QUESTION THREAD FRIDAY MARCH 28, 2008
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Q4 MORE 1967.
B - Walt Bond, a power-hitting reserve outfielder, won the first game of the season for one of the better teams in the American League, with a pinch-hit home run.
This team was at that time the northernmost major league team.
Which team?
G - Bond was unavailable down the amazing stretch drive of that team, having
1 - died of leukemia
2 - signed up as a Marine
3 - joined a Cistercian monastery
4 - had a sex-change operation.
This team was at that time the northernmost major league team.
Which team?
G - Bond was unavailable down the amazing stretch drive of that team, having
1 - died of leukemia
2 - signed up as a Marine
3 - joined a Cistercian monastery
4 - had a sex-change operation.
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Re: Q4 MORE 1967.
etaoin22 wrote:B - Walt Bond, a power-hitting reserve outfielder, won the first game of the season for one of the better teams in the American League, with a pinch-hit home run.
This team was at that time the northernmost major league team.
Which team?
G - Bond was unavailable down the amazing stretch drive of that team, having
1 - died of leukemia
2 - signed up as a Marine
3 - joined a Cistercian monastery
4 - had a sex-change operation.
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At any rate, Walt Bond of the Minnesota Twins died of leukemia during the 1967 season. Again, never really got much of a play in the media, so I don't know the story in any detail. The Twins could have used his bat, losing the pennant to Boston in the final weekend.
I am calling scores even for Q5.
Another 1967 story.
I am calling scores even for Q5.
Another 1967 story.
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Q5 - More 1967
B Dennis Dale "Denny" McLain was one of the better pitching talents in the American League that year, combining with Lolich, Wilson and Sparma to form the four-man starting rotation of another very good team. That team and Minnesota just were edged out by Boston at the end of the season.
Which team?
G - However, McLain was unavailable for two weeks in September with a bad foot injury of uncertain cause. The best public guess by now of what happened, is
1 - Bad LSD trip
2 - Dropped 3 cases of Pepsi-Cola on it (his favorite beverage)
3 - Woke up with a kink in his leg (the story at the time)
4 - Stomped on by the boss of the local Mafia.
B Dennis Dale "Denny" McLain was one of the better pitching talents in the American League that year, combining with Lolich, Wilson and Sparma to form the four-man starting rotation of another very good team. That team and Minnesota just were edged out by Boston at the end of the season.
Which team?
G - However, McLain was unavailable for two weeks in September with a bad foot injury of uncertain cause. The best public guess by now of what happened, is
1 - Bad LSD trip
2 - Dropped 3 cases of Pepsi-Cola on it (his favorite beverage)
3 - Woke up with a kink in his leg (the story at the time)
4 - Stomped on by the boss of the local Mafia.
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I haven't been to Newfoundland, so I can't compare, but the only time I've been completely stumped by English was when I tried to talk with Cockney guards in the Tower of London. (I'm presuming they were Cockneys. It's not like it would have done me any good to ask them.)ontellen wrote:We don't have accents in Ontario. It's all the others that do.
When we were in Newfoundland in 1984, I talked to some people there and you can't understand a word they're saying and they're speaking English.