Comments on: Boog Powell http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/04/boog-powell/ Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:42:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: skipbutz http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/04/boog-powell/#comment-11788 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:12:59 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/04/boog-powell/#comment-11788 We used to say that one time, Boog Powell and Don Baylor ran into each other running for a popup and the resulting shock wave knocked out the lights. It was the baseball precursor to the Alice Cooper/Frank Zappa grossout story. Or the antecursor. There was cursing, for sure.

]]> By: jamesguitarshields http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/04/boog-powell/#comment-9099 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:09:34 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/04/boog-powell/#comment-9099 my earliest memory of strat-o-matic was watching my older brother play using the 1971 orioles team, and the only thing i cared about (at age 6) was whether or not the guy named Boog rolled a hit.
when i started playing about 6 years later, i eschewed the current (1983) crop of teams and stuck with my ’71 orioles for a number of obvious reasons (cuellar, dobson, palmer, mcnally, et al) but also because i liked having a guy named Boog on my team.

]]> By: ToyCannon http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/04/boog-powell/#comment-684 Fri, 04 May 2007 16:24:55 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/04/boog-powell/#comment-684 2.  For how many of us is baseball our religion?

]]> By: Catfish326 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/04/boog-powell/#comment-683 Fri, 04 May 2007 14:31:25 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2007/05/04/boog-powell/#comment-683 1.  My daily trivialties are much the same Josh . . . I find comfort in the fact I do not meander alone. I too thought life would be so much easier, if I were religious. Blind faith seems to work for so many . . . unfortunately, my analytical mind can’t get me there . . . (I just noticed that you can’t have “analytical” without “anal” . . . the pious might call that symbolism.)

I had this card too, and felt a sense of mystical power to it. You could easily paint in a different backdrop, with a choir behind Boog, and place a bible in his glove, and Boog would look right at home.

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