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The Season Has Started - Any Baseball Fans Here?
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Rook
Player Valuation: £80m
I used to be a huge baseball fan. I'll start watching again when the players get off the juice and start looking like human beings (actually I did enjoy watching the Asian teams in the World Baseball Classic because they actually had size 7 heads). For all the stories of how the games clean now well I just read a another story in ESPN magazine about how this player who's name I forget is poised to have a great season because he put on 20 pounds of muscle in the offseason. Am I to believe that he put on this 20 pounds on muscle in 4 months by just investing in a Jack Lalamme power juicer?
The team I grew up root for the Pirates are well, lets just say the front office is as incompetent as NUFC only the Pirates don't have any money either.
Cubs fans always remind me of S---hite fans. All this whining about tradition, the fanbase at Wrigley is 99 percent tourists etc.
The team I grew up root for the Pirates are well, lets just say the front office is as incompetent as NUFC only the Pirates don't have any money either.
Cubs fans always remind me of S---hite fans. All this whining about tradition, the fanbase at Wrigley is 99 percent tourists etc.
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TX Bill
Player Valuation: £80m
Nah, that's gotta be the Cubs.
Rook was right on about the supporters.
(Sorry Mezzrow, gotta have a laugh at your expense...)
do not laugh.........THE METS. so unlucky not to get that wildcard last year. i love all new york sport franchises butthe yankees.
i've been wearing the same mike piazza shirt for years, need a new one me thinks!!!!
i've been wearing the same mike piazza shirt for years, need a new one me thinks!!!!
reason i started following the mets was because of spiderman/peter parker comics, he'd get taken by uncle ben to watch them play.
but since following them they remind me of everton. obviously have a suuccessful neighbour (i'm english i spell it with a u.), don't get much media recognition, had one of the most famous and history laden stadiums in the world.
who's everyone's thoughts for the series?
i'll go for the cubbies.
the mets are getting better betting odds than the reigning champs the phillies. strange.
but since following them they remind me of everton. obviously have a suuccessful neighbour (i'm english i spell it with a u.), don't get much media recognition, had one of the most famous and history laden stadiums in the world.
who's everyone's thoughts for the series?
i'll go for the cubbies.
the mets are getting better betting odds than the reigning champs the phillies. strange.
bluebloodinmyveins
Player Valuation: £60m
The St. Louis Cardinals.
Now there's a baseball club I can respect. Some good battles with my Astros over the years.
Pujols is easily one of the top three players in baseball. Loved it when you guys had Eckstein at shortstop.
You and Mezzrow will get along just fine.
Eckstein was not the most gifted of players, but damn he tried. It was sad to see him leave. When Jim Edmonds left that broke my heart
Pujols is an absolute legend. I would say hes the bets hitter in the game, but you may slate me for that
I have a lot of respect for the Astros. Berkman and Lee are two of my fav players in the game.
Oh, hi there! Hmmm...
Whereto begin. Before I start drilling the various Cardinal/Astros fans, here's the truth.
First, the Cardinals. I remember as a little leaguer seeing Barney Schulz explain the technical side of throwing a knuckleball. Jacksonville were the Cardinals AAA franchise in the mid 60's. Loved it when they beat the Yankees in '64. I got hooked on the Cubbies when I was at school in the Midwest. I fell in with a bunch of Northsiders and started blowing out of town when we could on Fridays for Cubbie weekends. Tickets were no problem - queue up for the bleachers, and you'll be inside with a paper cup full of Old Style, giving the business to Pete Rose before you know it. I was hooked.
There's a lesson in being a Cubs fan - it's about the journey, not the destination. I'm aghast at some aspects of the superficial Cubs Nation we've seen arise since the advent of national cable coverage. I'm not particularly an acolyte of the Harry Caray worshipers, either. I'm more a Jack Brickhouse guy. (Hey hey!) It wasn't the beauty of the play of the team - except for '69, there was precious little of that. It was the sound (pow!) of the paper cups being stomped in the half-full stadium, the peace and happiness you always met at Wrigley, no matter what the score. There's a reason they call it the friendly confines, and the Cubs would not be what they are without this. It's embarrasing being downright cuddly as a franchise, but that's us, dammit. It's no use refusing to cop to it, it's the truth. Here's what p****s me off about the kopites, and the Yankees, and the Sawks fans, of all people, these days. It's the entitlement. The smug acceptance of success like its some sort of birthright. I just hate that.
Oh, and [Poor language removed] the Steinbrenners. Every last one of them.
I don't get that from the Cards fans, though. We scrap, but it's a good clean hate. You could belittle the success of St. Louis, but would beclown yourself by doing so. Note to self, Albert (just like Stevie GBH) is pretty good, you know. However, nothing - I mean it, nothing - is as good as kicking the crap out of the St. Louis Cardinals. Nothing make my heart leap with joy like seeing the Genius go to his fifth pitcher in the seventh, after we've gone double digits on them. We have taken the piss from those b*****ds for so long that seeing them as helpless as they were against the Red Sox, or as weak as they really were last year was a real high point. LaRussa probably did his best job ever getting that team as far as they got last year, BTW.
I'll get to the Astros later. Hope Fat Elvis retires. Now. He kills us. He'll probably kill us tonight. And then there's Carlos Lee. El Caballo = Cub Killer. Love that 'stros pitching in that park, though. Bang! Zoom!! BTW, we're up 4 - 0 with "Fightin Ted" Lilly on the mound tonight.
Glad I got you guys out. It'll be fun this year.
Whereto begin. Before I start drilling the various Cardinal/Astros fans, here's the truth.
First, the Cardinals. I remember as a little leaguer seeing Barney Schulz explain the technical side of throwing a knuckleball. Jacksonville were the Cardinals AAA franchise in the mid 60's. Loved it when they beat the Yankees in '64. I got hooked on the Cubbies when I was at school in the Midwest. I fell in with a bunch of Northsiders and started blowing out of town when we could on Fridays for Cubbie weekends. Tickets were no problem - queue up for the bleachers, and you'll be inside with a paper cup full of Old Style, giving the business to Pete Rose before you know it. I was hooked.
There's a lesson in being a Cubs fan - it's about the journey, not the destination. I'm aghast at some aspects of the superficial Cubs Nation we've seen arise since the advent of national cable coverage. I'm not particularly an acolyte of the Harry Caray worshipers, either. I'm more a Jack Brickhouse guy. (Hey hey!) It wasn't the beauty of the play of the team - except for '69, there was precious little of that. It was the sound (pow!) of the paper cups being stomped in the half-full stadium, the peace and happiness you always met at Wrigley, no matter what the score. There's a reason they call it the friendly confines, and the Cubs would not be what they are without this. It's embarrasing being downright cuddly as a franchise, but that's us, dammit. It's no use refusing to cop to it, it's the truth. Here's what p****s me off about the kopites, and the Yankees, and the Sawks fans, of all people, these days. It's the entitlement. The smug acceptance of success like its some sort of birthright. I just hate that.
Oh, and [Poor language removed] the Steinbrenners. Every last one of them.
I don't get that from the Cards fans, though. We scrap, but it's a good clean hate. You could belittle the success of St. Louis, but would beclown yourself by doing so. Note to self, Albert (just like Stevie GBH) is pretty good, you know. However, nothing - I mean it, nothing - is as good as kicking the crap out of the St. Louis Cardinals. Nothing make my heart leap with joy like seeing the Genius go to his fifth pitcher in the seventh, after we've gone double digits on them. We have taken the piss from those b*****ds for so long that seeing them as helpless as they were against the Red Sox, or as weak as they really were last year was a real high point. LaRussa probably did his best job ever getting that team as far as they got last year, BTW.
I'll get to the Astros later. Hope Fat Elvis retires. Now. He kills us. He'll probably kill us tonight. And then there's Carlos Lee. El Caballo = Cub Killer. Love that 'stros pitching in that park, though. Bang! Zoom!! BTW, we're up 4 - 0 with "Fightin Ted" Lilly on the mound tonight.
Glad I got you guys out. It'll be fun this year.
Ahem...
8 - 0. Second inning.
I know - it's early.
8 - 0. Second inning.
I know - it's early.
Rook
Player Valuation: £80m
Puhols is sooo on the juice. To go from a nobody to one of the best hitters ever well after what we've seen over the past 10 years I'll remain sceptical. The only other player who's never been caught but its so obvious is David Ortiz who only went from like a .265 hitter with less than 20HRs to HOF numbers overnight.
Far be it from me to defend a Cardinal, but since when was Albert a nobody? If he's been juicing, he's been doing it since he was 19 or so. He was rookie of the year when he hit the league, and he's been scaring the bejeezus out of me ever since. Sammy and Mac, juiced. Albert, not so much, I think.
Scottoffee
Player Valuation: £10m
White Sox follower here.
Silly really, but sort of started back with the Charlie Sheen 'Major League' movies!...
Since then, I've always picked them to play with on Megadrive/XBox/Playstation games and started following them more seriously in the real world as my appreciation for the sport grew.
Bonus, turns out they're Obama's team - surely another World Series will be arranged in the next 4/8 years then!...
Silly really, but sort of started back with the Charlie Sheen 'Major League' movies!...
Since then, I've always picked them to play with on Megadrive/XBox/Playstation games and started following them more seriously in the real world as my appreciation for the sport grew.
Bonus, turns out they're Obama's team - surely another World Series will be arranged in the next 4/8 years then!...
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