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Foot, the bet was you'd have to carry the avi through the Super Bowl. Then you can go back to The Eot.

I was only kidding Foot...I have no intention of chanfing mine..nor trying to impose a different one on you...at least until next year that is.....

That's good and treff I really do appreciate and respect what you did.

TREFF without the scary avitar- that just wouldn't be right. It would be like a Foot top ten list that everyone agreed with.

1.Kaeps
2.Cam
3. Russell
4. Rodgers
5. Flacco
6. Brees
7. Manning P.
8. Palmer
9. Big ben
10. Brady 

Kind of scary that I was real close on my guess...

Since I'm MLB-challendged, should I know the Angels' player on Sam's new avi? Who is it?

Since I'm MLB-challendged, should I know the Angels' player on Sam's new avi?

If you knew that one Joe I would be very impressed!

 Who is it?

I'll post it later just in case anybody wants to give it a shot. Pretty sure you would need to be an Angel fan or a baseball know-it-all to get it......................lol.
Sam

Who is it?

   Sam - I'll bite - looks like a young Fred Lynn (although he's holding the bat wrong for a lefty) or maybe Jim Fregosi. Close?

Who is it?

   Sam - I'll bite - looks like a young Fred Lynn (although he's holding the bat wrong for a lefty) or maybe Jim Fregosi. Close?


With a closer look, how about - Dick Schofield    

With a closer look, how about - Dick Schofield    

It is the biggest ninth inning comeback in Angels history, and shortstop Dick Schofield not only sparked it - he also ended it with one explosive swing of the bat.

With the Angels holding onto a 4.5 game lead over Texas for the division title, the Rangers had already applied some pressure with a 5-2 victory in Chicago earlier that Friday night.

The Angels, meanwhile, were getting trounced by the visiting Detroit Tigers, trailing 8-1 after five uninspiring innings. Heading into the bottom of the ninth, Detroit's lead stood at 12-5 and it appeared the Angels division bump would soon shrink to 3.5 games.

The rally started innocently enough, with Schofield beating out an infield single to short off Tigers reliever Randy O'Neal, who was beginning his third inning of work. After Rick Burleson lined out, Wally Joyner drew a walk. When Brian Downing singled to load the bases, Detroit closer Guillermo "Willie" Hernandez, the 1984 MVP and Cy Young winner, began to warm in the bullpen - just in case.

Jack Howell doubled to right field, scoring Schofield and Joyner, and Tigers manager Sparky Anderson had seen enough. He called on Hernandez, even though Detroit still led 12-7.

Hernandez, however, would prove no more effective, promptly giving up consecutive RBI singles to George Hendrick and Bobby Grich, pulling the Angels within three runs. But when Gary Pettis grounded into a fielder's choice at second, California was down to its final out. Up stepped Ruppert Jones, pinch hitting for Jerry Narron. Jones worked a walk from Hernandez, loading the bases for the man who started the rally: Schofield.

Incredibly, the Angels typically light-hitting shortstop - he of the 56 home runs in 1,368 career games - lofted a Hernandez splitter straight down the left field line; a ball that kept carrying … carrying … carrying … just fair over the short wall and just out of the reach of Dave Collins' leaping attempt.

It was a grand slam - a walk-off grand slam, in fact, capping an eight-run ninth that ignited frenzy among those fans from the original 32,992 in attendance that actually remained.

The Angels would maintain their 4.5 game lead on the Rangers, who got no closer than five the rest of the season. It was the signature victory of the Angels' 1986 division championship season and one that fans, even 22 years later, still recall fondly any time the team rallies in the ninth.

 Yup. I was at this game and left when they were down 8-1....................have never left a game early again. Ever.
Sam

Great story Sam. 
Reminds me of Game 7 of the NL Championship.  If you lived in the south, it was the Braves you followed and watched since TBS was about the only station we had to carry baseball.  I had watched the game with my two boys up until the time I had to go to bed (work).  They were suppose to be in bed also.  Well, late that night when Fransico Cabera lined a base hit and Sid Bream chugged around the bases to score the winning run they both came running into the bedroom jumping up and down yelling, the Braves won, the Braves won!!  I saw that play dozens of times afterwards - but it would have been better on 'live TV' with my boys.

Hey Lefty, watched that game when I was living in Huntington Beach CA............man Sid took like 2 weeks to score..............lol.
Sam

Very ntertaining storys Sam n Leftster. I might as well share my stadium experience too. When I was 10 I went to a yankees game and while the left feil bleachers roaming the place with my cuz Cliff Johnson was taking batting practice. Well he hit a shot that left his bat and started strait up in the air and as I watched in turned and headed toward me. As the seconds ticked I couldn't believe it. The ball was coming strait at me. I literally didn't have to move a muscle as the ball zero'd in and targeted my glove. Now of cource I was an elite all star at the time (shamless plug) and fly balls where my speciality, but for some reason when the ball hit my glove and I sqeezed my glove together the ball managed to pop out of my glove and land directly in front of me by my feet. I still to this day don't know how i dropped it as i swore some force of nature or some super-natural foce prevented the sure handed little foot from cathcing that ball on that Saturday. Anyway as seeming ten hands came out of nowhere to grab the ball I quickly reached down and snatched it up.  What a great feeling!

Random baseball memories:

Seeing Tony Gwynn Jr. hit moon shots with tennis balls at night when he was a little kid outside a hotel in Yuma during Padres spring training.

Mackey Sasser at Shea, catching Dwight Gooden, and he had this weird psychological problem where he couldn't throw the ball back to the pitcher - he'd start to throw and then stop, and start again, and it would be like four tries before he could actually throw it. The Mets faithful, of course, were merciless, shouting "One!" "Two!" counting out his hitches until he finally threw it back to Gooden, at which point they would applaud. Gotta love NY.

Stumbling across a Mexican league playoff game in Hermosillo in the middle of winter. Noisy as hell, tasty concessions, lots of MLB players on the field, spending the middle innings in the john, and Antonio "El Canon" Osuna closing it out for the win.

Taking the family to Phoenix to watch a couple of games between the Diamonbacks and Cubs just after my wife and older son had come to the states for the first time - Jose Valverde putting on a show to close both games and Eric Byrnes showing his fake hustle, diving unnecessarily for balls in the outfield and sliding into first.

Here ya go..............so what Major League sports stars did you go to high school with? I was a freshman and they always made us play a scrimmage with the Varsity and JV teams so I had to play against the 2 guys that made the bigs from my school while I was there....anyway nothing like being the catcher and watching Shane Mack drill 3 over the fence........waaaaaaaaay over the fence. The JV guy was Al Osuna and to be honest I cannot believe that guy made it. He pitched against us and wasn't all that. The only other players I know of that went to my high school was Dan Boone and Jim Zorn.
Sam of Oldness

My best Baseball memory:

A friend of mine from SoCal invited me to an Anaheim Angels game in the mid 80s. He was the Rawlings rep (major league Baseballs) for the SoCal region. We get to the early game and we enter through the players entrance (various players are walking into the entrance at the same time), then we sit in a box next to Gene Autrey's box ("Gene" arrived later). There is an Angel's cap on my seat and a spread of food and drinks. My friend gave no warning of any of this. Just before the game my friend excuses himself saying he has some business to attend to. While he is gone, an Angels VP introduces himself and asks how my stay in California is going (later I find out that my friend had identified me as his boss from StL). The game is getting close to starting and who walks out onto the field to toss out the first pitch on behalf of Rawlins but my buddy. He returns to the box with a big s...eating grin on his face and we proceed to watch Clemens throw for the visiting RedSox. A great day and a great gotcha that I still remember foldly to this day.

my friend had identified me as his boss from StL

Awesome.

Here ya go..............so what Major League sports stars did you go to high school with?

I went to school with a guy named Terry Enyart.  Played ball with him all through little league and watched him dominate everyone through high school.  A lefty with this nasty curve and a blink - it was by you fast ball.  In the 5 years I played against him I managed one weak grounder back to the mound - all the others strike outs.  His era was in the 0.5 area in HS.  Well, he made it to the majors with the Montreal Expos.  Pitched one innings and got absolutely lit up - I never heard or saw his name again.  It was then that the amazing talent and gifts the 'stars' possess really sunk in.

Perhaps the biggest names from here to actually make an impact were Wilber Marshall & Chris Collinsworth, they went to HS with my brother at Astronaut High.  Needless to say, that was a dominate team.

my favorite baseball moment...catching a screaming line drive off the bat of future #1 overall draft pick, Darin Erstad.  True, he did hit it right at me  and it may very wellhave been self defense...but it was the time we got him out the entire three game series!

as for the high school sports stars...i dodn't go to school with any..but...i did get ran over by future NFL offensive lineman, Chris Dishman on a kickoff return once...and Ahman Green put me to shame in a track meet, thankfully we never played Omaha in football.  Also, got a base hit off of future NFL Oa-lineman, Adam True..we also didn't play Licoln in football..but baseball was fair game, and he was a pitcher for some strange reason.

My high school days are so long ago you guys probably won't even recognize these names:
I played basketball against Dave Logan in the early 70s. He went on to play BB and football for CU then on to a pretty decent carreer as a WR in the NFL (Cleveland and Denver). I played against Terry Miller in football. He about knocked me out as I was running a reverse and he stepped up from his defensive back position to lay me out. He was the long time Colorado 100 meter record holder and had a nice carreer at Buffalo as a RB. I believe he finished high in the Heisman voting in about 1974.