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Post by graywolf on Sept 23, 2015 5:35:26 GMT -8
There's one Yogism that I've always applied to my hiking style. "If you come to a fork in the road, (trail) take it." How could I not want to go at least a little ways to see what's there?
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whistlepunk
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Post by whistlepunk on Sept 23, 2015 8:49:24 GMT -8
How about "No one goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
That's how I often choose my destinations. I see an interesting looking place on a map and do a google search for any trip reports or descriptions. If I do not find any I know I want to go there.
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Post by gabby on Sept 23, 2015 9:30:13 GMT -8
1958: Yogi, Kubek & Mantle. That World Series is, in my mind, the archetype and touchstone for every other one, at least every one I've ever watched or listened to. I never saw it - I listened on the radio, staying late at school every day it was on. We grow old, and our childhood heroes die, but their memory lives on forever.
ETA: I apologize for not including a quote in my reminiscing. I remember Yogi's facility with words, but much of what I remember turns out to be the somewhat similar verbal artistry of Casey Stengel. Of the ones floating about today that I've seen, I like this one best:
"It gets late early out there."
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Post by Woodsie on Sept 23, 2015 9:40:59 GMT -8
"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up somewhere else."
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Westy
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Post by Westy on Sept 23, 2015 10:27:22 GMT -8
Saw Yogi play at Fenway circa 1962. I remember it well because he struck out swinging, the Red Sox catcher dropped the ball and Yogi made it to first. Ever since I always thought he was a smart, heads up guy.
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amaruq
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Post by amaruq on Sept 23, 2015 11:21:34 GMT -8
Much like hiking, "baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical."
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leafwalker
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Post by leafwalker on Sept 23, 2015 12:03:05 GMT -8
"You can observe a lot by watching." Another attributed to Yogi.
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Post by 1camper on Sept 23, 2015 17:37:57 GMT -8
“I usually take a two hour nap from one to four”
My hiking style..
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2015 17:32:07 GMT -8
"The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra and his Yankee team-mates, Micky Mantel, Roger Maris, and Whitey Ford, were names I recall from my first acquaintance with baseball in the early 1960s. As a kid growing up on a remote ranch, we had no electric or phone lines, and no TV. And the old-style tube radio rarely picked up anything but static. When I reached school age, we and our neighbors, at country-school picnics, occasionally gathered up enough bodies for a game of work-up softball. Being one of the youngest kids, I was allowed to play catcher — not a position noted for glory or prestige. Over 30 miles from the nearest small town in the late 1950s, eventually along came electric lines, then phone lines, and then in the early 1960s, transistor radios. They were the plug-in type, but when atmospheric conditions were just right, my brother and I could pick up rock-and-roll stations thousands of miles away. And major-league baseball games. Yogi Berra sounded a lot like Yogi Bear. And Yogi played catcher, my position. Not only did he play catcher, but he proved that a catcher could be great. And Yogi was among the greatest. Rest in peace, old man. You gave the game dignity. |
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Post by BigLoad on Sept 24, 2015 21:55:04 GMT -8
Living in the NY media orbit for the last 28 years (and watching more than a few Yankee games), I enjoyed regular dose of Yogi until he slowed down a lot a couple years ago. He had an especially good connection with Joe Torre (those catchers stick together), which I think contributed to the success of those teams.
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Post by llamero on Sept 25, 2015 6:59:29 GMT -8
Yogi Berra sounded a lot like Yogi Bear. A biography article I read yesterday said that Yogi Bear was based on "Yogi" Berra. His response when his wife asked him where he wanted to be buried, “I don’t know,” he said. “Why don’t you surprise me?” |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2015 7:22:51 GMT -8
A biography article I read yesterday said that Yogi Bear was based on "Yogi" Berra. I suspected so. |
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Post by echo on Sept 26, 2015 7:55:33 GMT -8
I was born ten minutes after Mom got to the hospital because they couldn't leave the house until the all star game ended, and my Dad raised me loving baseball but near Jellystone where there are no pro teams, so we rooted for his old home of Pittsburgh and watched whatever game our two channels managed to broadcast but that was enough to get a healthy dose of Yogi Berra and Yogi Bear in my childhood.
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