jim palmer Stories - Over the Monster
Happy 65th Birthday, Jim Palmer!
On this day in 1945, James Alvin Palmer was born. Twenty years and eleven months later he became the youngest pitcher to win a World Series game with a complete game shutout of the Dodgers. Forty-one years after that, he met his soulmate when Gary Thorne became his broadcasting partner at MASN. In...
Graph of the Day: Jim Palmer and Mike Cuellar
The end of the 60s was a start of an era for the Baltimore Orioles. In 1969 Jim Palmer came back from arm surgery. Mike Cuellar, a 32-year old veteran, came over from Houston. The two would go on to anchor the Baltimore rotation for eight seasons. These were Orioles starting pitchers during the...
Game 34: Jim Palmer dominates, Wake struggles, Bard debuts
I'll give credit where credit is due: Jim Palmer absolutely killed the Red Sox last night in the Angels' 8-4 win. I mean, he was on. Five hits in a complete game? That's what a Hall of Famer does, folks. Jimmy boy, he just had the stuff. He was bad the first couple of innings, but after that, Jim...
Hang on, man, just, like, let me say this...
I've been sorta busy lately and unable to post as much as I want to and unable to get down to the real heart of the matter about this Baltimore Orioles team that we all so love and cherish, but now that I have a few late night minutes again I want to make a few things very clear. I love Gary Thorne...
A couple of more thoughts about slaughtering the Yankees
We don't play this game on paper! Shut it, Squinty. You give hating the Yankees a bad name. This is sort of a "random thoughts" idea, although I really don't like how "random thoughts" sounds. I don't like the word "random." It gets used too much. That, in itself, is a random thought. Or, really, I...
O's 9, Rays 6: .500? Must be a peach of a hand
Huff photo © D. Heller Photo © Rob Carr / AP Not much in the way of a crowd tonight. Announced attendance, apparently, was about 10,500. We really are the Major League Indians. But to quote another quality sports movie of the same era, the sun shines on a dog's ass some days, Billy...
Melvin Mora is Roger Dorn
What do you want Melvin to do? Dive for it? "I've never heard of half these guys. And the ones I do know are way past their prime." "Most of these guys never had a prime." Adam Jones is Pedro Cerrano. Straightball, he hit it very much. Curveball...bats are afraid. Daniel Cabrera is Rick Vaughn....
Rays 6, O's 2: So it begins
It is what it is. It was what it was. The first loss of God knows how many -- there could be about 100 more of these to come. Talkin' points: Jim Palmer -- still an arrogant SOB. Adam Jones -- not so hot with offspeed pitches. Jeremy Guthrie -- looked OK. Not great. Not terrible. Matt Albers --...
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