Take me out to the FRIDAY QUESTION
Why the long faces over here?
The GIANTS have lost their first six road games for the first time since moving west with the Dodgers after the 1957 season. The last time ROUTE 1's official favorite lost cause/baseball team dropped their first six on the road was in 1947 -- the year Jackie Robinson made his big league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Are we shocked? Are we bitter? Are we panicking?
Yes, yes and yes!
Thankfully, we are also enjoying the answers to this week's FRIDAY QUESTION:
"What is your favorite baseball movie?"
RICK T. -- "For The Love of The Game!"
BEKAH P. -- "A League of Their Own." I must have watched that 10,000 times growing up. Everything about that movie is classic, classic, classic. And of course, the best line in baseball history... "There's no crying in baseball!"
MARY N.-P. -- Since I'm not a sports junkie (actually I'm very sports-challenged as folks in the newsroom know), about the only baseball movie I've ever seen is "The Field of Dreams" so it must be my favorite...
MIKE D. -- "Field of Dreams." You can't beat a movie about playing catch with your dad.
JOHN S. -- "The Sandlot."
KERI M. -- "A League of Their Own."
JIM S. -- Of course, "Field of Dreams" ranks near the top for me -- even if it DIDN'T take place nearby. I'd also throw in "The Rookie," "The Sandlot," "Hardball," "League of Their Own" and "Pride of the Yankees." There are just so many good ones!
LISA Y. -- Of course, it is "Field of Dreams!"
ERIK H. -- Akira Kurosawa's 1949 crime drama "Nora Inu (Stray Dog)" probably doesn't make many "best baseball film" lists, but one of the most enthralling elements in this classic movie is an extended scene featuring a stakeout at a Yomiuri Giants versus Nankai Hawks baseball game. Viewers see Japan's legendary "God of Batting," Tetsuharu Kawakami, in action.The American Giants sure could use someone like Kawakami today!
The GIANTS have lost their first six road games for the first time since moving west with the Dodgers after the 1957 season. The last time ROUTE 1's official favorite lost cause/baseball team dropped their first six on the road was in 1947 -- the year Jackie Robinson made his big league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Are we shocked? Are we bitter? Are we panicking?
Yes, yes and yes!
Thankfully, we are also enjoying the answers to this week's FRIDAY QUESTION:
"What is your favorite baseball movie?"
RICK T. -- "For The Love of The Game!"
BEKAH P. -- "A League of Their Own." I must have watched that 10,000 times growing up. Everything about that movie is classic, classic, classic. And of course, the best line in baseball history... "There's no crying in baseball!"
MARY N.-P. -- Since I'm not a sports junkie (actually I'm very sports-challenged as folks in the newsroom know), about the only baseball movie I've ever seen is "The Field of Dreams" so it must be my favorite...
MIKE D. -- "Field of Dreams." You can't beat a movie about playing catch with your dad.
JOHN S. -- "The Sandlot."
KERI M. -- "A League of Their Own."
JIM S. -- Of course, "Field of Dreams" ranks near the top for me -- even if it DIDN'T take place nearby. I'd also throw in "The Rookie," "The Sandlot," "Hardball," "League of Their Own" and "Pride of the Yankees." There are just so many good ones!
LISA Y. -- Of course, it is "Field of Dreams!"
ERIK H. -- Akira Kurosawa's 1949 crime drama "Nora Inu (Stray Dog)" probably doesn't make many "best baseball film" lists, but one of the most enthralling elements in this classic movie is an extended scene featuring a stakeout at a Yomiuri Giants versus Nankai Hawks baseball game. Viewers see Japan's legendary "God of Batting," Tetsuharu Kawakami, in action.The American Giants sure could use someone like Kawakami today!
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