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Dropping Like Flies

kmdobrz
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 12, 2020 at 03:45 PM UTC #
Yet another HOFer - Joe Morgan.  Saw him inducted along with Jim Palmer.
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 12, 2020 at 03:53 PM UTC #
That sucks


He was such a great announcer..him teaming up with Miller was inspired


My favorites are probably Morgan, Miller and Garagiola

vansmack
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 12, 2020 at 04:22 PM UTC #
shemptiness wrote:
Yet another HOFer - Joe Morgan.  Saw him inducted along with Jim Palmer.


This one hurts.  I have his autographed card from his Hall of Fame induction hanging in my office.  I met him many times through work and he was always great to me.
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 12, 2020 at 04:33 PM UTC #
I am sure more knowledgeable people can tear him down but I love baseball and I really enjoyed games when he was announcing…

Could he have really been bad and worked as an announcer for 25 years?


Skeptical
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 12, 2020 at 04:42 PM UTC #
I like Tim Mcarver and Rick Sutcliffe too


jrpa
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 12, 2020 at 05:36 PM UTC #
bitter wrote:
Could he have really been bad and worked as an announcer for 25 years?
Local broadcast announcing jobs are like SCOTUS seats – they're given for life no matter how deplorable the individual. Ken "Hawk" Harrelson is the worst announcer maybe in the history of sport and he got 33 years calling the White Sox.

Joe Morgan was "meh" from an announcing standpoint. I never thought he was atrocious or anything.
sweetcell
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 18, 2020 at 04:58 PM UTC #
AC/DC former bassist Paul Matters dead
He was only briefly in the band in 1975
jrpa
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 18, 2020 at 05:33 PM UTC #
sweetcell wrote:
He was only briefly in the band in 1975
I guess some would argue he doesn’t really Matters then.
kosmo
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 20, 2020 at 11:14 PM UTC #
Tony Lewis - The Outfield

Sang their biggest hit Your Love, which I couldn’t place until I heard it again and it was oh yeah that one    8)
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 21, 2020 at 01:32 AM UTC #
kosmo wrote:
Tony Lewis - The Outfield

Sang their biggest hit Your Love, which I couldn’t place until I heard it again and it was oh yeah that one    8)

Would have never recognized the name, but the song is a classic.  I'm sure Space has heard it at least 30 times while shopping
kosmo
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 21, 2020 at 11:34 AM UTC #
I was confusing Mr. Mister and The Outfield when I saw that news…  both one hit 80s wonders
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 21, 2020 at 12:06 PM UTC #
No way Mr Mister had at least two hits:Kyrie and Broken wings


The Outfield had I think three…

You’re slipping Kosmo!
kosmo
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 21, 2020 at 12:19 PM UTC #
would you prefer no hits outside of the 80s?
hutch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 21, 2020 at 01:05 PM UTC #
You could call them one album wonders?


I mean the Outfield album Play Deep has three bonafide hits

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_Deep

Space Freely
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 21, 2020 at 01:42 PM UTC #
"Your Love" was one of those 80s hits that I really, really despised at the time. I'd probably enjoy it now for nostalgia's sake though.
Sidehatch
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Re: Dropping Like Flies October 21, 2020 at 02:02 PM UTC #
That line "Josie's on a vacation far away" is one of the most recognizable openers in all the 80s

and this great SNL skit
(I love that the subtitles are in Russian …very 2020)

Actually didn't realize they were a British band (where they barely charted)
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