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I don't even remember the frostbite incident.
I just remember later in his career, Jones said all his bulking up hurt him. He said all that extra weight on his joints contributed to injuries. He may have elaborated more , but I can't remember.
A few years ago, a Reds trainer (or ex-trainer) came out and said one of the Reds players was using roids during that time. I always assumed it was Jones and/or Dibble.
[Phil ] Castellini celebrated the team's farm system and noted the team had promising prospects who would one day be great Reds -- and then joke then they'd be ex-Reds, saying "of course we're going to lose them". #SellTheTeamBob
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
How do we know he's not Mel Torme?
You could be right.. I guess Householder was so bad, I kind of forgot about him when going through the rosters in my mind when that comment was made
Jones was totally ripped though one year. I had some HS classmates that took roids over the summer and they were hardly recognizable when they came back in the fall.. Tracy kind of reminded me of that transformation.
[Phil ] Castellini celebrated the team's farm system and noted the team had promising prospects who would one day be great Reds -- and then joke then they'd be ex-Reds, saying "of course we're going to lose them". #SellTheTeamBob
Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!
Here's another full game I found just the other day. Reds vs Cubs from May 27, 1984. It's a Cubs broadcast with Harry Caray. A nice little scuffle breaks out in the 2nd inning over an umpires call.
For you Bengals fans I found the full game of the Freezer Bowl on youtube also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXnps...e062sb&index=9
Reds Fan Since 1971
I remember like yesterday watching this game at a neighbors house. Watching this was a nice way to spend a slow Friday afternoon.
1) The opening credits with the Van Halen "Jump" theme brought back memories.
2) Anyone who thinks umpiring today is worse now than it has ever been needs to watch this video. The HP ump got it right by reversing the call but taking a half hour to listen to the Cubs gripe was insane. The whole dispute should have lasted no more than five minutes. The fact the umpiring crew let the dispute go on so long only fueled tempers and made things worse.
3)Zimmer, Frey and Bowa all should have been tossed during the scuffle. Steve Ripley should have had the stones to toss Soto when he bumped him.
4) It was nice hearing Harry Carey do a game again but as long as he has been around baseball he should have know you cannot protest a judgement call.
5) Did Carey really think Zimmer was trying to stop Soto from hurting the umpires? Harry had to be drunk. Zimmer wanted a piece of Soto IMO.
6) Both the Cubs and Reds filed protests. I can see how the Cubs would file one to satisfy their fans when they know there is no way they will win, but what could the Reds have been protesting? Was Vern Rapp that clueless?
7) Bob Engle who was the crew chief and the one I point the finger at for causing this debacle was eventually fired for stealing baseball cards from a Target. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-04-...baseball-cards
8) Had Reds Zone been around in 84' the game thread would have went into the thousands.
"Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it." Cal Hubbard
http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=8831746
Pete states in the interview that he doesn't gamble illegally anymore.
Of course, he doesn't gamble illegally. He lives in Las Vegas. All his gambling is perfectly legal.
At another point, it almost seems, in my opinion, that Pete almost begins to say that he never gambled as a player, but he stops himself from saying it and merely states that gambling didn't affect his 4256 hits.
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