EOBHR

Entirety of Baseball History Replayed!

Love baseball.... but sick of the 3+ hour games  and all the pampered $10+ MILLION/YEAR players...while you now have to skip lunch every other day plus have also completely stopped changing the oil in, or servicing,  your family car just so you can pay for your MLB cable package?!?  Then you may need to use a healthy supplement to reduce or even replace the current 25% of your waking hours watching draggy baseball games, plus the unhealthy brain-warping diet of erectile dysfunction, gout water, automobile, beer, and insurance ads that accompanies them: YES YOU NEED to experience  the efficient, , never-boring, digest-sized baseball world  of EOBHR (The "Entirety of Baseball History Replayed" project)....Wherein a unique possible but not actual history of baseball unfolds in an unpredictable but totally plausible,  entertaining, fascinating, relaxing, mind-blowing, time-efficient way.  EOBHR is now replaying the 1906 season.  Each season consists of a 16 game per team regular season, followed by an NCAA-like tournament among teams that finish in the top half of their organizational unit's standings.   The tournament games count in team win-loss and also in player statistics.   Really, would you rather spend a year plowing  through the HARD-COPY, HERNIA/SLEEP-INDUCING,  NO-HOT-PHOTOS, HARD-COPY 500,000 word  TOME of Tolstoy's War & Peace -- or see a 2-3 hour movie of the same story, loaded with plenty of hot , blouse-ripping actresses -- hunky, ripped actors -- and colorful, head-banging violence??  EOBHR began the project on July 11, 2006 and has now replayed 1903, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1918, 1923, 1928, 1933, 1937, 1941, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1955,  1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,  2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012 MLB seasons.  EOBHR staff hands-on manage both sides and records game details real-time as each contest progresses.  You can relive each game by reading the entertaining, succinct, picture-assisted, irreverent game writeups...  A few hours of occasional reading will enable you to relive an entire season in a plausible way that actually ADDS to your appreciation of real baseball by its presentation of surprising what-ifs.... AND IF YOU ENJOY EOBHR, YOU'LL  LIKELY BE IN NIRVANA  WHEN YOU  CUDDLE UP WITH THE SKUNKVILLE SAGA!!! The world's longest (well over 1,500,000+ words), most pictorial (5,000+ photos), with more than 1,000 archived episodes to enjoy...  funniest novel ever written in English or any other language, including Swahilian!.. Kirkus Reviews compares The Skunkville Saga to the works of James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, & John Barth.  FONT>

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10/26/14

1980 EOBHR REPLAY #37: DAY 10 N.L.

1980 EOBHR REPLAY #37: DAY 10 N.L.

 

129 SF (4-6/3xT3rd) 4-10-2 ME (6-4/T2nd) 16-24-0 

Giant RF and leadoff man Jim Wohlford opens up the B1st by drilling a triple to straightaway CF, then Darrell Evans loops a go-ahead sac fly, as the home Giants smile smugly at each other in the away dugout... But none of them saying anything out loud 'cause Skip might think they were taking the talented Expos too lightly.. That they had unwarranted confeedience (how Deadball slugger Jesse Burkett said the word).

And a wise decision that was, as ex-Giant SS Chris Speier (4-4/3R/2RBI/BB+IBB) bruises a game-tying single as the Expos respond with a 3-run B2nd.... Expo starting pitcher and winner Dean Palmer lining the go-ahead single.

All in all, Montreal scores in every inning except the 1st and the 4th -- hitting a high water mark of 6 runs in the T6th -- en route to a blowout 16-4 win.  The Expos amass 8 doubles, 2 homers (Dawson & Carter), 14 singletons, and just four free passes in the one sided victory, as they 'square up' and then blow away the Jints 16-4 with all barrels firing.

Dean Palmer works the first seven innings as he improves to 2-0/2.25.  Expo leadoff man RF Jerry White (.286) even has a single, a double, and 3 ribbies....in his 7 at bats! 

Giants' shortness vividly Exposed   

 

 

128  NM (7-3/1st)  0-6-0  LD (6-4/1st) 3-5-0 in 12

The Mets Roy Lee Jackson fans 17 Dodgers, walking just 3, in 11 innings of 4-hit shutout pitching. 

But, not surprisingly,  Roy Lee seemingly may be hitting the wall T12th: Reggie Smith lashes a leadoff double, Rudy Law draws a free pass....  So Met relief ace Jeff Reardon is hustled into the game to face Mr. Perfect, Steve Garvey... And he immediately lights up the Mets' Reardon up a 3-run walkoff butt rocket up up and away to left field!

With Law on the field, how did Dodgers get away with this nasty prank? 

 

127 HA (4-6/3xT3rd) 3-10-2  SD (6-4/T1st) 4-12-0 in 10 

Three times the ill-fated Astros take a one-run lead, and San Diego matches them in the bottom of the same or next frame.

C.C. Cedeno supplies the 1st and the 3rd of the brief Houston leads by mashing a 2-out homer to LF T3rd, and blooping a go-ahead single T10th, following a leadoff  Enos Cabell double and a Jeff Leonard single.

But in the B10th, red-hot in-game sub CF Jerry Mumphry (.378) beats out a slow roller for his 3rd hit of the tight contest, then steals his '80 EOBHR N.L. lead-tying 6th base.  A 2B Tim Flannery (member with Jerry Royster of the Padres' famed mid-80's Flanster  keystone combo..but not in 1980) basehit into RF moves Mumphrey to 3rd, then Gene Richards smashes a long walkoff hit to RF (ruled a single even tho' speedy Mumphrey scores before Richards has even reached 1st base)!

Padre reliever Bob Shirley (1-0/2.35) wins in relief.

'Shirley?  You can't be serious!'  

'But I am serious... and don't call me Shirley!!' 

Airplane, the movie

 

126 PH (5-5/3xT-last) 0-4-0-5  CN (4-6/5th) 3-9-0-10

As a long-long-long time suffering Phillies fan, right back to the '50 Phillies who were no-contest for the Yankees in the 1950 World Series, where we invited the neighborhood men to come watch the game on our tiny screen big console TV in rows of chairs we had lined up...  This is another one of the those games that reminds me precisely what the hopeless Phillies used to be like, and, really, still are.

In the T3rd, trailing 1-0 on a B1st George Foster RBI single, the Phils' blazing fast, athletic, out-of-control-at-times (e..g., Lonnie would run so hard he would at times 'spin his wheels' and just churn up the turf or dirt: not move forward...sometimes even falling on his side!) Lonnie Smith flicks a one out single RF.  Then an over-the-hill Pete Rose pops up in foul territory for out #2.  Feared Mike Schmidt draws a walk, moving Lonnie to 2nd.... And the wonderful, under-control Bake McBride lashes a 2-out single RF....As Lonnie, his legs churning faster than the eye can follow, rounds 3rd -- where  the base coach is frantically putting up the STOP sign... But ultra-speedy (well, when he gets traction) Smith, maybe unable to execute that kind of abrupt stopping manuever when he's going so fast, runs right through the red light as if it's not there.... And Cincy RF Sam Mejias makes a perfect one-bounce throw into C Johnnie Bench's glove.... Smith:  OUT...by a mile!

Well, these Phillies are so inept it probably didn't matter that much, as they didn't score any runs at all, so maybe Lonnie was thinking 'Hey, this is our best -- maybe our only -- chance to get on the board...so let's go for it: Full speed ahead!!'

And that was it for the Phils' scoring opps, while the great George Foster had 1-out-B1st and 2-out-T3rd RBI hits in his 1st 2 plate appearances... Then in the T6th, graceful Red CF Cesar Geronimo (.600 = 6-10/2HR/4RBI/3BB!!!) follows a Ray Knight checked swing leadoff BB provided accidentally by aptly named Phiilie starter Bob Walk, plus a Dave Concepcion double just fair down the LF line -- a dying quail that RF Greg ('Gigi') Gross tries to bag, but runs out of time on his in-charge, the spinning pellet dropping onto the grass and taking a funny hop away! 

3-0, Cincy is the final.  Walk, with 7 hits (incl. 2 doubles), 4 Bob Walk signature walks, plus a wild pitch, was lucky to escape his 6 innings of work only 3 runs behind.     

Reds take it easy, win on a Walk    

 

125 PT (5-5/2xT-last) 7-12-1-7 AB (2-8/last) 5-13-1-10

The Braves (2-8) continue to plummet towards Nowhere, and now have a full game lead over any of the 25 other 1980 teams (e.g., Angels 3-9) for Worst Record honors for this replay. 

Nonetheless, they have shown some capability at 'winning' portions of games, and threatening to win right up until the final gun, and in fact in this game take an earlybird 2-0 lead into the B2nd... Even Bucco starter Larry McWilliams, not involved in the final decision, draws a humiliating bases loaded walk off Buc starter, talented Jim Bibby.

But perhaps enraged to have that fiasco associated with the fine Bibby Athletic Family Name, Bibby Baby (one of my ex-wives' nickname for his NBA G Henry Bibby)  opens the T3rd by driving a ball deep into the LF stands; then one out later, slugger Bill Robinson follows suit, as the game is quickly tied 2-2.

An error by Brave SS Luis Gomez helps Pittsburgh to take the lead T4th, and Bucco part-timer Lee Lacy laces an RBI double to make it 4-2 in the T5th; all 3 of Lee's safeties in this '80 EOBHR replay have been 2-baggers, and have produced a total of 3 RBI.

But with Bob Horner on your team, crooked numbers may suddenly appear in any inning where he bats, and Bob in fact ties the contest 4-4 B5th with a 2-run homer, sweeping home Lacey ahead of him.

In the 7th, Lacy adds another RBI double to put the Pirates back ahead -- but then Brave utility man Jerry Royster doubles and the great, very religious Dale Murphy singles re-tie the gam 4-5 B7th.

The decisive blow, though, occurs 2-out T8th, when 39-year-old Willie 'Pop' Stargell gets his first hit of this '80 replay -- a 2-run homer after a SS Tim Foli single...

In the B9th, though, the Bravos have a big upset cooking with the  tying runs (Royster leadoff single, Horner double) in scoring position and no one out... But then, with the great Kent Tekulve pitching in relief for the Pirates, Dale Murphy pops out, Chambliss scorches a line out and Brian Asselstine is fanned to end it...

 Brian, shaking his head:  'Now I really feel like the first half of my last name!' 

 

124 CC (6-4/2nd) 9-11-1-5  SC (5-5/T-last) 4-13-0-12

This is not a close game from beginning to end, and serves as a galling loss for the Cardinals to their perennial regional rivals, the Cubbies.  Amazingly, the N.L. East is so tough that St. Louis' 5-5 record is only good for a tie for LAST with another Midwest rival, the Pirates (5-5).

The Cubs jump to a hyperactive  9-0 lead by the T2nd, in a game that must have been hard to take for Cardinal home fans.  In a way, Cub Jerry Martin's (Jerry now tied for the '80 relay HR lead with 5) 2-out 3-run blast T1st  buried the visitors and seemed to have taken most of  the hope and determination that could have sparked a comeback...

So the Cubs took advantage of this opportunity, the hated Cards reeling, and piled on with a juicy, heavy 5-spot T2nd!  Dave Kingman, now batting an unreal (especially for him!) .476, socked a 2-run homer, his 3rd already of this replay, with 2-out T2nd to make it 7-0... Then Bill Buckner doubled and Mike Vail employs an opposite field dinger to bring the Vail down over the apparently lifeless Cardinals of this day, giving Mikey V. 9 ribbies in just 31 at bats in this replay!

Four hits by Ted Simmons enliven a partial, face-saving late comeback by the wobbly flying Birds.

Cardinals find themselves in a Vail of Tears... 'We've forgotten our Cardinal rule,' they sob pathetically...'We need to remember that we need to outscore the opponents in most games....not worry about our own individual stats.... in order to be even somewhat successful...'

 
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