Friday Flashbacks: Beloved Barry Bonds Breaks Home Run Record, The Manson Tate Murders, and Barry Switzer’s Packing
The dog days of summer are upon the Friday Flashbacks, and it’s a slow period right before football kicks in. Nevertheless, we plow ahead to dig deep into the archives for random news in years past.
Actress Sharon Tate and four others slain in ritualistic fashion (1969) . . . Bears defensive back Maurice Douglass works as a male stripper in offseason (1987) . . . The Boz’s book causes a stir (1988) . . . 12 year old boy finds out his cancer is terminal from Keith Jackson on national broadcast; parents sue (1978) . . . Korey Stringer’s death was a shock (2001) . . . Steve Garvey sues Inside Sports magazine for article about his marriage (1980) . . . Falcons fine Deion Sanders for being late to camp after baseball, and a fishing trip (1991) . . . Arli$$ debuts (1996) . . .
Barry Bonds is the new home run king (2007) . . . Sugar Ray Leonard hit with paternity suit while at the Olympics (1976) . . . Team USA not looking good: barely beats Germany, loses to Italy (2004) . . . Mickey Mantle leads Roger Maris in the chase for Ruth’s record (1961) . . . Several Royals players are part of a cocaine investigation (1983) . . . George Steinbrenner must surrender control of the Yankees (1990) . . . Joe Namath injures knee while trying to make tackle in a preseason game (1971) . . . In the first ever AFL-NFL preseason matchup, the Denver Broncos stun the Lions (1967) . . . Umpires in the Texas League can no longer eject mascots (1995) . . .
Barry Switzer caught with gun in his handbag at airport (1997) . . . Music Television (1981) . . . A golf club controversy forces British Open champ Tom Watson to use a new set at the PGA Championship (1978) . . . Was it just a decade ago that Schilling left Philadelphia to play for a winner in Arizona? (2000) . . . Ted Williams fined for gesture of spitting toward crowd (1956) . . . ABC’s coverage of the Olympics criticized for being too pro-American (1984) . . . Bryan Fortay sues Miami for not making him a starter as he claims was promised (1993) . . . Lebron makes pro debut (this link inserted for gratuitous SEO reasons) (1974) . . . Former sportswriter Ronald Reagan plays movie athlete (1939) . . . Frank DeFord on exhibition sports after Tiger Woods vs. David Duval (1999).
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August 5th, 2011 at 5:10 PM
Barry Lamar Bonds. Legend.
August 5th, 2011 at 5:12 PM
Facebook friends…as promised, the jello wrestling pics from 1992 are up. Be frightened, but not as much as my wife
August 5th, 2011 at 5:13 PM
whooaa nelly.
August 5th, 2011 at 5:14 PM
Fuck Barry Bonds.
There, got it out of the way.
August 5th, 2011 at 5:14 PM
This was my favorite read on Bonds back in the day: http://dugout.progressiveboink.com/archive/b755.html
August 5th, 2011 at 5:14 PM
That’s why Deion never wanted to tackle, he wanted to keep playing.
/It must be the money
August 5th, 2011 at 5:17 PM
brocc, deon didn;t want to tackle cuz he was worried about messing up his pretty face
August 5th, 2011 at 5:19 PM
for broccoli
August 5th, 2011 at 5:19 PM
Lisk how long does it take you to compile these posts?
August 5th, 2011 at 5:28 PM
Depends on the situation, but as a 12 year old, I think I’d want to be told if my cancer was terminal. Feel terrible for Jackson in this case as there had to be miscommunication somewhere.
I’d imagine losing a child to cancer would cause you to do some pretty drastic things so I understand the thinking with suing. Just doesn’t feel right though.
August 5th, 2011 at 5:30 PM
I’d like to see Manson get released before his death only to see how he would do in today’s world
August 5th, 2011 at 5:32 PM
helter skelter freaked me out. unfortunately for me, i read it when i was 11, so i was a 11yo worried about being murdered by hippies
August 5th, 2011 at 5:33 PM
thats kinda cruel of the parents not to let him know beforehand
August 5th, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Joe the Luchador with cut off jean shorts
August 5th, 2011 at 5:42 PM
Damn it’s slow around here today.
August 5th, 2011 at 5:44 PM
helter skelter freaked me out
McCartney played it in his encore Monday at Wrigley.
/song about a slide
August 5th, 2011 at 5:45 PM
texans, are those cutoffs? i am still trying to figure it out. i didn;t remember the girls getting in the ring. we had a few courage shots beforehand
August 5th, 2011 at 5:46 PM
What about the non-FB’ers?
August 5th, 2011 at 5:47 PM
McCartney played it in his encore Monday at Wrigley.
/song about a slide
did it rock? cuz that song has a high rock potential
August 5th, 2011 at 5:47 PM
oh, and this is probably the wrong time to mention it, but I was told last night that they are starting to release the Sam’s Oktoberfest.
August 5th, 2011 at 5:49 PM
this site seems to have too many of these lulls nowadays. Before it used to be weekends that were the dead time. Slowly it creeped into night-time traffic. Now you see it sometimes on random weekday during middle of the day when it’s slow as hell. I wonder what’s going on. Even the morning roundup doesn’t get the same number of responses as you used to.
I remember when at night you would get 400-500 comments. Now you are lucky to get 100, and even then, more often than not it’s just a couple of people bringing up the numbers with their personal conversation.
August 5th, 2011 at 5:49 PM
Is it bad that my favorite part of these posts are looking at the ads?
/1978 Opels starting at $3299!
August 5th, 2011 at 5:49 PM
beef, can i link without you having to be on FB? meaning you wouldn;t have to log-in?
let’s try
August 5th, 2011 at 5:50 PM
Oh no, there is no wrong time to mention that!
/makes note to stop by bevmo, safeway, lucky, any place that sells beer on the way home
August 5th, 2011 at 5:50 PM
Never a wrong time for Oktoberfest.
August 5th, 2011 at 5:51 PM
Didn’t work
August 5th, 2011 at 5:51 PM
Did anyone know that there are topless pictures of Marisa Miller from her early modeling days?
Learn something new every day.
/NSFW
August 5th, 2011 at 5:52 PM
oh, and this is probably the wrong time to mention it, but I was told last night that they are starting to release the Sam’s Oktoberfest.
Seems a little early, but as long as this year’s is as good as last year’s I’m happy.
August 5th, 2011 at 5:54 PM
beef, can i link without you having to be on FB? meaning you wouldn;t have to log-in?
Didn’t work
any help here, tech-minded folks? how can i link fb photos for folks not on fb?
August 5th, 2011 at 5:56 PM
I would think you’d have to put them on some other hosting site, or something like a web album through Picasa/Google. But that just seems like a lot to go through, so no biggie. Unless there’s some really good ones of course…
August 5th, 2011 at 6:00 PM
This.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:04 PM
I would think you’d have to put them on some other hosting site, or something like a web album through Picasa/Google. But that just seems like a lot to go through, so no biggie. Unless there’s some really good ones of course…
beef, you’d have to ask texans, but if you ask me, they’re worth joining FB for. plus the one i just saw from 1990. pink tank top, tight jeans
i’m just sayin
August 5th, 2011 at 6:05 PM
;
This.
in all i do, i think, what will tsh think of this?
August 5th, 2011 at 6:05 PM
Barry Bonds is the newHenry Aaron remains home run king (2007)FIXED.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:07 PM
held, that cannot be stressed enough or too many times
August 5th, 2011 at 6:10 PM
Someone mentioned Celebrity Death Match from MTV yesterday. If we could have a real life Celebrity Death Match between two baseball players, I’d go with Barry Bonds and Ty Cobb.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:11 PM
ms you’re making me think of battlebots now
August 5th, 2011 at 6:19 PM
That main picture of the Pirates on the home page is wrong. The look on Jeff Karstens face crushes my heart.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:19 PM
beef, here you go, i think
i have the tat
August 5th, 2011 at 6:20 PM
I have to work tonight, so unfortunately I won’t be around to make constant joke about how Barry Bonds’ cranium enlarged so much it swallowed up his ears.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:23 PM
held, that cannot be stressed enough or too many times
That’s what I do everytime there’s a Barry Bonds post. Either that or I bring up Sid Bream. I’ll do it until the day I die.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Fuck Sid Bream.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:25 PM
I see your profile, but it says you have no albums, haha. Are they set to public?
August 5th, 2011 at 6:28 PM
Later on in that gallery, Lake Bell looks like she’s on coke.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:28 PM
Fuck you.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:32 PM
Later on in that gallery, Lake Bell looks like she’s on coke.
Agreed. And in one picture she has what looks like a meth burn on the side of her boob.
I would definitely give her a closer examination though given a chance.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:33 PM
I was beginning to wonder if someone was going to acknowledge the fact that I brought nice nudity into the thread.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:33 PM
Oh, no doubt. Hell, I’d even rack up the meth for her.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:34 PM
I thought I commented about it earlier but, upon further review, forgot and got distracted. Probably by looking at those pics again.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:39 PM
It’s amazing how boobs can destroy your memory, isn’t it Broc.
August 5th, 2011 at 6:42 PM
Huh? What were we talking about?
August 5th, 2011 at 6:44 PM
Speaking of boobs: more (short) story time: about a week ago a woman in her mid 20s came into my office. She was suppose to come by a few weeks earlier to talk about something, but told me over the phone before we met, that she had been in the hospital with a slipped disc in her back. When she came into my office I think I saw the source of the problem. She could not have been larger than a size 4 and yet easily had D or E cup boobs.
It reminded me of the Chive Gallery “Future Back Problems” which SC is so fond of posting.