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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... ;)

That's an absolutely fantastic idea!!

I would prefer to see Eddie at the plate because of his signature stance but it makes the most sense for Frank to be there. This is one of those ideas that's just too good to ever really happen

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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.:eek::(:rolleyestf:

I don't know about Pedro but that Mackus is no rocket scientist.

Oh wait....

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Also, the really cool item of trivia I always loved to tell. All those plays made against the Reds in 1970...were made with...DAVE MAY'S GLOVE!

Thats right! Not Brooks' glove..an outfielders glove!

OK, I give up.... Why?

What happened to his own glove? Or did he just feel like a change? Or what?

Come on, Roy, this is serious business...

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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.

Well, this doesn't surprise me either. Maybe you should send everyone here a "hyperbole" detector when you post. Oh, that's right, you already surveyed 99.9% of everyone on this site so you know they understand your every sentence. :rolleyes:

I just love 27 year old know-it-alls telling me how much more wisdom they have than someone who has shoes older than they are! Funny stuff that is.:laughlol:

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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.

That would explain a lot!

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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... ;)

What no Alan Wiggins?

btw, for those with no sense of humor, that was a joke.

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Well, this doesn't surprise me either. Maybe you should send everyone here a "hyperbole" detector when you post. Oh, that's right, you already surveyed 99.9% of everyone on this site so you know they understand your every sentence. :rolleyes:

I just love 27 year old know-it-alls telling me how much more wisdom they have than someone who has shoes older than they are! Funny stuff that is.:laughlol:

I'm not anywhere near 27 anymore, but certainly don't think that just cause I'm "older" then someone that I "automatically" know more then them about everything!

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He's ambidextrous (did I spell that right?). He was brought up as a SECOND baseman..and told me many years ago that if he stayed at second base, he wouldve been out of baseball within a year.

Also, the really cool item of trivia I always loved to tell. All those plays made against the Reds in 1970...were made with...DAVE MAY'S GLOVE!

Thats right! Not Brooks' glove..an outfielders glove!

And that glove is now in the hall of Fame!

According to this article, Brooks swapped gloves with Dave May because "I picked it up and liked the feel of it." I have a couple dozen of Brooks' autographs but the one that alludes me is his signature on one of his game-model gloves.
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I'm not anywhere near 27 anymore, but certainly don't think that just cause I'm "older" then someone that I "automatically" know more then them about everything!

Neither do I, and I don't know your age but say you are 40, would you respect a 10 year old telling you that you "know nothing about anything and are stupid'?:scratchchinhmm::eek::( That would be the equivilent of what was going on here.

Someone who wasn't even born until Brooks had long retired, while I was around watching Brooks daily playing baseball from 1963 through his entire career, telling me I know nothing about the man (or anything else for that matter). Tell me that wouldn't tick you off at least a little bit?

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