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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:02 AM
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Bouncy, let me explain baseball to you.
You throw the ball.
You catch the ball.
You hit the ball.


...and they keep stats on EVERYTHING
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:03 AM
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1. Don't forget the part where you run after you hit the ball
:)
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:03 AM
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2. dont forget that the Yankees are responsible
for 12% of my overall bitterness :D.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:30 AM
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21. For what percentage of your bitterness is Peter Angelos responsible?
:bounce:
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ffm172 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:04 AM
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3. why do they wear white clothes
do they like to get dirty? And why are they making such funny sign with the fingers?
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:06 AM
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4. the signs are for particular pitches
theres different kinds. Not all of them wear white clothes. Check out these vintage Houston Astros uniforms.
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ffm172 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:07 AM
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5. but they are light colors
:evilgrin:

I think it will take me some time till I understand baseball.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:10 AM
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6. I still don't understand it
:), I dont understand why my team has less division titles in my life time than the yankees have world series wins. Its just not fair.
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DIKB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:16 AM
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9. I like how someone here compared the Yankees
to the Republican party. Using money to consolidate power. Ruthlessly exerting control of the system. Mindless idiots cheer them on. Need I go on ?

I like to cheer on a team that has it's highs and lows. You have to be a fan to support a team that doesn't win.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:19 AM
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10. To be "fair" to the Yankees
They haven't won a world series this millenia :D if you dont count 2000. To be fair again, I dont have a problem with Native New Yorkers or Jersians who go for them what I have a problem is assholes who go for them just becasue they are good, Read my carpool mate, he always has done that ever since Ive known him in middle school. Yes I agree, I like supporting a team who has its highs and lows, in football I love me the Pittsburgh Steelers, now did they win the super bowl, no but they did good.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:43 AM
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15. I always have to explain to people that I grew up in NY state
I am often accused of being a fair-weather Yankee fan. But I've been worshiping the pinstripes since I was a baseball-card-collecting 8 year-old.
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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:46 AM
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17. Whaaaaaa?


That's it. I'm breaking up with you.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:49 AM
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18. I'm from NY. I cannot help it. I loved them in the 80s when they sucked.
I root more vigorously for the Tigers now.
Cut me some slack, baby.

:cry:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 10:01 AM
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25. I am a died in the wool Viking fan, even though they have pretty
much sucked since the mid 1970s.I am also a Twins fan and well, they have given us reason to celebrate - now we just need to get to the ALCS and then to the Series!
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bugslsu9 Donating Member (457 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:11 PM
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32. At least your team has some
My team only has one (if memory serves) and has had a losing season for something like 12 straight years!
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:11 AM
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7. All of y'all are forgetting the BEER and nasty hot dogs!
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:13 AM
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8. What are you talking about
The dogs at the games are great, the dogs you use the microwave for. Beer? its all right but I prefer other things.
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Make7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 06:55 AM
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11. Can you explain the following in detail....
  • First base.
  • Second base.
  • Third base.
  • All the way.
:) Make7
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 10:02 AM
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27. Locking!
no sex threads!
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Make7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:26 PM
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39. You must have an interesting wardrobe.
KitchenWitch wrote:
no sex threads

Do you really have clothes specifically not to have sex in? Just wondering.
;) Make7
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:28 PM
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41. I am taking the fifth on that one!
:P
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Freebird12004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 07:05 AM
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12. try fast-forwarding tape recorded games
for a laugh.
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ffm172 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:25 AM
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why would I want to record them in the first place?
:)
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Freebird12004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:40 AM
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22. I did it to make my husband happy.
He was addicted to all sports.

I still ask myself "What was I thinking when I married him"!
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ffm172 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:44 AM
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23. I enjoy Basketaball
and enjoy watching and talking about it with my bf. And he is happy that I am interested in it. Baseball I just don't understand. I find it kinda boring
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Freebird12004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:51 AM
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24. I do enjoy going to games.
Watching most sports on TV doesn't interest me - however I do catch football games on TV.
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ffm172 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:25 AM
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14. selfdelete
Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 08:26 AM by ffm172
:eyes:
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:22 AM
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13. excuse me,
you are a girl and you are a canadien! what do you know about baseball. (sarcasm...don't hit me) lol
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:54 AM
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19. Careful
I got Will Pitt tombstoned. You don't want me to use my evil powers againt you.
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:23 AM
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20. try it baby, try it!!!
i will send my goons to vancover and search you out.
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 10:02 AM
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26. You're an accountant
You don't have goons.
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Beer Snob-50 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 10:24 AM
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28. ACCOUNTANTS CAN BE VERY BRUTAL PEOPLE
we SLASH costs, we BLUDGEON budgets, we are just vile brutal people!!!
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 10:30 AM
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29. Yes, but I'm part Italian
I know some goons.
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StopTheMorans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:45 AM
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16. you use steroids, your stats blow up, and then the yankees put up
a huge amount of money for your contract
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:43 PM
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34. I already explained to bouncy about the Yankees
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:41 PM
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30.  a bounce for Bouncy
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:56 PM
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31. I fell asleep when I got to "You throw..."
I've been to professional baseball games. I bring a book or a crossword puzzle. I look at the overpriced crap for sale. I people watch.
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:18 PM
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33. Some batters have three or four balls!!
When they have four balls, the umps feel sorry for them and let them WALK to first so as not to get injured in the process.
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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:52 PM
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35. Locking
hyper-aware anatomical alert
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:17 PM
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36. ...and they keep stats on EVERYTHING
This is true. I led my league in trips to the water cooler 92-97 and finished second in 98 and 99 before knee surgery pretty much ended my water-cooler-walking career. I also led the league for several years in ratio of grounded into double plays to stolen bases to innings pitched to intentional bases on balls. Even Bill James doesn't have THAT stat yet.
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:47 PM
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37. lol
It seems I wasn't exaggerating even a little.
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Phentex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 02:50 PM
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38. They scratch and spit and make funny hand gestures.
:shrug:
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Freebird12004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 03:34 PM
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40. see it all in instant replay
or fast forwarded from a tape for :wow: lots of laughs
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:29 PM
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42. sometimes they lollygag onto the field
they lollygag in from the field

Know what that makes them?
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