... I've been cogitating ^^ ... there should be a slight upward/vertical vector (?) .... a Vlady uppercut would probably mash it into the outfield .......  if the winds were favourable.  

...and I'll have you know I did quite well in H.S. physics .... registered for first year, but V.W.ed once I took a peek into the text.  

Edit: p. 103 >>>

Yeah, I knew a guy who registered for a math course,, looked at the BACK pages of the text and uttered “I’ll never be able to do this”. I advised him to start on page 1…..

Entering second year I was too late to sign up for the second year Theology course I wanted, settled for a third year honours Theology course instead. I swear the prof took pity and passed me on attendance.

For your nostalgic viewing pleasure…
fb.watch/tbJ7BglSS3/?

^^  ..... I dunno.        I don't see any "brewery reps." 

The Rocket was a Molson’s rep…. Roger Maris was a Budweiser rep

... heck, I figure they could've [should've?] made a feature length featuring only brewery reps.  

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For your nostalgic viewing pleasure…
fb.watch/tbJ7BglSS3/?

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Norice that the narrator said "hockey sweater" - none of that "jersey" nonsense.

Paul, you mean nonsense or "bull"?   Two bulls are standing out in some pretty raw weather. One says to the other: "Man, I'm gettin' c-c-c-o-old ... I think I'll go down to the barn and slip into a nice warm jersey."

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Paul, you mean nonsense or "bull"?   Two bulls are standing out in some pretty raw weather. One says to the other: "Man, I'm gettin' c-c-c-o-old ... I think I'll go down to the barn and slip into a nice warm jersey."

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Bah-DUMP-bump.

He'll be here all week, folks! Make sure you try the veal!

"Don't eat the veal 'cause it's a baby pig!" (Some standup comic said that.)

Can you name them,, left to right (3 Boston connections, btw)

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Orr and Esposito are obvious, but I'm embarassed to say I can't name the rest.

Not bad cornsittering it was 1972,, Harry Sinden, Tony Esposito, John Ferguson are the others

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Which proves little beyond the fact that I'm old.

Some food for thought (?) ........ or at least one writer's opinion.   

From   MLB Throwback - I love BaseBall  >> my Facebook page >> BHO:

"What ruined baseball?

Baseball is not ruined, but MLB has embarked on a course which is eroding the fan base. There are three main issues.

From the 1901 season to the start of free agency, the top players in the game made about ten times as much as the rookies and fringe players. I am glad that the minimum salary has gone up substantially. Given that players spend years of unpaid training, that is reasonable. But with the current MLB salaries, teams are spending around 50 times more than the MLB minimum of $700,000 for the top players ($35 million) and dozens of players are making $21 million and up, which is 30 times the minimum way up from that 10-to-1 ratio. Meanwhile, ticket and concession prices have skyrocketedì. I went to hundreds of games in the 60s. 70, 80s, and 90s. The last 20 years: four. I cannot afford it. I look at my socioeconomic status and there are tens of millions of people just like me. MLB owners and players are pricing baseball out of the market for a lot of people whose kids will not become baseball lovers (none of my three even follow baseball).

Next, we have the destruction of the minor leagues, which took place recently. There are millions of fans who don't live anywhere near MLB teams. A lot of them just lost the ability to go to minor league games because MLB cut them. I have been to hundreds of minor league games, too. I enjoy looking at players, knowing some will be in MLB down the road. Those fans lost their opportunity to connect.

The third one got addressed regarding pace of play. Games are painfully slow. With the advent of the cell phone coinciding with the increasingly slow action, people started checking their phones between pitches. They would stay on it long enough to miss action, which disconnects them from the game. When your live audience is disconnected, they soon cease to be your live audience. (I also saw a lady get absolutely destroyed by a foul ball to the face because she was looking at her phone. Another ex-fan.)

Baseball has addressed two of these issues recently. Unfortunately, only one of the two went in the right direction. I also see virtually zero chance of the financial issue being addressed. I love the game of baseball, but when a hard-core fan such as I am lives within a two-hour drive of two MLB franchises goes four times in 20 years, that is trouble.

That's where baseball is: in trouble."

Skydome cheap seat in the early 2000’s cost me $8. No telling what they are now. It’s the ol’ supply & demand principle, I suppose. Hockey isn’t much better.

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Skydome cheap seat in the early 2000’s cost me $8. No telling what they are now. It’s the ol’ supply & demand principle, I suppose. Hockey isn’t much better.

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Well, that's a previously-sealed metallic container of annelids you just opened, for certain...

There are several aspects I think are relevant. First is the fact that the NHL has a hard cap; baseball, football and basketball CLAIM to have caps but there are plenty of ways around them (to an extent, there's the LTIR dodge, so skillfully exploited by teams like Vegas, which is really the only one of consequence in the NHL). So putting hard caps in place in the other leagues might help - but I don't think we're likely to see that happen; why would a pitcher making $30mm a year opt into a system that isn't to his advantage? Same for the NBA. And at least in the NHL, if a player signs for 5 X $6mm he's going to get the money - unless he quits or gets fired for cause. Personally, I think the CBA in the NHL is pretty reasonable, all things considered; the cap is calculated so that players get roughly half of the gross revenues of the league. Not sure what the ratio in the other leagues is.

The fact is that the NHL is vastly more dependent upon ticket sales and tschotchkes sales than the other three leagues, for the simple reason that the TV deals enjoyed by the NHL are nowhere near as lucrative. I live near Boston, as hockey-mad a town as exists in the You Knighted Stakes, so we can count on all but a few games each year being broadcast by the local sports network (which inflicted the fabled-and-now-retired Jack Edwards on the rest of North American hockey).

I agree that ticket prices for the bigs has become unaffordable. Several times per year, my sister and I go to Providence to see a P-Bruins game. The whole excursion - great seats for the two of us, gas, and parking tallies up to less than the cost of one nosebleed seat at TD Garden. And while the travel cost isn't much different, the parking is several times more expensive. And you can see some very good players there.

Interest in - and revenues for - the NHL is growing, and that's good. But the big advantage that baseball and basketball has when it comes to developing kids? They're cheap to operate - in fact, basketball and soccer are comparable in that all you really need is a ball and a place to play. And that's the real threat to hockey: it's some jeezely expensive to raise a hockey player. Between gear, ice time, travel teams and so forth, it can cost five grand a year and more to nurture a kid's fondness for the sport. The only sport that I can think of that's in the same cost picture is competitive alpine skiing. I've read recently that gross sales for both Bauer and CCM are down significantly. Not surprising when a pair of kids' skates can cost wll north of $300 and a stick more than $200. And let's not forget all the pads, pants, sweaters and whatnot.

Here’s the breakdown that my daughter sent me re hockey expenses for my grandson Ollie

We did well for a while finding good used stuff. Those days are over now that he's older.

- Registration was $650 this year
- Team fees likely $600 to cover games/tournaments- you may get some back due to fundraising.
- Travel hotels/food - likely $2000-$3000
- Gear - we likely spent $500-$600.
He needs new skates so this year will be far more.

This is house hockey. The rep team does far more tournaments and travel. I know a girl with a child on the Cranbrook bucks U13 and she spent $15,000 last year and also has a son on the U11 rep team. It's crazy.

Here’s former NHL’r Anthony Stewart’s story…

“ Stewart was born in LaSalle, Quebec, in 1985, the oldest of seven children of Norman and Sue Stewart.[1][2] Norman immigrated to Canada from Jamaica in 1974, taking mainly seasonal jobs such as landscaping or construction,[3] and Sue was a stay-at-home mother.[2] The family moved to Toronto the year after Stewart's birth.[1] During his childhood they were evicted from their home and moved to a subsidized shelter in what has been described as a "rough" neighbourhood of Scarborough.[1][3] Stewart began skating at the age of four and playing hockey at five.[1] As a young hockey player, he would often walk with his father to hockey games and practices. On one such occasion, the two were walking in a blizzard when they were picked up by a fellow hockey parent, Bob Ziemendorf, who was driving his child to the same place.[4] Ziemendorf drove them home again after the practice, and from then on he regularly gave the family lifts and helped them with the cost of hockey and groceries.[1][4] During a particularly trying time for the family, Stewart moved in with Ziemendorf and his family for over a year and a half.[5] Stewart later stated that he believed that, without this help, he could not have got into the NHL.”

Only in da Bronx…
sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/some-...lue-jays/

"Hey man, it’s New York,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said after Toronto's 8-5 victory. “I kind of didn’t even really realize it. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, right? These fans are crazy. They had about a 90-minute head start with the beer on the delay.”

If you’re into numerology….

I never knew Orr wore anything but #4.   From Alex Ovechkin Fanpage >> my Facebook >> BHO:

"One of few action shots of Boston Bruins rookie Bobby Orr wearing jersey number 27. September 30, 1966

Orr was assigned jersey number 27 in 1966, and wore it for a few exhibition games.

With Orr's junior number 2 retired in honour of Eddie Shore, the Bruins offered him jersey number 5, that of past Bruins star Dit Clapper, prior to the regular season, but Orr instead chose jersey number 4, which had been vacated by veteran defenceman Albert Langlois.

Of course, Orr wore number 4 for the rest of his career.

The New York Ranger players are probably Reggie Fleming #9 and Wayne Hillman #2."

In my neck of the woods, the number 4 is pretty much a sacred thing.

So are the numbers 8, 12 and 33.

Geez Skip, ^^ sounds like a challenge.   

Without looking it up, my best guesses are #12 Tom Brady / #33 Larry Bird.  But the best I can come up with for #8 is Yogi Berra???