I don't know which Angel team will show up in Oakland this weekend nor
the last days of the season, but there is at least two possibilities.

One team is error prone, cannot hit and is a nightmare to watch. The
other one pitches well, gets hits, scores runs and earns its salary.

As the next few days should probably be the swan song for the Angels,
please think of Ruppert the swan dead in the Newport Beach harbor.
This creature is no longer with us, as the Angels chances of the
division championship will soon no longer be with us. A moment of
silence please.

Be glad we do not call Jerry "Governor Moonbeam" Brown our Mayor.

Here are a few Casey Stengel quotations to get us through our upcoming
darkest hour.

Casey Stengel said the following:

"Can't anybody here play this game?"

"Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself."

"Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking."

"Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa."

"He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall
away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out."

"He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch."

"All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field."

"Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust
out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can
only learn to catch a fly ball."

"As great as the other men were on the ball club, there comes a time
when you get a weakness and it might be physical."

"Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I
never knew existed before."

"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball
player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him
in."

"He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on
two."

"He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my
team (1964 New York Mets)."

"He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great."

"He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his
combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown
every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do."

"He (Satchel Paige) threw the ball as far from the bat and as close to
the plate as possible."

"He's throwing grounders."

"Hey Heffner, take them down to that other field (St. Petersburg
spring training site) and find out if they can play on the road."

"I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't
drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't
speaking and I said I'll take that drink."

"I could'nt done it without my players."

"I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball."

"I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three."

"If anyone wants me tell them I'm being embalmed."

"I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially
since I've been thrown out of so many."

"If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until
I'm a hundred."

"If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're
not as good as we think we are."

"If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy.
You'd be better off thinking about being an owner."

"If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army."

"I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon."

"It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the
stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the
pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a
living."

"It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like."

"I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during
batting practice."

"Kid (Phil Rizzuto) you're too small. You ought to go out and shine
shoes."

"Look at him (Bobby Richardson) - he doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke,
he doesn't chew, he doesn't stay out late, and he still can't hit
..250."

"Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits."

"(Mickey) Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that
club."
Most ball games are lost, not won."

"Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane."

"My health is good enough about the shoulders."

"Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers)."

"No, even my players aren't players."

"Say, I've got a tip on the market for you fellows (1929 Toledo
Mudhens) - buy Pennsylvania Railroad because by tomorrow night about a
dozen of you bums will be riding on it..."

"Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try
and win a pennant."

"justinplace" <justintime@> wrote in message
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Friday night was a very good game. The errors are a killer. The A's can do
more with just a couple of hits than any team I can remember.