[Posted Wednesday a.m.]
Baseball Quiz / Baltimore Orioles: 1) Name the two to hit 50 home runs in a single season for the Orioles. 2) Ken Williams holds the single-season team mark with 155 RBIs in 1922. Who is the only other player with 150? Answers below.
MLB
–In the history of baseball since 1900, according to Elias, the only two players to have at least three home runs and five extra-base hits were Joe Adcock (4 homers, one double) in 1954 and Josh Hamilton (4 homers, one double) in 2012. Monday, the Cubs’ Kris Bryant became the first with three homers and two doubles in Chicago’s 11-8 win over the Reds, Jake Arrieta (12-2, 2.10) getting the win despite allowing five earned in five innings.
Bryant now has 21 home runs and 58 RBI as the 24-year-old is virtually a superstar already. He was N.L. Rookie of the Year last season after slamming 26 homers and driving in 99, and the sky is the limit for this highly likeable, humble kid.
Actually, there is a very real chance Bryant could go from college player of the year to minor league player of the year to rookie of the year to MVP in succession, which, yes, is unprecedented.
As for Arrieta, I’ve argued he won’t be the same this season as he was in his Cy Young Award season last year (22-6, 1.77), because, including the playoffs, he threw 248 innings when he had never thrown more than 156 in any previous season.
But thus far in 2016 he’s been his usual dominating self, however, he’s only lasted five innings each of his last two starts so this bears watching if you’re a Cubs fan.
–Don’t look now but Cleveland is six up in the A.L. Central on the heels of an 11-game winning streak, the franchise’s longest since 1982, two shy of their all-time record. LeBron and the Cavaliers’ stirring comeback certainly should help the rest of the season when it comes to the Indians.
Cleveland has the fifth best starting staff in baseball and is ninth in runs scored, a nice balance, and they’ve been doing it without star outfielder Michael Brantley, out since May 9 with a shoulder issue.
–Yet another distressing game on Monday for Mets fans as the team built a 4-0 against the Washington Nationals in the first game of a critical 14-game stretch for the Metropolitans ahead of the All-Star break. With Noah Syndergaard on the mound, it seemed like a lock…until it wasn’t.
The Nats stormed back with five in the bottom of the third and proceeded to maul the Mets 11-4.
Then on Tuesday, in another desultory effort, made worse by two rain delays, the Mets fell 5-0 and are now five back of the Nats (Miami being 4 ½ back in second).
Of more long-term concern for the Mets, though, is the health of Syndergaard, who insisted after his start Monday he didn’t have a bone spur in his right elbow (only for us to find out the next day he does), which is what is currently affecting fellow starter Steven Matz. Both will attempt to pitch through the pain for now.
The Mets hopes rest on their starting staff, which has been solid all season, but now there are question marks springing up all over.
Separately, the Nationals stole six bases on Monday, four off Syndergaard, who has now given up 28 stolen bases this season while he’s been on the mound, with the Orioles’ Ubaldo Jimenez next on the list at 14. Yuck.
If “Thor” and Matz are shelved for any length of time it’s season over. On to the Jets.
–I mentioned last time that the Yankees may have a big decision to make over the coming weeks, whether or not to release Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez.
Teixeira has come back from his latest injury to homer twice, but A-Rod has been benched as DH, the Yanks playing Carlos Beltran there when they are facing a righty. So A-Rod faces only lefties.
Meanwhile, in Monday night’s game at Yankee Stadium against the Rangers, rain started in about the sixth inning and in the top of the ninth, the Yankees three outs away from victory, closer Aroldis Chapman entered with the Yanks up 6-5, but Chapman walked the leadoff batter. So manager Joe Girardi approached the home plate umpire to complain about the conditions – even though rain had been falling for at least three innings.
The ploy worked. The game was delayed…but it was stopped for 3 hours and 35 minutes and didn’t restart until 2:15 in the morning! Kirby Yates, in for Chapman, then startlingly hit three batters and allowed a two-run single to Adrian Beltre and the Rangers scored four in the top of the ninth for a 9-6 win that dropped the Yankees back below .500 at 37-38.
There were about 100 fans remaining in the Stadium when the game resumed.
Tuesday, the Yanks lost to Cole Hamels (9-1, 2.60) 7-1. It’s time for them to be “sellers.”
–Sunday night, after I posted, Clayton Kershaw picked up just his second loss of the season, giving up four runs and nine hits in six innings against the Pirates in Pittsburgh, the Bucs winning 4-3. For the first time this year, Kershaw also walked two batters, fanning just four, as he dropped to 11-2, 1.79 ERA.
We then learned on Monday he was receiving treatment for minor back discomfort but Kershaw insisted he would “absolutely” make his next scheduled start on Friday at home against Colorado. Then Tuesday we learned he is seeing a doctor in Los Angeles.
–In the College World Series, Arizona shut out Coastal Carolina in the first of the best-of-three finals on Monday in Omaha, the Wildcats’ JC Cloney scattering four singles in going the distance.
But Tuesday, the Chanticleers beat Arizona 5-4 to send the CWS to a deciding Game 3 tonight.
Euro 2016
In an absolute stunner that has some calling it the biggest upset in tournament football history, Iceland beat England in the knockout round on Monday, 2-1, with England manager Roy Hodgson immediately resigning following the humiliation. In a statement, Hodgson said: “I’m extremely disappointed of course about tonight’s result and ultimately our exit from the competition. We haven’t progressed as far as I thought we were capable of, and that’s obviously not acceptable.”
England had the youngest team in the tournament, but this is hardly an excuse when faced by a team whose nation has a population of 332,000. I saw an ESPN report that said this wasn’t such a titanic upset, that it was nothing more than an 11-seed beating a 6-seed, which is a crock of merde. Yes, Iceland has been moving up in the world rankings to No. 34 currently from 131 in April 2012, but for Britain, all you need are some of the comments of the great play-by-play man, Ian Darke.
Darke described England’s play as a “wretched effort,” a “calamitous night for England…and a brilliant one for Iceland,” “over-hyped, over-paid, and over here,” “How is it the richest league in football can produce such serial flops in tournaments,” “a nation on the verge of humiliation,” “the biggest humiliation in their history.”
As Reuters described it after: “The final whistle produced extraordinary scenes as the entire Iceland squad and coaches sprinted to the corner of the pitch to celebrate with their fans. England’s players sank to the turf in despair, with a deluge of jeers, boos and whistles, finally being encouraged to leave the pitch to a chant of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt.’”
As a Tottenham Spurs fan, I also can’t help but be fair and balanced. Striker Harry Kane was awful and I’m curious to see what kind of start he gets off to in the Premier League season.
So the matchups for the quarterfinals….
Thurs. Poland v. Portugal
Fri. Wales v. Belgium
Sat. Germany v. Italy*
Sun. France v. Iceland
*Italy manhandled defending champion Spain on Monday, 2-0, in a game that could have been 4-0.
Copa America
I posted last time prior to the Argentina-Chile final which ended with Lionel Messi missing in a penalty shootout, Argentina losing a fourth major final in nine years, and Messi announcing after he was retiring from international competition.
“For me, the national team is over,” he said. “I’ve done all I can. It hurts not to be a champion.”
Messi, 29, the best player in the world, has won eight La Liga titles and four Champions League crowns with Spanish side Barcelona.
But his only major international honor is Olympic gold at the 2008 Games. [But because of age restrictions (and a severely limited field) the Olympics are not considered anywhere near a major competition like the World Cup, European Championships, or Copa America.]
As well as losing two Copa America finals on penalties to Chile, Messi was in the Argentina side beaten by Germany 1-0 in the 2014 World Cup final.
He was also on the losing side against Brazil in the 2007 Copa America final.
Most folks are guessing Messi returns, but the mood in the Argentina dressing room after was described by Sergio Aguero (the Manchester City striker) as “the worst I’ve ever been in” and suggested others may follow Messi’s lead.
Messi actually left Argentina at age 13 for Barcelona, and it’s been suggested there is “less room for forgiveness” in his native country.
If you don’t understand the pressure involved in these situations, consider that Argentina football legend Diego Maradona said that the team should not bother coming home if they lose.
Maradona was nowhere near the player Messi is, but Maradona has a title, leading the Argentina squad that won the World Cup in 1986. He shined in that event.
–As for the state of U.S. soccer, the other day Dr. W., fellow Premier League fan and Wake classmate, and I were exchanging notes on the sorry state of affairs for the red, white, and blue, and a few days later I saw this from Simon Evans of the Washington Post.
“Whenever Jurgen Klinsmann leaves his position as head coach of the U.S. men’s national team, he will probably be better remembered as a critic of the country’s soccer program than a leader of it….
“After the loss to Argentina (in the semifinals, 4-0), Klinsmann suggested his team had shown the South Americans ‘too much respect.’ Specifically, the coach highlighted his team’s failure to stop Lionel Messi from advancing the position of his free kick five yards forward from the point where Chris Wondolowski had fouled him, and into the range where he was able to score the wonderful goal that made him his country’s all-time top scorer.
“ ‘You have to make the argument on the field,’ Klinsmann said. ‘Maybe we are too nice, just too nice in those moments.’
“Those words echoed his comments four years ago when, after a 4-1 defeat to Brazil in a friendly at FedEx Field, Klinsmann said: ‘I think we need to get an edge – more nastier. Maybe we’re a little bit too naïve. Maybe we don’t want to hurt people. But that’s what you’ve got to do.’….
“The coach was criticized by a number of people in the soccer community for those words, but the German, who played against some of the tougher defenders in the world in Serie A during his time with Inter Milan, had a point…..
“There was certainly nothing nasty about the American performance against Argentina, a point noted by mainstream sports talk shows, making the familiar argument that soccer in America remains a game for the suburbs, for the relatively affluent, who don’t have the hunger and the motivation to go the extra mile.
“Clint Dempsey, who grew up playing rough-and-tumble pickup games with Mexican and Salvadoran kids in Nacogdoches, Tex., is the outlier. In terms of his economic background he is more similar to many of the players from South America that the Americans are up against in this tournament. Dempsey’s story is commonplace in other American sports, but rare in soccer.
“But the problem is not simply that American youth soccer’s ‘pay-to-play’ system fails to develop talent from Hispanic, African American low-income white neighborhoods. Klinsmann’s critique has also been frequently aimed at the absence of intense pressure in the day-to-day lives of American soccer players.
“The U.S. defense, anchored by two players from the Bundesliga (John Brooks and Fabian Johnson) and two from the Premier League (DeAndre Yedlin and Geoff Cameron), has been a strength during Copa America. But the entire midfield and forward line in Houston was made up of players from Major League Soccer, which, though improved in stature and quality, still falls a long way short of the top leagues in the world when it comes to relentless pressure on players to improve. It showed on Tuesday: Argentina was sharper, quicker and smarter than its opponent.
“MLS clubs do not face the struggle for survival that relegation creates in other leagues. Nor does the league have a real transfer market, in which players can be traded for profit, quickly raising their salaries, as well as motivation to push themselves to a higher level, while clubs are incentivized to develop talent quickly.”
I have to say this has been the main point made by Dr. W., with Simon Evans adding “the United States is paying the price for the lack of players in recent years who have successfully switched from MLS to European leagues.”
Evans notes that in the past, some Americans made the transition, such as John Harkes, who went from New Jersey to the Premier League, and Brian McBride, who went from the MLS to become a striker in the PL with Fulham. Claudio Reyna earned respect in the German, Scottish and English leagues.
“But when Orlando City’s Brek Shea returned to MLS last year after an unsuccessful spell in England, he revealed an attitude that was far from that of those that had gone before him.
“ ‘One of the reasons I didn’t enjoy England so much is that it’s so small and soccer is the biggest thing there. So everything you do is magnified times a thousand,’ he said. Shea added in another interview while playing in England that he missed the weekly team barbecues he enjoyed while with FC Dallas and lamented that playing the game in England was ‘just different; it’s a job.’
“It is indeed a job,” concludes Simon Evans, “and the scrutiny of fans and media members in European football is certainly on a different level – two of the reasons that Klinsmann has been so enthusiastic to encourage his players to test themselves abroad. If the United States is to get to the next level, it won’t be a coach’s tactics that take them there. It will be because its players have been hardened to the point where they would be offended at being called nice.”
Golf Balls
The Olympic golf event is officially in a shambles with Tuesday’s announcement that the world’s top-ranked golfer, Jason Day, has joined Rory McIlroy, Charl Schwartzel, Louis Oosthuizen, Branden Grace and Vijay Singh in citing fears over the Zika virus for opting out. Day, in a statement, said:
“The reason for my decision is my concerns about the possible transmission of the Zika virus and the potential risks that it may present to my wife’s future pregnancies and to future members of our family. While it has always been a major goal to compete in the Olympics on behalf of my country, playing golf cannot take precedent over the safety of our family. I will not place them at risk.”
Hall of Famer Gary Player, 80, upon seeing that Grace was the third South African to withdraw, Tweeted: “@2016Olympicgolf I will be in Rio, have no plans for more children & averaged 70 last year. Ready to play if anymore withdrawals.”
There’s another thing when it comes to golf in Rio. The format absolutely sucks. The top 60 players who qualify play a straight 72-hole stroke play tournament. There is no team play, no mixed team competition, no match play.
I think you could have done something similar to what they do in the NCAA golf tournament, where it’s four rounds of stroke play before reverting to match play.
For Rio, though, with more limited time (the women’s competition follows the men’s), why not 36-holes of stroke play and then the final eight have two days of match play? With only 36 holes, the second round would be exciting to see who can get into the final eight, with no doubt a big playoff for the last slot, and then you have the eight playing off, with not only an exciting gold/silver final, but a super match among the two losers in the semis to salvage bronze.
I mean it’s a freakin’ no brainer. With 72 holes, what is the incentive, say, for over half the field giving a damn the last 36? Send them home.
But now with all the big-name withdrawals, the point is mute.
Golf is returning to the Olympics for the first time since 1904, but with the competition now deeply diminished, there is little reason to believe it will be an event beyond 2020 in Tokyo given such ambivalence. The deadline for qualifying is July 11.
–Regarding last Sunday’s tournament…from Dave Shedloski / Golf World
“Nominations are now closed for feel-good story of this year in golf with Billy Hurley III’s breakthrough PGA Tour victory, a three-stroke triumph over Vijay Singh in the Quicken Loans National. With a final round 69, Hurley ranked 607th in the world, submitted a 17-under 267 at Congressional Country Club’s Blue course in Bethesda, Md., not far from his home in Annapolis, where he attended the Naval Academy before serving five years in the Navy.
“I couldn’t think of a better tournament for my first PGA Tour win,” said Hurley, 34, who in his previous 103 starts had all of seven top-10 finishes and none higher than fourth.”
Hurley’s win came just 10 months after his father, a police officer, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. “It’s been a hard year,” he said. “It’s been a really hard year, so it’s nice to have something go well.”
–Jaime Diaz / Golf World…on Dustin Johnson
“Johnson – pulled in by his flamboyant fiancée – hasn’t put himself out there on Twitter and Instagram, or done his share of high-profile ads for sponsors. Yet it somehow felt right that the 32-year-old went underground after (his U.S. Open triumph at) Oakmont, sticking to previously scheduled vacation plans for he and Paulina among family and friends, according to agent David Winkle. Imagine the inner satisfaction Johnson must have felt after, yes, winning the U.S. Open for his first major championship. All these years, Johnson has taken the high road about his bad luck at Whistling Straits and the bad greens at Chambers Bay. He’s never sniped back at those who said he choked at Pebble Beach and Royal St. George’s, or thought of him as a backsliding underachiever. He’s kept his own counsel, steadily improving his game and himself.
“In his own languid and very cool way, DJ was fierce on Sunday at Oakmont, and in that mode there is less desire to preen and more to just savor. By passing on the whole media tour, the laconic Johnson is laying the foundation for what – in combination with the kind of awesome displays of ball-striking he put on at Oakmont – could become the legend of DJ.”
By the way, looking at next year’s Open at Erin Hills, the USGA is worried about a repeat of Chambers Bay and uneven greens, seeing as Erin Hills is also a newer course (unlike established Oakmont), so to ensure pristine conditions, the greens are being shut down Oct. 3 and will not be used again until practice rounds just before the championship the following June.
—Jon Rahm, who finished third in his first event as a professional at Congressional last weekend, was named Golfweek’s College Player of the Year. For 2015 it was Maverick McNealy, Stanford. [Bill Haas was the 2004 winner…Go Deacs!]
Bronte Law of UCLA was the women’s selection.
—Olympics…men’s hoops
The U.S. squad has been filled out with Kyrie Irving (Cleveland) and Harrison Barnes (Golden State) joining the other ten:
Kevin Durant (OKC); DeMarcus Cousin (Sac.); Draymond Green and Klay Thomspon (GS); Paul George (Ind.); Kyle Lowry and Demar DeRozan (Tor.); Carmleo Anthony (N.Y.); Jimmy Butler (Chicago); De Andre Jordan (LAC).
Despite no LeBron, Steph, Russell Westbrook, James Harden and Kawhi Leonard, the U.S. is still favored to win a third consecutive gold medal. Frankly, I couldn’t give a damn. I’m only going to care about track and to a lesser extent swimming.
Pat Summitt
Summitt, who won eight national championships as head coach of the University of Tennessee women’s basketball team, died. She was just 64 and had been suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s, early complications of which forced her to retire at the age of 59 after a record 1,098 victories.
Summitt put women’s basketball on the map and was a true pioneer. She was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000.
Sally Jenkins / Washington Post
“Behind all that statuesque eminence was a woman of high mischief and a love of cocktails, who once agreed that the best word to describe her was ‘subversive.’ Pat married so many contradictory qualities in one slenderized figure. She had majesty and humility. Baffling naivete and genius. She was demanding and gentle. She never stayed still, and as a basketball coach was the single most discontented creature after a win that you ever saw. Winning wasn’t good enough: As soon as things were going well, Pat had to change it all up, create a new edge. Her former player Kara Lawson says, ‘She’s a kaleidoscope. She changes everything. If not for her, you’d still be looking at the same damn boring old picture.’
“You will pardon me if I allow her to take over the rest of this space. I’ve prized her friendship for 20 years and co-written three books with her, but never managed to explain her as well as she explains herself below. It’s a simple document: a letter to a young University of Tennessee freshman named Shelia Collins, on the occasion of her first game. It illustrates exactly why more than 50 of her players, young and old, rushed to her bedside, drove all night, flew across the country, slept on floors, and sat in the hallways of a retirement home, where they passed the time playing bean bag games with seniors, just to see her and whisper a few words in her ear.”
Nov. 22, 1982:
Sheila, This is your first game. I hope you win for your sake, not mine. Because winning’s nice. It’s a good feeling. Like the whole world is yours. But it passes, this feeling. And what lasts is what you’ve learned. And what you’ve learned about is – life. That’s what sport is all about – life!
The whole thing is played out in an afternoon. The happiness of life, the miseries, the joys, the heartbreaks. There’s no telling what will turn up. There’s no telling how you’ll do. You might be a hero. Or you might be absolutely nothing.
There’s just no telling. Too much depends on chance, on how the ball bounces.
I’m not talking about the game. I’m talking about life. But it’s life that the game is all about. Just as I said, every game is life, and life is a game. A serious one. Dead serious. But here’s what you do with serious things. You do your best. You take what comes.
You take what comes and you run with it.
Winning is fun…Sure.
But winning is not the point.
Wanting to win is the point.
Not giving up is the point.
Never letting up is the point.
Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.
The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads, or what the referee says, it doesn’t end when you come off the court.
The secret of the game is in doing your best. To persist and endure, ‘to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.’
I’m proud to be your Coach.
Pat Head Summitt
Buddy Ryan, RIP
The great coach whose defensive scheme propelled the 1985 Chicago Bears to one of the most dominant seasons in NFL history, died at the age of 85.
Ryan spent most of his long NFL career as an assistant coach before finally ascending to a top job in 1986 with the Philadelphia Eagles, where he was 43-35-1 in five seasons, taking the Eagles to three playoffs, though he was winless in the postseason. He also coached Arizona to a 12-20 mark in two seasons.
Matt Bonesteel / Washington Post
“Beloved by his defensive players, Ryan openly warred with Bears Coach Mike Ditka during a memorable 1985 season in which the Bears went 15-1 and crushed the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. Ryan refused to let Ditka have any say in how his innovative ‘46’ scheme was run, at one point nearly coming to blows with Ditka at halftime of a game. Both Ryan and Ditka were carried off the field after the Super Bowl victory.”
But Ryan was also accused of coaching dirty, a charge backed up by former players, such as Bears defensive back Dave Duerson, who in 1994 told Sports Illustrated, “(Coach) told us that if a quarterback scrambles, you go for his knees.”
“Told us that when one of us made an interception, the other 10 guys were to go block the quarterback,” former Bears defensive back Doug Plank said. “It was comical on film! You’d see the quarterback get hit, go down, get up, get hit, go down, get up, get hit….”
“Buddy Ryan is a Neanderthal, and he attracts Neanderthal players,” former coach Bill Parcells once said.
“Everywhere I went after the Eagles, coaches asked me about him. Most of them hated his guts,” former quarterback Ron Jaworski said.
But those 1985 Bears were special, perhaps the most fearsome defense in NFL history, allowing just 12.4 points per game and posting four shutouts. During one seven-game stretch, Chicago never allowed its opponent to score more than 10 points and won by an average score of 27-6.
As for head coach Mike Ditka, he told NFL Films, “I think he was antagonistic as he was because he felt like he should have got the job. We are not good friends. We will never be good friends. He doesn’t like me. It’s not that I don’t like him, there is just no reason to.”
Buddy Ryan was also the Jets’ defensive coordinator (technically defensive line coach…there was no ‘coordinator’ title then) in the late 1960s, and it was his defense that played as big a role as quarterback Joe Namath in the Jets’ lone Super Bowl triumph in 1969. Ryan spent eight years with New York.
Stuff
–In the U.S. Olympic swimming trials, shockingly, Missy Franklin and Ryan Lochte are struggling to make the team thus far in individual events, though Lochte is dealing with a painful groin injury. He did make a relay team. Franklin, though, just doesn’t seem to have it.
–I didn’t have a chance to relay all the post-race commentary last time following the NASCAR race at Sonoma (Calif.), won by Tony “Smoke” Stewart, his first in 84 races, but this was as popular a win as there’s been among his fellow drivers.
Stewart took the lead with 24 laps to go, but Denny Hamlin passed him on the seventh turn of the road course’s last lap, only to have Stewart return the favor in turn 11, bumping Hamlin out of the way as he passed on the inside for the win.
Hamlin had no problem with the maneuver. “I knew he was going to put me in the wall. All is fair in love and war.”
Jimmie Johnson said of Stewart’s win after, “Just stoked for him. He is a great friend and has been through so much. Just about every other driver chimed in in similar fashion.
–The Hockey Hall of Fame announced its latest inductees…goalie Rogie Vachon, forward Eric Lindros, Soviet winter Sergei Makarov and former Kings and Canada Olympic coach Pat Quinn, who was honored posthumously as a builder.
–In a real Sign of the Apocalypse, a Cleveland-based T-shirt company has struck a deal with Cavaliers guard J.R. Smith and one of the tattoo artists who decorated part of his body so that the company can sell a front and back tattoo body sleeve shirt that matches Smith’s tattoos.
Smith was shone numerous times without his shirt, both when the Cavs arrived at Cleveland airport after their Game 7 triumph in Oakland, and then during the parade celebration. I agree with President Obama, who said Smith should put his shirt on.
–We note the passing of rock guitarist Scotty Moore, 84. Moore was a member of Elvis Presley’s original band and is credited with helping Elvis shape his music that came to be called rock ‘n’ roll, and inspired generations of guitarists.
Moore was the last survivor of Elvis’ original band which included bassist Bill Black and producer Sam Phillips.
Moore backed Presley on many of his legendary songs including Heartbreak Hotel, Blue Suede Shoes and Jailhouse Rock.
Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones once said: “When I heard Heartbreak Hotel, I knew what I wanted to do in life….All I wanted to do was to be able to play and sound like that. Everyone else wanted to be Elvis. I wanted to be Scotty.”
Moore and Presley worked together for 14 years and he was Presley’s first manager.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000 and in 2015 he was placed at number 29 in Rolling Stone’s 100 greatest guitarists list. [BBC News]
Top 3 songs for the week 6/28/75: #1 “Love Will Keep Us Together” (The Captain & Tennille) #2 “When Will I Be Loved” (Linda Ronstadt) #3 “Wildfire” (Michael Murphey)…and…#4 “I’m Not Lisa” (Jessi Colter) #5 “Love Won’t Let Me Wait” (Major Harris…uh…uh…) #6 “The Hustle” (Van McCoy…started it all…) #7 “Listen To What The Man Said” (Wings) #8 “Get Down, Get Down” (Joe Simon) #9 “Magic” (Pilot) #10 “Cut The Cake” (AWB)
Baltimore Orioles Quiz Answers: 1) 50 home runs: Chris Davis, 53, 2013; Brady Anderson, 50, 1996. 2) Miguel Tejada had 150 RBIs in 2004.
Next Bar Chat, Monday….Shark!
