tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post1516462825300347004..comments2024-03-27T22:35:08.926-04:00Comments on The Heath Post: 1975GoHeathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122010542579322600noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-67514192886231092072022-08-17T21:11:29.497-04:002022-08-17T21:11:29.497-04:00Tom Seaver shut out the Giants, 3-0, on Aug. 17, 1...<a href="https://youtu.be/e2erw7v2Yfk" rel="nofollow">Tom Seaver shut out the Giants, 3-0, on Aug. 17, 1975, as eventual National League rookie-of-the-year John "The Count" Montefusco slipped to 10-7 on the season.</a> With the Pirates losing at Cincinnati on this same date, the Mets are within 3.5 games of the N.L. East lead:<br /><br />Pittsburgh 67-55<br />Philadelphia 66-55, 0.5 games back<br />St. Louis 65-57, 2.0<br />New York 63-58, 3.5<br />Chicago 58-66, 10.0<br />Montreal 50-69, 15.5<br /><br />As reported by the Shea Stadium scoreboard at the end of that clip:<br /><br /><i>METS ARE ON THE ROAD FOLLOWING<br />THE GAME TODAY WITH THE GIANTS<br />& RETURN TO SHEA ON LABOR DAY -<br />MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST - IN OPENER<br />OF A THREE-GAME SERIES AGAINST<br />PIRATES WITH GAME TIME 4:05 PM</i><br /><br />Seaver is now 17-7 with a 2.13 earned-run average on the season.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-16473289355922173472022-08-13T08:53:36.776-04:002022-08-13T08:53:36.776-04:00Still miss it.Still miss it.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-79830414053060906422022-08-13T08:52:57.956-04:002022-08-13T08:52:57.956-04:00This was a good idea. John Wall is from Raleigh, N...This was a good idea. John Wall is from Raleigh, North Carolina.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-81804970769416642512022-08-13T08:51:45.858-04:002022-08-13T08:51:45.858-04:00I wonder if anyone wrote the same sort of thing ab...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-URR-4uB8yY" rel="nofollow">I wonder if anyone wrote the same sort of thing about John Wall and all of the Wizards fans in Cleveland Park and Columbia Heights; in Springfield and Suitland, and so forth.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-16929339453850938582022-08-13T08:46:46.143-04:002022-08-13T08:46:46.143-04:00So great, yes: "He circled the bases in trium...So great, yes: "<a href="https://www.sheilaomalley.com/?p=91833" rel="nofollow">He circled the bases in triumph, in sudden company with several hundred fans, and jumped on home plate with both feet, and John Kiley, the Fenway Park organist, played Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” fortissimo, and then followed with other appropriately exuberant classical selections, and for the second time that evening I suddenly remembered all my old absent and distant Sox-afflicted friends (and all the other Red Sox fans, all over New England), and I thought of them – in Brookline, Mass., and Brooklin, Maine; in Beverly Farms and Mashpee and Presque Isle and North Conway and Damariscotta; in Pomfret, Connecticut, and Pomfret, Vermont; in Wayland and Providence and Revere and Nashua, and in both the Concords and all five Manchesters, and in Raymond, New Hampshire (where Carlton Fisk lives), and Bellows Falls, Vermont (where Carlton Fisk was born), and I saw all of them dancing and shouting and kissing and leaping about like the fans at Fenway – jumping up and down in their bedrooms and kitchens and living rooms, and in bars and trailers, and even in some boats here and there, I suppose, and on back-country roads (a lone driver getting the news over the radio and blowing his horn over and over, and finally pulling up and getting out and leaping up and down on the cold macadam, yelling into the night), and all of them, for once at least, utterly joyful and believing in that joy – alight with it.</a>"Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-20872294318889629532022-08-13T08:38:30.243-04:002022-08-13T08:38:30.243-04:00Good. I'm so glad to discover that I looked at...Good. I'm so glad to discover that I looked at this Jim Stafford stuff last summer so I don't feel the responsibility to queue it up on YouTube again today.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-22652506956238297302022-08-13T08:34:24.567-04:002022-08-13T08:34:24.567-04:002009 note from 2022: Modern Family is outstanding!...2009 note from 2022: <i>Modern Family</i> is outstanding!Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-42296899791891375302022-08-13T08:28:39.378-04:002022-08-13T08:28:39.378-04:00So good.So good.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-63372178783909663492021-08-27T13:58:42.000-04:002021-08-27T13:58:42.000-04:00First time I've ever been able to understand t...<a href="https://youtu.be/V-qlgpwrxlg?t=1738" rel="nofollow">First time I've ever been able to understand the lyrics to "Crocodile Rock."</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-85482044587911979322021-08-26T16:25:07.357-04:002021-08-26T16:25:07.357-04:00Through Aug. 26, ex-A Jim "Catfish" Hunt...<a href="https://youtu.be/U1VCGwKgphE?t=1002" rel="nofollow">Through Aug. 26, ex-A Jim "Catfish" Hunter has 18 wins for the Yankees--four of them against the A's.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-7687952671260741102021-08-25T14:57:42.128-04:002021-08-25T14:57:42.128-04:00MLB26 Update: On Channel 3 after the 10:30 news to...<a href="https://youtu.be/G3QAnVF70Gs" rel="nofollow">MLB26 Update: On Channel 3 after the 10:30 news tonight in 1975, it's a future U.S. president portraying a baseball player named after a former.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-87484163810804012021-08-25T10:52:45.386-04:002021-08-25T10:52:45.386-04:00The Supremes (without Diana Ross) were on American...<a href="https://youtu.be/R5bZj2JEwAc" rel="nofollow">The Supremes (without Diana Ross) were on <i>American Bandstand</i> on Saturday, Aug. 23 (as was Freddy Fender).</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-5482241118457232792021-08-25T10:36:54.159-04:002021-08-25T10:36:54.159-04:00It appears as though I've exhausted YouTube...It appears as though I've exhausted YouTube's stock of the Manhattan Transfer's 1975 summer replacement series, and my mood at the close of this chapter in my life is typically ambivalent. I am unequivocally happy that this series made <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072540/reviews/?ref_=tt_ql_urv" rel="nofollow">this IMDB user happy and brought back happy memories of the person's mother</a>, and I did particularly enjoy the mid-show standup bits (<a href="https://youtu.be/h4530GScRS4?t=1183" rel="nofollow">Gabe Kaplan!</a>) and commercials (<a href="https://youtu.be/h4530GScRS4?t=1576" rel="nofollow">Pelé is among the "Pepsi People"!</a>). Thank you, YouTube user "George Meyer" for uploading these videos.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-81309735595477953172021-08-25T10:14:43.166-04:002021-08-25T10:14:43.166-04:00Roger Daltrey is proud and optimistic about his in...<a href="https://youtu.be/7oN6hbmrL_c" rel="nofollow">Roger Daltrey is proud and optimistic about his industry's impact on humanity</a>--and, I would argue, rightly so.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-16137344355466351232021-08-25T10:11:03.100-04:002021-08-25T10:11:03.100-04:00I've never seen Onionhead, the unsuccessful mo...I've never seen <a href="https://youtu.be/Cn9Cre_xgF4?t=1348" rel="nofollow"><i>Onionhead</i></a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onionhead" rel="nofollow">unsuccessful movie that Andy Griffith and Walter Matthau made</a> after <i>A Face in the Crowd</i>.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-55853106821463995422021-08-25T10:03:12.045-04:002021-08-25T10:03:12.045-04:00And now a few words from Mickey Mantle about athle...<a href="https://youtu.be/Cn9Cre_xgF4?t=811" rel="nofollow">And now a few words from Mickey Mantle about athlete's foot ...</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-332072575029065152021-08-25T09:12:21.177-04:002021-08-25T09:12:21.177-04:00I had no idea that Ed Halicki ever threw a no-hitt...<a href="https://youtu.be/Cn9Cre_xgF4" rel="nofollow">I had no idea that Ed Halicki ever threw a no-hitter.</a> I also had never noticed from <a href="https://wikiheights.com/how-tall-is-ed-halicki/" rel="nofollow">the backs of his cards that Halicki (of Kearny, New Jersey) is 6 feet, 7 inches</a>.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-86945156764449685622021-08-17T12:01:23.115-04:002021-08-17T12:01:23.115-04:00Of the debut of this show, TV Guide wrote, “A four...Of the debut of this show, <i>TV Guide</i> wrote, “A four-week summer series of be-bop, swing and razzmatazz starring The Manhattan Transfer, a flashy vocal quartet that blends ‘30s nostalgia with ‘60s rock.” <br /><br />That's a good summary. The WASP woman they parodied in the debut appears as though it's going to be a recurring gag.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-32808075237497435592021-08-17T11:45:11.026-04:002021-08-17T11:45:11.026-04:00Oh, my gosh, I miss Tab.<a href="https://youtu.be/gTs1iMLtieY?t=426" rel="nofollow">Oh, my gosh, I miss Tab.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-35696097521267795542021-08-16T15:42:28.503-04:002021-08-16T15:42:28.503-04:00On the evening of July 6, after they split a doubl...On the evening of July 6, after they split a double-header, the BoSox were 43-37. They then went 52-28 the rest of the way, and were red-hot coming into the playoffs. They opened the playoffs by winning four straight games over the A's and Reds, and they were up 2-1 going into the 9th inning of game two. Almost nothing is worse than running into a red-hot team in the playoffs, but that is what's coming this fall for the Big Red Machine.GoHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11122010542579322600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-58235739433155142242021-08-16T15:37:34.893-04:002021-08-16T15:37:34.893-04:00Roger Angell's article on the 1975 World Serie...Roger Angell's article on the 1975 World Series -- "Agincourt and After" -- is one of the best pieces ever written about baseball.GoHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11122010542579322600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-35882200874924720092021-08-16T15:36:17.066-04:002021-08-16T15:36:17.066-04:00He will play the new guy.He will play the new guy.GoHeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11122010542579322600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-37916477337324445652021-08-16T12:26:25.749-04:002021-08-16T12:26:25.749-04:00This is going to be Boston's order for Game 1 ...This is going to be Boston's order for Game 1 of the American League Championship Series next month 1975:<br /><br />1. Beniquez, designated hitter<br />2. Denny Doyle, second base<br />3. Yastrzemski, left field<br />4. Carlton Fisk, catcher<br />5. Lynn, center field<br />6. Petrocelli, third base<br />7. Evans, right field<br />8. Cecil Cooper, first base<br />9. Burleson, shortstopErichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-67607174205254599052021-08-16T12:24:16.985-04:002021-08-16T12:24:16.985-04:00Here was Boston's opening-day 1975 batting ord...Here was Boston's opening-day 1975 batting order:<br /><br />1. Juan Beníquez left field<br />2. Fred Lynn, center field<br />3. Carl Yastrzemski, first base<br />4. Tony Conigliaro, designated hitter<br />5. Rico Petrocelli, third base<br />6. Dwight Evans, right field<br />7. Bob Montgomery, catcher<br />8. Rick Burleson, shortstop<br />9. Doug Griffin, second baseErichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-29562703722393979142021-08-16T12:21:11.635-04:002021-08-16T12:21:11.635-04:00Spoiler alert: The Red Sox are going to hang on an...Spoiler alert: The Red Sox are going to hang on and win the East.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.com