Monday, May 16, 2005
On This Day in 1984...
...the tigers took a 6-4 decision from the seattle mariners at tiger stadium to boost their record to a formidable 28-5. our own dave bergman started at 1B. jack morris got the win, and willie hernandez the save.
UPDATE: by the way, this box score is for may 15, not 16, so don't go gittin confuzzled. i forgot the time stamp on it would be for the 16th since it's after midnight. but whatever. it still SEEMS like Sunday. and anyway--you know what i MEAN.
UPUPDATE: there's been some discussion of alan trammell in a comments sections below. well, it just so happens that m-w's word of the day for thursday, may 12, was 'trammel'. here it is:
UPDATE: by the way, this box score is for may 15, not 16, so don't go gittin confuzzled. i forgot the time stamp on it would be for the 16th since it's after midnight. but whatever. it still SEEMS like Sunday. and anyway--you know what i MEAN.
UPUPDATE: there's been some discussion of alan trammell in a comments sections below. well, it just so happens that m-w's word of the day for thursday, may 12, was 'trammel'. here it is:
trammel \TRAM-ul\ noun
1 : a net for catching birds or fish
*2 : something impeding activity, progress, or freedom : restraint— usually used in plural
Example sentence:
"I cast the miserable trammels of worldly discretion to the winds, and spoke with the fervour that filled me...." (Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone)
Did you know?
A trammel fishing net traditionally has three layers, with the middle one finer-meshed and slack so that fish passing through the first net carry some of the center net through the coarser third net and are trapped. Appropriately, "trammel" traces back to the Late Latin "tremaculum," which comes from Latin "tres," meaning "three," and "macula," meaning "mesh." Today, "trammels" is synonymous with "restraints," and "trammel" is also used as a verb meaning "to confine" or "to enmesh." You may also run across the adjective "untrammeled," meaning "not confined or limited."
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
