Funny Quotes

All the Padres need is a fly ball in the air.

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

He can be lethal death.

Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.

Templeton is as hot as you can be and still walk!

On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.

McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.

Hi folks, I'm Gerry Gross!

It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.

Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.

Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.

National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.

I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.

Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

There's a hard shot to LeMaster, he throws Madlock into the dugout.

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.

The sky is so clear today you can see all the way to Missouri.

Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.

Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.

Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.

The big ballpark can do it all!

Young Frank Pastore may have pitched the biggest victory of 1979. Maybe the biggest victory of the year!

Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.

Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable.

Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.

Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.