Do you put a lot of meaning into them, though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffy25
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Do you put a lot of meaning into them, though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffy25
As an A's fan I grow accustomed to paying attention at the trading deadline, when they catch on fire after a slow start like every friggen season. Ugh.
I love Jackie Robinson, and what he did for baseball.
But I gotta admit, at least for an old fart, it gets pretty confusing watching baseball games where all the players are running around with number 42 on their back.
Yeah, requiring players to wear 42 is going overboard now.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldFatGuy
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/sweetspot...html?post=true
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Never underestimate the ability of the commissioner to take a pretty sweet idea and just drive it into the ground until it's dead.
Maybe that's too harsh. But every single player in every single game, wearing the same number?
You know what really bothers me about all this? Major League Baseball is apparently bound and determined to turn Jackie Robinson from a man -- a man with all his glorious virtues and oh-so-human flaws -- into some sort of god, and gods are incredibly less interesting than men. Gods are infallible. Or if they're not, it's still considered poor form to discuss their fallibility. Which makes us all the poorer.
If anyone deserves praise its Branch Rickey who had the cahones to think outside of tradition and break the color barrier by recruiting Jackie and bringing him up to play. But nobody ever talks about him.
The Padres look like a beer league softball team today
nope, but I pay attention....it's so much easier to win early in the year and try to maintain a lead then it is to catch up. I know that my cards have at least a one game lead on everyone in the division. One game on the Cubs, game and a half on a few, and like 4.5 on the Astros....I pay attention, but it doesn't mean a whole lot until June, then it starts to get a little more interesting...and of course gets more and more as the season goesQuote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
Branch Rickey was awesome, and not just for his color barrier....he did a lot for baseball, and deserves better recognition
hey, my beer team is pretty freaking good....two of our guys hit homers over 380 tonight down the left field line....those were shots!Quote:
Originally Posted by filihok
THT is doing a series of articles on him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffy25
Here's the 4th of 5 (I think...haven't been readin)
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...t-5-1953-1954/
That's part 5.Quote:
Originally Posted by filihok
Here's all the ones so far:
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...irates-part-1/
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...t-2-1950-1951/
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...t-3-1951-1952/
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...t-4-1952-1953/
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/ar...t-5-1953-1954/
that is bad ass!Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
Where is said 'Part 5' should have been the give awayQuote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
Mariners pounded the Angels tonight. Mariners are looking very good and if the pitching can keep it up (Which I think they should be able to, even Silva and his mid 4 FIP) then we should be able to compete in the AL West. I would say the Angels have been the biggest disappointment so far. In a division that will be very close the Angels don't want to find themselves to far out even if it is the beginning of the year.
Wake me up mid-August or so. Don't get me wrong, I love my team being 7-3, but there are sooo many games left. So many injuries, slumps, bumps, walk-off wins, walk-off losses, awesome callups, disastrous callups yet to happen that forming any opinion on what's going to happen based on what we've seen so far is fruitless. I'm just glad it's baseball season again.Quote:
Originally Posted by BINGLEBOP
it's still ok to pay attention and keep notice thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by actionjackson
cards got a two game lead
thank you so much for these links, very good read here.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
why do cub fans throw home runs back? what a bad display of sportsmen ship
You just noticed that?
Agreed. I won't make a big deal out of it or start caring too much until after the All-Star Break.Quote:
Originally Posted by actionjackson
Yanks fans threw back both Indains home runs today.
why? it's a non division game to begin with....all it shows is that you have no class...and don't you get ejected for doing so?Quote:
Originally Posted by ewing6
Cubs fans have done that for decades, as far as I know. I think that's always been a Wrigley Field bleacher tradition.
Lots of fans throw back home run balls back. I don't think it shows no class, it's more of a tradition.
And they're not throwing them at players or anything.
They don't in Busch Stadium, doesn't matter whose home run it is....it's a stupid thing to do in my mind. call me old fashioned but it seems disrespectful to do...and I know a lot of teams do it....I think it says negative things about your fansQuote:
Originally Posted by 200tang
I highly doubt no fan in Busch Stadium has ever thrown a ball back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffy25
it has happened before, but not even close to frequently....you go to a weekend series, you MIGHT see one thrown back from the opposing team, might.....Quote:
Originally Posted by 200tang
were more apt to run on the field ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by 200tang
THAT would show less class than throwing a home run ball back on the field.
oh i know it isn't classy, but we don't do things to disrespect other teams in st. louis. Do you remember last year when Tony LaRussa refused to talk to the Post Dispatch because of an unfair article written in the paper about the Cubs? Damnit, you treat other teams with respect when they come, you cheer them on when they make a nice play, you worry abuot them when they get hurt, and treat their fans with respect....It's annoying as hell when I see a bad cardinal fan....and everytime I have gone to another stadium I haven't witnessed the same thing. maybe I am being biased, but I don't know why fans don't treat other teams with respect, it's like it's more fun to root against your enemies then to root for your teamQuote:
Originally Posted by BINGLEBOP
good sportsmen ship....you don't have to root for any other team, but rooting against them i think is a little annoying, my kid won't be hating the cubs, or any other team as far as I can help it....
Looks like the Nats are going to get off the snide tonight
When I told people the Angels had more question marks of injury and age and the Mariners had more question marks of upside people laughed at me. THEY LAUGHED!
http://fromthedugout.freedomblogging...ned-pec/21843/
Well, Vlad is the first position player to go and I think age is going to finally hit him this year. TERRIBLE plate discipline + aged skills = uh-oh for Angels' fans. It's still early in the season, but things are really not looking good for anyone in the West except Texas.
Nats Win ! ! ! !
The Nats won a ballgame ! :eek:
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DOH ! Then I switch it the Mets/Padres game and the Mets announcer says "Well, our long national nightmare is over. The Washington Nationals won a baseball game."
:(
Smartass.
I can't imagine any reason why you wouldn't keep any HR ball no matter what. I've caught one before (Javy Lopez in 1997, hit off of Chan Ho Park, brag!) and I have it to this day...I think it's be pretty dumb to be so lucky as to get one and then throw it back on the field for 2 seconds of glory.
EDIT: and by caught one, I of course mean it hit off some guy's hands a couple rows up and went directly under my seat, where I bravely stuck my hand down and picked the ball up out of some nacho cheese
People in the bleachers at Wrigley have done it for years and I'm surprised you have just figured that out. I don't see why its a problem. It's that person's choice to throw it back on the field or not. It's kind of hard not too when people around you are telling you to do it since its a tradition in the bleachers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffy25
It's just a baseball and no different than a foul ball or one hit into the stands during batting practice (unless it's a rare home run like somebody's 500th, in which case it's worth money), although I can understand why a child would be excited about keeping it, especially if it's there first one.Quote:
Originally Posted by KowboyKoop
as much as I dont want the mets to win... delgado got robbed... taht was 4" at LEAST outside
It's not just a baseball. It's a ball hit for a HR in a MLB game and something you can keep forever and have a great story to tell for the rest of your life (and have proof of). I'm not all giddy about it or anything, but being lucky enough to have one I think is definitely worth it...I just don't see the fascination with throwing it back on the field. I mean....nobody cares for more than two seconds.Quote:
Originally Posted by BINGLEBOP
I definitely agree that a child would be more excited about it..if I caught one now I'd give it to a kid if there was one close by, or if I had kids they'd get it. Throwing it back would never be an option.