Oh MY GOD.... Zimmer does it AGAIN! - Democratic Underground

WannaJumpMyScooter

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Thu Oct-16-03 10:57 PM
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Oh MY GOD.... Zimmer does it AGAIN!

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Bossy Monkey

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Thu Oct-16-03 11:15 PM
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1. Hey, if he'd remembered his spinach, Popeye would've taken Pedro with ease

Funny graphic, regardless

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WannaJumpMyScooter

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Fri Oct-17-03 07:52 PM
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2. Good point.

Thanks.

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Corgigal

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Fri Oct-17-03 07:55 PM
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3. Leave Zimmer be

you know he has holes in his head where he was mauled by a tiger.

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5thGenDemocrat

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Fri Oct-17-03 08:07 PM
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4. Gotta love "The Gerbil"

But one should know better than to charge the mound and start something when one is, after all, 74 or something. They don't come tougher than Mr Z, but that whole episode WAS pretty silly.
I'm only 47, but I don't think I'd charge Pedro Martinez.
John
Hey, it's been one hell of a playoff season all around, hasn't it?

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WannaJumpMyScooter

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Sat Oct-18-03 08:32 PM
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5. No kiddin. I don't remember one this dramatic in a long

time. Maybe since St. Louis/KC... that was a battling year too.

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VOX

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Sat Oct-18-03 08:44 PM
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6. Zim has good reason to go nuts when a pitch is anywhere near the head...

of one of his teammates. Ya gotta love Zim, he's no quitter...

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/Z/Zimmer_Don.stm

Zimmer was leading the American Association with 23 HR and 63 RBI on July 7, 1953 when he was hit in the head by a Jim Kirk pitch. He was unconscious for almost two weeks, lost his speech for six, and dropped 44 lbs. Inserted in his head were four "buttons...like tapered corkscrews in a bottle," he explained. He returned in 1954 and was Brooklyn's second baseman in the 1955 World Series. He was doing well in 1956 when a pitch from the Reds' Hal Jeffcoat fractured his cheekbone and ended his season.

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