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ABOVE THE EARS (SOME MUSINGS)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1. Remember Juan Pierre who played for the Phillies last year? He is with the Marlins now. He will soon pass Joe DiMagggio\u2019s hit total of 2,214 hits. Juan Pierre with more hits than Joe DiMaggio?? I don\u2019t believe it WHILE I\u2019m typing it!! Want another interesting number \u2013 Michael Young of the Phillies has more than 200 more hits than DiMaggio!<\/p>\n 2. By the way, Derek Jeter has the most hits of any active player with 3,308 hits and sits 10th all-time. Pete Rose\u2019s 4,256 hits ranks 1st with Ty Cobb, Hank Aaron, Stan Musial, and Tris Speaker completing the top 5.<\/p>\n 3. Boston University has joined the Patriot League and will compete in men\u2019s basketball this upcoming season. Did you know Boston University gave Rick Pitino, who won the NCAA this year with Louisville, his first head coaching job and the new Sixers coach, Brett Brown, played point guard for Pitino at Boston University.<\/p>\n 4. I attended Lafayette\u2019s last scrimmage this past Wednesday and came away very perplexed. Colleges may only scrimmage themselves so as I watched and tried to evaluate the team, I was left with a \u201cCatch 22\u201d. If the offense \u201clooks\u201d good, is it because the offense IS good or is it because the defense is not very good? And vice versa! You don\u2019t know until you know. That starts on September 7 vs. Sacred Heart.<\/p>\n 5. Believe it or not, I stayed until 2:12 AM on Saturday night\/ Sunday morning just to see if the Phillies would get their 4th straight walk-off win. They had plenty of opportunities, but failed. It was an interesting game to watch \u2013 20 pitchers, 137 at-bats, 35 hits, 32 strikeouts. 28 walks, 44 players used, one win, one loss.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ABOVE THE EARS (SOME MUSINGS) 1. Remember Juan Pierre who played for the Phillies last year? He is with the Marlins now. He will soon pass Joe DiMagggio\u2019s hit total of 2,214 hits. Juan Pierre with more hits than Joe DiMaggio?? I don\u2019t believe it WHILE I\u2019m typing it!! Want another interesting number \u2013…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"Yoast SEO Relevanssi index exclude","inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-mic","category-featured","category-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n