Gossage, a former New York Yankee, said the San Diego crowd at Game 3 was " the loudest crowd I've ever heard anywhere.

Gossage also said Kroc was " poisoning the world with her cheeseburgers.

" He later apologized to McDonald's, which Gossage said his family would continue to frequent.

It's like it was too easy ," said Gossage.

Do what we did ," said Gossage.

Gossage also said the episode shared many of the same characteristics of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, comparing Stan's contemplation of killing his grandfather to Hamlet's dilemmas after encountering his father's ghost.

One of the sport's dominant relievers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he became the only pitcher to lead the National League in saves five times ( 1979 – 1982, 1984 ), and retired with exactly 300 saves – at the time, the third highest total in history, behind Rollie Fingers ( 341 ) and Rich " Goose " Gossage ( 302 ), and an NL record until broken by Lee Smith in ; Sutter had set the NL record in with his 194th save, surpassing the mark held by Roy Face.

The Indy 500 has a long tradition of the winning driver and team celebrating in victory lane, while Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage has stated that victory lane should be reserved for the winner of the race.

Also on hand for the game were Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, coach Yogi Berra, and players Reggie Jackson, Bucky Dent, Lou Piniella, Bobby Murcer, Goose Gossage, Tommy John, and Johnny Oates.

Yankees present at the game were owner George Steinbrenner, coach Yogi Berra, and players Reggie Jackson, Bucky Dent, Lou Piniella, Bobby Murcer, Goose Gossage, Tommy John, and Johnny Oates.

Goose Gossage was one of the few pitchers who employed basically just one pitch, a fastball.

In what has come to be known as " the Pine Tar Incident ," umpires discovered illegal placement of pine tar ( more than 18 inches up the handle ) on third baseman George Brett's bat after he had hit a two-run home run off Gossage that put the Royals up 5 – 4 in the top of the 9th. The baseball bat used by Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett ( baseball ) | George Brett in the Pine Tar Incident on July 24, 1983.

The Padres were the winners of the Western Division with Steve Garvey, Tony Gwynn, Eric Show, Goose Gossage and Alan Wiggins.

The Padres pitching staff in 1984 featured Eric Show ( 15 – 9 record ), Ed Whitson ( 14 – 8 ), Mark Thurmond ( 14 – 8 ), and Rich " Goose " Gossage as the primary relief pitcher ( 10 – 6 won-lost, 25 saves, and a 2. 90 earned run average ).

In 1984, Gossage clinched another title, earning the save in Game 5 of the NL Championship Series and sending the Padres to their first World Series ; after San Diego had scored four runs in the seventh inning to take a 6-3 lead against the Chicago Cubs, Gossage pitched the final two innings, getting Keith Moreland to hit into a force play for the final out.

Gibson had homered earlier in the game, and Padres manager Dick Williams strolled to the mound to talk to Goose Gossage, seemingly with the purpose of ordering him to walk Gibson intentionally.

The Royals vanquished the Yankees in a three-game sweep punctuated by a George Brett home run off of Yankees ' star relief pitcher Goose Gossage.

They would field eight All-Stars ( manager Dick Williams, Tony Gwynn, Graig Nettles, Rich Gossage, Terry Kennedy, Garry Templeton, Steve Garvey, and La Marr Hoyt ) at the 1985 All-Star Game in Minnesota.

Late in the 1986 season, Gossage was suspended and then reinstated with a $ 25, 000 fine for behavior not in the best interest of the team.

Gwynn, Winfield, Fingers, Gossage, Randy Jones, and Graig Nettles ( 3B, 1984 – 1987 ) are also members of the San Diego Hall of Champions, which is open to athletes native to the San Diego area ( such as Gwynn and Nettles ) as well as to those who played for San Diego teams.

Rose accumulated a total of 4, 256 hits before his final career at-bat, a strikeout against San Diego ’ s Rich Gossage on August 17, 1986.

Before Fingers ' time, a former starter's renewed success in the bullpen would have led back to a spot in the starting rotation ; but since the successes of not only Fingers but also contemporaries such as Sparky Lyle and Goose Gossage, it has been widely accepted that an excellent pitcher might actually provide a greater benefit to his team as a closer than as a third or fourth starter.

( Gossage, for example, was moved to the starting rotation after a first few seasons in relief — and he got clobbered despite pitching 17 complete games and was then moved back to the bullpen to stay.

Among the Yankees in attendance for the game were Billy Martin, Yogi Berra, Goose Gossage, Ken Griffey, Sr., Dave Winfield, Lou Piniella, and Willie Randolph.

Injuries to Reggie Jackson and Goose Gossage as well as the death of Thurman Munson mid-season had the Yankees reeling.

Caple and others contend that using one's best reliever in situations such as a three run lead in the ninth — when a team will almost certainly win even with a lesser pitcher — is foolish, and that using a closer in the traditional " fireman " role exemplified by pitchers such as Goose Gossage is far wiser.

Gossage had more saves of at least two innings than saves where he pitched one inning or less.

It also noted that blown saves are " non-qualitative ", pointing out that the two career leaders in blown saves — Gossage ( 112 ) and Rollie Fingers ( 109 )— were both inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Along with Sutter and Rich Gossage, he was at the forefront of the transition from relief ace to the La Russian ninth inning closer.

In 2001 Davies played Robert Gossage in Bob and Rose, a comedy drama about a gay man falling for a woman.

After receiving his M. S., Mander worked in advertising for 15 years, including five as partner and president of Freeman, Mander & Gossage in San Francisco.

Adam Smith said, " People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Initial converts were drawn to the church in part because of the newly published Book of Mormon, a self-described chronicle of indigenous American prophets that Smith said he had translated from golden plates.

Joseph Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

Smith said he had been in contact with an angel Moroni, who showed him the plates ' location and had been grooming him for a role as a religious leader.

In contrast, Huston Smith, scholar of world religions, said of the Mitchell version, " This translation comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine.

Adam Smith said, " People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

The elder Smith was given the " keys of the patriarchal Priesthood over the kingdom of God on earth ", the same power said to be held by the Biblical Patriarchs, which included the power to give blessings upon one's posterity.

Smith said that his religion " believe in the same organization that existed in the primitive church, viz: apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists ".

Although Joseph Smith said that " an Evangelist is a Patriarch ", the church has retained the term Patriarch.

Stephen Smith, Australian Foreign Minister, rejected any accusations of meddling in Fiji's affairs and said that he was " deeply disappointed " by Fiji's actions.

In an interview, Burger King president Donald Smith said that his chain's fries are sprayed with a sugar solution shortly before being packaged and shipped to individual outlets.

Supporters of the idea of spontaneous order trace their views to the concept of the invisible hand proposed by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations who said that the individual who:

Young, Smith, and numerous other early leaders frequently cautioned against the public exercise of glossolalia unless there was someone who could exercise the corresponding spiritual gift of interpretation of tongues, so that listeners could be edified by what had been said.

Disney's archivist Dave Smith, in " Disney A to Z ," said, " Note that the brightest hue of the three is red ( Huey ), the color of water, dew, is blue ( Dewey ), and that leaves Louie, and leaves are green.

Clive Stafford Smith, Legal Director of the UK branch of the human rights group Reprieve, said " We are told that al-Libi committed suicide in his Libyan prison.

In 1823 Smith said an angel directed him to a buried book written on golden plates containing the religious history of an ancient people.

Smith published what he said was a translation of these plates in March 1830 as the Book of Mormon, named after Mormon, the ancient prophet-historian who compiled the book, and on April 6, 1830, Smith founded the Church of Christ.

The creature was said to be very large, according to Smith, and to leave large, round, three-clawed footprints.

According to Smith's grandnephew, Van Buren said to Smith, " Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you ; if I take up for you I shall lose the vote of Missouri.

Partly as a result, he agreed to sell Talkback Productions, but Smith admitted to restlessness: " I said to my wife that I needed to do something to get me out of the house ".

" Smith further claimed that in answer to his prayer: " I was answered Jesus that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong ; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight ; that those professors were all corrupt ; that: " they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.

Three Witnesses besides Joseph Smith also reported that they saw Moroni in visions in 1829, as did several other witnesses who each said they had their own vision.

As a further complication, Mary Whitmer, mother to one of the Three Witnesses and four of the Eight Witnesses, said she had a vision of the golden plates, shown to her by an angel whom she always called " Brother Nephi ", who may or may not have been the same angel to which Smith referred.