Time to CROW!

MathGirl

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I have exercised the utmost restraint for the past six months. Now that the regular baseball season is over, however, I think I deserve a tasteful crow. My team won its division, and the hated Dodgers were so far behind they couldn't be located with the Hubble telescope.

Ahem: COOOCCCKKKKKAAAAADOOOOOOOODOLLLLLLLLEDOOOOOOO!!
MG
 
Who's your team? My decrepit Mariners (once again) folded like a pair of twos in a poker game .....

Personally, I'm hoping for a Cubs-Red Sox World Series. Someone's gotta win it ........
 
OK, just to make it plain, the GIANTS clobbered my home town bums (kicked their sad butts, left them in the dust/smog, etc.)

-FF' (still missing Walt and Sandy and Don and Don and Al and the Davis Brothers, and Maury, and Gabby and all my childhood baseball heros - they've never been the same since.)

ps. Did like the Hiller, Haller, Miller Hallelujah though.
pps. Now I'm rooting for the Atlanta hitters, just when they get to hitting they lose the power in the pitching department. But I do have a sentimental place in my heart for Leo the Lip's Cubbies. We'll see how exciting the playoffs will be. Batter-up!
 
Nah, I was just teein' one up for MG, she didn't rise to the bait though ... (should I get off my high horse and mix my metaphors a bit more before the cows come home while the barn door's still open after the pigs have flown out of my butt?)

As long as the fucking Yankees don't win I'll be happy.
 
Seattle Zack said:
Nah, I was just teein' one up for MG, she didn't rise to the bait though ... (should I get off my high horse and mix my metaphors a bit more before the cows come home while the barn door's still open after the pigs have flown out of my butt?)

Somethin' about you and farmyard animals we need to know about, Zack?

Raph, curious.. but not too curious.
 
It is so nice to see that you folks are passionate about something outside the world of smut stories and forum posting.

Even if it's baseball.

/Ice - ducks and runs
 
Icingsugar said:
It is so nice to see that you folks are passionate about something outside the world of smut stories and forum posting.

Even if it's baseball.
Is that the game which we, in the UK, call "Rounders" and which is very popular with pre-teen girls in the school playground?
 
snooper said:
Is that the game which we, in the UK, call "Rounders" and which is very popular with pre-teen girls in the school playground?
Pretty much. Except they throw rock hard balls at you at way too high velocities and you're supposed to hit 'em back with a steel rod even harder. Scary shit.
 
Icingsugar said:
Pretty much. Except they throw rock hard balls at you at way too high velocities and you're supposed to hit 'em back with a steel rod even harder. Scary shit.
Dear Ic,
Steel rod? Oh, dear, you really don't know much about it, do you?
MG
Ps. Baseball and all the ancillary things from stadia to hot dogs constitute a multi-billion dollar industry which almost any country would be very glad to have.
Pps. Well, it might be a bit impractical to have 30 teams and stadiums in say, Monaco, Wales, or Lichtenstheynne.
Ppps. Baseballs are made in Haiti. I believe that accounts for more than half their Gross National Product.
 
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Not a Baseball Fan

I prefer football, myself. But my Husband is the baseball fan. I'm not entirely sure which is his favorite team.


I, personally like the Green Bay Packers in football. But that's just me.

BardsLady:rose:
 
MathGirl said:
Dear Ic,
Steel rod? Oh, dear, you really don't know much about it, do you?
MG

Oh I know about baseball. And that's what dem bats look like. Even tried to play a few times. But I found that the best tactic when that haitian missile came screaming at me was to run for my life.
 
Icing, that's a football tactic. I'm suprised someone didn't sack you for a loss.

In baseball, if the pitcher is coming too close to you with the ball, just throw the bat at him and claim it slipped out of your hands. If he hits you with the ball, just wait till the next inning. Your pitcher will even things-up.

-FF' (probably get thrown-out for it too)
ps. I think the Giants are going to play the Marlins next
- go San Francisco!
 
I worked for a video game company for more than ten years, and one of our titles several years ago was a baseball game. We hired an English shop to develop it -- very creative bunch, top-notch talent -- but the incomprehensible rules of the game turned the playtesting of this thing into a nightmare.

They came up with the graphics first, rotoscoped animations of players jumping and sliding and catching the ball. Beautiful to look at. They should have developed the logic first, however, because that's where the problems began to develop.

Infield depth, shifting the outfielders, pitchouts -- originally they were very ambitious, wanted to include everything. As time progressed, more and more features had to be dropped.

We sent tapes of over seventy games, even flew the entire crew over here to see a game in the Kingdome, but it was still impossible to explain. It took months before the computer player would actually stay on third to tag up for a sacrifice fly. The infield fly rule -- forget about it.

They'd call in the middle of the night and ask all sorts of questions. Why isn't it an error when the team fails to complete a double play? Why doesn't the batter get an RBI on a double play when a run scores? Why can the runner go after a swinging third strike?

Needless to say the game went months beyond deadline and millions of dollars over budget. The logic was flawed even in the final version. Still sold very well, nonetheless, because Ken Griffey Jr. was on the box....
 
Zack, that is hilarious. I'm copying your post and sending it to my brothers. I suggest you write it up in more detail and try submitting it to a sports mag, or perhaps your newspaper's sports section. It's a very good story.

Perdita

Oh, uh: Go Giants
 
FF I am a chcken shit. I'm not going to be even close to where he throws that ball unless I absolutely have to. And I don't have to. I can go play soccer instead. That I'm reasonably apt at.
 
Zack, I just have to ask. The question is burning in my mind like an arson at a fireworks factory.

What on earth made you hire brits to do a baseball game?
 
Ice, how can you possibly think that soccer is safer than baseball? Lets see, how many legs are on the field kicking at me? And don't they have cleats?

Lessee - one large round object I can see vs 60 needles aiming for my shins. I'll take the baseball.

-FF (obviously you haven't seen soccer as it's 'taught' in the U.S. - large groups of magnetic children sticking together in one large mass imitating the Tasmanian devil as they try to flatten a ball, or anything else that gets in their way - including fists, tears, soccer moms, etc.)
 
ffreak said:
(obviously you haven't seen soccer as it's 'taught' in the U.S. - large groups of magnetic children sticking together in one large mass imitating the Tasmanian devil as they try to flatten a ball, or anything else that gets in their way - including fists, tears, soccer moms, etc.)

Ah, Democratic Football (that's my mandatory 'It Is Called Football Because We Play With Our Feet, Yankees!' grunt), where everyone has right to the ball, at all times. That brings back memories... Horrible memories, but memories nonetheless. :)

And about them kickin feet: The sole of a shoe coming at you in promenade speed, of a big fucking missile cruising at 60 mph? You call. I can take some bruises. What Ican't take ishaving my skull knocked off.
 
What on earth made you hire brits to do a baseball game?

Ice, those of us in Product Development knew it would be a mess, but the suits had decided this was the way to go. The Brits, strangely enough, were eager to do it -- it was their first sports game ("Wot? Can't be all that much different from cricket now, can it?")

As I said, the game was a success, but the same developers didn't do the sequel. In fact, they never did another sports game again, as far as I know.
 
Thank you, Perdita, nice article. I never would have expected such an esteemed actress would be tempted to help run her government. Maybe she'll be Prime Minister herself some day.

So are the journalists in California hinting that they think Schwartzenegger is their choice? (bet he was rooting for the Dodgers - but he'll probably root for the Red Sox now - at least until someone on his staff reminds him which team comes from the state where he's running for office)

-FF' (if he loses, will he be remembered for it like Nixon: "They won't have me to kick around anymore), or will he use his movie line: "Ah'll be back"?)
ps. I held a foul ball once, smelled perfectly alright to me.
 
Crow for one round only MG <G>

Having been born in Alabama with the hated Atlanta minor league team our rivals, then grown up in Chicago rooting for the Cubs, moved into New England, married into a Yankees family and bred three more of the pinstripe rooters (HONEST, Dad, it's NOT my fault!), and loved baseball since I first threw one to my Dad, I have the following thoughts on your team's success, MG.

Congratulations on their success in making it to the post season one more time. Since abandoning their rightful home in Manhattan, their ultimate success has been frustrated by Divinity far more powerful than those with whom you and I might even begin to have a casual acquaintance. I trust that your team will requit themselves admirably against the Florida Fishies.

Should they make it to the second round, however, I believe that Divine intervention will probably get involved. But to decide the winner will probably be beyond even the most Solomaic mind. Do we let the Boys from the Bay lose another World Series? What if they face, OH the AGONY to decide, the CUBS? How could a just and honorable Divinity deny such a Joblike existence another entrance to the Holy of Holies?

Divine intervention allowed its own to supplant all others last year. Do we really expect another heaven sent ending?

And, do NOT , Miss MG, forget for a moment the power, the might of the less-than-Almighty, Steinbrenner FORCE. Those boys have been very, very bad for two years in a row. They let one slip away that they should not have been even having a chance to win. Then they let Heaven interfere with the quest for another trophy.

So perhaps it will be best for you, and all your fellow fans, if your team gets knocked out in the Second Round to avoid another defeat at the hands of what many feel is Evil Incarnate.

No matter the outcome, I wish your team well for at least three games . . . to be continued.

OnD
 
Dear OnD,
I would dearly love to see the Cubs beat Atlanta, but I doubt that will happen. I enjoy seeing the Braves and Dodgers lose more than I like to see the Gs win. Do you realize that the Cubs have not won a post season series (of any kind) since 1908? That's rather a prolonged dry spell. Cubs-Boston Series would be interesting. Finally, one of them would win. Not likely, though.
MG
 
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