The Brooklyn Trolley Blogger

Sunday, September 26, 2010

WEEK 3 ~ Everyone is in a Rush

To my dismay, I find myself in my car because my wife has me at the mall for the forth time in five weeks. Ponderous! I've been stupid busy at work and YouTube decided to take 5 hours uploading my videos from the Vintage Baseball Games I attended yesterday. End result, I'm rushing to roll out the bagels now.

So! ~ Without further delay, from my car in the parking lot at the Staten Island Mall, my WEEK 3 Basket-O-Bagels.

Note ~ (Excuse) Because I am rushing at the moment; 12:03pm...I am unable to implement a plan I think with help me bounce back from two weeks of some pretty bad roll outs. My bagels were more like...flagels. (?) I'm going to hasten things with a pic of today's New York Post Game Chart (above):

Bite these Bagels;

GIANTS -3 ~ LOSS 29-10 TENN
DOLPHINS -2 1/2 ~
PATRIOTS -14 1/2 ~ LOSS 38-30 N.E.
Browns +11 ~ WIN 24-17 BAL
Steelers -3 ~ WIN 38-13 PITT
PANTHERS +3 ~ LOSS 20-7 CIN
Falcons +3 1/2 ~ WIN 27-24 ATL
49ers -2 1/2 ~ LOSS 31-10 K.C.
VIKINGS -11 1/2 ~ WIN 24-10 MIN
Cowboys +3 ~ WIN 27-13 DAL
RAMS +4 ~ WIN 30-16 St.L
Eagles -3 ~ WIN 28-3 PHI
BRONCOS +5 1/2 ~ LOSS 27-13 IND
SEAHAWKS +5 ~ WIN 27-20 SEA
CARDINALS -4 1/2 ~ LOSS 24-23 ARZ

Record foor WEEK 3: 8 wins ~ 6 loss waiting on Jets/Dolphins

Big Blue Thoughts: With regards to Brandon Jacobs, nothing changes. He needs to earn his keep around here. But my mind is really on the defense this game. Last week Perry Fewell implemented a plan that featured one linebacker and six d-backs; three safties and three corners. Peyton recognized it too easily and changed-up on Big Blue and audibled to run plays right up the Giants' gut.

I do think the Giants can stop the Titan's running game, namely Chris Johnson. But Perry Fewell needs to be a little more crafty in his scheme. Last week was all too easy to figure out. Some deception would be nice this week. Create some D-packages that incorporate our soft white belly (linebackers) a little more cleverly. Ya have to keep offenses a little more honest than we did last week against the Colts. But I get it...that was Peyton and the Colts. So now I'd imagine the Giants will force Vince Young to beat them. Let's see how they manage that.

Overall I'm just expecting a close game, but for the Giants to come out on top. The question I need answered this game is ~ What should we be expecting from this Offensive Line moving forward? This game should get this conversation headed in one direction or another.

Preparing for Take-off: Jets ~ No comment!
Well, maybe just one. I think Miami matches if not exceeds the Jets' physicality and beats them in a close, hard fought game. How does 17-13 Miami sit with you? Off the field things haven't exactly been going the Jets' way, and eventually those kind of things translate onto the field. Things may not turn ugly for the Jets in this game but things ARE turning ugly. Why not this game to get things colored in a shade of chaos.

OK..she's back and I can leave. Heading back to BTB Station.
If I were you take my picks...and go the other way.

Unbelievable! ~ or ~ Believable!

Tennessee 29

GIANTS 10

FINAL

Let's try...

REGRETABLE ~ FORGETABLE

INDEFENSABLE.

BAD BLUE

BIG DISSAPPOINTMENT

Coach Coughlin will not be happy this week!

The G-Men better start wrapping their minds around a very ugly week to come.

Coughlin is going to be grumpy as all hell and it's time these players start backing up their coach.

I've been hearing the grumblings about how Coach Coughlin is losing his grip on this team.

I say these players need to get THEIR ACT together.

I usually have my moments with Dr. Jekyll~Coach Gilbride,

but these players need to get THEIR ACT together.
Eli? You tried throwing a pass with the wrong hand? Really?

Perry Fewell's Defense has been admittedly "Low-Grade Leaded" if not predictable so far, and clearly in need of inspiration, but these players need to get THEIR ACT together.

Me and the Maras? We're Good.

Me and Jerry Reese? We're Good.

Me and Coach Coughlin?

Before it's proven he has lost his grip on this team, I want to believe we have a bunch of under performing players on this roster first.

There's many things to discuss about Bad Big Blue.

They just turned next week's game into a must win situation; take it with a grain of salt,

will ya...?

Sunday Night Game

NEW YORK JETS 31
MIAMI Dolphins 23
FINAL

Mike.BTB

Saturday, September 25, 2010

"Before Cooperstown, There was Brooklyn"

GREEN~WOOD CEMETERY

Brooklyn, New York

Where many of the

"Fathers of Baseball"

rest eternally.

We call this
"The Book"

Jim Creighton:

http://thebrooklyntrolleyblogger.blogspot.com/2010/01/road-trip-jump-trolley-were-going-to.html

Charles Ebbets and Henry Chadwick:

http://thebrooklyntrolleyblogger.blogspot.com/2010/02/lets-jump-trolley-back-to-green-wood.html

Duncan Curry:

http://thebrooklyntrolleyblogger.blogspot.com/2010/04/green-wood-cemetery-iii.html

The Brooklyn Atlantics; Past and Present

Baseball's First Dynasty

The Brooklyn Atlantics Baseball Club

EST. 1855

THE VINTAGE BASEBALL ASSOCIATION

The Brooklyn Atlantics Baseball Club

as of 2009

VS.

NEW YORK GOTHAMS

circa 1884

2009 Gothams

New York Gothams, left vs. Brooklyn Atlantics, right

NEWARK EUREKAS; left VS. BROOKLYN ATLANTICS; right

Brad Shaw; aka - "Brooklyn"

Member of FLEMINGTON NESHANOCK Baseball Club

September 2009

Read my post about this series of Vintage Games, the history of

Brooklyn's Washington Park, The Federal League and the Brooklyn TipTops, and matters regarding the preservation of Brooklyn's Baseball History.

http://thebrooklyntrolleyblogger.blogspot.com/2010/02/whats-at-3rd-avenue-3rd-street.html

THEY'RE BACK!!!

**********SEPTEMBER 25, 2010**********

Washington Park, Brooklyn

The New York Gothams

vs.

Flemington Neshanock

Game One 11am

Game Two 1pm

Saturday - September 25, 2010

The Vintage Base Ball Association made it's way back to Washington Park in Brooklyn, N.Y.,

for a double-header featuring

THE GOTHAM BASE BALL CLUB of NEW YORK

vs.

THE FLEMINGTON NESHANOCK BASE BALL CLUB

You can view all the pictures and videos of the day's events, here:

http://thebrooklyntrolleyblogger.blogspot.com/2010/09/three-hands-down-24-to-go-vintage.html

Mike.BTB

http://thebrooklyntrolleyblogger.blogspot.com/

Friday, September 24, 2010

UNION GROUNDS, Brooklyn; Where Baseball Grew-Up

Unbeknown to most in the Borough,
This is Hallowed Ground:

click pictures to enlarge.

UNION GROUNDS

Brooklyn, New York

If Baseball has it's "original" and accepted roots with the

New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club of Manhattan,
with their activities played out on Hoboken's Elysian Fields, then truly,

UNION GROUNDS

served as the Crib of Baseball.

The game of Baseball learned how to stand on two feet and walk here; at Union Grounds and other locations in Brooklyn, Baseball became great and radiated to all parts of the Nation.

Union Grounds and Brooklyn

is Where Baseball History was Born.

The Ball Field was bordered by four streets in one of the earliest nurseries of our National Pastime; Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Marcy Avenue ~ Rutledge Street ~ Harrison Avenue ~ Lynch Street is where once stood Brooklyn's UNION GROUNDS; 1862 ~ 1882.

In 1883 ~ The Baseball grounds met their end. The site became a New York State Armory and still remains home to New York's National Guard.

This was the first fully enclosed ball park in America. A Sir William Cammeyer, proprietor,
enclosed the playing field with a fence. He now required an admittance fee to watch Baseball games; the first standardized admission charged to a ball game. Union Grounds was the first ball field to offer concessions for it's patrons. Those same patrons were sitting in the first fixed seating area for the purposes of viewing Baseball; the first stands/bleachers ~ your preference.

Union Grounds grew with and beyond Baseball's original amateurism. Union Grounds played host to teams from the first Professional Baseball League; The National Association of Professional Baseball Players; est. 1871. Union Grounds also played host to a team in the first year of operations for what we still know today as the NATIONAL LEAGUE of BASEBALL ~ est. 1876

Teams which called Union Grounds home at various times:
New York Mutuals ~ N.A. and N.L.
Brooklyn Eckfords ~ N.A.
*BROOKLYN ATLANTICS ~ N.A. ~ My favorites!
Hartfords of Brooklyn ~ N.L.

Union Grounds is the backdrop for this Baseball fashion magazine picture.

The Union Grounds site is only one time removed from it's original purpose serving as the place where our little game of Baseball grew up.

#(pic credit) ~ http://brooklynballparks.com/ ...Has compiled a superb amount of information regarding Union Grounds in conjunction with their other efforts rediscovering Baseball history in Brooklyn. This is an artist's rendering of Union Grounds on their website. I've tried to contact them through their website unsuccessfully. ~ (Update - I met Dave D., co-author of BrooklynBallparks, shortly after this posting).