It lies to us

[scooterbird]

I have one of those fact-a-day desk calendars for the Orioles. I do not like it, Sam-I-Am, because it can indeed play free and easy with the facts it gives, sometimes giving records as current that have already been broken, and so on

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[bluetara2020]

Wow...that's possibly more information than I ever wanted to know about baseball. (I enjoy playing the game, I just never got into the who fan aspect of it...)

[scooterbird]

I just do that, yeah. *shrug*

[scooterbird]

Which brings me to consider once again starting a sports blog.

[pantherwill]

Minor nitpick: Lucchesi didn't so much leave town as get his ass kicked by Lenny Randle (the Rangers' starting second baseman at the time).

[scooterbird]

Sorta. From the Bullpen:

His tenure as a major league manager is most remembered for an unfortunate incident when he was manager of the Rangers in spring training of 1977: infielder Lenny Randle assaulted him, broke his jaw and inflicted a number of other injuries in what was apparently an unprovoked attack. Randle later claimed that Lucchesi had insulted him, calling him a "punk" (before the term became primarily associated with a musical genre and lost much of its bite). Randle was suspended and then traded away to the New York Mets for his role in the incident, but Lucchesi's reputation was also shattered. He was fired shortly thereafter and never received another chance to be a full-time manager in the majors (his gig with the Cubs in 1987 was in an interim capacity).I still like Lenny Randle. He was at bat for the Mets with a 3-2 count later that year when the New York City blackout happened; the lights went out mid-pitch. Randle threw down his bat, walked to first base, looked the ump straight in the eye through the

[kouaidou]

I guess I could see how it would be hard to throw in the two-managers-for-the-A's factoid given the format they were writing in, but it still comes off as weird. Does it appear they're working under strict wordcounts, or are there facts that are longer than that one?

[scooterbird]

There are...I think these guys just aren't too sharp.