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  • Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

    Originally posted by CommAvHusky View Post
    1. New York Yankees
    Aka New York Highlanders, Baltimore Orioles
    Go Green! Go White! Go State!

    1966, 1986, 2007

    Go Tigers, Go Packers, Go Red Wings, Go Pistons

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    • Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

      Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post
      Aka New York Highlanders
      Any one of who could beat up the entire current Yankee roster. Look at those faces.



      We with parents over 90 wonder why they were always so taciturn and distant. It's because those were their parents!
      Last edited by Kepler; 03-30-2018, 10:17 AM.
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      • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Any one of who could beat up the entire current Yankee roster. Look at those faces.



        We with parents over 90 wonder why they were always so taciturn and distant. It's because those were their parents!
        All kidding aside, someone once pointed out to me how people in early photographs never smiled. And he’s right. Heck, just look at your old, old family photos from the early 1900s. I bet nobody is smiling in them. All serious faces. It’s just the way they posed back then.
        Russell Jaslow
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        • Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

          Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post
          Aka New York Highlanders, Baltimore Orioles
          This is true, most MLB played around with the nicknames during the dead ball era.

          The Yankees did start off as the Baltimore Orioles, New York was blocked from entering the American League thanks to John McGraw and the New York Giants. A deal was made before the 1903 to move the team to New York. As the Highlanders, they played at Hilltop Park which was the highest elevation in Manhattan. The media still referred to the team as the Yanks, because it was easier on the eyes than Highlanders. In 1913, the team moved to the Polo Grounds, hence the Highlander name was irrelevant and Yankees became official.
          Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
          —H. L. Mencken

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          • Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            Fixed that for you.

            Spain is full of inbred royalty.
            Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
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            • Originally posted by CommAvHusky View Post
              This is true, most MLB played around with the nicknames during the dead ball era.

              The Yankees did start off as the Baltimore Orioles, New York was blocked from entering the American League thanks to John McGraw and the New York Giants. A deal was made before the 1903 to move the team to New York. As the Highlanders, they played at Hilltop Park which was the highest elevation in Manhattan. The media still referred to the team as the Yanks, because it was easier on the eyes than Highlanders. In 1913, the team moved to the Polo Grounds, hence the Highlander name was irrelevant and Yankees became official.
              I thought newspapers used Yanks because the shorter name was easier for headlines.
              Russell Jaslow
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              • Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

                Originally posted by Russell Jaslow View Post
                All kidding aside, someone once pointed out to me how people in early photographs never smiled. And he’s right. Heck, just look at your old, old family photos from the early 1900s. I bet nobody is smiling in them. All serious faces. It’s just the way they posed back then.
                while smile when you had no black friends to hang with
                a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                • Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

                  The Yankees would have been #2 if not for the fortune of facing the Twins in the playoffs eleventeen times the past decade+.

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                  • Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

                    Originally posted by Russell Jaslow View Post
                    All kidding aside, someone once pointed out to me how people in early photographs never smiled. And he’s right. Heck, just look at your old, old family photos from the early 1900s. I bet nobody is smiling in them. All serious faces. It’s just the way they posed back then.
                    I thought that people didn't smile in old photos because long exposure times were needed.
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                    • Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

                      Originally posted by Ralph Baer View Post
                      I thought that people didn't smile in old photos because long exposure times were needed.
                      ^^^^^^^
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                      • Originally posted by Ralph Baer View Post
                        I thought that people didn't smile in old photos because long exposure times were needed.
                        I never thought about that. Makes sense.

                        Another mystery in my life solved.
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                        U.S. College Hockey Online

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                        • Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

                          Originally posted by Ralph Baer View Post
                          I thought that people didn't smile in old photos because long exposure times were needed.
                          I've read that it was because the traditional picture before that was the portrait painting, in which very few smiled.
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                          1966, 1986, 2007

                          Go Tigers, Go Packers, Go Red Wings, Go Pistons

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                          • Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

                            Originally posted by Ralph Baer View Post
                            I thought that people didn't smile in old photos because long exposure times were needed.
                            That's what I've read; I don't know whether it's just a myth.
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                            • Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

                              Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post
                              I've read that it was because the traditional picture before that was the portrait painting, in which very few smiled.
                              For the same reason.
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                              • Re: 122 Franchises Ranked Bottom to Top:

                                Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post
                                I've read that it was because the traditional picture before that was the portrait painting, in which very few smiled.
                                I've understood this to be the bigger reason as exposure times were greatly reduced by the mid- to late 1800's making that reason mostly obsolete.

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