Non-Literary Baseball Question

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I used to be -

and my dad is still an incredible baseball fan.

We lived near Kansas City Royals Stadium (now Kauffman Stadium) for years. We always had family season tickets and I have terrific memories from those games.

But after the third strike - I had enough.

Now I just wait for football season to begin.

 

[Vincent E]

Did anyone else see the Red Sox-Yankee game last night? If you're a baseball fan and did not, you missed a great one. Everything the game should be.

Lime

And you wondered why I've been absent for so long.

Limping off, licking my wounds, and bracing for the chaos of the DNC in three weeks.

Oh yeah, Go Pats !

 

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Re: Re: Non-Literary Baseball Question

 

[cantdog]

this thread is in code.

 

[snooper]

Baseball - let me see ...

I know. That's U.S. English for Rounders, a game very popular with pre-teen school girls in England.

Are you sure you aren't breaching the under-18 rule by mentioning it?

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Did any player run farther than 360 feet in one play?

Was anybody tackled before he could register a point?

Did anybody hassle the ref half as much as John McEnroe?

Was anybody pitched a googly, or carried off the field for catching a bumper?

Did anybody score a hat trick, or poke check the player closest to scoring?

Was the defeat the result of fewer points, or was it a TKO?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

"Don't care, Portugal doesn't have a team"

 

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[Lauren Hynde]

Actually, I live in a town called Gaia, across the river Douro from Porto, and I think we have the only baseball team worth mentioning in Portugal.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Hi Lauren.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Hi, Abs!


PS: And Joe Cooper and Doug Remer were hilarious in that movie!

 

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[Colleen Thomas]

In my humble opinion the game declined when the players went on strike. For the great American pasttime it was very bad. It's hard to convince the average Joe fan that a couple hundred thousand dollars a year, to actually work for what six months a year and have your work be a game, was not fair. I'm sorry, but professional athletes are some of the most over paid people on earth.

Players no longer consider themselves baseball players, they are bussiness men, always looking for the extra money, it's pretty sickening to purists who remember the time when players stayed with the same team their whole careers. The constant cry of it's not about the money has worn thin.

For me, the best baseball is played in minor league parks, with families in the stands cause it's affordable, and players who play more for the love of the game than the love of an obscene paycheck. Some old school players remain, there are still some good guys in the sport, but for every Barry Larkin, there are ten Barry Bonds. When in a player's head, it ceases to be about the game, the fans, or the team and it becomes all about me, it hurts the sport.

Add steroids, drugs, brushes with the law, petulance, egomania and the bad apples come to dominate the headlines, giving the whole sport a black eye.

There is something magical about a summer evening at the ball park. For me that magic still reamins, but it isn't found in Shea stadium or Yankee stadium, it's found in some small town, watching the Toledo Mudhens vs. the Jackson generals or in a highschool park, watching kids play the game, with dreams of the big leagues in their heads. It isn't jaded, corrupted by too much money and too much impunity to show your ass. It's where the magic of the game still lives, IMHO.

-Colly

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I'm surprised the French haven't pushed through an EC ban on the sport.

Unless you use unlabled transgenic baseball players, there would be no reason for it.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Does Portugal have hot dogs and crackjacks at baseball games?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I don't think they even have spectators...

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I don't think they even have spectators...

 

[Belegon]

I don't think I've ever discussed it here, but I played a lil' ball back in the day.

I refuse to let the game be spoiled for me by the players who are jerks. There were always some. Much as I dislike Bonds, he is a saint next to Cobb, who once beat up a man with no hands for heckling him.

Baseball is to many of us in the US what Football (Soccer, not NFL) is to many others. It is the game that my grandfather and I talked about and shared. It is in my blood.

Snoops, I know it was tongue in cheek, and I know I'm a bit over sensitive about it, but we can gladly discuss my three knee surgeries and the rehab if you want to take the "lil' girls game" route. My career was ended by a 250 lb. guy putting his head and shoulders into my right knee while moving at his full speed so I would get out of his way and drop the lil' white ball. Different game entirely, my friend. I DID NOT drop the ball!!! He was out!

Baseball is the only major american team sport to have a fatality due to an on the field injury. Ray Chapman of the White Sox, killed by a fastball to the head.

As much as I hate some of the things that happened in the game in recent years, I will not let the bullies ruin my toys.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Hey Belegon,
Who did you play for?

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I don't think I've ever discussed it here, but I played a lil' ball back in the day.

I refuse to let the game be spoiled for me by the players who are jerks. There were always some. Much as I dislike Bonds, he is a saint next to Cobb, who once beat up a man with no hands for heckling him.

Baseball is to many of us in the US what Football (Soccer, not NFL) is to many others. It is the game that my grandfather and I talked about and shared. It is in my blood.

Snoops, I know it was tongue in cheek, and I know I'm a bit over sensitive about it, but we can gladly discuss my three knee surgeries and the rehab if you want to take the "lil' girls game" route. My career was ended by a 250 lb. guy putting his head and shoulders into my right knee while moving at his full speed so I would get out of his way and drop the lil' white ball. Different game entirely, my friend. I DID NOT drop the ball!!! He was out!

Baseball is the only major american team sport to have a fatality due to an on the field injury. Ray Chapman of the White Sox, killed by a fastball to the head.

As much as I hate some of the things that happened in the game in recent years, I will not let the bullies ruin my toys.

Compared to Cobb, Albert Belle is a saint. Ty was just mean.

-Colly

 

[Belegon]

2 partial seasons in the minors, last team the Waterloo Diamonds. Class A ball, the Midwest League. Very limited action and I could not figure out how to hit a slider at that level, so no chance to go farther. I was a good defensive catcher though.

I did once meet someone here in Calif. who had been at a game in which I hit a walk-off home run. My one real moment of glory. I walked on air for a week after I met him, as I realized again that I did live that moment, not dream it.

edited to remove "backs". Got last nights Padre loss on the brain.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... I'm sorry, but professional athletes are some of the most over paid people on earth...

And the winner is!

MOVIE STARS!

They can demand as much, or more, than a sports star earns in a whole season, in a six week average production doing work that “wouldn’t strain an embryo.”

Always assuming that they can find work, and not spend their entire lives waiting tables because they are “the wrong type,” never “look the part,” or have “funny hair.”

In my opinion – and I know I’m in the VAST minority – I never thought baseball was really meant to be a spectator sport. Playing, even if you suck at it, is a lot of fun. Watching, baseball is somewhere between watching paint dry and metals oxidize.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Baseball - let me see ...

I know. That's U.S. English for Rounders, a game very popular with pre-teen school girls in England.

Are you sure you aren't breaching the under-18 rule by mentioning it?

Funny, we could say the same thing about soccer here. Here it's a game played by children who aren't especially skilled enough to play other sports.

I guess to each his own.

---dr.M.

 

[SeaCat]

"For me, the best baseball is played in minor league parks, with families in the stands cause it's affordable, and players who play more for the love of the game than the love of an obscene paycheck." "There is something magical about a summer evening at the ball park. For me that magic still reamins, but it isn't found in Shea stadium or Yankee stadium, it's found in some small town, watching the Toledo Mudhens vs. the Jackson generals or in a highschool park, watching kids play the game, with dreams of the big leagues in their heads. It isn't jaded, corrupted by too much money and too much impunity to show your ass. It's where the magic of the game still lives, IMHO."

-Colly

Colly,

You have it right with these two sections of your quote. The only games I go to now are High School Games. (The same with FootBall.) These kids are out there because they love the game. That's what makes it fun to watch.

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