Comments on: Jim Palmer

By: sb1902

sb1902 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:43:43 +0000

I’m amazed when I look at the Innings Pitched for guys like Palmer in the ’70s. He topped 295 innings six times. It helped that the AL brought in the DH and guys didn’t have to be lifted for pinch hitters (ten guys pitched 270 innings in 1975!)

By: player to be named later

player to be named later — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:24:26 +0000

30. Late to the party, and like “JFK,” this is probably a bit of a cheat, but the record for acting Oscar winners in a cast has to be “The Player.” Tim Robbins and Whoopi Goldberg have “real” parts, and the number of Oscar winners playing themselves is staggering: Susan Sarandon, Cher, Jack Lemmon, Rod Steiger, Julia Roberts, Marlee Matlin, Joel Grey, Angelica Huston, James Coburn, and Louise Fletcher, I believe. So that’s 12.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:13:03 +0000

29. 28 : Ding! Good job, Bruce. Leave it to an expert.

By: Bruce Markusen

Bruce Markusen — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:59:53 +0000

28. The name of the anthem singer is …

Nellie Briles.

Nellie was quite an accomplished singer–and a great guy, too. Sad that he passed away so young.

By: JL25and3

JL25and3 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:55:42 +0000

27. 25 , 26 One only stands on line in New York. In fact, that gives New Yorkers a shade of distinction between "in line" and "on line." "In line" has the sense of lining up straight, like a group of kids on their way to gym class: "OK, everybody get in line." There doesn't have to be any waiting involved; you get in line and go. "On line" doesn't have to be straight, but always involves waiting: "You get on line while I go get us some coffee."

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:35:40 +0000

26. 25 : Interesting question. I think I've always used both without really thinking about it.

By: El Lay Dave

El Lay Dave — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:30:42 +0000

25. 23 Why is it standing or waiting "on line" some places and "in line" others? Out west it has been "in line" for as long as I can remember (and I'm 47). I always associated "on line" with New York. Perhaps in the old days, there was often a literal line on the ground?

By: JL25and3

JL25and3 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:24:04 +0000

24. 19 Yeah, I used to think Virginia Woolf qualified until I saw it again and realized there were two other people in it. Close, but not quite. Sleuth was the one I knew. 20 , Many thanks for the tip on "Give 'em Hell, Harry!"

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:18:11 +0000

23. 21 : Cazale was great. I didn't realize, or had forgotten, that he died so young. According to his bio on imdb his experience on the Deerhunter was a little like Bruce Pearson's last season with the Mammoths in Bang the Drum Slowly--when the studio found out he was dying they wanted to remove him from the cast. The bio also says he was in "Line," the Israel (father of Adam) Horowitz play about people standing on line that ran for a billion years in a basement theater on 12th or 13th Street in the village. My dad took us to see that play back in the '70s, so I wonder if I saw him in it. 22 : Palmer's comeback attempt was another thing I'd forgotten about until reading up on him a little recently. I understand the disappointment of seeing a guy like Palmer or Michael Jordan limping around like a desparate mortal, but I can't ever fault a guy for wanting to give what he loves doing one more try.

By: rangers1994

rangers1994 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:58:28 +0000

22. As I have mentioned before, my favorite AL team in the 1970s — and through to today — has always been the Orioles, and Jim Palmer was my second favorite pitcher behind Tom Seaver.

Palmer appeared in THE NAKED GUN, which featured Oscar winner George Kennedy, Grammy winner Weird Al Yankovic, Emmy winners Ricardo Montalban and Nancy Marchand, and Razzie and Heisman winner O. J. Simpson.

I was always disappointed that Palmer made that last gasp at baseball, trying to emerge from retirement after he already was in the Hall of Fame.