Trying to enjoy Baseball

[Dgar]

I'll check it out thanks.

I have a friend that grew up on the East coast and he loves the Yankees ( he cant stand the Red Sox).... this is the same friend that actually started me smoking cigars. Anyway, he's brought me up to speed on the Yankees and Red Sox rivalry.... I hope I get a chance to watch, I want to see how many balls get picked up by the thermal drafts in the new Yankee stadium and carried over right field... we know the new Yankees Stadium was Jinxed when the construction worker buried a Red Sox Jersey into its construction... somethiing like that.

I think these type of rivalry's are great in Sports....

[Nickerson]

Baseball is a game of numbers, statistics, strategy, player talent.

Since it isn't fast paced its focused around statistics, makes it good for relaxing.

I love just sitting back, relaxing, watching the Sox. Of course your mind drifts off once in a while, in fact I do some of my best thinking during baseball, but as soon as there is an exciting moment you can hear it and it snaps you back to the game.

[nativetexan_1]

I know what you mean. I loved baseball, then we got the Rangers. It's really made me lose interest. But, the idea of sitting outside, smoking a stogie, and listening to a game on radio is great. Listen if you want, if not, catch up a little later.

[Tarks]

I think you should pay attention to the Rangers this year. They will win their division this year.

[popNsmoke]

nothing like a good sox game!....the one last night was amazing! clean steal of home!.....i was holding my newborn son the day the sox won there first world series in ages and my daughter when they won it again!....Go sox!

[darkninja67]

I listen to the Yankees games a lot on my iphone while smoking a cigar. I actually feel sedate no matter what my team is doing.

GO BOMBERS!!!!!!!

[bigkev77]

This steroid thing has turned me off as of late. Starting today ban them for life. Pete gambled on BB and got the ban. I understand the ban for gambling. Gambling leads to cheating. Well, roids are flat out cheating. Of course I love the no hitter and a great pitching duel. Did anyone catch the University of Texas vs BC game a couple of weeks ago. It ended 3-2 in the 25th inning. That was a great game amazing strategy involed. TX pitcher throws for 13 innings with just 2 hits after 12.5 no hit innings, 14 k's only 4 bases on balls 169 pitches.

I prefer college BB. MLB I will listen to on the radio while grilling, like royhubbs said, it's a great time.

It is so much more than the long ball and high scores. Try watching some of the college words series. That is baseball!!!

GO RAZORBACKS!!!!

[andrewsutherland2002]

What's up with all the Reds hating in this thread? First time we've had a team above .500 in a long time and everyone wants to bash on them.

Say what you want, but Pete Rose deserves to be in the hall of fame.
Say what you want, but Marge Schott brought Cincinnati home a championship team.

I don't care what these people do in their personal lives, and neither should baseball. If that is the case, then many hall of famers need to be taken out of Cooperstown. Ty Cobb was the biggest a-hole in the sport, but he was/is the best player in the game by far.

Rant off.



I enjoy baseball b/c it's one of the few sports that you can go to a game and sit back and relax, yet get excited and revved up at certain points.

[Texan in Mexico]

For me, Baseball is alot like smoking cigars. The ebb and flow of the game, the fact that my father, grandfather and great grandfather all watched it or listened to it on the radio.

Its a cross generational connection I guess.

[andrewsutherland2002]

Originally Posted by Texan in Mexico

For me, Baseball is alot like smoking cigars. The ebb and flow of the game, the fact that my father, grandfather and great grandfather all watched it or listened to it on the radio.

Its a cross generational connection I guess.

[orca99usa]

I am a baseball fan first and foremost. It was the first sport I was introduced to by my late father. However, the game has changed a lot. For instance:

What happened to scheduled doubleheaders? You used to always pick those out on the schedule, because you would get twice as much baseball for your money on those days. Nowadays any doubleheader is an accident, and they kick everybody out after the first game so they can charge another admission for the second game.

Is MLB deliberately trying to kill interest? I will give you an example of what I mean. I live in Las Vegas. The nearest ballpark (Angels Stadium in Anaheim) is about four and a half hours from me by car. MLB has allowed six teams (all the California teams, plus Arizona) to claim my city as a home market, meaning their games are blacked out here on the MLB Extra Innings package unless they are on my local Fox Sports affiliate. Two of the teams are the Athletics and Giants, whose stadiums are more than a 12-hour drive from my house. It's not like MLB is getting me to go to the game by not letting me view it at home. I dropped the package and told my satellite provider that an unacceptable number of blacked out games was the reason.

Steroids. More than five years before he was caught, I told a coworker that Barry Bonds was using steroids. "No way", he told me. As a medical professional, I have seen all too often the outward signs of steroid use, all of which Bonds exhibited. You don't suddenly hit 73 home runs at a time when most players' careers are winding down unless you're juicing. And I'm not just picking on Bonds (he was just the first I was aware of). There are many others as well - Clemens, McGwire, Canseco, Sosa, on and on.

Labor disputes. When people who make more in meal money than I bring home in salary walk out over working conditions, something is grossly wrong. As much as I love the game, if there is another strike I'm gone for good.

Dgar mentioned Johnny Bench. I saw Bench catch a game for the Buffalo Bisons (then a Cincinnati farm club) in the mid 1960s. He had to have been a teenager. I probably only remember him because I found his name unusual.