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soopaman2
10-13-12, 01:44 AM
This oughta stir the pot.

I hope it qualifies as trolling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxtgPjgZwPw
Silly guy.

Yes, they did. Despite the baseball experts.

Yankees, Niners, Devils, what a year for me!

Notice I left the Knicks out, they have not won in my lifetime, and most likely will not until the year after I die.

Yankees already beat the second best team in baseball. I would be worried over there in the National league.
Gargamel
10-13-12, 04:37 AM
Shut up.

Trying living in Cleveland.

My baseball season ended in July.
ReallyDedPoet
10-13-12, 08:12 AM
Not much interest in baseball to be honest. Of all the pro leagues, it would be the one that I watch the least.

It's boring and the games sometimes can go on forever....
Tchocky
10-13-12, 09:18 AM
With the NHL still locked out and ESPN still in my cable package I am watching a lot of baseball these days.

I am not happy about this.
Sailor Steve
10-13-12, 09:25 AM
Shut up.

Trying living in Cleveland.

My baseball season ended in July.
That's a lot longer than ours. Salt Lake doesn't have a team at all.

Which is okay by me. I used to love to play baseball. Watching it never turned me on.
Red October1984
10-13-12, 11:21 AM
STL CARDINALS FOR LIFE!!!!! :rock:
Buddahaid
10-13-12, 11:33 AM
Not much interest in baseball to be honest. Of all the pro leagues, it would be the one that I watch the least.

It's boring and the games sometimes can go on forever....

I don't find baseball boring at all, I find football boring and that's mostly due to the long ad breaks. Two or three plays and off to the ad breaks. :dead:
ReallyDedPoet
10-13-12, 07:40 PM
I don't find baseball boring at all, I find football boring and that's mostly due to the long ad breaks. Two or three plays and off to the ad breaks. :dead:

Different tastes I guess, nothing wrong with that.
AVGWarhawk
10-13-12, 09:42 PM
Not much interest in baseball to be honest. Of all the pro leagues, it would be the one that I watch the least.

It's boring and the games sometimes can go on forever....

I was opposite. Loved baseball. Football was a sport that made no sense to me. No I love football. Baseball not so much. I was a Orioles fan back in the nineties. Fifteen year slump one looses interest.
ReallyDedPoet
10-13-12, 09:46 PM
I have to admit that is part of it AVG, the slumping, I am Blue Jays fan. Plus it is hard investing in a team when you know your better players will eventually sign for bigger $$ elsewhere.
Sailor Steve
10-13-12, 10:02 PM
:rotfl2:

Too true. A few years ago we had an ad for our basketball team in which a kid says "When I grow up I want to play for the Utah Jazz!" I laughed out loud, because even if he excels at the sport and becomes a professional, the chances of being picked up by your own hometown team are minimal. Most of the players are from somewhere else, and for the very reason you state.

This is why I don't watch any professional sports anymore. It's only your "home" team because they play in a stadium in your town. There is no real loyalty in that regard, and probably never was, at least in the major leagues.
Stealhead
10-13-12, 10:21 PM
One reason for lower interest in baseball over the years is the fact that a handful of teams have so much capital that they dominate.I noticed that the baseball strikes back in the 90's really hurt and some fans have never come back.
magic452
10-14-12, 12:31 AM
I grew up as a big Dodgers and Rams fan. Attended the first game the Dodgers played in LA. Use to attend all the Ram home games, general admission seats were $5.00 back then.

Really lost touch with them when I moved to Reno.

Now there are so many teams and players you hardly get to know them and they chance teams like underwear, I've lost interest except for the playoffs and such.

The Cardinals V Nationals game last night was a very good game and a heart breaker for the Nats. Almost the same thing happened to the Tigers tonight.

Magic
nikimcbee
10-14-12, 01:34 AM
Der Jeter ist kaput.:dead:
magic452
10-14-12, 01:55 AM
Hate to see that Jeter is one heck of a player. Broken ankle.

Magic
Aramike
10-14-12, 04:57 AM
I love me some baseball, specifically Milwaukee Brewers baseball. It's one of those sports that's incomparable - yes, football has more action, but it's a different kind of action.

Baseball is intriguing in how many statistics are compiled, and how often those stats are challenged in an instant. For example, I find it fascinating to watch a hitter in a 9th inning clutch situation going against a pitcher who's had his number in the prior 6 ABs, who is a lefty that the hitter struggles against, and who - statistically - should provide a sure-out for his team to win the game.

Still, every so often, the manager's gut that put that hitter into that situation turns out to be right, and the hitter smashes an 3-0 slider out of the park.

Baseball should be perfectly predictable statistically considering the sample size, but it's not. I guess I love it so much because it shows the inherent flaw of mathematics and the inherent perfection of the human construct of competition.
soopaman2
10-14-12, 06:19 AM
Der Jeter ist kaput.:dead:

Why couldn't it happen to that douchebag Alex Rodriguez?

Jeter, always a class act, a true leader. A constant producer.

A-rod, a juicer, consumate slump artist in the playoffs. I nearly cried tears of joy when Ibanez hit the tying and game winning homeruns pinch hitting for that juice-tard.

I always doubted my Yankee pitching, but our pitchers have done the job. It is the abysmal hitting.

The Yankees are done, and thats my team.
nikimcbee
10-15-12, 12:19 PM
A-rod, a juicer, consumate slump artist in the playoffs. I nearly cried tears of joy when Ibanez hit the tying and game winning homeruns pinch hitting for that juice-tard.


:haha:They were talking about him (them) on the espnz radio this morning, how he/they were striking out around 50% of the time:haha:.

Hopefully the Twins can fix their trainwreck of pitching:dead:. ...and the Red Sox.:dead::-? What a circus! So they trade away a bunch of their big stars for criticizing Valentine, then in the end, they whack Valentine:haha::dead:. What a soap opera.

On a side note, anybody play MLB 2k12?
mookiemookie
10-15-12, 12:22 PM
MLB cashed their check with me back in 1994 when they went on strike. Haven't really cared since.
nikimcbee
10-15-12, 12:32 PM
MLB cashed their check with me back in 1994 when they went on strike. Haven't really cared since.

I quit caring when I moved out West, until this year. I caught a game at Fenway:rock:, so I'm back to semi-caring. I had my chance to go to the Twins' new stadium, but it was completely sold out when I was there.
Nippelspanner
10-15-12, 01:01 PM
Base... what? :hmmm:
ReallyDedPoet
10-15-12, 01:20 PM
I quit caring when I moved out West, until this year. I caught a game at Fenway:rock:, so I'm back to semi-caring. I had my chance to go to the Twins' new stadium, but it was completely sold out when I was there.

Saw the Yankees play the Sox earlier this year at Fenway. Went with some friends, we were also there back in 93', saw them play two games against the Jays then.

We had a good time. Took in some of the sites in and around Boston including a tour of the USS Constitution. That was pretty cool :yep: