June 15, 2006
Giveaway: 1975 World Series Collector’s Edition 7 DVD Set
By
Amanda
Posted at 10:47 pm
A&E and Major League Baseball has put together a seven-DVD collector's edition of the 1975 Big Red Machine World Series. I won't have time to review the set until this weekend, but just looking at the box, you can tell this is a beaut. Click the “More” link below to read all about this DVD set.
I am also pleased to announce that I have three promotional copies to give away for absolutely free. That's no small prize, my friend. The very, very cheapest you're going to get this thing for is $41, and that's before shipping.
- I'll select the winners by random drawing.
- To enter, post a Reds' or otherwise baseball-related haiku (seventeen-syllable verse form, arranged in three lines of five, seven and five syllables) in a comment on this entry.
- Poems must be posted by 11:59 p.m. EDT Monday, June 19, 2006.
- Since you have to register to post, I should be able to track you down from your username.
- All are welcome to enter, so tell all your friends.
I don’t need to win
I rescued Tiny Casey
Thanks Red Hot Mama
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Krivsky gets Castro?
What could be the rationale?
He’s invincible
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Wily Mo is gone
But he’s fondly remembered
As bait for Bronson
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Bullpen is so bad
How bad is it? Must hope that
Balfour can pitch in.
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Cincinnati Reds
Two thousand six champions
Inevitable?
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Milton grows a beard
Really turns things around, while
Marge rolls in her grave
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Quin-Ton still with club
Can’t buy hit, made fielding flub
To the minors, bub.
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I don’t need to win
Saved Casey, won those prizes
But wouldn’t refuse.
Castellini says
Krivsky is my man for now
But the Reds must win
Carlton Fisk homers
But the Reds win the Series
Go Big Red Machine
Reds Reds Reds Reds Reds
Reds Reds Reds Reds Reds Reds Reds
Reds. I like the Reds.
Wonderful! I now have more entries than I have prizes. Thanks, guys.
Joel, your creativity never ceases to amaze me.
I watched “Bull Durham.”
Not as good as I recall.
Kevin Costner . . . Yikes.
Fisk homer for naught
’75 Big Red team
Not to be denied
The Big Red Machine
’75 World Series
DVD for me?
The Reds are my team,
breath hanging on every pitch
praying for a win.
Saw Nacho Libre
He has the proper mustache
Javy has a twin
Gotta love them Reds
Never a fair-weather fan
Root until the end!
Before I submit an entry, I gotta do my job here.
Hard Facts Staff comment on the promo material RHM quoted: The BoSox had two rookies of the year on their ’75 team, Fred Lynn (1975) and Carlton Fisk (1972). So did the Reds – Pete Rose (1963) and Johnny Bench (1968). The Reds also traded away a third Rookie of the Year (Tommy Helms, 1966) in 1971 along with Lee May and Jimmy Stewart to the Astros for Joe Morgan, Denis Menke, Jack Billingham, Cesar Geronimo, and Ed Armbrister in the trade that turned them from a marginal contender into the BRM.
OK, now to make this an official entry: In a twist of fate as odd as me (who actually watched the 1975 WS) winning one of those DVD sets, it’s Reds vs. Red Sox in the 2006 World Series, and:
Boston fans will pout
Pena makes the final out
Bronson wins in rout
John (HMZ)
Bronson, Brandon, Dave,
Krivsky moves mysterious,
Each a coup, thank you
Female, twenty-three
Never did live in Cincy
Irrational love
Kearns has such big ears
the bullpen brings me to tears
White Sox fans are queers
Would you guys believe
I registered for this game
after weeks lurking?
Tonight I go back
to watching games on tv
time to beat the Mets!
In ’75,
played Army in Germany.
Missed World Series.
Daft defense dallies
Badgered bullpen bandies balls
Reds rule regardless
In April said I
The RedLegs are playoff bound
How crazy was I
Griffey is the best
Sweetest swing in all the land
Injuries be damned
or
I hope this year’s it
No pennant since I was three
The wait’s killing me
A few to submit..
The Cards are Toppled
The Cubs lose like they always do
Yes, the Reds are champs!
Tigers versus Reds
What a grand series it will be
Oh, who would have thought it?
Doubt all you want to
But real Reds fans know the truth
The Reds are back again
Cards are holding strong
Reds fighting to October
But Cubbies still suck
Always heard of past glory
Film was my only witness
‘Till the Reds of new