Baseball Quiz: OK, kids…players are already trickling into spring training so we’ll take care of some basic business the next few quizzes to get you in the mood. Name the 25 to have hit 500 home runs. Answer below.
Equine Quiz: The New York Times has been running an outstanding series of stories on the Civil War as the 150-year anniversary rolls on…so like expect some great stuff for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg this summer. The other day, C. Kay Larson had a piece on “The Horses of War.” Everyone should know that Robert E. Lee’s horse was Traveller (who I told you last year was buried at Washington & Lee University when I visited that fine institution). So name Ulysses S. Grant’s horse, Stonewall Jackson’s and Gen. George G. Meade’s. Regarding this last one, it was wounded five times in battle! Answer below.
Lindsey Vonn Seriously Injured
Bar Chat’s favorite female athlete, Lindsey Vonn, tore her ACL and MCL, as well as breaking her leg, in a horrific crash at the world championships, specifically a super-G race in Schladming, Austria.
But according to a specialist in sports medicine, Alexis Chiang Colvin of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, Vonn could return to competition in six months and should be ready for the 2014 Winter Olympics, exactly one year from now, in Sochi, Russia. The U.S. Ski Team confirmed the prognosis in a statement. Vonn herself said she’ll do everything “humanly possible” to return.
Colvin said the bigger issue isn’t the ACL, but rather the broken leg, a lateral tibial plateau fracture. If the fracture requires plates and screws, recovery would be much longer. [Bloomberg News]
The race was controversial in that it had been delayed 3 ½ hours due to fog and was then run in fading light. Vonn was in third place when she crashed. Overall World Cup leader Tina Maze, by the way, won the event.
Vonn has won 4 overall World Cup titles and now sits at 59 World Cup wins, 2nd most all-time and 3 shy of the record.
Super Bowl Final Bits
[Given when the game ended, it was impossible for me to write up a lot then, but for the archives, a final review.]
“Regardless of the pain in Jim Harbaugh’s gut, the San Francisco 49ers were not robbed. The Lombardi Trophy earned by the Baltimore Ravens is not tainted.
“The officials got it right by not throwing a flag for the contact involving Michael Crabtree and Jimmy Smith – which went both ways – before 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s pass sailed out of reach.
“Had referee Jerome Boger or head linesman Steve Stelljes, the official closest to the play, thrown a flag it would have been a disaster that would have likely settled the Super Bowl by a penalty. Championships should not be determined by a flag.
“Harbaugh – whose sideline fit included slamming his cap to the turf and gesturing for a holding call as he screamed at officials – disagrees. After the game, he whined that a penalty should have been called on the third-down incompletion to Crabtree, too, due to the receiver’s contact with Cary Williams.
“ ‘There’s no question in my mind that there was pass interference, and then a hold,’ Harbaugh said. ‘I realize I’m on the side of the 49ers. I’m the coach of the 49ers. There’s some bias there, but I wouldn’t bring it up unless it was obvious.’
“It was a tough break, for sure. Yet while Smith’s arms got around the outside of Crabtree for a split-second, it also appears that the receiver initiated contact by jamming into the cornerback off the line of scrimmage. And Crabtree also extended his arm as he pushed off Smith’s helmet.
The refs let the guys play the entire game. Jim Tunney, a retired referee who worked three Super Bowls, told USA TODAY he would not have thrown a flag, either, on that fourth-down play.
“After the lights went back on, Frank Gore rushed eight times for 78 yards and a touchdown. Colin Kaepernick rushed five times for 46 yards and a touchdown, yet neither player carried the ball in the four-play goal-line series. Vernon Davis was unstoppable in the first half with four receptions for 72 yards yet he wasn’t targeted once in the goal-line series. LaMichael James got the only carry, and he hadn’t run the ball since three minutes into the second quarter when he fumbled. Michael Crabtree was the target of all three passes in the final drive and Ed Reed lined up to that side every time. The 49ers had a timeout left as they entered the fourth and final play of the drive and some would say they should have used it at least for their rookie QB in his 10th start….
“1st and goal from the 7: San Francisco puts LaMichael James at the running back spot because Frank Gore just completed a 33-yard run to set up the first down. Keep in mind Ed Reed’s touchdown-saving tackle at the 7-yard line or this drive never takes place….If Kaepernick pulls (the) ball and keeps it he has Delanie Walker one-on-one with Ed Reed and should have a touchdown. The result of James’ run is a 2-yard gain.
“2nd and goal from the 5: Randy Moss enters the game and the Niners come to the line of scrimmage in 12 personnel (1 RB, 2 TE, 2 WR)….Moss is all by himself on the left side. Kaepernick sprints out to this right probably with a run/pass option but OLB Courtney Upshaw mirrors Kaepernick and makes the run option disappear. There is a brief moment when Davis is open but the sprint-out action by the QB eliminates him. An incomplete pass leads to third down. [Moss ends up being open on the play.]
“3rd and goal from the 5: The Ravens decide it is time for a pressure call and send six rushers. The safeties both come and Reed has a chance to jump up and affect the vision of Kaepernick. Kaepernick’s pass looks like a completion to Crabtree but the Ravens’ Jimmy Smith makes a textbook break and separates Crabtree from the ball with a big hit….
“4th and goal from the 5: Now it’s time for a timeout to just settle everyone down, but no timeout is called. Baltimore decides to pressure again and sends six. Niners center Jonathan Goodwin says afterward that they had trouble blocking everyone inside. The Niners are in 12 personnel once again in the pistol and with the running back behind the QB made it difficult, if not impossible, to pick up a blitzing linebacker. Kaepernick has to throw fast with the pressure coming and it’s a throw to the back of the end zone, but Crabtree can’t reach the ball because he is jammed by Jimmy Smith. Smith has every right to contact on Crabtree all the way to the goal line because of the 5-yard rule. Some will say he held Crabtree, but once again Reed is floating on that side and is in position to make one of his famous plays on the ball. I didn’t think the officials were going to make a call in that situation, but if the ball had been on the 7-yard line instead of the 5 then maybe the call is made if Smith keeps the contact up for 7 yards. The linebacker over Davis gets just enough of a jam on him to possibly eliminate him from the read, but in the end Kaepernick has to get rid of the ball.
“Not once in the three pass plays does Kaepernick look to his left, and even on the final play there is a chance Delanie Walker is available when he turns around right on the goal line.”
“Nobody let more things slip than 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver. In a humiliating end to his horrid week, the player who made headlines by saying he wouldn’t accept gays in the locker room was beaten in a rainbow of ways. He was the defensive back beaten twice on the freak 56-yard touchdown catch by (Jacoby) Jones in the first half, then he missed a tackle on Jones’ 108-yard kickoff return that gave the Ravens a 28-6 lead.
“ ‘We were just running around a lot of places,’ said Culliver afterward before running to hide for the rest of the winter.”
–With Joe Flacco’s postseason of 11 TD passes and no INTs, he joined Joe Montana (1989 postseason) and Kurt Warner (2008) as the only QBs to accomplish that feat.
As for his contract, he’s looking for $20 million per season.
–In his Monday morning press conference, John Harbaugh apologized for his overreaction and tirade at Mike Kensil, NFL Vice President of Game Operations, during the blackout. Harbaugh said, “I was just concerned with some things that had to do with the headsets and coaches in the press box and if we have to bring guys down….I feel bad about it.”
–The cause of the blackout is still unknown but it emerged Superdome officials were concerned about the potential for an outage back in October. Tests had shown the dome’s electrical feeders had “some decay and a chance of failure.”
Hey, the whole country’s infrastructure shows signs of decay and a chance of failure. Sunday night proved what a rinky-dink country we can be. Entergy, the company supplying the power, cited blackouts that struck Candlestick Park in 2011 when the 49ers were playing a Monday night game. Officials did note that some equipment was replaced in December and then there were no issues during a subsequent NFL game, the Sugar Bowl and another bowl game. Meters also showed the stadium drew no more electricity than it does during a typical Saints game, plus Beyonce was using her own generator.
—Ed Reed admitted some of his teammates began to fret as the blackout dragged on.
“The bad part is we started talking about it,” he said. “Some of the guys were saying, ‘They’re trying to kill our momentum.’ I was like, ‘There’s two teams on the field.’ But once we started talking about it, it happened. We talked it up.” [Paul Newberry / AP]
“The younger brother showed everyone exactly how not to handle a defeat on the biggest stage, behaving like an overgrown brat after the referees didn’t throw a flag for defensive holding on the final play of the decisive drive, and then in a six-minute news conference never praising his brother once for what he accomplished.
“ ‘I really want to handle this with class,’ Jim Harbaugh said, before he decided not to, ‘(but) there is no question in my mind that there was a pass interference and a hold on Crabtree on the last one.’….
“The 49ers had a first-and-goal on the Ravens 7-yard line with two minutes left and trailing by five. He had four shots to score the winning touchdown and cap the most brilliant comeback in Super Bowl history….
“The ending seemed so obvious: Colin Kaepernick would run into the end zone to steal a sixth world title for the 49ers. He would kiss his biceps one more time with the world watching and make everyone – from NFL general managers to Pop Warner coaches – rethink the most important position on the field.
“That never happened. Because somehow, against all reason, Harbaugh called four plays in the shadow of the Ravens’ end zone and not once did Kaepernick run with the football….
“Harbaugh made sure the world knew he was getting jobbed, gesturing with his arms for the holding call like an over-caffeinated traffic cop. Maybe someday, when the Harbaugh family gets together and watches their improbable moment, he’ll realize just how much he looked like a horse’s behind.
“Maybe then, he’ll also see how his big brother schooled him from the opening kickoff. John Harbaugh had his team more prepared at the start as the Ravens raced out to a 28-6 lead, and then managed to regroup his team after that 34-minute power outage seemed to knock out the Ravens’ lights, too.
“Not that the elder Harbaugh would take credit for that….
“John Harbaugh is on top of the football world today. Jim Harbaugh is sulking back to San Francisco a bitter loser. For this story of the two coaching brothers, it was a perfect ending.”
–Richard Sandomir of the New York Times, whose stories and analysis I always enjoy, ripped Phil Simms for basically being absent from the telecast. Like with the Ravens’ fake field goal. I know I was incredulous. I was reading something, looked up, saw the kicker running, and thought, ‘Isn’t this over five yards? What the [heck]?’
After a break, they come back to Jim Nantz and he’s begging Simms to blast the play call. It was nine yards, after all, Nantz reminded Simms, but Simms refused to second-guess the play. There isn’t a football fan in America who wasn’t thinking what I or Nantz was. Five yards? Maybe. Nine? There’s a huge difference.
It was funny. On Monday I met one of my neighbors in the elevator, asked him what he thought of the game, and the first thing he said was, “I couldn’t believe that fake field goal call. I mean, what was that…nine yards?”
“Why did Simms flat-out say that he wouldn’t second-guess Baltimore Coach John Harbaugh’s risky decision to call a fake field goal, which failed to yield a first down? Second-guessing is Simms’s job. More important, he should be first-guessing.”
Sandomir then went into some of Simms’s “tortured analysis,” such as his statement, “(The) number of big plays in the games are because the quarterbacks are throwing the football.”
Sandomir: “(Yes, yes!) Arm strength, he emphasized, is important.”
Then Simms said the power failure hadn’t hurt the Ravens.
And on the decisive fourth-and-goal from the 5, “Simms did not venture a guess about the type of play that San Francisco should call, and he did not interrupt Nantz when he saw the defense the Ravens were setting up, which he said he detected afterward.
“He also delayed taking note, for too long, the contact made by the Ravens’ secondary against 49ers receivers in the end zone on Kaepernick’s incomplete pass.”
I normally wouldn’t comment on this stuff, but Sandomir was spot on. Simms was awful. And I like the guy!
What fascinates me is that with the proliferation of sports networks, as in for each big conference these days, there are just so many analysts and play-by-play guys, and gals, out there. The competition for the top spots is fierce. Yet Simms, Collinsworth, and Aikman retain their No. 1 status come hell or high water. Collinsworth is universally accepted as being the top in his profession. But the others shouldn’t be allowed to rest on their laurels when it comes to the Super Bowl, Final Four (don’t get any of us started on Clark Kellogg!!!), World Series, etc.
–Regarding next year’s Super Bowl in the Meadowlands, everyone is already talking about the halftime show…as in a cold weather show…and contingencies. I don’t see that there’s any big deal. You won’t get a Beyonce extravaganza, but any band can play in the cold and so I agree with the Star-Ledger here in my state when it said on Tuesday that Bon Jovi was a layup. A worldwide following, Jersey boys, used to playing in such venues.
Then again, with my forecast of heavy snow and ice and my estimate that only 580 fans will actually make it to the stadium, officials may opt to just plug in some tunes from a prior Springsteen concert at MetLife Stadium.
Salt trucks and spreaders, by the way, are already on standby as my forecast has officials highly troubled. The National Guard has also been put on notice. [This Friday’s forecast for my area also looks dicey.]
–The Super Bowl was the third most-watched program in U.S. television history, behind last year’s game and the 2010 contest. Nielsen Co. said an estimated 108.4 million people tuned in on Sunday.
–A USA TODAY mock NFL draft has Geno Smith going to Buffalo as the first quarterback selected with the No. 8 pick. Interesting. The Jets are at No. 9 and Tony Pauline has them taking Alabama guard Chance Warmack.
[Pauline has Kansas City taking Texas A&M OT Luke Joeckel with the overall No. 1 pick.]
–I was thinking about all the great quarterbacks in the NFL under the age of 30…RG3, Andrew Luck, Russell Wilson, Kaepernick, Flacco (28), Aaron Rodgers (29) and Matt Ryan (27). Throw in Matthew Stafford (24), despite his down year, and Josh Freeman (25) and you have nine under 30.
But us Jets fans have Mark Sanchez. It’s very depressing…very, very depressing.
“2:05 p.m. ET: CBS’ Solomon Wilcots is live at the Ravens’ hotel – I could swear I see two tiny bottles of shampoo in his right jacket pocket….
“2:08: Packers’ Clay Matthews tells Greg Gumbel, ‘Somehow I tricked the execs at CBS to let me on set with you.’ Shannon Sharpe did the same thing nine years ago….
“2:53: Rachael Ray with the standard I’ll-show-you-something-to-cook-at-home-but-you-never-will-because-you-have-no-idea-what-you’re-doing-in-the-kitchen segment….
“4:04: They show live shot of MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., site of Super Bowl 48. Several Jets fans already are lined up at the beer concession….
“6:22: Alicia Keys isn’t lip-synching the national anthem, but I think that was a player piano….
“6:27: A black president and a black Super Bowl referee? This civil rights thing is moving at warp speed….
“6:54: I half expected David Akers to have a cigarette and a blindfold when he came out for his first field goal attempt….
“9:34: I remember I needed a power outage during my second honeymoon to change momentum….
“10:20: When calls go against 49ers, Jim Harbaugh looks like his dad’s just grounded him for a week….
“10:45: Boy, Ray Lewis is going to be fired up in retirement with two Super Bowl rings and no murder charges.”
A-Rod, part LXVIII
Teri Thompson, Michael O’keeffe and Christian Red / New York Daily News
“Alex Rodriguez is taking his wildest swing yet in his fight against steroid allegations: The Yankees and MLB are conspiring to push him out of the game.
“Sources say the embattled Yankee star is ‘scared’ that bigger forces are at work to try to discredit him and sink his career. Holed up in Miami, Rodriguez has been huddling with an army of lawyers and PR people as the performance-enhancing drug scandal enveloping him intensifies.
“ ‘He’s scared, because he thinks this is so unbelievably false, and he’s wondering who could be behind this,’ said a source, referring to last week’s Miami New Times report linking A-Rod to an alleged Miami-area performance-enhancing drug scandal. ‘He thinks something could be going on larger than anyone might think.’
“The source added that Rodriguez is wondering if the Yankees or even Major League Baseball are behind the latest controversy.”
MLB’s Department of Investigations met with editors of the Miami New Times and they are hopeful the paper will turn over its notes and documents.
A-Rod has told friends the documents being produced are forgeries.
“He is innocent, A-Rod says. But instead of personally telling us that, Rodriguez proclaims it through anonymous spokespeople and lawyers and expects us to believe him.
“If A-Rod truly is a victim here, his reputation smeared, his career in such jeopardy, then why is he in hiding? Why isn’t he shouting to the world he is innocent? Why isn’t he calling his teammates, assuring them all these damning things they’ve been reading about him…are all B.S., made up by forces out to destroy him? Why hasn’t he reached out to the commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, to tell him the same thing?”
Madden notes that while Ray Lewis is hardly a role model, at least he met the deer-antler spray controversy head on rather than trying to duck it.
“By the end of the week, the story had faded away and nobody cared anymore.”
But wait…there’s more! Others now named in the Anthony Bosch / Biogenesis clinic case.
Milwaukee outfielder and former MVP Ryan Braun…who has admitted to knowing Bosch. In a statement, Braun, who successfully appealed a suspension after failing a test for synthetic testosterone during his MVP campaign in 2011, said: “During the course of preparing for my successful appeal last year, my attorneys, who were previously familiar with Tony Bosch, used him as a consultant. More specifically, he answered questions about T/E ratio and possibilities of tampering with samples.
“There was a dispute over compensation for Bosch’s work, which is why my lawyer and I are listed under ‘moneys owed’ and not on any other list. I have nothing to hide and have never had any other relationship with Bosch. I will fully cooperate with any inquiry into this matter.”
Yankee catcher Francisco Cervelli was also identified as a client of Biogenesis, according to records obtained by Yahoo Sports, along with Baltimore infielder Danny Valencia. Cervelli denied buying banned substances. “Following my foot injury in March 2011, I consulted with a number of experts, including Biogenesis Clinic, for legal ways to aid my rehab and recovery. I purchased supplements that I am certain were not prohibited by Major League Baseball.”
And Seattle, and former Yankee, catcher Jesus Montero is linked to Bosch and Biogenesis, according to the New York Daily News’ I-team. What makes this more troubling to some is Montero is yet another client of Sam and Seth Levinson, agents for disgraced Melky Cabrera and yet another named in the investigation, Washington Nationals star pitcher Gio Gonzalez, who has remained silent as well. [One other Levinson client, Nelson Cruz, is also part of the Bosch case.]
A separate baseball note…Chris Carpenter, star pitcher for the Cardinals, will be out all of 2013 after a recurrence of a nerve injury that cost him most of last season. At age 37, his career could easily be over.
Carpenter is 144-94 with a 3.76 ERA, though a spectacular 95-44, 3.07, with the Cards, plus a 10-4 postseason record for St. Louis, including 3-0 in the World Series. He was also a huge positive influence in the clubhouse. Just one of the great competitors of the last ten years.
College Basketball Review…AP Men’s Poll [W-L thru Sunday]
1. Indiana 20-2
2. Florida 18-2…then lost on Tues. to Arkansas, 80-69
3. Michigan 20-2…defeated Ohio State in OT, Tues., 76-74
4. Duke 19-2
5. Kansas 19-2
6. Gonzaga 21-2
7. Arizona 19-2
8. Miami 17-3…up from No. 25 in just two weeks
9. Syracuse 18-3
10. Ohio State 17-4
So I asked last time, can Wake Forest coach Jeff Bzdelik survive? On Tuesday, Wake put on another pathetic display (21 turnovers for starters), losing in Chapel Hill 87-62. After our upset over North Carolina State, the Deacs have lost four straight, including road losses of 20, 26 and 25 points. We are now 3-7 in ACC play. Bzdelik, at a minimum, needs six wins.
Division I College Hockey Poll
1. Minnesota
2. Quinnipiac
3. Miami
4. New Hampshire
5. Boston College
6. Western Michigan
7. North Dakota
8. St. Cloud State
9. Denver
10. Yale
18. Union…every year I think I’d like to go up there for a game and then don’t make it [upstate New York]
If you carried out the votes, Colgate is No. 22 and St. Lawrence No. 26…friends of StocksandNews attended both. Colgate and St. Lawrence played to a 3-3 tie last weekend. Pete M. is fired up because his Raiders play Princeton and Quinnipiac at home in the coming days. Trader George’s St. Lawrence Saints have Union and Quinnipiac on 2/9 and 2/15, respectively.
Meanwhile, Steve D. smugly sits back, waiting for the NCAA Frozen Four, fully confident his B.C. Eagles will be back in the championship hunt.
And that, sports fans, is about as much college hockey as I’ve ever written up.
NBA Bits
–The Knicks’ Tyson Chandler became the first in franchise history since Willis Reed to have 20 rebounds in three consecutive games with his 20 on Monday against the Pistons. He plays Wednesday after I posted this column against the Wizards to try and break the mark.
[In the last 20 years, Dennis Rodman had a seven-game 20 rebound streak and Ben Wallace a five-game run.]
–On Tuesday, the Houston Rockets tied an NBA record for 3-pointers, hitting 23, in a 140-109 win over Golden State. Jeremy Lin had a career high five.
–Officials of Europol, a police intelligence agency that works the continent, have uncovered in a sweeping investigation match-fixing in the game of football (soccer) that spans 680 games, including 380 in Europe, covering World Cup and European championship qualifiers, among others. Nearly $11 million in profits and $3 million in bribes were discovered as a result of Europol’s work; “match-fixing activity on a scale we have not seen before,” according to Rob Wainwright, the director of Europol.
Now there have been previous investigations of this kind and it’s not known how many of the 680 are actually being duped. 425 individuals are under suspicion and 50 have been arrested. The investigation covers 2008 to 2011.
A Champions League game played in England had fans and the media trying to figure out which one it was and it turns out it was a match between a Hungarian team, Debrecen, and Liverpool. Debrecen’s goalkeeper was said to have been paid to ensure there were more than two goals scored in the match, but Liverpool won by a score of 1-0. [Sam Borden / New York Times]
–Dr. W., fellow Wake alum, sent me a note Tuesday morning that he was reading up on Kentucky football (don’t ask me why) and came across the following:
“The Wildcats have not won eight games in a season since 2007. Just twice in the 97-year history of the program (1950, 1977) have they hit double-digits in wins. There are only seven BCS conference schools that have an all-time winning percentage worse than UK’s .471: Wake Forest (.407), Indiana (.414), Kansas State (.432), Temple (.432), Northwestern (.440), Iowa State (.451) and Oregon State (.463).
As Dr. W. notes, “It looks like we may have an insurmountable ‘lead’ on our nearest contenders.” He then threw in a ‘Flacco’ for good measure.
–And the lead singer of the Troggs, Reg Presley, died following a long battle with lung cancer. He was 71. Yes, it’s Presley who is the voice behind “Wild Thing,” the #1 1966 smash single. The Troggs also had the #7 Billboard hit “Love Is All Around,” which was covered in the 1990s by REM.
Top 3 songs for the week 2/8/69: #1 “Crimson And Clover” (Tommy James and The Shondells…should be in the Hall of Fame) #2 “Everyday People” (Sly & The Family Stone) #3 “Worst That Could Happen” (Brooklyn Bridge…great tune…what a top three!)…and…#4 “Touch Me” (The Doors) #5 “Build Me Up Buttercup” (The Foundations) #6 “I Started A Joke” (The Bee Gees… before they sold out and went disco…) #7 “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” (Marvin Gaye) #8 “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” (Diana Ross and The Supremes & The Temptations…awesome…) #9 “Hang ‘Em High” (Booker T. & The MG’s) #10 “Can I Change My Mind” (Tyrone Davis)
Baseball Quiz Answer: 500 Home Runs…
1. Barry Bonds 762…Boooo! Booooo!!
2. Hank Aaron 755…the real HR King!!!
3. Babe Ruth 714
4. Willie Mays 660…should be No. 3, forever….
5. Alex Rodriguez 647….you suck, A-Rod!!!
6. Ken Griffey Jr. 630
7. Jim Thome 612…have trouble accepting this one…I mean I know he’s a real good guy and all…
8. Sammy Sosa 609…Booo! Booooo!!
9. Frank Robinson 586…should be No. 6
10. Mark McGwire 583….Booo! [at least admitted it]
11. Harmon Killebrew 573…the one and only
12. Rafael Palmeiro 569…Booo! Boooo!
13. Reggie Jackson 563
14. Manny Ramirez 555…Booo! Boooo!!
15. Mike Schmidt 548
16. Mickey Mantle 536….We love you, Mickey!!!
17. Jimmie Foxx 534
18. Willie McCovey 521…still most intimidating hitter I ever saw
18. Frank Thomas 521
18. Ted Williams 521…when men were men
21. Ernie Banks 512
21. Eddie Mathews 512
23. Mel Ott 511
24. Gary Sheffield 509…remains a mystery to me
25. Eddie Murray 504
26. Lou Gehrig 493
26. Fred McGriff 493
28. Stan Musial 475
28. Albert Pujols 475…kind of cool these two good friends are tied at this point in time
Equine Quiz Answer: Civil War horses.
Ulysses S. Grant’s…Cincinnati
Stonewall Jackson’s…Little Sorrell
George G. Meade’s…Old Baldy
Next Bar Chat, Monday….your EXCLUSIVE Grammy review….depends on how long I can stay awake…looking at the list of nominees, and my lack of interest in same, I’m guessing 10:20 p.m. ET.
