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  1. Falling in love with baseball as a kid in the '80s quickly led to a love for AM radio. That way, I could listen to other games when the Cardinals weren't on KMOX. Some teams were easier to follow than others, of course, but I think my personal record was picking up a Giants game once on KNBR from San Francisco.

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  2. 5 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:

    just found a new Wrestler name typo

    a newspaper article referring to "Ox Backer".. an even worse typo when it's a Kansas City newspaper and Ox is Sedalia, also Ox being a really known wrestler in general, and it not being an obvious "misheard a phone call" typo

    I always loved the newspaper misspellings. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1987 gave us wrestling results from Brad Hart, Bingo Warrior, Cowboy Bob Gordon, and Rockin' Robin somehow became Rockin' Lilly.

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  3. 10 hours ago, Infinit said:

    Imagine if the had Pillman as Sting's partner instead of News.

    Sting and Pillman vs. Hansen and Muta might have been quite the match, but in exchange we'd have had El Gigante and PN News vs. Ric Flair and Barry Windham in a steel cage for the main event. That'd be another one we could file under "interesting for all the wrong reasons."

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  4. Deezer D has died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 55. I have to admit, I remember him not just for co-starring in CB4, but also seeing his name in the ending credits of just about every ER rerun that TNT ran immediately preceding WCW Monday Nitro.

  5. 20 hours ago, ReiseReise said:

    I mean, how can anyone seriously put Repo Man over Demolotion Smash?! 

    I did that with my Hasbro figures. I had a nice, long-running feud between Repo Man and Kona Crush versus Demolition Smash and Crush where they swapped the tag team titles multiple times. When Ax would get involved, I'd toss in Ultimate Warrior to even things up in six-man matches.

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  6. 8 hours ago, olythegreat89 said:

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    I remember seeing this a few years ago and thought how different 1992 would've been had this happened. 

    Those four actually were my Hasbro version of the Four Horsemen.  Then Razor and Shawn left the group and aligned themselves with Marty Jannetty and Virgil while they feuded with the revamped Horsemen of Flair, Hennig, Greg Valentine, and Rick Rude.  Virgil might stand out there, but his figure was pretty sturdy and he was my World champion on at least one occasion.

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  7. 3 hours ago, Craig H said:

    I don't think I've ever called where the Indians play anything other than the Jake. It will always be the Jake to me.

    As for the White Sox, that place is such a dump that it deservedly gets mocked for whatever it's named, whether is US Cellular or Guaranteed Rate Field. Guaranteed Rate Field is one of the most low rent piece of shit names for a ballpark that I can think of. I never even heard of Guaranteed Rate until they bought the naming rights.

    This has nothing to do with naming rights, but I spent a week in Chicago this past summer and went to a Cubs-Padres game at Wrigley, a White Sox-Royals game at the Sox park, and three Chicago Dogs minor league games in Rosemont.  I must have met as many actual Dogs fans than White Sox fans.  Guaranteed Rate Field that afternoon was pretty much a place where a Cardinals fan like me could meet fans of the Cubs, Yankees, Red Sox, Brewers, and even an occasional Royals fan, take in a major league game for cheap, and no matter what our differences were, at least we could say we weren't White Sox fans.  I also had a great root beer float at the Sox game, so they have that going for them.

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  8. I think it was the year the Blues won the President's Trophy, then lost in the first round to the Sharks, that I realized the Blues would never win the Stanley Cup in my lifetime.  Once that set in, I could learn to appreciate and enjoy the exciting ways they've found to shoot themselves in the foot each year.  I'll always love the Blues and they'll never cease to entertain me, but I've got to be realistic here.  A crippling final-week Blues defeat to the Blackhawks is just absurdly hilarious.

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