Are You Ready for Baseball?
Baseball has always been my favorite sport, ever since I would watch Cubs games as a kid and calculate the new batting averages after the game with my slide rule. I'm especially excited this year...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
the green grass and sunshine are a big part of the appeal
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
Oh, yeah. I was watching the sports guy on the news tonight reporting from Spring Training. I love all the baseball news, but especially the green field behind the batting cage, and the blue sky...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
My favorite baseball story - Fritz & Susanne & Mike & Marilyn http://deadspin.com/5897087/remembering-the-deal-of-the-century-when-two-yankees-swapped-wives...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
I remember that Jim Bouton says he predicted that Commissioner Bowie Kuhn would tell the players not to do that again, and that he was correct for the most part.
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
I am soooo ready for baseball season. I've been watching the MLB Network and old VHS tapes of This Week in Baseball just to get my fix. Should be a very interesting season with lots of clubs seemingly...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
I grew up playing, watching, and adoring baseball, and it saddens me to see this fine sport not being able to evolve with the times and reduced to at least the third most popular sport in a country...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
"Designated hitters" (formerly "one-dimensional players"); "closers" (pitchers who can (usually) get three outs without blowing a lead, and be hailed as heroes; steroid-inflated statistics;...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
One of the best things about touring for 22 months in a musical is that we got to sing the National Anthem three times.The report card: The Cincinnati Reds let us actually walk on the grass and gave...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
I grew up in LA as a Dodger fan, but I'll always have sympathy for how excruciatingly close the Rangers got to winning the world series a few years ago, without actually winning.
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
I'm waiting for footbal, both CFL and NFL. Baseball lost me years ago. And as there won't be a single Canadian team in the NHL playoffs this year, (yes, it's gotten THAT bad up here) I have a long...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
AnthonyOsika wrote: (on 3/17/12, original post in this thread)Baseball has always been my favorite sport, ever since I would watch Cubs games as a kid and calculate the new batting averages after the...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
I've been dying for the season to start. As far as sports go, once the World Series is over, I hibernate until spring training begins. I've also been enjoying the spring games on the MLB Network and...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
Rick wrote: The Texas Rangers walked us for about 90 miles under the stadium so we could enter from the outfield (in single file, so as not to damage the turf). And then they gave us a luxury...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
Python wrote: I've been dying for the season to start. As far as sports go, once the World Series is over, I hibernate until spring training begins. I've also been enjoying the spring games on the MLB...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
Very anxious for the season. I love pro football as well, so I'm pretty well-supplied through the Super Bowl, but then there's two and a half months of icy emptiness. No interest at all in basketball...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
Did I really predict the Cubs in 6? Hot damn! Oh well, I was close! I don't know if my Cubbies can ever top the magical year they had last year, but man! It's great to be a Cubs fan with all the...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
I am sated and happy baseball-wise after having followed the WBC all week. I'm glad that we have MLB.TV and glad they are showing all the games. Nothing beats having Asian baseball games on in the...
View ArticleRe: Are You Ready for Baseball?
The WBC has been terrific this go-round. I wasn't able to get into it much in the past, but this series has been really fun. Nice win by the US last night. My Giants are having a decent spring. I'm...
View Article
