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That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: Baseball Funny Quotes

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cbssports.com file photos: The late great Yogi Berra shown in his retirement days (left) and his active days (right), is quoted below by Talk Show host Amaury Pi Gonzalez in Baseball Funny Quotes

Amaury Pi-González

(This is a compilation from baseball books and publications)

-It gets late early out here- Yogi Berra-A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz- Humphrey Bogart

-I knew when my career was over when my baseball card came out with no picture. -Bob Uecker’

-I watch a lot of baseball on the radio -Gerald Ford

-Hi fans,we are in Yuma Arizona for this Spring Training game,is not the end of the world,but you can see it from here -Lon Simmons – -After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball is Reggie Jackson -Reggie Jackson

-Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist -Alvin Dark – Baseball is dull only to dull minds -Red Barber – There are three things you can do in a baseball game.You can win or you can lose or it can rain -Casey Stengel

-If a horse won’t eat I don’t want to play on it -Dick Allen

-You don’t realize how easy this game is,until you get up in the broadcast booth -Mickey Mantle

-He looks like a Greyhound, but he runs like a bus -George Brett on teammate Jamie Quirk

-So I’m ugly, so what? I never saw anybody hit with his face -Yogi Berra

-I’d be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball -Pete Rose

-Aw, c’mon, how can he lose the ball in the sun, he is from Mexico! -Harry Caray about Jorge Orta misplaying the ball

-The future ain’t what it used to be -Yogi Berra

-Why does everybody stands up and sings, ‘take me out to the ballgame’when they are already there -Larry Anderson

-They should move first base a step to eliminate all those close plays -John Lowenstein

-They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball, and they tell you to hit is square -Willie Stargell

-I never questioned the integrity of an umpire, their eyesight, Yes -Leo Durocher

-Trying to sneak a pitch by Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise by a rooster -Joe Adcock

-On hearing that Reggie Jackson was reported to have an IQ of 165. Yankee teammate Mickey Rivers said “Out of what- a thousand?”

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Have a great and safe weekend.

Stay well folks!

Catch Amaury for News and Commentary podcasts each Tuesday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Headline Sports podcast with London Marq part I: Downtown Sacramento virtual ghost town after Kings season suspended; A look back in SF Giants history; plus more

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(sacbee.com photo) Jack’s Urban Eats in midtown Sacramento in this March 16th photo is only selling food for take out orders no dinning in during the Shelter in Place policy. The home of the Sacramento Kings Golden One Center has sat dark since the NBA suspended the season due to Covid 19 pandemic.

On Headline Sports podcast with London:

#1 The impact that the necessary shelter in place has equated  a down economy in downtown Sacramento home of the Sacramento Kings is virtually a ghost town with very few office people going out for lunch and mostly working from home. Shelter in place is a great idea and hopefully it’ll flatten the curve but it will take downtown Sacramento at least two years to come back from all of this.

#2 Taking a look back in San Francisco Giants history former Giant outfielder Barry Bonds slugged two home runs on opening day of 2002 at Dodger Stadium after hitting 73 home runs in 2001 which set the MLB season mark for homers. Still historians say those are tainted records and Bonds admits he’s like a ghost in a big house that can’t win enough votes to get into the Hall of Fame.

#3 In the Bay Area local park offiicals have closed parks and playgrounds due to the social distancing policy. While officials got to the point saying people were not keeping their distance this will have to be the new normal for school kids who can’t go out play and exercise.

#4 Skiing is out of he question at any rate as the Nevada/California snow pack is at it’s 11th place lowest in the 71 year recorded history. Registering at 53% for this year’s snow fall.

#5 The San Francisco Giants are kicking in another $700,000 on top of the $1 million they will pay out to their game day employees who can also take unemployment during this time. Team president Larry Baer said the team plans to up the ante later on.

Join London Marq for Headline Sports each Friday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Headline Sports podcast with London Marq part II: Will Bonds ever get a shot at the Hall?; Snowpack low might be a good thing

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Former Miami Marlins batting coach and former San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds. London talks about Bonds chances of making the MLB Hall of Fame (photo from Zimbio)

On Headline Sports podcast with London:

#1 The impact that the necessary shelter in place has equated a down economy in downtown Sacramento home of the Sacramento Kings is virtually a ghost town with very few office people going out for lunch and mostly working from home. Shelter in place is a great idea and hopefully it’ll flatten the curve but it will take downtown Sacramento at least two years to come back from all of this.

#2 Taking a look back in San Francisco Giants history former Giant outfielder Barry Bonds slugged two home runs on opening day of 2002 at Dodger Stadium after hitting 73 home runs in 2001 which set the MLB season mark for homers. Still historians say those are tainted records and Bonds admits he’s like a ghost in a big house that can’t win enough votes to get into the Hall of Fame.

#3 In the Bay Area local park offiicals have closed parks and playgrounds due to the social distancing policy. While officials got to the point saying people were not keeping their distance this will have to be the new normal for school kids who can’t go out play and exercise.

#4 Skiing is out of he question at any rate as the Nevada/California snow pack is at it’s 11th place lowest in the 71 year recorded history. Registering at 53% for this year’s snow fall.

#5 The San Francisco Giants are kicking in another $700,000 on top of the $1 million they will pay out to their game day employees who can also take unemployment during this time. Team president Larry Baer said the team plans to up the ante later on.

Join London Marq for Headline Sports each Friday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: A Chat with Nancy Finley (Daughter of Carl Finley A’s assistant))

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Sports Illustrated 1972 file photo: Oakland A’s surround owner Charlie O Finley, from left to right (top) Rollie Fingers, Joe Rudi, Vida Blue, (middle) Reggie Jackson, Charlie O Finley, Gene Tenace, (bottom) Sal Bando, Catfish Hunter, Campy Campaneris

A Chat with Nancy Finley

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Amaury Pi-González

Athletics owner Charlie O Finley was a visionary,a man that knew how to promote the game, he owned and operated the Kansas City and Oakland A’s for 20 years. I met Mr.Finley prior to a game at the Oakland Coliseum a few years after his famous Swinging A’s won three consecutive World Series 1972-74.

Charlie O Finley was a very passionate owner,who brought the colorful uniforms,shoes and other innovations to the game of baseball. Charlie was a winner, and winning three consecutive World Series is a feat only accomplished by another team in the history of major league baseball,the New York Yankees,who on three different occasions won consecutive World Championships (1936-1939) followed by (1949-1953) and from 1998 to 2000 for three more. The Yanks are the undisputed champions with 27 World Series titles.

But there was another very important Finley, not as well known as Charlie.Carl Finley and Carl was always busy not only handling the media but also in charge of promotions,in a small front office,which was mostly members of the family, Carl and others wore many hats.His daughter Nancy,was born into the baseball world with his dad and Charlie.

Nancy share some of her memories. She told me about Joe Dimaggio in 1970 “Joe DiMaggio cooked dinner when he visited dad at 1200 Lakeshore vAenue in Oakland, both were bachelors and had much in common,this was the top floor apartment leased by the team,this was my first home. Later that year we learned we were neighbors with Huey Newton(Black Panthers), he was on the FBI’S 10 Most Wanted at that time. Dad moved me with a girlfriend before the news broke”

Nancy remembers 1971,the first year in the playoffs. “This was Vida Blue’s year, Vida became an overnight sensation with fans. I remember Vida Blue day.I also remember ‘Hot Pants Day’. Our promo item was a bottle of ‘Hot Pants’ perfume to the first 5,000 fans wearing hot pants.We had a ‘Hot Pants’contest on the field.We were still waiting for the front office to be finished by Alameda Co. Alameda Co. kept promising it would be soon”

Mr.Finley was known for his promotions and probably none was more famous than Charlie-O the Mule, the mascot that Mr.Finley used from Kansas City Athletics to the Oakland Athletics from 1965 to 1976.

The mule was named after Charles O Finley. Nancy: “On December 1976,our mascot,Charlie O passed. Dad handled the internment.Dad decided to have Charlie O.interned at the Oakland SPCA and fans could pay respect since this was next door.I remember when dad took me to the SPCA and showed me the wall with Charlie O’s plaque. Dad said Charle O.’s cap,blanket and reigns were with him. During games for 1977 to 1980, we were without our mascot. This took something away in my mind. In 1977, Charlie O mailed dad a “Mule” magazine, and wrote Charlie O. on the front cover. Dad could tell Charlie missed Charlie O.I still have that magazine”

Nancy remembers the A’s bank manager in downtown Oakland had a crush on her dad. According to Nancy, “Dad was well known at this bank and chose this bank for the team:” About the off-season “Dad had his California Junior College Credential for the off season,he taught Business Law at Laney College in the winter”

Carl’s cousin was Charlie O Finley and Nancy learned under those years when the Oakland Athletics were a national story,once in the front cover of Sports Illustrated,very happy moments,winning playoffs and World Series. She also lived under stressful times as she recalls:”On October 1973, I had to be taken out of school because of kidnap threats. When Oakland School Superintendent, Marcus Foster, was assassinated by the SLA, the FBI informed dad Finley was their #1 target.The SLA said they could not locate Finley”

These are just a few of the many stories and memoirs of Nancy Finley. She lived during a very interesting time in baseball and American history and of course about the Swinging A’s from somebody who grew-up inside the game of baseball with the Finley family.Thanks Nancy.

Nancy Finley wrote the book, Finley Ball: How Two Baseball Outsiders Turned the Oakland A’s into a Dynasty and Changed the game forever.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez does News and Commentary podcasts each Tuesday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Headline Sports podcast with Jerry Feitelberg: Warriors Welts like many in NBA working from home; Wimbledon canceled for first time since WWII; plus more

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AP photo: Gates of Wimbledon are locked tight as the announcement on Wednesday Apr 1 that the 2020 Wimbledon Tennis Championships will be canceled due to the Coronavirus outbreaks.

On Headlines pod with Jerry F:

#1 Golden State Warriors team president Rick Welts like most everyone else is working from his Sacramento home. He’s hoping the team can return to some normalcy.

#2 Most NBA teams including the Sacramento Kings have most of their full time employees working from home which could amount up to 500

#3 For the first time since World War II Wimbledon has been canceled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Some of tennis’ best Serena Williams and Roger Federer have been featured at the event in the past.

#4 Kings fans and local Sacramento businesses have observed how quiet downtown has been since the shelter in place has been instituted since March 12th. The very few who are out during lunch hour take their lunch to go and back to the office.

#5 Covid 19 hitting close to home for Oakland A’s pitcher Liam Hendriks who lost his disc jockey friend Gariff Gotti and A’s minor league coach and manager Webster Garrison both who died and quickly after contracting the virus.

Join Jerry for Headline Sports every Thursday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Headline Sports podcast with Marko Ukalovic: Goodell won’t bend on draft despite critics; Bay Area fishing to be cancelled; plus more

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photo from ap file photo: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has warned NFL personnel not to say anything against holding the draft in April or face the consequences

Headline Sports podcast with Marko Ukalovic:

#1 NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is receiving lots of criticism for moving forward to with the NFL draft

#2 Goodell also said anyone from any NFL team has been warned not to criticize his decision to move forward with the draft as planned between Apr 23-25

#3 The Bay Area Sports Salmon will not be opening Apr 11th as the season will be canceled however commercial fishing which is considered essential will be back and will provide to the stores and wholesalers to feed the masses.

#4 Marko, How much of a hit will NHL teams take if the rest of the season is wiped out and this would be the second time since the 2005 lockout that their will not be Stanley Cup Playoffs and Finals.

#5 The San Jose Barracuda hope to come back for more AHL action, they may not be a cup contender but the team would like to return on a high note once they get the O.K. to return from the Governor’s office maybe in May.

Join Marko for Headline Sports each Wednesday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: MLB International Cancellations, plus more

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London Stadium in preparation of last year’s London Series between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox on June 27, 2019. This years meeting between the Cubs and Cardinals has been canceled for Jun 13-14 series. (AP file photo)

MLB International Cancellations,plus.

Amaury Pi-González

The London Series, between the St Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs on June 13-14, has been canceled due to the COVIC-19 pandemic. These were going to be the second set of teams to play at London, after the Yankees and Red Sox had played two regular season games there in 2019.

According to MLB this series will not take place at any time this season. Also canceled previously other international baseball events that were scheduled for this 2020 season like the Mexico City Series between the San Diego Padres and the Arizona Diamondbacks,as well as the New York Mets vs. Miami Marlins in Puerto Rico.

Major League Baseball latest directive, states that the 2020 season will not begin until at least mid-May. This is a very fluid situation and there will be more information coming from Commissioner Rob Manfred in the days to come.

(Tennis)Wimbledon Cancelled:  This was scheduled to run from June 29 to July 12.This is the first time it will not be played during peacetime. Wimbledon was canceled from 1915 to 1918 because of World War I and from 1940 to 1945 due to World War II.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez does News and Commentary and catch Amaury’s podcasts Tuesdays at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

Headline Sports podcast with Barbara Mason: 49ers show confidence in Garoppolo over Brady; Will this season’s World Series be the third one cancelled in history?; plus more

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photo from sfgate.com: San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo (10) confers with 49ers head coach Kyle Shananhan during Super Bowl LIV on Feb 2, 2020 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami

On Headline Sports podcast with Barbara:

#1 How big of a choice was it for 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo that the 49ers thought enough of him not to try and obtain Tom Brady.

#2 How important is it for the International Olympic committee in Tokyo to have chosen to move the summer games to 2021

#3 With construction put on the side due to Covid 19 the delay will take the Raiders off schedule to open up at their new Las Vegas stadium. The delay very well could force the Raiders to play another season back at the Oakland Coliseum.

#4 The new Indoor Football League team the Oakland Panthers were so excited and anxious to get their inaugural season going but had to suspend the season. Their opener was scheduled for Sat Mar 14th and now they might have to wait until next year to start.

#5 If the World Series is not played this year it will be the first World Series cancelled since the 1994 World Series due to a strike and the 1904 World Series because New York Giants manager John McGraw didn’t want to play against an inferior league the American League.

Barbara does Headline Sports each Tuesday night at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary podcast: With Covid cases rising will there even be a MLB season?; Greatest double play combos of all time; plus more

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sfgate.com file photo: The Oakland A’s second baseman Marcus Semien fields a grounder hit by the San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey in the August 13th 2009 game. Semien signed a contract for $13 million last season which equates to a $7.1 million raise.

On That’s Amaury’s pod:

#1 According to Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred the season could be pushed back to start as early as late May or early June. With Covid-19 cases multiplying will there even be a season?

#2 Marcus Semien the A’s second baseman will he get a new contract before the season starts or will the A’s wait until they get the clear when baseball comes back to negotiate terms with Semien?

#3 Taking  a look who was the best all time double play combinations in the game let us know your thoughts on these favorites double play combinations, From the Chicago Cubs Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance, From the Brooklyn Dodgers Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, and Gil Hodges, From the New York Yankees Phil “Scooter” Rizuto, Jerry Coleman, and Moose Skowron, from the Los Angeles Dodgers  Bill Russell, Davey Lopes, and Steve Garvey, and finally from the Cincinnati Reds Dave Concepcion, Joe Morgan, and Tony Perez.

#4 Who to you were the greatest Oakland A’s teams the 1972-74 A’s? or the 1988-90 A’s?

#5 The A’s have transgressed they could very well lose most of this season to the virus shutdown, they have not secured Howard Terminal during this delayed season, and they will not broadcast any of their games on English radio.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the vice president of the Major League Baseball Hispanic Heritage Musuem please visit the Museum at the Oakland Coliseum during all A’s home games also Amaury does News and Commentary at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

 

 

 

Headline Sports podcast with Morris Phillips: How improved are the Bucs with Brady on board?; Marbury trying to donate 10 millions masks to NYC; plus more

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file photo from newengleandpatriots.com: Tom Brady addresses the press in this file photo, Brady spoke to the press via telephone at his press introductory to the Tampa Bay media on Friday Mar 27th.

Morris Phillips on Headline Sports podcast:

#1 Morris how improved are the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with their acquisition of Tom Brady and at 42 years old did he make the right choice to go to Tampa Bay.

#2 The Chinese Basketball Association’s Stephon Marbury who coaches the Royal Fighters says he wants to send 10 million N95 face masks to New York City as the break out there is stratospheric Marbury who played 13 seasons in the NBA and five with the New York Knicks is trying to buy the masks at $2.75 each negotiations with the manufacturer in China has been stiff.

#3 Agent Scott Boras says the MLB draft is sending the wrong message by shortening the draft and limiting the financial pool for amateur players. Baseball takes the position that the terms of the agreement are in place and the Commissioner Rob Manfred can reduce the draft from 40 rounds to five. Manfred is also considering cutting the amount of drafts to 20 in 2021

#4 The estimated start of the MLB season could be realistically in June. Flu season should be well over with by then and shelter in place could be done by mid May. On the other hand some medical experts say with a vaccine not available Coronvirus could revive again halting the season again.

#5 While the Utah Jazz Rudy Cobert and Donavon Mitchell and the Utah Jazz and front office have been cleared of Coronvirus the New York Knicks owner James Dolan is self isolating after being diagnosed for the disease. Dolan is the first pro sports owner to come up positive for Covid-19.

Morris Phillips does Headline Sports each Monday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com