Anybody else watching baseball...

[Rikao4]

down to F1 and college football...
and F1 is on real thin ice..
I come for the sport..
not social education bull scheisse..

Rika

[Pazuzu]

Show of hands...who actually watched a baseball game this weekend, and even noticed the "political stuff" that people are whining about?

Anyone?

The game was listed to start at 8:10pm. If you turn the TV on at 8:05, you already missed all of the "political stuff", they put that way early in the pregame area, and even then, it was a simple, organized show of solidarity, a minute of silence, and nothing else. Instead of having a mascot shoot T-shirts into the crowd, they did that instead, big deal. So, if your TV station is telling you that baseball has been tainted by antifa, they're lying.

[Rikao4]

once I saw this..
the season was officially over..
besides..
Billiards can be fun to watch..
as can cooking shows..


Rika

[BReif61]

The Oriole's game against the Marlins tonight has been cancelled because the Marlins have a Covid outbreak.

Hope you enjoyed it while it lasted, boys!

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Rikao4

once I saw this..
the season was officially over..
besides..
Billiards can be fun to watch..
as can cooking shows..


Rika

Some of you guys are wound so tight that you're going to pop.

THAT annoyed you (I thought it was a creative riff on the MLB logo!), but the 47 foot wide commercials for insurance agencies doesn't? Are you so simple that you cannot concentrate on the guys playing the sport, and you keep getting distracted by a tiny logo on the field? Maybe your team just sucks, so you have lots of free time to examine the negative space of the camera field during the games?

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Rikao4

once I saw this..
the season was officially over..
besides..
Billiards can be fun to watch..
as can cooking shows..


Rika

Bingo. They haven't screwed up golf yet.

[widebody911]

Baseball? The weeds growing in the cracks in my sidewalks are 10x more exciting to watch.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Show of hands...who actually watched a baseball game this weekend, and even noticed the "political stuff" that people are whining about?

Anyone?

The game was listed to start at 8:10pm. If you turn the TV on at 8:05, you already missed all of the "political stuff", they put that way early in the pregame area, and even then, it was a simple, organized show of solidarity, a minute of silence, and nothing else. Instead of having a mascot shoot T-shirts into the crowd, they did that instead, big deal. So, if your TV station is telling you that baseball has been tainted by antifa, they're lying.

I watched 3 games this weekend, but I tuned in far too late to watch the political antics. I did get to see Springer drill one into left field.

[stealthn]

Korean baseball - yes

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Some of you guys are wound so tight that you're going to pop.

THAT annoyed you (I thought it was a creative riff on the MLB logo!), but the 47 foot wide commercials for insurance agencies doesn't? Are you so simple that you cannot concentrate on the guys playing the sport, and you keep getting distracted by a tiny logo on the field? Maybe your team just sucks, so you have lots of free time to examine the negative space of the camera field during the games?

As a consumer we can vote with our views and clicks. If sports want to go social justice warrior that’s their decision but I’m not going to provide them with my support. The last round of NFL kneeling antics lasted only a few weeks until viewership tanked and suddenly they weren’t so convicted anymore. I suspect this will be similar.

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by BReif61

The Oriole's game against the Marlins tonight has been cancelled because the Marlins have a Covid outbreak.

Hope you enjoyed it while it lasted, boys!

Might be the beginning of the end. I can't foresee basketball or football at any level being played this year safely.

[sammyg2]

[sammyg2]

Seems like immigrants (and future generations) love this country more than some long-time natives.

Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Stephon Tuitt said on Monday that he will not kneel during the national anthem this upcoming NFL season.


“Also I’m not kneeling for the flag and screw anybody who have a problem with that,” Tuitt wrote on Twitter. “My grandmother was a immigrant from the Carribean and worked her ass off to bring 20 people over the right way. She had no money and educated herself to be a nurse. She living good now.”

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/pittsburgh-steelers-star-defensive-end-stephon-tuitt-kneeling-anthem

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Some of you guys are wound so tight that you're going to pop.

THAT annoyed you (I thought it was a creative riff on the MLB logo!), but the 47 foot wide commercials for insurance agencies doesn't? Are you so simple that you cannot concentrate on the guys playing the sport, and you keep getting distracted by a tiny logo on the field? Maybe your team just sucks, so you have lots of free time to examine the negative space of the camera field during the games?

You don't appear to have a good understanding of where the folks you are deriding for being too stupid to follow a baseball game are coming from.

They ran off a big part of their audience 25 years ago or so. That hurt baseball a lot, I know I am not the only lifelong fan they lost then. You would think they would have learned a little from what happened to the NFL. Get woke, go broke. They already lost a metric ton of money with the part of the season that has been cancelled due to the Kung Flu, yet they still insist on stepping on their dicks some more.


Guys playing the sport? It is not a sport, it is a business, they are selling a product, this is not selling anything. I guess it is selling marxism maybe, BLM is more Beetches Like Marxism than it is about Black anything. What do you find creative about the logo they stenciled on the mound? Is it because MLB backwards is BLM? That is more a coincidence I would say.


You have to give a rat's ass about something to get wound up about it, wouldn't you agree? Ambivalence is just not going to make that happen. When it starts costing them money, we will see how woke they really are.

[stevej37]

Our local tv news station filled the sports segment this morning with interviews of MLB players.
The subject was how hard it is for the players to get motivated or energized...without the fans in the stands. Each said the same..."it's really hard to get fired up to play without the fans there"

I feel sorry for them. Maybe a special stimulus package for them?

[mattdavis11]

I feel that all sports should cease. I've been a golfer for all but 8 years of my life, and the Tiger/Phil thing really put me off. Boring.

Take a knee, in your house, and pray that we may care about what you do sometime down the road.

[74-911]

Originally Posted by Tobra

.... I remember the great players the Giants and A's had. Bonds, Mays, Willie Mac, Marichal. Those ridiculous teams the A's had in the 1970's, Vida Blue, Blue Moon Odom, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, Reggie, Billy North, Joe Rudi, Sal Bando, Gene Tenace, they were loaded.

and don't forget the "Big Red Machine" and their epic series with the A's... during the 70's.

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Tobra

You don't appear to have a good understanding of where the folks you are deriding for being too stupid to follow a baseball game are coming from.

They ran off a big part of their audience 25 years ago or so. That hurt baseball a lot, I know I am not the only lifelong fan they lost then. You would think they would have learned a little from what happened to the NFL. Get woke, go broke. They already lost a metric ton of money with the part of the season that has been cancelled due to the Kung Flu, yet they still insist on stepping on their dicks some more.


Guys playing the sport? It is not a sport, it is a business, they are selling a product, this is not selling anything. I guess it is selling marxism maybe, BLM is more Beetches Like Marxism than it is about Black anything. What do you find creative about the logo they stenciled on the mound? Is it because MLB backwards is BLM? That is more a coincidence I would say.


You have to give a rat's ass about something to get wound up about it, wouldn't you agree? Ambivalence is just not going to make that happen. When it starts costing them money, we will see how woke they really are.

Who's the 'woke' one?
"Oh, I used to enjoy watching sport, but now I won't because someone on the news told me that someone did something, and I should be mad about it, and therefore I'll be mad and never watch it again!" I know someone who can put a ring through your nose so it's easier to have other people lead you around.




As for the ORIGINAL QUESTION, I enjoy quiet baseball. I used to like to go to the Cactus league games because not only could I see the Cubs/Sox for $4 and sit 2 rows behind 3rd plate, I could hear the players interacting, there's lots of chatter and communication going on during a game, and it adds to the event. like when they mic a driver in a race, you get a deeper sense of what's going on and why. I expect that if you went to an afternoon game in the 50s, when it was all local businessmen in suits, it was probably a quiet event then.

[widebody911]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Get woke, go broke

I'm stealing that!

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Tobra

I am with Bazza. Baseball was still the American Pastime when I was a kid. I remember the great players the Giants and A's had. Bonds, Mays, Willie Mac, Marichal. Those ridiculous teams the A's had in the 1970's, Vida Blue, Blue Moon Odom, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, Reggie, Billy North, Joe Rudi, Sal Bando, Gene Tenace, they were loaded. How can you not be a baseball fan, going to the Oakland Coliseum on a fine summer day to watch the most epic collection of facial hair ever fielded.

Hijack in progress:

I posted this 'bout 10 years ago:

Originally Posted by sammyg2

The funniest brush with fame I've had was getting drunk with Joe Rudi, Tim Wallach, my oldest brother and a couple other Angels players and driving those Malibu grand prix cars. The track was right next to A stadium at the time (long since plowed over).

...

Back story: When my oldest brother was 11, he was the state little league all star MVP. My dad was the manager of the team, they won the state little league all stars two years in a row.
Anywho, they went to Fremont Ca. for the western regionals and the sponsor family my brother was staying with knew Joe Rudi and they went to Joe's house for a BBQ. This was back in the Oakland As heyday with all those great players mentioned above.
My brother got to meet one of his idols and got an autographed ball and pennant, the whole deal.
Fast forward about 8 years later: my brother was pitching for the cal State Fullerton baseball teal, managed by the great Augie Gurrido.
Augie had set up a pre-season practice game between the Fullerton team and the California angels. I think it was in '78.
You'd think that would me a huge miss-match but at the time it wasn't that bad. That Fullerton team went on to win the world series the next year and the angels were usually in the cellar back then.

So my brother was on the mound and Joe Rudi came to bat. He was at the end of his career and my brother snuck a couple fastballs past him and sat him down. Like something from Hollywood, but he was throwing in the high 90's at the time.
After the game my brother introduced himself and told Joe how he remembered the BBQ.
next thing ya know, there are a bunch of really good baseball players drinking beer in my parents garage. I invited myself and no one objected too much.

At the time my brother had a part-time college job at the malibu grand prix that was right next to A stadium. It wasn't a real job, more like a show up once in a while and get a paycheck from alumni thing. Someone said, hey I got an idea! Let's finish these beers and go drive go-karts!
That was a good day. Back when baseball was still our national past-time.