2012 Nationals
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- langleyparkjoe
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- Location: Langley Park, MD *Tick Tock*
Deadskins wrote:langleyparkjoe wrote:I knew I (brotherly) loved you jerks for a reason.
Are you from Philly?

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'09 & '17 langleyparkjoe, '10 Cappster, '11 & '13 DarthMonk,
'12 Deadskins, '14 PickSixerTWSS, '15 APEX PREDATOR, '16 vwoodzpusha
'09 & '17 langleyparkjoe, '10 Cappster, '11 & '13 DarthMonk,
'12 Deadskins, '14 PickSixerTWSS, '15 APEX PREDATOR, '16 vwoodzpusha
langleyparkjoe wrote:Countertrey wrote:welch wrote:Deadskins wrote:welch wrote:From the time I met CT back in elementary school
You've known Countertrey since elementary school?
we rode the same South Dakota Ave bus to Bunker Hill Elementary School. We both had Mrs. Cole, who taught us to read. CT lived on one side of South Dakota; I lived on the other. Probably stood at the same bus-stop. In fact, my sister had her tonsils out at the same hospital where CT was born, I think.
He took my milk money... regularly. I have a calcium deficiency to this day. And, he sat on me until I said "SCARBATH!!" Bastage.
(you have to admit... Scarbath is one bad ass name)
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Ya'll are so homegrown, I knew I (brotherly) loved you jerks for a reason.
Remember, also: I've known about the Tick Tock since I was about seven or eight, and used to go to the Langley Movie Theater, in the Langley Park shopping center.
Jake wrote:That certainly was one of the best games of the season. Reading that makes me wish I was around in 1924 to experience it.
Jake, I just realized that if you had been around to see Game 7 in 1924, you would be about 100 years old!
Shirley Povich wrote a great history of the Senators (aka "Nationals") in 1954. It was reprinted a year or two ago...easy to find on Alibris, and a great read. Has all the stories...and from 1923 or '24 onward, Shirley was the guy who covered them (even though he was written up in "Who's Who in American Women" some time in the '50s. "Oops", as the governor said.)
Example...about 1910, the new grandstand at American League Park burned down (later known as Griffith Stadium). The DC fire marshal reported that a plumber's torch had started the fire. Ex-manager Joe Cantillon said, "Yeah, and the plumber was probably playing third base".
- langleyparkjoe
- Posts: 6697
- Joined: Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:12 am
- Location: Langley Park, MD *Tick Tock*
welch wrote:Remember, also: I've known about the Tick Tock since I was about seven or eight, and used to go to the Langley Movie Theater, in the Langley Park shopping center.
Ahhh yes Welch, the entrance was pushed in so you walked underneath that covering, gave it a real movie theater feel to it. Had the posters on the walls as you walked in.
lol. remember dart drug, peoples and waxie maxie tape stores?
Hog Bowl Champions
'09 & '17 langleyparkjoe, '10 Cappster, '11 & '13 DarthMonk,
'12 Deadskins, '14 PickSixerTWSS, '15 APEX PREDATOR, '16 vwoodzpusha
'09 & '17 langleyparkjoe, '10 Cappster, '11 & '13 DarthMonk,
'12 Deadskins, '14 PickSixerTWSS, '15 APEX PREDATOR, '16 vwoodzpusha
langleyparkjoe wrote:welch wrote:Remember, also: I've known about the Tick Tock since I was about seven or eight, and used to go to the Langley Movie Theater, in the Langley Park shopping center.
Ahhh yes Welch, the entrance was pushed in so you walked underneath that covering, gave it a real movie theater feel to it. Had the posters on the walls as you walked in.
lol. remember dart drug, peoples and waxie maxie tape stores?
Of course! I used to stop off at People's Drugstore in PG Plaza...bought my school supplies there. I think I started my jazz collection when Waxie-Maxie's sold off their mono LP's for about $1.99 each. Got a Sonny Rollins ("Saxophone Colossus"...an all-time great) plus Clifford brown / Max Roach with Sonny, some early Coltrane, some Eric Dolphy, who I was "supposed" to like, but, honestly, Dolphy's music was a little too far-out atonal for me.
- Countertrey
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- Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:15 pm
- Location: Curmudgeon Corner, Maine
OMG! "Waxie Maxie's "... ummm... they weren't "tape" stores when we were there, though... 

"That's a clown question, bro"
- - - - - - - - - - Bryce Harper, DC Statesman
"But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have"
- - - - - - - - - - Dewey Bunnell, America
- - - - - - - - - - Bryce Harper, DC Statesman
"But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have"
- - - - - - - - - - Dewey Bunnell, America
welch wrote:Jake wrote:That certainly was one of the best games of the season. Reading that makes me wish I was around in 1924 to experience it.
Jake, I just realized that if you had been around to see Game 7 in 1924, you would be about 100 years old!
Shirley Povich wrote a great history of the Senators (aka "Nationals") in 1954. It was reprinted a year or two ago...easy to find on Alibris, and a great read. Has all the stories...and from 1923 or '24 onward, Shirley was the guy who covered them (even though he was written up in "Who's Who in American Women" some time in the '50s. "Oops", as the governor said.)
Example...about 1910, the new grandstand at American League Park burned down (later known as Griffith Stadium). The DC fire marshal reported that a plumber's torch had started the fire. Ex-manager Joe Cantillon said, "Yeah, and the plumber was probably playing third base".
hahaha If I had been around, I probably wouldn't know how to use a computer. I like that story... that's pretty funny.
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Deadskins wrote:How 'bout them Braves?
Yeah, that series did them a lot of good. haha
RIP Sean Taylor 1983-2007
RIP Kevin Mitchell 1971-2007
RIP Justin Skaggs 1979-2007
RIP Sammy Baugh 1914-2008
RIP JPFair
RIP VetSkinsFan
#60 Chris Samuels: 6-time 6-time 6-time 6-time 6-time 6-time Pro Bowl left tackle!
RIP Kevin Mitchell 1971-2007
RIP Justin Skaggs 1979-2007
RIP Sammy Baugh 1914-2008
RIP JPFair
RIP VetSkinsFan
#60 Chris Samuels: 6-time 6-time 6-time 6-time 6-time 6-time Pro Bowl left tackle!
Jake wrote:Deadskins wrote:How 'bout them Braves?
Yeah, that series did them a lot of good. haha
But to come back from 0-9 against a team that has given you fits all season, then take the lead only to give it up again then finally win in extra innings? Incredible game.
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Hog Bowl IV Champion (2012)
Hail to the Redskins!
Deadskins wrote:Jake wrote:Deadskins wrote:How 'bout them Braves?
Yeah, that series did them a lot of good. haha
But to come back from 0-9 against a team that has given you fits all season, then take the lead only to give it up again then finally win in extra innings? Incredible game.
Daughter and I drove down that Saturday for the evening game and the Sunday afternoon game. Very grim walking into Nats Park as the Braves scored two in the first. Then Lannan seemed to settle down in the third and strangled them.
Two good wins, clearly out-classed the Braves. Some bad fielding from Atlanta, and weak pitching in those last two games.
Nats then swept the Mets, and have taken two of three from Milwaukee. Hard to believe it, but the 2012 Nats are very good.
Deadskins wrote:Jake wrote:Deadskins wrote:How 'bout them Braves?
Yeah, that series did them a lot of good. haha
But to come back from 0-9 against a team that has given you fits all season, then take the lead only to give it up again then finally win in extra innings? Incredible game.
Yeah, it was a unique game but 1/162. Not much of dent. If anything, it motivated the Nats off more than had they not come back and won it in that manner.
RIP Sean Taylor 1983-2007
RIP Kevin Mitchell 1971-2007
RIP Justin Skaggs 1979-2007
RIP Sammy Baugh 1914-2008
RIP JPFair
RIP VetSkinsFan
#60 Chris Samuels: 6-time 6-time 6-time 6-time 6-time 6-time Pro Bowl left tackle!
RIP Kevin Mitchell 1971-2007
RIP Justin Skaggs 1979-2007
RIP Sammy Baugh 1914-2008
RIP JPFair
RIP VetSkinsFan
#60 Chris Samuels: 6-time 6-time 6-time 6-time 6-time 6-time Pro Bowl left tackle!
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