Ferdinand Cesarano

Do you use mobile? Are you in phone? I use an Android phone, a Galaxy S7; I used it to visit the boards as recently as this morning. I have seen no intrusive ads either on the phone nor on the computer that I am using at this moment. With both kinds of devices I see only the small collapsable ad at the bottom of each page.

I am still wondering why I have experienced absolutely none of this, even without any ad-blocking software. Am I just on a run of amazing luck? Should I get to my nearest casino and try to parlay it into a six-figure payday?

There must be a reason that some people are seeing these obtrusive ads and some (like me) are seeing only the normal ads at the bottom of the page. If it were something with the site itself, then these ads would be affecting everyone. So a good guess is that the issue involves the phones and the computers of the affected users; therefore, there would be nothing that anyone at the site could do to remedy the problem. On the issue of charging a fee: this might be a mistake in terms of losing eyeballs. Remember when the board was readable only by members? During that period its profile dropped drastically. Soon after the board returned to being available to all readers, I put a link to the board in a comment on Uni Watch. Paul Lukas responded that he didn't want to give links to a members-only site. I had to tell him that the board had gone back to being avaliable to everyone. Nowadays, Lukas mentions the board frequently; this surely drives users over to here, which is something that has got to please the advertisers. If merely making the board members-only dropped its profile to the degree that Lukas didn't follow it, then charging a fee (however low) will drop it even further. I don't know the numbers involved, but any fee would have to make up for the lost advertising revenue as some advertisers leave due to reduced traffic.

People don't usually comment about non-events. But I can say that I am experiencing nothing like what I am reading in reports from other people. I see only a small ad at the bottom of the page that can be X-ed out. I have not had my screen taken over by any wild ads, neither on my computer nor on my phone. (I have no ad-blocking software.)

Well, I am strictly a downstater. But, if the choice is between green mountains and anything else, I say go for the green mountains, simply as a symbolic rebuke to Vermont, whose terroristic Green Mountain Boys in the early 1770s harassed and eventually drove out settlers who had property deeds granted by the Province of New York to land that was legally part of New York.

I love the contrasting numbers. This feature also looked great on the Orioles and the Marlins. The Astros' uniforms are amongst the best in baseball right now; but the one thing that could make them a bit better would be if they adopted a contrasting-colour front number.

Gordie Howe, Detroit Tigers

Excellent! All you need is two dimensions.

Wow, I am really surprised to see this. A Yankee jersey with number 3 is so jarring. (Though, aesthetically, it looks much better without the name. That's the kind of jersey that Villa should have been given.) You know, there was a short period during which the Yankees didn't even let their own old-timers wear retired numbers. Graig Nettles once had to wear number 6 at an Old-Timers Day instead of his number 9, because that number was later retired for Roger Maris. That was a ridiculous policy. But now they have swung to just as ridiculous a point in the other direction, as they let non-players come on the field wearing retired numbers.

Oh, yes it does. The Yankees went from wearing wet paper bags on the road in 1972: ...to wearing sharp-looking road uniforms as of 1973: This change was so good that the team hasn't felt the need to alter it in 45 years. (Though the Yankees did unfortunately make the uniform worse by pushing the words "New" and "York" too close together.) Considering the Yankees' restrained uniform history, the 1973 change which brought in the addition of the white outlines on the road and also the varsity numbers has been the most significant improvement in their uniforms since the permanent addition of the NY monogram in the mid-1930s. Plain dark letters on a grey jersey is just a really bad look. The Red Sox looked awful in this: ...and looked positively appalling in this: You need either a white outline, as the Yankees use and the Dodgers formerly used, or else some brighter colours, as the Red Sox have wisely returned to. Considering that the Phillies' letters are a bright red, they probably don't need the white outline on the road that the Yankees and Dodgers do. But even they had a white outline on the classic uniforms on which the currents are based, starting from that set's introduction in 1950.

What is the mystery of those jerseys? If you're a fan of both the player and the team, then to like the jersey would not be odd. Here's the thing I hate: names on jerseys that shouldn't have them. People who wear these things (even with the team's own players) really deserve a slap. And shame on the Red Sox for outfitting their own old-timers in such defaced jerseys in recent on-field ceremonies. Here's one that I don't think is sold, but whose mere existence bothers me: Can you imagine? A Yankee jersey with a name is bad enough, but to give one of the retired numbers to another sport's player is taking things too far.

I am logged into the site from a computer that I am using at a hotel. For some reason, the IE browser is acting glitchy, and is not letting me sign out. IE is also not letting me post. By contrast, Firefox is acting just fine. I am posting this on Firefox. Even when I close the IE browser, I remain logged into the board when I open it up again. Clicking on the arrow next to my name does nothing; I cannot bring up the option to sign out. So I wonder if you could somehow see the login from IE, and cut it off. (I guess it is not likely that someone else will sit down at this computer and go to the boards. But, still, I'd like to sign out and not allow anyone to post as me.) EDIT: Never mind; the problem seems to have been solved. (Dang, if I had known that I had one wish, I wouldn't have wasted it on this!)

The logo for Grand Central Terminal, whether classic or modernised. The Van Halen logo

Bulls do not have "private parts" because they have no concept of privacy. Genitalia, yes. Private parts, no.

I have been looking for this picture for years and I have the context as I actually saw this game when it happened. Griffey was wearing a Jim Edmonds jersey and was covered with bandages to rib on Edmonds' plethora of injuries. This idea of wearing an opponent's uniform to rib him reminded me of Rick Dempsey's famous Robin Yount bit, co-starring Sammy Stewart in the role of Jim Palmer.

Satchel Paige wearing an Astros uniform in the Astrodome, before the park's opening in April of 1965. (Paige, 59, would pitch in the Majors that season, when he appeared for the Kansas City A's in September.)

You told me I have a plethora; and I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora.

I'm waiting for the Cleveland Steamers.

It's about as current as "Chocolate Rain".

When people think of Red Schoendienst, they tend to think of one team, the Cardinals, for whom he had two stints as a player and three stints as a manager. Here he is with the Giants, for whom he played from June of 1956 through June of 1957.

It seems to me that the appropriate solution to that problem is to ban those people, not the topic.

Thank you for the correction. I appreciate the precision. However, my point stands: the logo should have involved a stylised depiction of wings rather than a realistic picture of the prepared food. The name is whimisical enough; having a goofy logo and wordmark is a bit much for me.

The idea that these guys are using the chicken leg as part of the logo and wordmark is kind of silly. They should be using something that invokes wings, such as the logos of the former and current versions of the Philadelphia Wings of the NLL. With Buffalo and Rochester doing food-based promotions, it's too bad Albany doesn't have a team anymore; they could be the Steamed Hams.