Here’s about five and a half minutes of home-movie footage from an Orioles-White Sox doubleheader at Comiskey Park on August 22, 1976.
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Mark Buehrle’s perfect game today is the first to occur since a few months before our road trip, which I note is coming up on its 5th anniversary. Of course I’m sorry it came against the Rays, but we like Buehrle here at baseballrelated.com. Both the Cubs and White Sox use United Airlines charters for their travel needs, and United always assigns them the same flight numbers: 9904 for the Sox, 9907 for the Cubs. And therefore, it’s possible to track their flights: 9904 and 9907. Because it’s a charter service, you’ll see some airports that aren’t [...] 1:00 — Boston Red Sox at Kansas City Royals (ESPN and NESN)Arizona Diamondbacks at Colorado Rockies (FSN Rocky Mountain)1:01 — At last, a game is over: Marlins 9, Nationals 2.1:05 — Mariano Rivera comes on for the Yankees. The Devil Rays were keeping it close for a while, but the Yankees now lead [...] 12:00 — Salsa, chips, and cheese — lunch of champions!12:07 — Say what you will about TBS, I enjoy their “scorecard” graphics.12:09 — On WGN, they’re interviewing Cubs general manager Jim Hendry, who at one point refers to baseball as “the industry,” which is just a horrible way to refer to baseball, although I’m sure [...] 11:00 — Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati Reds (ESPN 2, WGN, and FSN Ohio)L.A. Dodgers at Milwaukee Brewers (FSN Prime Ticket)Cleveland Indians at Chicago White Sox (Comcast SportsNet Chicago)11:01 — Vin Scully! “And a pleasant good day to you wherever you may be.” Now it really is baseball season.11:13 — Hey, a new family [...] Jury duty is good for getting some reading in. For the past two days while I was in the main Los Angeles criminal courts building, I read Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Blunders. These are blunders not by players, but by coaches, managers, general managers, and owners. It starts with the [...] Before Channel 44 in Chicago was a Spanish-language station, it was the broadcast home of the White Sox, and clearly didn’t have as big a budget as the broadcast home of the Cubs across town. (This was edited from a YouTube file — a commenter on YouTube already noted the small number of people [...] Well, someone is an advertising genius. Coming soon: Blue Jays games will start at 6:49, Tigers games will start at 3:00, Devil Rays games will start at whatever time you can get there. |
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