i hate baseball..

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

God. The one you trust your budding teenage daughter to at all hours works
for a pittance, and the one you wouldn't trust you ugly arthritic
grandmother to gets paid millions. Go figure.
john

They can't figure. That's why they all have agents.

Somewhere along the way we took a wrong turn and decided that peop[e who
play games professionally were heroes. We'd be better off if we took these
games out of our schools and put the money saved into books and teachers'
salaries. If the professional athletics franchises want training camps for
teenagers, let them pay for it.

----
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Darkstar
Save a cow, eat a PETA

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

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.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

riverman wrote:

angst snipped

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.)



I can't compare New Englanders' pain to other's pain, but other do feel
the pain. This from one of the Utah daily newspapers.

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,515039629,00.html

Russell
Who will be watching a pathetic BYU football team and not the World
Series today.

rw wrote:

snipage

but the
people who are really responsible for the corruption of professional
sports are the fans who pay absurd ticket prices, and I think we might
agree on that.


Too true. Unfortunatly, if you build it, they will come.

Russell
One of the sheep too often.

slenon wrote:
God. The one you trust your budding teenage daughter to at all hours works
for a pittance, and the one you wouldn't trust you ugly arthritic
grandmother to gets paid millions. Go figure.
john


They can't figure. That's why they all have agents.

Somewhere along the way we took a wrong turn and decided that peop[e who
play games professionally were heroes. We'd be better off if we took these
games out of our schools and put the money saved into books and teachers'
salaries. If the professional athletics franchises want training camps for
teenagers, let them pay for it.

We're talking about baseball, right?

Professional baseball does and always has paid for "training camps for
teenagers." It's called the minor leagues.

Unlike football and (to a lesser degree) basketball, professional
baseball doesn't primarily recruit from colleges. If a baseball player
doesn't get recruited out of high school, he's probably not going to
make it to The Show.

I think professional athletes are entitled to all the money they can
get, just like anyone else with a special skill. It irritates the hell
out of me when I see what someone like Shaq does with his money (huge
collection of expensive cars, hunting on game farms, etc.), but the
people who are really responsible for the corruption of professional
sports are the fans who pay absurd ticket prices, and I think we might
agree on that.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

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

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.

rw:
We're talking about baseball, right?

Not entirely

Professional baseball does and always has paid for "training camps for
teenagers." It's called the minor leagues.

No argument there, the minor leagues exist and draw some fan support.

Unlike football and (to a lesser degree) basketball, professional baseball
doesn't primarily recruit from colleges.

Agree again. Baseball makes no real effort to lie to fans and convince them
that the star athletes are all carrying serious academic loads and being
treated like other students on campus.

but the people who are really responsible for the corruption of
professional
sports are the fans who pay absurd ticket prices, and I think we might
agree on that.

I agree pretty much with that statement. But I'm damned if I know how to
open the eyes of people willing to spend a week's net income to watch a
bunch of gladiators and consume overpriced food and beer.

----
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Darkstar

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/stevglo/i...age92kword.htm

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