What should a statue of Brooks look like?

[isestrex]

Well, you and your pal Mackus need to learn what the word "respect" means. Apparently it is missing from your vocabulary (or brains) when it comes to Brooks Robinson.:rolleyestf:

You might want to learn the word "fun"... as it appears to be missing from your vocabulary

[Frobby]

This is what his statue looks like out front on 5 Brooks Robinson's Way at Sovereign Bank in York,PA.

http://www.yorkrevolution.com/brooksrobinson.cfm

Sorry, it's not a very good pic, but it shows Brook's in the middle with a young girl to the left and young boy to the right on him. He's signing an autograph for them.

Another pic of him standing along of the statue further down the page.

I never knew, until looking at this statue, that Brooks writes left-handed. Upon review, the Norman Rockwell painting also shows him signing left-handed.

It seems very unusual to find someone who writes left-handed but throws right-handed. My gosh, what if he had learned to throw left-handed as a kid, he never would have been a third baseman!

[Old#5fan]

For those on here that actually have 1/2 a brain...

If we give Brooks a statue, Cal Ripken almost has to have one, he's the most recognizable name associated with the Orioles and their history. He also was responsible for 2131, which was voted the #1 moment in baseball history, so yea, I'd give one to him before anyone else (and I'd probably prefer to just have one for him). I also think Frank Robinson, while not an Oriole for as long, deserves one too (and, yes, I think FRobby was a better overall player than Brooks, sue me).

As for Mackus' post about Robocop. It made me laugh. It's funny. A sense of humor is a good thing, trust me.

Fortunately, 99.9% of the people on this site know this.

I am glad to know you have surveyed at least 99.9% of the people on this site. How long did that task take you? I bet you would fail a lie detector if you answered that question. What a joke.

[Pedro Cerrano]

I never knew, until looking at this statue, that Brooks writes left-handed. Upon review, the Norman Rockwell painting also shows him signing left-handed.

It seems very unusual to find someone who writes left-handed but throws right-handed. My gosh, what if he had learned to throw left-handed as a kid, he never would have been a third baseman!

My father wrote right handed, threw left-handed, batted left-handed, golfed right-handed.

[Pedro Cerrano]

I am glad to know you have surveyed at least 99.9% of the people on this site. How long did that task take you? I bet you would fail a lie detector if you answered that question. What a joke.

Well of course I wasn't being literal you silly goose!:laughlol:

[Old#5fan]

I never knew, until looking at this statue, that Brooks writes left-handed. Upon review, the Norman Rockwell painting also shows him signing left-handed.

It seems very unusual to find someone who writes left-handed but throws right-handed. My gosh, what if he had learned to throw left-handed as a kid, he never would have been a third baseman!

I knew this. Brooks I believe had to learn to play that way as he couldn't get a left handed glove when he was a kid as I recall.

I actually started trying to play baseball as a righty but kept taking the glove off of my left hand to throw the ball (up against a wall) and finally my dad saw that I was left handed. As a toddler my mother kept forcing me to eat with my right hand and also that is how I learned how to write (with my right hand). To this day the only things I do right handed are eat (use silverware) and write. Everything else I do as a natural left hander.

[Frobby]

My father wrote right handed, threw left-handed, batted left-handed, golfed right-handed.

There are plenty of guys who bat left and throw/write right, but I think that throwing with one hand and writing with the other is much more rare. As to your dad, well that's pretty freaky.

[Old#5fan]

Well of course I wasn't being literal you silly goose!:laughlol:

Then don't make false statements. That is called lying, misleading, or fabricating.

[Frobby]

I knew this. Brooks I believe had to learn to play that way as he couldn't get a left handed glove when he was a kid as I recall.

All I can say is, thank heaven he didn't find that LH glove.

[Pedro Cerrano]

Then don't make false statements. That is called lying, misleading, or fabricating.

Yes if you lack the cognitive ability to differentiate between stone-cold truth and obvious hyperbole...which you apparently do not. Which, frankly, does not surprise me.

Just go away.

[Frobby]

For those on here that actually have 1/2 a brain...

If we give Brooks a statue, Cal Ripken almost has to have one, he's the most recognizable name associated with the Orioles and their history. He also was responsible for 2131, which was voted the #1 moment in baseball history, so yea, I'd give one to him before anyone else (and I'd probably prefer to just have one for him). I also think Frank Robinson, while not an Oriole for as long, deserves one too (and, yes, I think FRobby was a better overall player than Brooks, sue me).

As for Mackus' post about Robocop. It made me laugh. It's funny. A sense of humor is a good thing, trust me.

Fortunately, 99.9% of the people on this site know this.

I am glad to know you have surveyed at least 99.9% of the people on this site. How long did that task take you? I bet you would fail a lie detector if you answered that question. What a joke.

Well of course I wasn't being literal you silly goose!:laughlol:

Then don't make false statements. That is called lying, misleading, or fabricating.

Yes if you lack the cognitive ability to differentiate between stone-cold truth and obvious hyperbole...which you apparently do not. Which, frankly, does not surprise me.

Just go away.

Ok, this is getting silly, and the kind of exchange I just hate.

Let's get back to Pedro Cerrano's substantive point. How would you distinguish who gets a statue and who doesn't? The O's obviously decided that you couldn't really start choosing among the five people who have gone into the Hall of Fame wearing an Orioles hat, so they went with the giant numbers instead of five statues. That seems logical enough to me. I mean, you could make arguments why one of these guys deserves it more than the others, but frankly it would be a divisive issue. If you put it to a vote of all Oriole fans, I doubt you'd get a majority voting for any one of the five.

[JTrea81]

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That would also be a fitting statue for Andy MacPhail...

Anyway the statue for Brooks should be this IMO:

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[JTrea81]

Ok, this is getting silly, and the kind of exchange I just hate.

Let's get back to Pedro Cerrano's substantive point. How would you distinguish who gets a statue and who doesn't? The O's obviously decided that you couldn't really start choosing among the five people who have gone into the Hall of Fame wearing an Orioles hat, so they went with the giant numbers instead of five statues. That seems logical enough to me. I mean, you could make arguments why one of these guys deserves it more than the others, but frankly it would be a divisive issue. If you put it to a vote of all Oriole fans, I doubt you'd get a majority voting for any one of the five.

I like the idea of an infield with statues of all the Orioles retired numbers

-Frank Robinson at the plate

-Cal at SS

-Murray at 1B,

-Brooks Robinson at 3B

-Palmer on the mound

-Earl walking out to the mound

Should be enough room to put Wieters behind the plate as well...

[TGO]

Statues are for communists, Nazis, the 19th century, and crappy baseball teams like the Pirates and Nationals (oh wait, :scratchchinhmm:).

The only statute I want outside OPACY is this:

With Matt Wieters's face on Ali's body and Chuck Norris as Sonny Liston.

[BaltimoreTerp]

They have something like 10 statues(including Ernie Harwell) in Detroit..who says the Orioles cant have a statue park as you walk into the plaza?

Id have one for Brooks, then Cal, then Earl, then Frank, then Palmer, then Eddie...it would be beautiful?

Oh I forgot..the Orioles have that perpetutal "spending freeze".

They do have one.

EDIT: To bring full-circle the thread: What a Brooks Robinson statue at Oriole Park looks like.

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