[nfbwatlk] and another thing...

[Mike Freeman]

Amen, bro!

Mike

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bennett Prows
  To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
  Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 12:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] and another thing...


  confusion?  Wow!  If folks don't know the difference between the 
Portland
  Beavers, and the OSU beavers, we really have dumbed down. And, to 
bring it
  back to the topic, it ain't the blind that are mentally challenged! 
(grin.)
  Bennett Prows
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
  To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
  Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 3:18 PM
  Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] and another thing...


  > It is amazing how little time there was between innings sixty or 
seventy
  > years ago. I have that broadcast from Sept. 21, 1939, of WJSV and
  > although Walter Johnson as an announcer leaves something to be 
desired,
  > it is really an ear-opener to realize how fast the game went and how
  > little time there was between innings.
  >
  > Incidentally, I do remember some Montgomery-Wards ads on Portland
  > Beavers games during the 1960's and, I think, some ads for Swift 
hotdogs
  > (one wonders if Ballpark franks were around then).
  >
  > And Ben, there's talk on one of the local radio stations that the
  > current Beavers owner is thinking of changing the name due to 
supposed
  > confusion with the oregon State team. Bah humbug!
  >
  > Mike
  >
  >  ----- Original Message ----- 
  >  From: Carl Jarvis
  >  To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
  >  Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 11:01 AM
  >  Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] and another thing...
  >
  >
  >  Very true.  And unfortunatley I am old enough to remember those
  > shorter
  >  games.  The old Seattle Rainiers with Leo Lassen announcing, would
  > begin at
  >  8:00 PM. and be over before 10:00 PM.
  >  In fact, I could go to the game from Queen Anne hill in north 
Seattle,
  > out
  >  to the ball yard in Rainier valley and be home by bus, by 10:30 PM.
  >  Many folks would get off work, go to dinner and then on to the 
game.
  > Today
  >  you couldn't get through traffic in that amount of time.
  >  Carl Jarvis
  >
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Amen, bro!
 
Mike
 
----- Original Message -----
From:
mailto:bjprows at comcast.net Bennett Prows
To:
mailto:nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
Sent:
Saturday, September 01, 2007 12:44 PM
Subject:
Re: [nfbwatlk] and another thing...
confusion?  Wow!  If folks don't know the difference between the Portland
Beavers, and the OSU beavers, we really have dumbed down. And, to bring it
back to the topic, it ain't the blind that are mentally challenged!  (grin.)
Bennett Prows
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Freeman" < mailto:k7uij at panix.com k7uij at panix.com
>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" < mailto:nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org
>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] and another thing...
> It is amazing how little time there was between innings sixty or seventy
> years ago. I have that broadcast from Sept. 21, 1939, of WJSV and
> although Walter Johnson as an announcer leaves something to be desired,
> it is really an ear-opener to realize how fast the game went and how
> little time there was between innings.
>
> Incidentally, I do remember some Montgomery-Wards ads on Portland
> Beavers games during the 1960's and, I think, some ads for Swift hotdogs
> (one wonders if Ballpark franks were around then).
>
> And Ben, there's talk on one of the local radio stations that the
> current Beavers owner is thinking of changing the name due to supposed
> confusion with the oregon State team. Bah humbug!
>
> Mike
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Carl Jarvis
>  To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
>  Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 11:01 AM
>  Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] and another thing...
>
>
>  Very true.  And unfortunatley I am old enough to remember those
> shorter
>  games.  The old Seattle Rainiers with Leo Lassen announcing, would
> begin at
>  8:00 PM. and be over before 10:00 PM.
>  In fact, I could go to the game from Queen Anne hill in north Seattle,
> out
>  to the ball yard in Rainier valley and be home by bus, by 10:30 PM.
>  Many folks would get off work, go to dinner and then on to the game.
> Today
>  you couldn't get through traffic in that amount of time.
>  Carl Jarvis
>
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