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Happy Pine Tar Day.

RedHeart54RedHeart54 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭
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Has it already been 25 years???

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  • ChrisCChrisC Posts: 435
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  • purduepetepurduepete Posts: 791 ✭✭✭
    IMO, one of the top 5 meltdowns of all time!
    Tom

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  • billwaltonsbeardbillwaltonsbeard Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭✭
    Ahh yes, a truly great meltdown. If audio existed of it, there would be little else ever played on talk radio, even to this day.
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  • BunchOBullBunchOBull Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭
    I had heard about the Brett incident, but I never knew the story as it was before my time. Interesting stuff.
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  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Billy Martin was such a scumbag.
  • purduepetepurduepete Posts: 791 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I had heard about the Brett incident, but I never knew the story as it was before my time. Interesting stuff. >>



    the 'Pine Tar Incident'
    Tom

    Collecting: Topps 1952-79, Bowman 1952-55, OPC 1965-71, and Pre-War White Sox cards
  • BobSBobS Posts: 1,738 ✭✭
    +1 Gaylord Sightingimage
  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭
    i remember that day

    very schrewed move on martin's part, i hate the yankees but always liked martin.
    Fred

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  • greencrowgreencrow Posts: 867
    Happy 30th Anniversary!
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    I'd rather be remembered for that outburst and subsequent victory than being sidelined due to 'roids..

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    edited for clarification: 'roids as in a painful tushy condition, not steroids.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    much like his beloved awful franchise, the butt of every joke.
  • japhijaphi Posts: 223
    The narrative is that Brett would have slugged the ump but if you watch the video Brett gets right to him and could have smacked him. What's impressive is the ump completely stands his ground, doesn't even flinch and just swats at Brett.

    Love that clip.
  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
    I was at the game. Should have saved the ticket stub though.
  • Yankees001Yankees001 Posts: 1,496 ✭
    Yes, George Brett Cheated. No different than taking PED'S.

    Cheating is Cheating.

    Dave
  • MinorLeaguerMinorLeaguer Posts: 531 ✭✭✭✭
    Brett's eyes during the pine tar incident always reminded me of Ralph Kramden yelling "You! Are a Blabber-Mouth!!!" George was also shouting a word that started with B

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  • japhijaphi Posts: 223
    Help me understand how pine tar going 8 more inches up the bat helped him hit that home run. I don't see any parallel to PED use.
  • scotgrebscotgreb Posts: 809 ✭✭✭
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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What's impressive is the ump completely stands his ground, doesn't even flinch and just swats at Brett.
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    Yeah, but he did have a bat in his hands. image
  • halfcentmanhalfcentman Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭
    I watched that game live since I live in NJ, and I could not believe how ballistic Brett went.

    Lord only knows how many games he would gotten suspended for that, but as someone else said, the umpire stood his ground.

    The continuation of the game was broadcast on WPIX-TV Channel 11 as "The Search for the Lonesome Pine!"
  • spazzyspazzy Posts: 592 ✭✭
    Kmart back then had Brett pine tar bats. I was lucky to get one and still have it!
  • hyperchipper09hyperchipper09 Posts: 1,464 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was 13. Remember it well. I was thinking even at my age then I wouldn't cut that kind of fit. Like George, chill man.
    Brett was a player I truly despised growing up watching baseball. From 1980 - on. Gained a much better appreciation for him after he retired and as I got older. He and Mike Schmidt were as good as it gets for Third Basemen in the modern era.
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Kmart back then had Brett pine tar bats. I was lucky to get one and still have it! >>


    Pics or it didn't happen!
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Kmart back then had Brett pine tar bats. I was lucky to get one and still have it! >>



    Did it look like this?

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    Honestly can't remember but think I bought mine at the stadium.

    edited to add: it's a mini bat

    edited again to add more pics (sorry for the blur):

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    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • fur72fur72 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭
    Not sure if anyone caught this article. Its from the bat boys point of view and how the pine tar incident might not have happened if it wasn't for what he did.

    Bat Boy Has A Helluva Story
    Cory @iamfur72 https://twitter.com/iamfur72

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