If the Colorado Rockies were a tank...
by Russ Oates on Oct 1, 2009 11:45 PM MDT
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PrintThe Rockies during the first two months of the season:
That's an Italian M15/42 tank (sitting in a field on the US Army Ordnance Base in Aberdeen, MD.). Basically, it was Italian and already out-dated by the time it entered service. It failed.
The Rockies during the Jim Tracy era:
That's one of the prototypes of today's M1 Abrams tank, the XM1 Abrams (named in honor of General Creighton Abrams). As Thomas G. Mahnken explains in Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945: "The M1 was equipped with a revolutionary type of armor that was made up of ceramic, steel, and titanium plates laminated between layers of ballistic nylon, a configuration that allowed it to resist a wide variety of antitank rounds."1 The Rockies took a wide variety of blows throughout the season and have stood firm throughout it, making it to the playoffs.
LET'S GO ROCKIES!!!!!!
1 Thomas G. Mahnken, Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), 132.
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So happy right now. We are indeed a tank. I was just talking with my friends about the possibilitly of the Rox going all the way to the World Series again (I know, premature) but this time to face the Yanks. It would be an epic segment of our history, to face both the Sox and Yanks in the WS, but this time, hopefully we would come out on top!
Ha! Nice Post
And the fact that you footnoted it is SO full of win.
Seriously, I’m giddy. And after watching all the clips from the interviews during the celebration, I’m grinning ear to ear. Go Rockies!
I was going to post
not sure if the footnote is awesomely awesome or awesomely lame, but either way, well, you know. pretty cool.
I disagree.
There are no Wikilinks. Epic fail.
:) Kidding, of course. And I’ll happily compare us to an M1A1 any time.
At this point in the season, all the Rockies' numbers are magic.
You never know who may be reading this stuff.
Always footnote.
"Don't give up the ship!" - Capt. James Lawrence
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Of course Russ would compare us to a tank...
I like this analysis. Thanks for making me smile even more (although I didn’t think it possible).
"We made too many wrong mistakes." ~Yogi Berra
"The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all." ~Lou Gehrig
JFK
They should stick
to something other than war machines.
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by Russ Oates on Oct 2, 2009 6:18 AM MDT via mobile up reply actions
Paninis?
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Oct 2, 2009 8:12 AM MDT up reply actions
AAAAAARGH
The plural is panin*i*. The singular is panino. Even if “paninis” has become an accepted English word it still makes me explode every time I hear it!
ouch
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by Hollidayrain on Oct 2, 2009 11:47 AM MDT up reply actions
You Italians are really particular about food
I had a friend from Trieste who flipped out on me for snapping my spaghetti in two to fit it in the pot
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
by Andrew T. Fisher on Oct 2, 2009 2:29 PM MDT up reply actions
The best thing I saw all year
on the denver post website with the rockies celebration…spilly and seth smith double grinding jim tracy.
M 13/40?
Isn’t that an M 13/40? The Ordnance Museum lists an M 13/40 in its collection. I suppose they look nearly identical since they seem to have the same suspension and armament.
I don’t remember if it’s in Rocky or Rocky II, but when Mick tries to exhort Rocky in his training by saying he’s a tank, I always snickered. Yeah, you want to be an Italian tank.
The Ordnance museum is a great place to go, if you’re into that stuff. Visit Cal Ripken’s place on the way. Huge collection of infantry weapons inside, and there’s also a lot of artillery/anti-tank guns outside with the tanks and sp guns. The museum’s specimens sit outside, and apparently there’s not enough funding to restore things, so unfortunately a lot of the tanks are rusting.
There’s a great private collection Silicon Valley (the items are much more nicely restored), but I don’t see myself getting to Bovington, UK or Fort Knox any time soon, so for now, the Ordnance museum will have to do.
Leave Dexter alone! You're lucky he even performs for you!
It's a two-year-old picture, but
I remember the sign telling us it was a 42. That being the year it went into service. Of course, it could be a prototype.
I was part of a group given a special showing of its vault by Dr. Atwater (who is no longer there).
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by Russ Oates on Oct 2, 2009 11:29 AM MDT via mobile up reply actions
When I was there, I saw a group being given a tour of the infantry weapons room
I was jealous. They have quite the collection. I take it that they tested a lot of this stuff at the nearby proving grounds?
Leave Dexter alone! You're lucky he even performs for you!
I saw
one of the rare 1884(?) Sharps rifle. There are only four in existence we were told, and one recently fetched $500K at an auction. I happen to have some pictures of my professor holding an AK-47 with a beaming smile on his face.
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