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Beer is good!!
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Re: Earl Weaver passes
This is a great video of Weaver and umpire Bill Haller. It is a good way to pay tribute to a HOF manager.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLUuxVX4Z10 BTW there is lotsa vulgarities in the video. RIP "Earl of Baltimore"
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01-19-2013, 06:39 PM
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Re: Earl Weaver passes
Host: Bill Whitehouse, Earl, from, uh, Frederick, Maryland, wants to know why you and the Orioles don't go out and get some more team speed?
Weaver: Team speed? For xxxxx sake. You get xxxx dammed little fleas on the xxxxx bases, getting picked off trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get them big xxx xxxxxx that can hit the xxxx ball out of the ball park, and you can't make any xxx xxxxxx mistakes.
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01-19-2013, 09:01 PM
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Re: Earl Weaver passes
Maybe Stan the Man can hit a three run homer for him in the next game in Baseball Heaven
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01-19-2013, 09:24 PM
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Re: Earl Weaver passes
Love that video of Earl arguing. RIP Mr. Weaver.
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01-19-2013, 09:36 PM
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Re: Earl Weaver passes
RIP Earl Weaver AKa "The Duke of Earl and the Earl of Baltimore"
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01-19-2013, 10:53 PM
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Re: Earl Weaver passes
Today was the Orioles annual Fanfest celebration in Baltimore and I read that they had some nice tributes to Earl there. That had to be hard for everyone to celebrate the Orioles great season last year knowing one of their best managers had just passed away. RIP Earl.
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01-19-2013, 10:56 PM
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01-20-2013, 12:02 AM
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Re: Earl Weaver passes
Great manager. He had some really great teams in Baltimore. From 1969 to 1971 there was not a better team. They only got one world series win to how for it though. He had some of the most entertaining arguments a manager could ever have. You don't see those kind anymore. He and Ron Luciano would really get into it. Luciano had some really fiunny stories about the run ins they had. R.I.P Earl Weaver, You made it fun for all of us.
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01-20-2013, 12:36 AM
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Obviously he was way before my time but he should be remembered not only for his personality but he was a head of the curb on a lot of things, stressing the importance of OBP, working the counts, etc.
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01-20-2013, 10:59 AM
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01-20-2013, 11:22 AM
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01-21-2013, 11:38 AM
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01-21-2013, 11:51 AM
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Beer is good!!
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Re: Earl Weaver passes
Weaver only played 4 in games at the AAA level. I may be off base here but I can't recall another succesful manager in the modern era who really didn't make it farther than AA.
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01-21-2013, 01:18 PM
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