 
Kellyroad
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Username: Kellyroad
Post Number: 1230
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:41 am: |    |
I get it.... It's not a baseball park after all
It's Ford Field.... Didn't Ray Chapman die playing ball....Didn't the Lions? It does look like Ford Field in the slit picture...Very tricky Z, very tricky. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2373
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 11:58 am: | |
It has been established it is in Tiger Stadium. KR the Lions die playing ball on more fields than Ford Field.
Slit picture is of Tiger Stadium also, Al Kaline and Mickey Cochrane have a role in it. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2375
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 4:09 pm: | |
Where's Laing? He must be working on getting his Super Bowl tickets |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1675
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 4:29 pm: | |
1. It's in the visitor's dugout at TS.
2. It's related somehow to Roy Chapman, who died from a pitch to the head, but you said it's not a shield.
3. Roy Chapman was also famous for stealing bases. So possibly this was installed to obstruct the visiting manager's view of the catcher. This would ideally make it more difficult to give the steal order since he would have trouble seeing pitches coming in to the plate, and our catcher's moves toward a pitchout. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2376
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 4:31 pm: | |
It's not a shield it is something in the visitors dugout.
Hint: Use your head |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2377
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 4:33 pm: | |
Look at the object in the right corner carefully.
Fly right and keeps your flaps down |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2378
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 4:59 pm: | |
7 You mentioned this earlier in a bundled response |
Jcole
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Post Number: 4738
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 5:05 pm: | |
Batting Helmet |
Zitro
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Username: Zitro
Post Number: 2379
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 5:09 pm: | |
Close, but more specific |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2380
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 5:29 pm: | |
I'll give a split to 7 & JC. 7 you get to pass the basket from the center aisle and JC you pass it from the east end of the pew.
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Zitro
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Post Number: 2381
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 5:37 pm: | |
Ray Chapman's death in 1920 mandated that new balls were to be used at all time.
As far as wearing helmets:
The Brooklyn Dodgers en masse started putting plastic liners into their tradition caps in 1941. Individual players had been doing this though beforehand. Modern-day helmets were not mandated until 1971 and ear flaps not until 1982 or '83.
Thus, this rack would not have been part of the original design of the dugout |
Campfire_girl
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Post Number: 33
Registered: 03-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 5:41 pm: | |
I couldn't leave work without checking in to see if the mystery was solved - WHEW!
Thanks Z for the mystery - and ESPECIALLY to J and 7 for being the super sleuths! |
7andkelly
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Username: 7andkelly
Post Number: 1676
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 6:15 pm: | |
Good one, Z. I'm sure the next one is equally obvious. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1677
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 6:20 pm: | |
Hopefully, Laing is studying his arse off for deacon night school so he can make us all proud. Of course, he could just rest on his laurels. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1678
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 6:26 pm: | |
Picture 2: The sign/plaque identifying Tigers who's numbers have been retired. |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2382
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 6:41 pm: | |
You can't see it from a seat |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2383
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| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 6:42 pm: | |
I gave you an embedded clue earlier |
Zitro
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Post Number: 2384
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| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 6:48 pm: | |
Gotta split for bowling, keep the guesses comin' |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1679
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 7:29 pm: | |
Surprised you used the word split and bowling in the same sentence. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1680
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| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 7:39 pm: | |
The entrance way to the stadium at the corner of Kaline Drive and Cochrane. |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1681
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 7:46 pm: | |
Gas was as low as $1.69 in Hockeytown today. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 4741
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 8:09 pm: | |
I had to look up Ray Chapman, and when I read his history, I figured it had to be something to protect their heads.
Hey, 7, we're partners yet again. |
12468_laing
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Username: 12468_laing
Post Number: 270
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 8:36 pm: | |
i be here. temps have been a low in the 20's lately and the furnace went out last night. had a guy out today and hopefully we will have heat tonight. been looking at the pix, and i truthfully have no idea. saw a story on news tonight about businesses dealing with the auto industry not getting the bailout. what are the thoughts of all of you? |
12468_laing
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Post Number: 271
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 8:38 pm: | |
and, who was the voice of pillow talk on radio back in the day? when i met my wife in 81, that was the radio show to listen to. seems the station even sold pillow cases with advertising on it. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 4742
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 8:47 pm: | |
Alan Almond was DJ for Pillow Talk, and apparently they hired him back, because he's on WNIC 100.3 at night |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1682
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 9:28 pm: | |
Yes. We could do some damage as private eyes, J. That first picture was a bit obscure though, eh? |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1683
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 9:48 pm: | |
Laing, from what you have told me, my guess is your furnace has a dirty thermocoupler (I assume you tried to relight the pilot and it didn't stay lit). It can usually be cleaned with a skinny wire brush duct taped to a longer metal stick (cut out the long straight end of a coat hanger). This part is also dirt cheap, and an easy repair.
Of course, if the repair guy's already been there, and tells you there is a hole in the heat exchanger, prepare to get hosed for a few thou on a new one (but pay the extra and get a high E with the direct vent pvc pipe exhaust out the wall). |
7andkelly
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Post Number: 1684
Registered: 04-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 9:58 pm: | |
As for the auto industry question, there is an agreement to keep the hot button political sht out of this forum, and I plan to honor that. |
Jcole
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Post Number: 4744
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 10:23 pm: | |
I agree, 7. We hear and talk about it everywhere else. Not here too. |
12468_laing
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Post Number: 272
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2008 - 10:26 pm: | |
thanks about the name of alan almond. brings back many memories. we have an insurance policy through american home shield - only out $55. so the furnace is working - a conductor on the a/c was sending cooling to the furnace and the condensing unit was frozen up. all fixed now and we are tosty. i didn't mean to be political about my question on the auto bailout, just am concerned about the city - so rememeber being at wsu when lee iacocca (and i know that is bad spelling) went through the tough times with chrysler. |