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Welcome to the Somerset Patriots, so long Staten Island.
Do you have your Hudson Valley Renegades T Shirt yet?
Saturday, November 7, 2020
Not to Be Lost in the Flurry of Today's Lesser Announcements...
Welcome to the Somerset Patriots, so long Staten Island.
Do you have your Hudson Valley Renegades T Shirt yet?
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Been to Dutchess Stadium a few times when they were affiliated with Tampa Bay...interesting about the switch...
I'm 20 minutes from Dutchess Stadium. Got my first COVID test there.
Love the bit about Sparky Lyle in the Somerset Pats write up. Sparky has one of the wildest stories in Yankees, even sports, history. Closer on a WS winning team and fucking Cy Young award winner, gets relegated to mop up duty the next year thanks to the owners' acquisition of a shiny new toy. That it worked out for George and the Yanks is even more astounding. "The Bronx Zoo" remains my favorite ever sports book.
I first read it about 6 or 7 years after the events in question, having been too young to really have known what was going on at the time. I was scandalized. "Dad! Did you know..." "Dad! Can you believe this stuff..." Old man just chuckled.
The Coney Island Park is a nice little stadium. But the Cyclones are a Mets affiliate. Ugh.
The Hudson valley is booming in terms of people buying homes and leaving the city. A good choice. Besides, who wants to go to Staten Island?
The Yanks' desertion of Staten Island is a disgrace. They have a beautiful park there, and it was a complete giveaway from the city. They have simply taken our taxpayer money and set it on fire.
If Cohen is as smart as everyone says he is, his first move will be to put a Mets farm team in that park, even if he has to start a new one.
I loved watching Sparky Lyle pitch, too, Publius. But thanks to being ridiculously overpitched—like SO many other pitchers—by Billy Martin, he was done.
Lyle threw 103 2/3 innings in 1976, and 137 in 1977, his Cy Young year. Even in 1978, he threw 111 2/3 innings—and the difference in quality was clear:
1976: 7-8 2.26 ERA 23 SV (led AL) 103 2/3 IP 82 H 42 BB 61 K
1977: 13-5 2.17 ERA 20 SV 137 IP 131 H 33 BB 68 K
1978: 9-3 3.47 ERA 9 SV 111 2/3 IP 116 H 33 BB 33K
ERA way up, WHIP way up, strikeouts at less than half of what he had the year before.
Lyle was 33 at the end of 1978, and he never pitched particularly well again. What's more, he was the main cog in the deal for Righetti, which turned out pretty damned well.
"Ball Four" was the greatest baseball book ever just because it opened the lid on what baseball was like inside the clubhouse .I remember all the Yankees hating Jim Bouton for being a snitch. "Bronx Zoo" was a very entertaining 2nd. Loved it to death. I recommend both of those books and I may re-read them just to get away from today. Calgon bath take me away.
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Well, my trips to Charleston just got a tad less interesting
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