*The author walks over to the jukebox at the local Pizza Hut, scans through the records, and drops in a quarter…A69…It starts to blare across the restaurant….people look up from their personal pan pizza, including an eight year old kid, dirty chin, baseball uni on, with TIGERS scrolled across the front…he hears it and nods affirmatively…
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Hi Everyone – this week in 1982, a Milwaukee moose eggs on the Goose, a St. Louis White Rat gets Brave in Atlanta, and a Pittsburgh workhorse monkeys around and turns GOAT…all coming up next from this week in the 1982 replay, played by Strat-O-Matic Baseball
YANKS BLANK IN MILWAUKEE, SPLIT IN BEANTOWN
The Yanks currently sit at 38-22 in the replay, eight games ahead of their real-life pace…but it has not been easy….Nettles never hits. seriously. never. In fact, every time he comes up, I say, effing Nettles again, he is 0 for his last 22, but as noted in the last post, I have no one to put in – Robertson cannot play short effectively enough to move Smalley over to sit him for any length of time effectively, so I bat him 9th, and basically hope for the best. He always gives me the worst. last week in Milwaukee, they were swept by the Crew, and I know how effective the Crew is…however, you never expect Moose Haas to toss a one-hitter and then the next night, for Goose Gossage to blow a 3-run lead in the night…a Jim Gantner single cemented the comeback. Then the Yanks went to Boston to play the Sox, the first two games were nice, Guidry and Righetti had the Bostonians on ice….the next day, Roger Erickson cannot make it out of the second inning and Doyle Alexander gives up two 2-run blasts to Rice and Evans in the finale to lose 4-0.
Cardinals-Braves; Pirates-Reds
I have started to mix in other teams into the replay to get them involved…in Atlanta, St. Louis waltzed in and whacked the Braves..this team is fun to play and is going to be good…even more so, the Pirates went to Cincy and swept the Reds by a combined score of 24-13 over three games. They have big lumber – Cobra, Pops, Lacy, Mad Dog, Thompson, Hit Dog…but they cannot field. Much of their team is 4’s…and the ball always seems to find them. Luckily, the Candy Man still can with Teke and Scurry in the bully to shut it down. Looking forward to the Pirates-Redbirds showdown, which is coming shortly.
That’s all for now, folks. Until Mr. Furley finds out that discovers that the nice young man Janet and Jack fixed Terri up with is a convicted murderer…follow all the action of my replay here:
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