Now we can get on with BASEBALL!!!11

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We're gonna score...

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I think you are obsessed with baseball. x(

;)

There are worse things to be obsessed with though...

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Rockies all the way this year!
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Once they trade away Helton we'll be all set to rock in the World Series :sarcasm:

I still maintain that my mom and I could run that team better by doing nothing at all. Hell, if we'd kept half of the above average players we've traded away over the years for nothing we'd be in contention for our crappy division. Good thing I adopted the Red Sox in 2001 as my AL alternative to the Rox. I love ya, Colorado, but I wanted some action. Go Broncos and Nuggs too!

Talk about owners that don't give a damn if we ever win. I wish I could just walk away from the Rockies and never look back but I love the game too much.

for that very reason.

10 days 'til pitchers and catchers report.

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http://www.usatoday.com.nyud.net:8090/sports/hockey/cup98/cup03.jpg ?

Absolutely fanatical for the Lakers in the late '60s-early '70s.

Then, gradually, they changed the rules until basketball became this:


•Shooting is prohibited unless it's a dunk or from beyond 22 feet.

•Dribbling is optional within a 15-foot radius of the basket.

•Defense is prohibited.

•So is passing.

•There shall be a minimum of one (1) fight per game.


Oddly enough, with no defense and everybody shooting 3's, you don't see many teams score 100 anymore. :shrug:

and went to Miami. I used to love watching the Lakers play the kings just to watch Vlady Divac flop to the floor when he got within 10 feet of Shaq.

Then I'm usually too busy outside to care about baseball until football begins again in August.

How can anyone not love March Madness?

It's getting sooooo close!!!! :bounce:

I almost made it last season. A long lost friend of mine corraled me during the Mets/Cardinals playoff game and I actually endured two or three outs. Not sure I'm over it.

We're going all the way this year.

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Normally, I'm exhausted with the football talk in the media.

But maybe it's because I've been so busy recently, that I didn't even realize that tonight was the Bowl.

And when do pitchers and catchers report???

Some report on the 14th, others the 17th, the rest in between.

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Really. All soccer all the time. And street hockey a little.

The two months when there's neither football nor baseball. :scared:

I wish I could get into basketball, but it just has zero appeal to me. Can't WAIT for baseball to start!

Spring games start March 1. :bounce:

...and I'm not getting to Arizona anytime soon. :cry:

But it's knowing they're playin' ball. :bounce:

And some of 'em are on radio, which is how I prefer it. Teevee screws up baseball.

I think we can probably round up more than a few DUers to make it a full-blown outing.

Round-trip train fare (I don't fly, and I ain't drivin' 350 miles by myself in a '65 El Camino), hotel, and the tickets gotta be like $11,000 or so. :crazy:

It's the DODGERS, man. All things are possible in baseball.

I can drive about 20 miles, then take Caltrain straight to AT&T Park. That'd be a two-fer — ball game and a train ride. :bounce:

Sure, I'd love to go to Dodger Stadium. Problem is, I'd have to go to Ellay to do it. I'd love to go to Wrigley and the Fens, too.

I'm a fan of college hockey... Beanpot starts tonight.

Also, I don't pay attention to baseball until after the All-Star break. I used to follow the whole season, but I'm too busy now. I just wait until after the All-Star break to look, because it's more exciting. Also, they've still got 2,000 games left to play, so I'm not missing too much.

As for pickin' it up after the break, to me that'd be like walking in on a movie that's half over and being brought up to speed by your friends. :shrug:

it has more drama and excitement IMO. After that, the abyss of summer month sports takes off until I'm resurrected for football season.

after the disastrous end to the Giants season and my low expectations for the Duke basketball team, April 1st can't come soon enough for me. Plus it shouldn't be 2 degrees outside by then!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzOt1OakaJg&mode=related&search=

:-)

that neither of those umps made it out of A ball.

Worst baseball tirade I ever saw was in a California League game in 1984. This guy with Modesto, Jose Tolentino, went absolutely berserk on the plate ump. Three or four of his teammates held him back while he hollered stuff like "You're SHIT! You're gonna DIE!" I got several photos of it and sold 'em to the ump (at cost) for his report.

Funny part was, he got called up the next day and had to serve his suspension in Albany. He made it to the majors in '91 for a cup of coffee with Houston and was later a Spanish broadcaster for the Angels.

Pitching a fit and falling in it.

Now, I bet my Mariners, will suck this year, but I got faith! :D

One on my favorite baseball memories involved the first pre-season game of the Chicago White Sox.

I had grown up in the Chicago area and was close to completing my first year at Western Michigan Univ., in Kalamazoo. I lived on the top floor of the dormitory and I was barely able to pull in an AM radio broadcast from Chicago.

There I was, with a big case of spring fever, a longing for something familiar and a crackling AM radio with the volume turned all the way up.

At the appointed time, Harry Carey's voice came through all the crackling on the radio. Yes, Harry Carey was the White sox announcer before he finished his career with the Cubs.

I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was something to the effect: " Hello again from sunny Sarasota, Florida...", but I DO remember what he said next "...and it is a beautiful day for baseball.".

Somehow, for one brief moment, all was right with universe.

I now live in SW Michigan, where the temps are in the single digits and spring fever is setting in.

Bring on baseball! Thanks Oeditpus Rex.

Spring starts, for me, with the first baseball broadcast. That's the day it feels like everything's gonna be all right.

Some of my earliest baseball memories involve waiting for sundown so I could pull in KFI from 300 miles away. Back then, it was Vin Scully and Jerry Doggett. Doggett died 10 years ago, while Vinny's been in the Dodgers' booth since 1950. In-freaking-credible.

Hey, did you know Jim Bouton's a WM alum?

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I didn't follow WMU's baseball program closely, but was aware that it turned out some good players though.

I'm gonna have to track down the spring training broadcast schedule soon and mark my calendar for the first week in March.

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Dunno how he wound up there, since he's a North Jersey kid. In the book, he said it was his dad's idea. :shrug:

Here's a list of Broncos who played in the bigs:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/schools/wmichigan.shtml

got promoted from 7th to 3rd string on the WM baseball team by doubling off Bouton in an intersquad game. That was the peak of his baseball career........ :)

I bet JB remembers it, too.

If you want, PM me your uncle's name and I'll post the memory on the board on Bouton's site. :evilgrin:

without each other this year...Bonds will pack the park (the Giants are assuming)...gets the record...hate each other as Bonds DH's - next year and cruises to over 800 for a year or two in the AL to tack up easy ones.

The commissioner's office rejected his contract about a week ago and, well...


It would seem that a player would be delighted if the commissioner's office struck from a contract he signed a clause that benefited the club and not the player. That's what happened with the contract that Barry Bonds signed last Monday with the San Francisco Giants.

But is Bonds happy? No, he is not.

That's why he has refused to sign the altered contract the Giants sent to him two days later. People on both sides of the issue said Friday that Bonds wanted the Giants to do something about another contract clause because he was unhappy it became public knowledge.

That provision is the indictment clause, which would allow the Giants to terminate the $15.8 million contract if Bonds were indicted on charges stemming from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid distribution case.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070204/SPT0401/702040434/1072/SPT04


And...


Giants owner Peter Magowan sent a letter to about 27,000 season-ticket holders this week explaining why the club decided to re-sign free-agent slugger Barry Bonds for another season.

The team had heard a variety of opinions from many of its fans during recent months regarding Bonds, who will begin the 2007 season 22 homers shy of breaking Hank Aaron's career record of 755.

The 42-year-old Bonds' $15.8 million, one-year contract had been completed Monday night, but the sides then had differing views of certain language in the deal and Bonds had yet to sign a revised version as of Friday.

Magowan's letter addressed Bonds' reported failed amphetamines test in 2006. The New York Daily News reported last month that when Bonds first learned of the result, he attributed it to a substance he took from teammate Mark Sweeney's locker.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/sports/baseball/mlb/san_francisco_giants/16614898.htm

back to 64 wins and 98 losses

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Sorry, but that was funny....:hi:

I'm afraid.

Just another huge influx of "AAAA" utility players and injured over-the-hill free agent has-beens.

Just another offseason trade of their best pitcher, huge roster turnover . . .

They do have one of the largest collections of fundie Christian jocks in the free world, but hardly anyone wants to pay to see that.

The current ownership and GM might just be the only thing in America less competent than the bush cabal.

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(wish I had the $ to go down and see them)

...they may not win...but they'll be better, certainly over .500...and in the NL Central, that might be enough to put them in the hunt. It's about time--they have a great tradition, and long-suffering fans...but I think they havbe a good nucleus, and things are coming into alignment in Pittsburgh...

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I'm just not a basketball fan anymore. I live for baseball.

Bertha and I are going to Ft. Lauderdale next month to catch some spring practice baseball. We can hardly wait!

Hey, the O's play the Dodgers there March 12 at 1:05. Get some pics, k?

We are flying down on March 15 and back to Maryland on the 19th. We plan to see the Cards vs. Braves (I am a huge David Eckstein fan), Astros vs. Dodgers and Nationals vs. Marlins.

I'm an Orioles fan (but most certainly not an Angelos fan) but I doubt we will get to catch an O's game while we are there.

Or you gonna be scoochin' around some?

within two hours of Ft. Lauderdale. We'll "scooch" around some, for sure. But we are renting a convertible for the weekend, so the scoochin' will be fun!

We'll try to get some photos at the Dodgers game fer ya.

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