[Mick]

Certainly agree with Phogge on Belt.  "And it's a called strike three, Belt can't  believe it".

In Philly with the family in the 90's and we are in a horse drawn carriage with a young woman driver.  She says do you have any questions ?  I say yes why did you boo Del Ennis so much ?  Of course no one knew who I was talking about. 

For kids lol Del drove in 95 or more runs 9 times in the 50s and they booed him like crazy when he failed

Anyone notice the bootleg did away with the Giants board ?

It didn't help ol' Del that he led the league in grounding into double plays twice at the beginning of his career.  So he probably got the rep of being a rally killer.  And he hit .143 in their only World Series.  He was a better than average fielder.  But here's the weird stat...he finished in the Top 15 in MVP voting seven times (and #26 once) but he only made two all star teams in those eight seasons.  He had a career OPS of .812.  He was a very good, not great left fielder.

And Philly fans are terrible.  When the Giants played in Philadelphia, my son was going to school just an hour up the road.  We both decided it would be a bad idea to visit that ballpark.  The Philly office of my firm at the time was a shrine to the Phillies.  I made a joke about the Phillies vs. the Giants...stone faces all around.

[Mick]

Certainly agree with Phogge on Belt.  "And it's a called strike three, Belt can't  believe it".

In Philly with the family in the 90's and we are in a horse drawn carriage with a young woman driver.  She says do you have any questions ?  I say yes why did you boo Del Ennis so much ?  Of course no one knew who I was talking about. 

For kids lol Del drove in 95 or more runs 9 times in the 50s and they booed him like crazy when he failed

Anyone notice the bootleg did away with the Giants board ?

It didn't help ol' Del that he led the league in grounding into double plays twice at the beginning of his career.  So he probably got the rep of being a rally killer.  And he hit .143 in their only World Series.  He was a better than average fielder.  But here's the weird stat...he finished in the Top 15 in MVP voting seven times (and #26 once) but he only made two all star teams in those eight seasons.  He had a career OPS of .812.  He was a very good, not great left fielder.

And Philly fans are terrible.  When the Giants played in Philadelphia, my son was going to school just an hour up the road.  We both decided it would be a bad idea to visit that ballpark.  The Philly office of my firm at the time was a shrine to the Phillies.  I made a joke about the Phillies vs. the Giants...stone faces all around.