i hate baseball..

Graham Knight wrote:



Russell wrote:

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

And baseball is boring only to those who don't understand baseball.


Absolutely true.


I disagree. There was a period in my life that I really enjoyed
baseball, and I do understand it perfectly.

Perfectly! Uh, oh never mind . . .

Nowadays I find it boring
for the most part. I blame it on gaining an understanding of hockey. ;-)

Hockey! Soccor on speed and for the most part unwatchable.

Russell

Ken Fortenberry wrote in message y.com...

And baseball is boring only to those who don't understand baseball.

Guilty as charged, and hopin' to stay that way ;-)

Jon.

Jonathan Cook wrote:

Ken Fortenberry wrote in message y.com...


And baseball is boring only to those who don't understand baseball.


Guilty as charged, and hopin' to stay that way ;-)


Yeah, and your better off, too.

Russell
Who wants to go fishing--but can't.

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:30:49 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:



And baseball is boring only to those who don't understand baseball.


And I once did. Right up until the second player strike. The first
one, well, okay, they were doing stuff like pensions for the old
timers who never had a chance to have a million dollar contract as
well as taking care of themselves. It made decent PR. But since
then, phtoooie on the players, the owners, the whole greedy bunch of
them.

BTW, I've not noticed kids out anywhere doing a pickup game of
baseball in forever. Street hockey, street soccer, garage
basketball, but not pickup baseball. They're playing, but with mom
and dad taking them to practice and the games and with coaches and all
that crud. How are you going to get the spirit of baseball when
you've got a real diamond and people watching and coaches telling you
stuff? Not to mention uniforms.
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lid wrote:

...... Right up until the second player strike. The first
one, well, okay, they were doing stuff like pensions for the old
timers who never had a chance to have a million dollar contract as
well as taking care of themselves. It made decent PR. But since
then, phtoooie on the players, the owners, the whole greedy bunch of
them.

I quit watching baseball on TV when all the teams put billboards behind
home plate, and without the regular contact with the game that TV
provided, my interest has slowly dissipated.

JR

lid wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:30:49 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:



And baseball is boring only to those who don't understand baseball.



And I once did. Right up until the second player strike. The first
one, well, okay, they were doing stuff like pensions for the old
timers who never had a chance to have a million dollar contract as
well as taking care of themselves. It made decent PR. But since
then, phtoooie on the players, the owners, the whole greedy bunch of
them.

Pro baseball sucks -- especially the majors. Baseball as a GAME,
however, can be pretty cool. I like to watch Stanford play at the Sunken
Diamond. It's cheap, it's a great park, and Stanford always seems to
have a good team.

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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:30:49 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

And baseball is boring only to those who don't understand baseball.

Well, in terms of being boring and incomprehensible, it compares well
with cricket.

Not with football. Well, NCAA football, anyway. Since my boys are
arguably the worst in the Big Eight...BTW, my condolences on the
orange peels being molested so badly by Bo Shembeckler's offspring.

;-)

Mike S. Medintz
"Never give a sword to one who has not learned
to dance." -Miyamoto Musashi

My parents practiced the cruelest form of child abuse...they made me a Cubs
fan! My thoughts on the whole sad thing is this....The Cubbies choked and
the Red Sox did the same thing. Hex, curse, bad calls, bad press.....nothing
beats a team that won't give up...They both folded like a cheap suit, IMO.
The poor guy in Chitown that touched a foul ball (he was one of about 20
that reached for it) is being blamed for the collapse. The next pitch went
to the backstop and 8 runs scored before two more outs. Whose fault was
that?

Wait till next year! (sigh)....

Mark



"riverman" wrote in message
...
GODDAMN!!

For a sport that supposed to be the apple pie of Americana, it sure stings
to watch the Cubs and Sox get pinched out once again. Our country is
supposed to stand for the rights of the little guy, the Reaganesque idea
that 'everyone can grow up to be a millionaire', the level playing field
where hard work and pureness of spirit pay off. But being a new englander,
and living in the shadow of the obtuse Great Satan with (as Forty put so
eloquently) its thuggish fans and overpaid prima donnas (and not just in
baseball), it is just abso****inglutely unfair and unamerican to put the
good people of the northeast through the yearly torture of building up
their
hopes, filling them with small town pride and honor, then ripping their
hearts out with those filthy hands and stomping on them, laughing with
those
stupid new york accents and spewing their disgusting sense of 'I got it
all
and I want more' into the humble, pure country air of New England.

Argh. Unless you grew up in upper right hand corner, you have no idea of
the
reality of how this affects your life each year, to see the hated, fat
cat,
overpampered, flabby-armed new yorkers get their selfish, perverse little
way, once agian, in one more way at the expense of everyone around them. I
don't *care* who got the most runs....once again, the Bosox DESERVED to
win.
This is just....so.....wrong!!

--riverman
(don't TALK to me right now.)




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Mark W. Oots wrote:

My parents practiced the cruelest form of child abuse...they made me a Cubs
fan!

You have my deepest sympathies. I am a Cardinals fan and I can't even
begin to imagine the psychological damage you have endured. Although
the 1968 World Series did wreak havoc on my 11 year old psyche. ;-)

....The Cubbies choked and
the Red Sox did the same thing. Hex, curse, bad calls, bad press.....nothing
beats a team that won't give up...They both folded like a cheap suit, IMO.

You're full of it. Both the Cubs and the BoSox were beaten by better baseball
teams. Period, end of paragraph.

The poor guy in Chitown that touched a foul ball (he was one of about 20
that reached for it) is being blamed for the collapse. ...

He was one of about 4 or 5 but he's the one who knocked it away from Alou's
glove. He should be excoriated, he was a moron. He had a front row seat and
he ****ed up his own team. You cannot give a playoff team an extra out in
the eighth inning, it's inexcusable and stupid.

Meanwhile, from a cave in Pakistan

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/...-april.gallery

;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

......You cannot give a playoff team an extra out in
the eighth inning, it's inexcusable and stupid.

Dumb, sure, but inexcusable? It's a game.

JR