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Love baseball. I'm a Red Sox fan. I try to watch as many games as I can - highlights or full games. I'm about a week behind at the moment, though - so no spoilers, please!
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
I enjoy an occasional game at Fenway Park. Basically, warm weather, relaxing, and there is no restriction on drinking within site of the pitch That would be the Boston Red Sox for those who aren't familiar with the game.
I don't follow a particular team (but I do have a soft spot for the Yankees-sorry!). The 'Subway Series' (Yankees v. Mets) in 2000 was unreal. I was in NY when it was on (no, I didn't get a ticket!) and everyone was on one side or the other. All the bars were showing it and they were packed.
I like the (mostly) warm weather, the beer and hot dogs at seat.
Best moment-saw Yankees pull out a win in the bottom of the 9th with successive homers. The place went mad. Everyone was singing on the subway back to Manhattan. Happy days.
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Baseball Thread.. on 09:02 - Apr 27 with 14379 views
I have watched a few Orioles games. Saw Hammering Hank at Shea Saw the Yankees play Boston,but wen only because it was Old Hat Day
Every fan got the hat of a historic team.
You can guess mine... I really gave up Baseball when "Dem Bums" left Ebbets Field.
I saw that movie about Jackie Robinson playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers on an aeroplane. It was tremendous. One of the freeways in Brooklyn is now called the 'Jackie Robinson Parkway'.
Ironically my first baseball game was at the LA Dodgers,when Mike Piazza was still playing for them. 'The Piazza Man always delivers'-he did that day, as I recall.
I could cope with living in the US if I could go to baseball regularly. Not interested in the other sports over there. I went to one NFL game at Giants Stadium. It was freezing cold, and the stadium emptied out as the winning visitors played out time. Went on for ages. Ice hockey at Madison Square Garden wasn't bad though. At least the fights are entertaining.
I think because its really rounders and we play cricket, baseball is an American sport that is easier to like.
Been to a few games at Fenway, Giants and from my time living in Atlanta, I was more than a regular at Turner Field.
If you haven't been to a baseball game and what an insight, then next time you go to a QPR game; eat, drink and chat to the folks beside you for 70 minutes, whereupon you stand up have a stretch and then take some real interest for the last two innings/20 minutes.
'Always In Motion' by John Honney available on amazon.co.uk
Lived in Canada for a couple of years in the late 70s and Montreal Expos were my team. Used to love a double header with ample supplies of hot dogs delivered to your seat (oo-er missus).
Sadly, they no longer exist and I believe the franchise became the Washington Nationals.
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Baseball Thread.. on 12:55 - Apr 27 with 14280 views
The best thing about baseball is you get a match every day, so no need to find anything else to talk about.
I'm about to commit sacrilege here but...if they ever made me Commissioner of Baseball I'd reduce the number of games. It's just too many. I'd knock it down to about 100. Watching the majority of games of a 162 season is bad for the brain. By the time the weather gets hot you're firmly entrenched in a daily habit of lying on the sofa like a dead fish with no purpose in life or memory of recent events. And if your team is shyte (like mine has been for most of the last 15 years) it's even worse - the West Coast road trips for example - going to bed at one o'clock in the morning every night for a week after another last minute bullpen fcuk-up. Insanity. At least with Rangers there's a chance to recover a bit between body blows. 100 games is more than enough.
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Baseball Thread.. on 18:30 - Apr 27 with 14177 views
Baseball Thread.. on 18:20 - Apr 27 by BklynRanger
I'm about to commit sacrilege here but...if they ever made me Commissioner of Baseball I'd reduce the number of games. It's just too many. I'd knock it down to about 100. Watching the majority of games of a 162 season is bad for the brain. By the time the weather gets hot you're firmly entrenched in a daily habit of lying on the sofa like a dead fish with no purpose in life or memory of recent events. And if your team is shyte (like mine has been for most of the last 15 years) it's even worse - the West Coast road trips for example - going to bed at one o'clock in the morning every night for a week after another last minute bullpen fcuk-up. Insanity. At least with Rangers there's a chance to recover a bit between body blows. 100 games is more than enough.
I agree, I'd do the same to the NBA too, you can lose far too many games and still be in contention but I guess reduced games would reduce revenue...
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Baseball Thread.. on 22:35 - Apr 27 with 14096 views
It's just rounders. You know it. I know it. They all know it.
Edit - is that Trolling? Ooooh, check me out.
[Post edited 27 Apr 2016 17:07]
It IS Rounders.
My sister and I once spent a day at a Boston bar counter watching baseball and asking - oh-so-innocently - a succession of local customers who happened to sit beside us to explain for us poor folk the differences between baseball and that-other-game-whatchacallit-rounders-is-it.
After far too many hours one of them finally caught on to the wind-up. God love them.
Mind you, not one of them could tell us a single difference. Apart from the spelling.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Baseball Thread.. on 20:05 - Apr 27 by thame_hoops
I agree, I'd do the same to the NBA too, you can lose far too many games and still be in contention but I guess reduced games would reduce revenue...
Bingo. Everyone knows reducing the number of games would make the leagues more engaging overall, better for overall player health and more accessible to the general population.
But owners wouldn't make as much money, so they'll never vote for it.
PS Go Cubbies
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Baseball Thread.. on 01:47 - Apr 28 with 14054 views
I know that it's mainly about money but not completely. They'd have no problems raising ticket prices of games if they were reduced etc etc. Bars would complain but it's not up to them. Baseball is an everyday sport too though and to change that would be a big decision. I'll give it 70% money 30% tradition.
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