July 11 game chat

Nice Cappy

MEllis!

Gonzo!

Shoot, thought that had a chance!

My friend from Colorado Springs is giving me shit about Puig’s GIDP and Hanley’s fly out…My reply:

“Do you really want to do this…especially the way we’ve been playing since Yasiel Puig signed my authentic copy of his jersey…they are 15-3 since that game but this would be your game though since the next 3 pitchers are Kershaw, Grienke and Nolasco”

Wow Uribear lucked out there!

Vin has learned how to pronounce “Yasiel” properly.

Puig!

Enough with these DP’s…

Now’s the time to show another hittin’ Dodger pitcher!

“How did a vegetable become baseball slang for an argument or fight? A rhubarb
is baseball slang for a fight or argument among players and/or umpires.
We do know that the term was popularized by famed baseball broadcaster
Red Barber, but how rhubarbs became associated with altercations is not
known with any certainty, but there are several explanations that merit
mention:

The word rhubarb was used by radio actors to imitate the
sounds of raucous crowd. The actors would murmur “rhubarb, rhubarb” in
the background to simulate crowd noise. From radio plays to sports
broadcasting is a short leap.

Sportswriter Garry Schumacher may have coined the term in 1938.
Schumacher claimed to like the term because “it suggested an untidy
mess, a disheveled tangle of loose ends like the fibers of stewed
rhubarb.” Schumacher claimed to have used it in the press box of a
Dodgers-Reds game and Barber overheard and subsequently used it on the
radio.

Rhubarb was often used as purgative and mothers would force
their children to eat several doses a day. Children in the Greenpoint
section of Brooklyn were often sent outside with rhubarb sandwiches,
which became missiles and weapons in fights.

The acting use of rhubarb is recorded from 1934. From Alan P. Herbert’s Holy Deadlock of that year:

The chorus excitedly rushed about and muttered “Rhubarb!”

The baseball use is attested to from 1943. From Baseball Magazine of January of that year:

A “rhubarb,” which has become Brooklynese for a heated verbal run-in, especially between players and umpires.

On 13 July of that same year, the New York Herald Tribune cites Barber using the term:

Mr “Red” Barber,…who has been announcing the games of
the Brooklyn Dodgers, has used the term”‘rhubarb” to describe an
argument, or a mix-up, on the field of play.

Rhubarb was also WWII fighter-pilot slang for a strafing mission.
Whether this comes from Brooklyn-born fighter pilots who had heard
Barber use the term or from the other possible sources is not known.
From Time magazine, 22 March 1943:

When a fighter pilot flies low over France, strafing whatever he finds—trains, troops, airdromes—he is “on a rhubarb.”

MEllis!!

J.P. Hoornstra ‏@jphoornstra 47s

Official scoring change gives Juan Uribe an infield single in the fifth inning.

Now THAT is just what the doctor ordered. All respect to Vin.

If only they could play the dbacks every night. Then they’d be in first.

John from Aus, what say you of the first test? Seems England is building a tough total to chase here.

Dodgers lineup:
Crawford LF
Puig RF
Gonzalez 1B
Ramirez SS
Ethier CF
Ellis C
Ellis 2B
Uribe 3B
Kershaw P

NPUT