Thanks for awakening more memories for me. I’m hearing the voices of Mets announcers of the era, Ralph Kiner and Bob Murphy reminiscing when Cubbage came to the team…. BTW, I do owe you an email that I’m putting the final touches on —
I'm sure that a name like "Cubbage" has a certain ring to it when you say it out loud. And his Mets career was painfully brief, too. The rosy predictions that he could compete for the starting job at third base never panned out. But at least he got paid, which I'm sure he wasn't when he was in Minnesota. Thanks for reading the piece.
LOL you are no doubt correct that it’s simple familiarity coming to mind, not the
Mouths of these two announcers! But bringing them to mind you have, and I genuinely do appreciate it! Ralph was a player’s announcer. Rarely ruffled or excited, and wrapping up the games with the highlighted players in Kiner’s Korner. Murphy could have been an English professor, and now and the enriched the vocabulary of us New York Area mokes with well chosen gems, or maybe even a subtle rhyme.
It was a compromise, I'm sure. For every Cardinals team getting Pujols-like production for little money, there's an Angels team not getting the production that they paid Pujols to get. Thanks for reading, as always.
Thanks for awakening more memories for me. I’m hearing the voices of Mets announcers of the era, Ralph Kiner and Bob Murphy reminiscing when Cubbage came to the team…. BTW, I do owe you an email that I’m putting the final touches on —
I'm sure that a name like "Cubbage" has a certain ring to it when you say it out loud. And his Mets career was painfully brief, too. The rosy predictions that he could compete for the starting job at third base never panned out. But at least he got paid, which I'm sure he wasn't when he was in Minnesota. Thanks for reading the piece.
LOL you are no doubt correct that it’s simple familiarity coming to mind, not the
Mouths of these two announcers! But bringing them to mind you have, and I genuinely do appreciate it! Ralph was a player’s announcer. Rarely ruffled or excited, and wrapping up the games with the highlighted players in Kiner’s Korner. Murphy could have been an English professor, and now and the enriched the vocabulary of us New York Area mokes with well chosen gems, or maybe even a subtle rhyme.
It did change everything, and to mind, for the better. I still dislike that players have to wait for years before they can bargain for a contract.
It was a compromise, I'm sure. For every Cardinals team getting Pujols-like production for little money, there's an Angels team not getting the production that they paid Pujols to get. Thanks for reading, as always.