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