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Date: Tuesday, 13 Oct 1992 11:26:20 EST
From: <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Australian Novice Asks Dumb Questions

regarding, "the one and only rule difference between the al and the nl is
the dh rule."

don't believe it, mate.

i could be wrong, but i think that in the al, when the first baseman is
holding a runner on first, he is allowed to have one foot in foul territory.
in the nl, both feet must be in fair territory.

again, i could be wrong.
From: RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Clemens for Gonzalez?
Date: 14 Oct 92 04:42:31 GMT
 <1992Oct12.193919.20266@athena.mit.edu> <Bw2qM7.5p4@chinet.chi.il.us>

prediction: boston trades clemens.  clemens decides to become an outfielder.
clemens bats .356 with 60 dingers.
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From: vince@sscl.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: In Defence of Fair-Weather Fans
Organization: Social Science Computing Laboratory
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 04:46:47 GMT

In article <YequCrO00WB5JViWFp@andrew.cmu.edu>, Amit Likhyani <al1x+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> I bet you are a Toronto Blue Jays fan - fair weathered and clueless.  Go
> read your stupid mail order catalog.

THAT IS NOT NECESSARY!!! There is no call to be insulting as a result
of John's post: it was couched in nonoffensive terms, and presents an
ordered argument. I fail to see where your rebuttal adds anything to
the discussion.

Lest you think that I am stung personally, I most certainly am not a
Jays fan: I like the Red Sox, Tigers, and Expos. I dislike the Jays
because they take away coverage from teams that I like and follow. I
do however know John Palmer personally, and take offense at the tone
of your comments.

So, when does the Forbes Ave excursion occur? A friend of mine has
relatives in Pittsburgh: she could take pictures and post the GIFs on
the network ... :-)

Vince.
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From: steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson)
Subject: Re: Braves win 5-1
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:23:53 GMT

In <1992Oct7.171254.5075@cs.cornell.edu> tedward@cs.cornell.edu (Edward [Ted] Fischer) writes:

>In article <1992Oct7.134553.9549@menudo.uh.edu> chee1l5@jetson.uh.edu (Sam Lane) writes:
>>
>>Obligatory fuel: Bonds gobbled up three more outs (0 for 3).

>He also advanced Bell to third on a very nice walk.  (The fourth ball
>was rather wild, so the runner was able to take the extra base with
>ease.)  Has anybody noted Bonds' regular-season stats against the
>Braves this year?  Over twice as many games as an LCS.  He batted
>something like .211 with one RBI and a .430 OBP!!!  Seems to me that
>there is something going on here that has nothing at all to do with
>post-season pressure.  Maybe the Braves simply don't want to pitch to
>him?

Braves pitchers aren't fools.  :->.  Seriously, in his first at bat
of game one, he sure looked like he was choking.  I can't imagine
Barry normally swings at those pitches.  He calmed down after that, and
had a pretty good game in game two.  I was sweating when he representing
the tying run in the seventh.

Thank heavens for Andy Van Slyke!  :->

The real question is the NLCS MVP -- will it be Mark "Mr. October" Lemke, or
Jose "Babe Ruth" Lind?

--
Dale J. Stephenson |*| (steph@cs.uiuc.edu) |*| Baseball fanatic

  "It is considered good to look wise, especially when not 
   overburdened with information" -- J. Golden Kimball
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From: ecaxron@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Ron Graham)
Subject: Re: the wet dreams of a yankee fan...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date:  7 Oct 1992 15:25 EST  

In article <92280.112514RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>, 
     <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> writes...

>with george coming back, love him or hate him, the yankees will get at
>least one of cone/bonds.  if bonds, keep gerald in the minors.  if both,
>so much the better.

While Barry Bonds is good beyond hope, it'd be a shame to delay Gerald 
Williams any longer.  He's ready, IMPO.

RG

Mark Lewis hit .264 with 5 HR and 30+ RBI and says he had "a great year."
I'd hate to see a piss-poor one ;-)
From: huang@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Bo Huang)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Braves win 5-1
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:26:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: sdcc12.39117
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Oct7.153902.23821@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:
>Further flame fuel: I would be somewhat surprised if the braves dont win this
>one in 4. I would be SHOCKED if it goes to 6. The pirates just seem outta
>luck on this one. FLAMEBAIT FLAMEBAIT FLAMEBAIT
>
I agree this series will go no more than 6.  Looks like the
Pirates are out of luck this year again.  I would not expect
Bonds to do well against the Braves pitching, because he has
never been able to hit well against the Braves.  Let's see how
the Pirates do against two tough lefties in Avery and Glavine.
From: amr2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ANTHONY MICHAEL RUTCH)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: PHILLIES AND CONE
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:21:09 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

What's new on this subject?
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From: vonhaam@athena.mit.edu (Eric P vonHaam)
Subject: Re: Braves in Fulton for '93?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:30:15 GMT

In article <70321@hydra.gatech.EDU>, mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark Mitchell) writes:
|> ISTRE-A@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU wrote:
|> 
|> }What is the status as far is Fulton County Stadium is concerned?
|> 
|> The Braves will be playing at AFCS through the 1996 season.  During
|> the Olympics in that year the team will be forced to take an extended
|> road trip (ala Houston this season) while the Olympic baseball games
|> are played.
|>
   Except that they will only be on the road for 2 weeks, not an entire
month, because their owner doesn't hate them. The same happened in LA
in 1984, and it is no big deal.
 
|> After the Olympic Games, the Olympic Stadium (to be built across the
|> street from AFCS) will be converted to a baseball venue (tearing down
|> approximately half the stands to leave ~50,000 seats) and the old
|> stadium will be razed.

   The new baseball stadium will hold ~43,000. It will be based (somewhat)
on KC's stadium -- no bleachers in the outfield, better sight lines behind
the dugouts, etc.


Eric vonHaam
vonhaam@athena.mit.edu
From: jerry@sheldev.shel.isc-br.com (Gerald Lanza)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Bonds "choke"?
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:46:21 GMT
Organization: ISC-Bunker Ramo, An Olivetti Company (Shelton, CT)

>
>Maybe Bonds is a choker.  Maybe not.  None of us have enough info to
>really say, at this point.  IMHO, he didn't look *that* bad in the
>series.  He wasn't making consistently good contact, but this happens
>sometimes.
>
	For what it is worth to this discussion, please consider what
	Ray Knight had to say on SportsCenter after the second Pirate
	loss:
	"... Bonds is pressing, trying to do too much,....."

	I observed Bond's first at bat in the first game and was
	amazed to see him swing at pitches well outside the strike
	zone. His throw home in game two (?) on Berryhills single
	was unbelievably bad for an outfielder of his caliber.

	I am personally rooting for him to do well, but if he
	doesn't relax and let his skills emerge, he will be the
	target of choke aspersions for at least another year.



						jerry
From: genetic+@pitt.edu (Dr. Dave)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: OPS by batting order
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:32:48 GMT
Organization: Department of Industrial Engineering

Thus spake steph@cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson):
>The team OPS by batting order caught my eye in the McWeekly.
 
>Batting first:
>Boston .573 (!)
 
>Did Boston have Pena leading off?  

I think this is the "Rivera/Winningham Effect"...

>Batting second:
>Los Angeles .838 (Is this a typo?  LA didn't have any players with numbers
>like this.)

Mike Sharperson did, having another fine year.  Probably some Mitch Webster
thrown in, too.  (Dodgers fans, can you correct/confirm this?)

>Batting cleanup:
 
>Pittsburgh .982 (Barry Bonds)

Of course, Bonds's *personal" OPS was 1.080, but Leyland batted him fifth(!)
for a noticeable length of time at the start of the year.  The other folks
batting ahead of him during that time were able to drag the OPS down by a
full 100 points...

>California .545 (69 points lower than their #9 spot)

Can you say "Hubie"?

>Batting eighth:
 
>Baltimore .775 (Second only to leadoff spot -- weird)

Chris Hoiles and Leo Gomez.  This makes batting Bonds fifth look like the
work of Isaac Newton.


-- 
       David Tate        |"Out of the dugout endlessly swinging,
 dtate@unix.cis.pitt.edu | Out of the manager's throat, the sound fundamentals,
 Prof. of Story Problems | Out of the six-month season..."            
 Member ORSA, TIMS, SABR | 	Walt "Lefty" Whitman
From: sgs@stein.u.washington.edu (Steven Smith)
Subject: Birthdays
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:29:09 GMT

Baseball Birthdays

October 9
Rube Marquard, 1889 (HOF)
Joe Sewell, 1898 (HOF)
Joe Pepitone, 1940
Brian Downing, 1950
Freddie Patek, 1944
Bob Moose, 1947
Randy Lerch, 1954
M. Hershberger, 1939
Felix Fermin, 1963

October 10
Gene Tenace, 1946
John Stone, 1905
Wally Berger, 1905
Floyd Baker, 1916
Saul Rogovin, 1922
Les Straker, 1959
Steve Olin, 1965
Francisco Cabrera, 1966

October 11
Will White, 1854
Joe Ginsberg, 1926
Bob "Mr. Chips" Chipman, 1918
Bill Fischer, 1930
Curt Ford, 1960
Gregg Olson, 1966
Tom Carey, 1906
Bobby Jones, 1949
Eddie Dyer, 1900

--Steve
-- 
 sgs@u.washington.edu             * 
 Steve Smith                      * "We want a pitcher, not a belly itcher." 
 University of Washington HR-20   *    			-- Bill Plummer
 Seattle, WA 98195                * 		
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From: tedward@cs.cornell.edu (Edward [Ted] Fischer)
Subject: Re: Bonds "choke"?
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:43:36 GMT

In article <48397@shamash.cdc.com> jblixt@mips.COM (Jon Blixt) writes:
>
>So for me in baseball, if Barry
>Bonds continues at his current LCS output for this series and 
>another in the near future, I would like a reason for his lack of
>production(OBP and SLG).

But there *is* a logical reason.  Though the mediots are so caught up
in "pressure" and "choking" that they probably will never see it.
Bonds couldn't hit Braves pitching during the regular season.  Why
should he start now?

>I'm referring to a situation like tennis, for instance.  Both players
>play the same style of game(ie baseliner-power, baseliner-consitant,
>serve and volley etc.) and hit the ball equally as hard.  Two current
>players with equal ability might be Jim Courier and Andre Agassi.

I've seen them play.  They might be of equal ability, but their games
are certainly not identical!  And even if their games *were*
identical, their ability to handle opponents of a certain type may
vary.

Cheers,
-Valentine
-- 
Make outs, not walks!					tedward@cs.cornell.edu
Clemens four Cy Young!
From: istre@ricevm1.rice.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Pirates woofing
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:11:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: RICEVM1.16880B991.ISTRE-A
Organization: Rice University

In article <71185@hydra.gatech.EDU>
tmiller@prism.gatech.EDU (Thomas Miller) writes:
 
>
>
>
>  Geez.  If it's this bad now, imagine what it will be like if the
>Pirates win tonight, and win games during the world series...
>
>  Perhaps one good thing for Atlanta : Dave Justice hit 2 home runs
>himself, plus a single.  At least he knows that he wasn't part of
>the problem.
>  Of course, any of these big-scoring one-sided games could be blamed
>on the poor starting pitcher performance.  Drabek in Games 1 and 4.
>Avery in Game 5.  Glavine in Game 6.
>  I think it's safe to say that Atlanta's survival depends on Smoltz
>keeping his head (and arm) tonight for at least the first half of
>the game.  Who will be pitching for the Pirates tonight?
>
>
>
Doug Dravek will be pitching for the Bucs tonight.
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Date: Wednesday, 14 Oct 1992 17:16:35 EST
From: <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: 15/16 chance that pirates will win nlcs.

i predict that the pirates have a 15/16 chance of winning the nlcs, due
to the following incredibly scientific study:

since 1976 (the earliest time i can remember well), there have been 16
world series.  in seven of those world series (1976-1978, 1981, 1988-1990)
there has been one team that i liked and one team that i either didn't like
or didn't care about, and thus an obvious team for me to root for.  in
eight more of those series (1979-1980, 1982-1987) there was one team that
i didn't care about, and one team that i didn't like, so again, an obvious
team for me to root for.  in only one series (1991) has there been two
teams that i didn't like, and thus no team for me to root for.

the blue jays have just won the alcs.  i don't like the blue jays.  i also
don't like the braves.  i don't really care about the pirates.  so if the
pirates win, i can root for them.  if the braves win, i have no team to
root for.  from past experience, there is a 15/16 chance that i have a
team to root for in the world series.

as a side note, who else liked it when jim kaat cut off robby alomar in
the middle of a sentence when alomar was accepting the mvp award? that's
suave, jimbo.
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: john birch society and mlb players
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:40:20 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
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In article <TANENBLA.92Oct11133447@flounder.cs.columbia.edu>, tanenbla@cs.columbia.edu (Michael Tanenblatt) writes:
> In article <92284.212537RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> writes:
>>   who is the pitcher who made a comeback from surgery a year or two (or
>>   three) ago who is a member of the john birch society?  was that doug
>>   drabek? 
> Eric Show?  I don't remember if he had surgery and made a comeback, but I
> do believe he is (or was) a John Bircher.

RVESTERM's thinking of a sound-alike player: Dave Dravecky.
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."

"[George Bush is] the most ruthless white man in the history of the planet."
	-- Richard Ben Cramer, author of _What It Takes_
"The President scores much better than Bill Clinton."
	-- Dan, comparing Bush's record of marital infidelity to Clinton's
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Subject: The great sports fans of Pittsburgh 
From: Michael Scott Neiberg <mn1s+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 13:43:15 -0400 
Organization: Doctoral student, History, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

KDKA television showed a very interesting stat last night.  In the past
week the following events have (or will have) taken place in Pittsburgh
and drawn sell-out crowds:

2 Penguin games: 32,000+ fans
3 Pirate LCS games: 170,000+ fans
Pitt-Notre Dame: 50,000+ fans

This means that more than 1 in every 10 Pittsburghers will have attended
a major sporting event this week.  Think about how many people would
have to show up for New York or Los Angeles to do the same.  And if the
Steelers were home they would add another 50,000 to that list.



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From: barrym@informix.com (Barry Mednick)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: McCarverisms
Summary: Reardon, saves
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:35:00 GMT
Followup-To: barrym@informix.com
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <92282.133223BARBER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> BARBER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Wayne Barber) writes:
>
>Anybody else heard Tim say something great?
>--------------------------------------
How about when Reardon was pitching in the ninth with the score 13-5.
Tim says, "Of course, this is not a save situation."
As soon as I saw Reardon on the mound, I predicted he would say this.
What a turkey!
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From: lyle@chainsaw.ecn.purdue.edu (Lyle Youngblood)
Subject: Re: ALCS game 5: Why a day game?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 05:52:14 GMT

In article <ldk185INNjeq@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> empcomm@empserv.Corp.Sun.COM (Chet Anderson - Emp. Services) writes:
>I just heard that the A's beat the Jays today--why did they play
>a day game?  I thought I was going to get to watch it tonight on
>TV, but noooooo...
>
>Don't tell me they were afraid to go up against Monday Night Football;
>even then the ratings would have to be better than during the day.
>
    I doubt it actually.  For too many people Monday Night Football is 
a social, not a sports event.  Even people who don't know anything about
football go out to the bars which have special food and drink deals.  The
Series would probably beat out an MNF game, but not an LCS game.  The bars
themselves are the main thing.  Most of them have huge Monday night regular
crowds.  They aren't going to risk antagonizing these people by putting
even one TV on baseball. My regular Monday night bar has four TVs, all
would have been solidly on MNF except during halftime.  I know.  I wasn't
aware that game 5 was a day game and tried to check the score during
halftime. Oops. Notice the Series starts on a Sat so that Mon is always
a travel day.
    Also, I doubt ABC would appreciate the competition and the big three
rarely do things that would lead to competitive retaliation.  It's considered
wiser to duck each others big events rather than go head-to-head.
                                           Lyle

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From: hhenderson@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: McCarver Gets His Irish Up
Organization: Clark University
Date: 16 OCT 92 23:07:43 GMT

The latest story to hit the papers has been the contretemps between
Tim McCarver and Deion Sanders.  On the air, McCarver remarked on
Deion's commuting to play football during the playoffs, and said
that it was the wrong thing to do.  Sanders took exception to this
remark, apparently, and during the Braves' celebration in the locker 
room he dumped a bucket of icewater on McCarver.  He then followed this
up with two more water attacks throughout the evening, to McCarver's 
growing irritation.  After the third attempt, which missed, McCarver 
said something along the lines of "Deion, you know, you are a real man!"  
An Atlanta TV crew captured part of this on tape.  

McCarver complained to NL President Bill White and called Sanders'
behavior "a deliberate act of cowardice".  Sanders promptly retaliated 
by calling McCarver a coward too, and saying "This guy didn't want us to 
win, and we did."  

White is looking at the tape and is considering whether disciplinary 
measures should be taken against Sanders.  

Ah, to be young, and rich, and play two sports, and have the emotional
maturity of an eight-year-old!  Timmy me lad, ye should have stuffed that
gold medallion down Deion's throat.  Maybe next time.  I hope there's a
TV crew there to capture the moment.

Heather
HHENDERSON@vax.clarku.edu
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From: roger@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: What role for Jack Morris?
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:49:21 GMT

	A CBC reporter said that after all the hoopla died down at Skydome 
last night, Jack Morris went out for "2 hrs" and "pitched a simulated game"

  If this is  true it would mean he ain't gonna be pitching on Saturday. 
On the other hand, maybe he was just loosening up. What is the chance of 
Jimmy Key seeing action in the "World" series.

Roger C. Green,	Faculty of Medicine                      Phone: (709)737-6884
Memorial University , St. John's, Newfoundland.          FAX  : (709)737-7010
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Subject: Extreme Run Support and W-L Records (was Re: Morris)
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 9 Oct 92 01:52:07 MST
 <6928@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <1992Oct7.155250.2575@island.COM>
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In article <1992Oct7.155250.2575@island.COM>, fester@island.COM (Mike Fester) writes:
> In article <6928@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> genetic+@pitt.edu (Dr. Dave) writes:
>>  Pitchers who get extreme run support,
>>good or bad, tend to have about the same record, no matter how they pitch.
>>(I mean, of course, that all of those with great run support have great W/L
>>records, and all of those with crappy run support have crappy W/L records...)
>>So, their personal pitching doesn't have any significant effect on the team's
>>overall record.
> 
>Someone should have told that to Stewart last year: he had great run support.
>Also, Jose Rijo had outstanding run support, the league's best ERA and still
>managed to win precisely half his starts. (ERA 2.51, RS/9 5.1)

Mike, Bill James pointed out in his most recent book that Jose Rijo's
1991 support was grossly anomalous.  He got tons of runs in games he pitched
well, he got no runs in games he pitched well (2.9x ERA in his 6 losses),
and he got a lot of no-decisions (in most of which he pitched well).  Net
result: great ERA, great AVERAGE run support, but not as many wins
as he would have gotten with great CONSISTENT run support.

I don't see why you cited Dave Stewart.  He was terrible in 1991, but
that support was enough to propel him to a 11-11 record.

Dr. Dave was speaking in terms of tendencies.  Pitchers with great run
support will TEND to have great records.  And pitchers with horrid run
support will TEND to have horrid records.  In fact, the yearly leaders
in Wins and Losses do tend to be at either end of the run-support
spectrum (1972 Carlton, 1985 DeLeon, 1986 Clemens, 1991 Gullickson,
1992 J. Abbott, etc.) more often than they tend to be at either end
of the talent spectrum.

The simple facts: The league leader in wins is rarely the best pitcher
in the league.  The league leader in losses is rarely the worst
pitcher in the league.  A mediocrity like Gullickson can lead the league
in wins one year.  A similar mediocrity like DeLeon can lead the league
in losses one year.  Logically, you'd have to say that W-L records
are a piss-poor stat in rating the worth of a pitcher.

I don't think your "proof-by-exception" technique is valid.  Citing
Rijo and Stewart as examples of how great run support doesn't imply
great records doesn't prove that in general, Dave's statement is wrong.
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."

"[George Bush is] the most ruthless white man in the history of the planet."
	-- Richard Ben Cramer, author of _What It Takes_
"The President scores much better than Bill Clinton."
	-- Dan, comparing Bush's record of marital infidelity to Clinton's
Date: Wednesday, 14 Oct 1992 22:03:19 EST
From: <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: the ghost of barrywatch

(eighth inning.  none on, none out.  2-0 pirates.)

taken ball.  one ball, no strikes.
single, right field.

1-3, 1 bb.