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[Pratte4Life]

The bottom line is I do think Kalena Bell has become competent in recent weeks.

Now, if only they can play "The Rubberband Man" by The Spinners as the background music to her sportscasts!

 

[Pratte4Life]

I was at a twi-night doubleheader years ago on a Friday night and the second game went 17 innings. Late in the second game a rather well-oiled fan was screaming "You stink Tekulve" over and over. Finally someone pointed out to him that Don Robinson was pitching... at which point people started piling on as to how you could confuse those two... (for those who might not know, Robinson was about 6'4" 260 and threw overhand, Tekulve weighed at least 100 pounds less and threw underhand...).

Then on the way out in the 14th inning or so of the second game, as always the guy was outside with the morning paper and someone asked him if the score was in there (did you ever leave a Pirate game and NOT hear that?). He said, "Yeah, Berra made two errors in the 17th and they lost..."

Ahh, the good old days....

I hate to diminish a good story- BUT!!!!!

I have looked up the records because something just wasn't right about that story. And I have to tell you that the Pirates never played a twinight double header during the time Dale Berra was their starting shortstop where one of the games went 17 innings.

I believe you are referring to the Bucs-Giants doubleheader in 1984 in which the Pirates SWEPT the Giants and the second game went 18 inning but resulted in a 4-3 Pirates victory.

In that game, Tekulve did give up a two-out, ninth inning hit to Chilli Davis in the second game, perhaps fatigued because he had also pitched in the FIRST game as well.

Then Don Robinson and Frank Williams traded zeros for seven innings before "The Sheriff" was relieved by the late, great curve ball specialist Rod Scurry, and the Bucs won in the bottom of the 18th on Jason Thompson's one-out, bases loaded single under the glove of first baseman Al Oliver for their fourth straight of an eventual seven game winning streak.

And if you want to know how I know all this, that was the first game(s) my mom ever took me to and I remember it like yesterday.

You missed a guy being struck by a live firework after the game in the centerfield stands at 2 a.m.

 

[Parttimer]

I was at a twi-night doubleheader years ago on a Friday night and the second game went 17 innings. Late in the second game a rather well-oiled fan was screaming "You stink Tekulve" over and over. Finally someone pointed out to him that Don Robinson was pitching... at which point people started piling on as to how you could confuse those two... (for those who might not know, Robinson was about 6'4" 260 and threw overhand, Tekulve weighed at least 100 pounds less and threw underhand...).

Then on the way out in the 14th inning or so of the second game, as always the guy was outside with the morning paper and someone asked him if the score was in there (did you ever leave a Pirate game and NOT hear that?). He said, "Yeah, Berra made two errors in the 17th and they lost..."

Ahh, the good old days....

I hate to diminish a good story- BUT!!!!!

I have looked up the records because something just wasn't right about that story. And I have to tell you that the Pirates never played a twinight double header during the time Dale Berra was their starting shortstop where one of the games went 17 innings.

I believe you are referring to the Bucs-Giants doubleheader in 1984 in which the Pirates SWEPT the Giants and the second game went 18 inning but resulted in a 4-3 Pirates victory.

You missed the joke. The game wasn't even over yet when the guy with the papers said it. (I left around the 14th inning because it was after midnight and I had to be on the air in Washington at 6AM.)

But that is exactly the night I'm talking about, and Robinson did pitch.

And with all due respect, if you actually took the time to look that up.....

 

[DToTheJ]

Remember, this is a radio company that put David Lee Roth on the radio in Market No. 1, despite having no previous radio experience. So a "young skull full of mush" just starting to cut her teeth in the sports business being plunked on the air in Market No. 25 shouldn't be anything out of the ordinary.

And by the by...

But misprounounce "Tekulve" on a sportscast? Miss Bell, that's Un-Pittsburgh!!!!!

How about misspelling "mispronounce"? :

 

[FreddyE1977]

I was at a twi-night doubleheader years ago on a Friday night and the second game went 17 innings. Late in the second game a rather well-oiled fan was screaming "You stink Tekulve" over and over. Finally someone pointed out to him that Don Robinson was pitching...

little aside about Donnie Robinson....

I was at a Washington Wild Things game a couple of years ago, and Robinson was working as the third base coach for a
team from Florence, Kentucky (I think he is a Kentucky native and still lives there). During one of the inning breaks the
stadium PA announcer opened a trivia contest. The question was "What three Pittsburgh Pirates were on the roster of both
the 1971 and 1979 World Series winning teams? (the answer was Stargell, Sanguillen, Bruce Kison). The first 5 people to
come to a table in the concourse with the correct answer would win autographed baseballs.

Robinson heard the question, turned around and shouted the correct answer into the third-base stands,
touching off a mad scramble to the concourse. Talk about using your lifeline to get the correct answer!

 

[Pratte4Life]

Part- You think I had to LOOK THAT UP?

You don't know me very well!

But I think I know the guy you're talking about. I once saw him in 1994 and he told me that Dale Berra once made homosexual advances towards him, so he beat him up, put on his uniform, and then played the game.

This may help explain why this person was actually hanging outside of Three Rivers and could not actually afford a ticket.

Flint Rhem couldn't tell stories like that!