Who's everyone's baseball team?

[Mark80]

Athletics

[Mike in Horseheads]

12 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

Do you remember John Boccabella? One of my early baseball memories is him getting announced at Jarry Park. It was epic.

First MLB game I saw was Cardinals and Expos in 1972 at Jerry Parc!  I have a Expo's hat I bought a few years ago in Cooperstown, the old red, white and blue one. Soon as the Orioles are eliminated (June or July) I'l slap up my Expos avatar again

[US Egg]

11 hours ago, The Senator said:

 

To not be a Red Sox fan, is to not be a fan at all.

 

(As always, JMHO.)

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Such piety.

 

It is the "Curse of the Bambino" that forever puts the Red Sox in their rightful and eternal rear view mirror place forever behind the Yankees.  

Edited April 15, 2019 by I am the egg man

[row_33]

11 hours ago, Gugny said:

 

Baylor rarely got hit in the back. It was usually his bicep or shoulder because he just stood there.  Didn't move/turn - therefore, no back shots.

 

as a Jays fan in the 80s-90s, Yankees/Red Sox Baylor just turned his back a tad and took it off the numbers what seemed liked 25 times in late innings during division races...

 

 

Edited April 15, 2019 by row_33

[SinceThe70s]

39 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

First MLB game I saw was Cardinals and Expos in 1972 at Jerry Parc!  I have a Expo's hat I bought a few years ago in Cooperstown, the old red, white and blue one. Soon as the Orioles are eliminated (June or July) I'l slap up my Expos avatar again

 

The stadium announcer was great. I'd listen to him on TV announcing the batters whenever the Mets played up in Montreal. I was disappointed when the Expos traded away Boccabella.

 

First game I ever went to was Mets-Expos at Shea in 1971. Carl Morton pitched for the Expos and hit a HR. 

[row_33]

13 minutes ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

The stadium announcer was great. I'd listen to him on TV announcing the batters whenever the Mets played up in Montreal. I was disappointed when the Expos traded away Boccabella.

 

First game I ever went to was Mets-Expos at Shea in 1971. Carl Morton pitched for the Expos and hit a HR. 

 

72 Expos...  Boots, Coco, Pepe, Stoneman, Clyde, great names for this 6 year old watching them on TV...

 

First game was at Parc Jarry in 1976, then the Jays came to town in 1977 (probably 2,000 games with them) and a camping trip from Toronto to Los Angeles to Vancouver and back through Chicago that took in 9 parks in 1977. 

 

Count is at 32 MLB stadiums, most no longer in service, Washington the last addition a few summers ago, no plans to expand the list.

 

 

[bdutton]

Red Sox.

[row_33]

14 minutes ago, bdutton said:

Red Sox.

 

how far back?

 

if the 1950s, how do you deal with young fans who take for granted the team is about winning it every year?

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Grew up an Indians fan because Buffalo had their farm team. It was great watching them play when they were nobodies, and then watching them make it on the big stage.

 

After I moved to Houston, I adopted the Astros as my NL team. When the Indians came to town during interleauge, I rooted for Cleveland. As time went on, the Indians left Buffalo, and I recognized less and less of them as Bisons. At the same time, The Astros were absolute garbage and the worst team in the league. As a huge baseball fan, this was great because I could get a ticket for five dollars almost any night of the week. So I watched the Astros build into what they are now, and slowly became a fan.

 

That said, I'm also a huge fan of UH baseball. I have season tickets and rarely miss a game. 

[bdutton]

3 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

how far back?

 

if the 1950s, how do you deal with young fans who take for granted the team is about winning it every year?

 

Well... I was a fan since moving to the Boston area in the mid 1990's.  I followed the Mets for a few years while in college since my roommates were from Long Island and huge mets fans.

[row_33]

20 minutes ago, bdutton said:

Well... I was a fan since moving to the Boston area in the mid 1990's.  I followed the Mets for a few years while in college since my roommates were from Long Island and huge mets fans.

 

it's okay to switch when you move to the area, get to games often? 

 

 

[bdutton]

Just now, row_33 said:

 

it's okay to switch when you move to the area, get to games often? 

 

 

I usually go to a couple of games a season but its been over a year since I went to a game.  My daughter or a good friend of mine used to go together.  But my daughter is at college and my friend contracted TDS so I don't have anyone to go with now.

[KD in CA]

MEET THE METS,
MEET THE METS,
Step right up and greet the Mets!
Bring your kiddies,
bring your wife;
Guaranteed to have the time of your life
because the Mets are really sockin' the ball;

knocking those home runs over the wall!
East side,
West side,
everybody's coming down
to meet the M-E-T-S Mets of New York town!

[SinceThe70s]

37 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

72 Expos...  Boots, Coco, Pepe, Stoneman, Clyde, great names for this 6 year old watching them on TV...

 

First game was at Parc Jarry in 1976, then the Jays came to town in 1977 (probably 2,000 games with them) and a camping trip from Toronto to Los Angeles to Vancouver and back through Chicago that took in 9 parks in 1977. 

 

Count is at 32 MLB stadiums, most no longer in service, Washington the last addition a few summers ago, no plans to expand the list.

 

 

 

The guys that stuck out for me were Bob Bailey and Ron Fairly. And then a bit later Steve Rogers. 

 

I'm pretty light on ballparks visited, I think only 7.

[Greybeard]

14 hours ago, row_33 said:

Dodgers till the Jays got good in 1983, hard to like the Jays since 1993?

             Dodger fan since 58.  

[SinceThe70s]

12 hours ago, row_33 said:

 

Hunt got hit by Bill Bonham 3 of 4 plate appearances one year, a killer OBP without hitting the ball once

 

baylor was a great player who didn’t mind getting hit in the back, many times against the Jays

 

Hunt’s purpose up there was to get on base by being hit.

 

Yup, it was Hunt.

 

A cool Ron Hunt story:

https://nypost.com/2019/02/01/the-end-of-baseballs-most-unlikely-friendship/

 

[row_33]

25 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

             Dodger fan since 58.  

 

great-grandfather was a die-hard Brooklyn fans from the 1920s going forward, he died a week after they won it in 1955, hopefully with a smile on his face.

 

 

might have been the Robins when he started cheering for them...

 

[Cripple Creek]

13 hours ago, Augie said:

I live in Atlanta. Three miles from stadium. I’ve gone to games and never made it inside the stadium. The Battery is fun, baseball is just background music. This comes as my buddy the Reds fan is texting about coming down from Cincinnati. 

They throw batteries at the players??

[row_33]

47 minutes ago, bdutton said:

I usually go to a couple of games a season but its been over a year since I went to a game.  My daughter or a good friend of mine used to go together.  But my daughter is at college and my friend contracted TDS so I don't have anyone to go with now.

 

been to Fenway twice (part of the 32), one was during the 1980s, we got up to cheer Ernie Whitt for the Jays and the section picked up with "ERNIE SUCKS!!" chanting

 

then Ernie hit a grand slam to shut them up his next at bat, probably pulled to the right field bleachers.

 

 

 

Edited April 15, 2019 by row_33

[LewPort71]

National League.  .Pirates

American League.. Indians

[row_33]

18 minutes ago, LewPort71 said:

National League.  .Pirates

American League.. Indians

 

my sympathies....

 

unless you saw Clemente and Stargell in their prime....

 

 

[The Senator]

11 hours ago, Turk71 said:

The Red Sox are my other team, when they are not playing the Mets. My dad, born in 1923, was a Sox fan his whole life. Unfortunately he passed in 1999 before he ever got to see them win one. Growing up in Irish SB the Celtics and Red Sox were popular in my family and neighborhood. I guess the S Boston Irish connection. Always hated the Yankees.?

 

Well, see, I lived in Boston in ‘86, when Buckner let that routine grounder between his legs.

 

Had season tix at Fenway.  So you can understand why I don’t like the Mets OR the Yankees.

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[Gugny]

3 minutes ago, The Senator said:

 

Well, see, I lived in Boston in ‘86, when Buckner let that routine grounder between his legs.

 

Had season tix at Fenway.  So you can understand why I don’t like the Mets OR the Yankees.

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I love Bill Buckner. 

[The Senator]

2 hours ago, I am the egg man said:

 

Such piety.

 

It is the "Curse of the Bambino" that forever puts the Red Sox in their rightful and eternal rear view mirror place forever behind the Yankees.  

 

Yes, Harold Frasee selling Ruth to NY to finance No No Nanette was perhaps the biggest blunder of all time.  But we broke the curse in 2004.

 

I realize we’ve got some catching up to do, but how many World Series rings do the Yankees have in this millenium?

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10 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

I love Bill Buckner. 

 

Yeah yeah...I’m sure there are NY fans that love Scott Norwood too.

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[CowgirlsFan]

Texas Rangers.

[The Poojer]

Yankee fan all my life

[row_33]

45 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

I love Bill Buckner. 

 

great role in the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode

 

watching that game in a sports bar was the closest i saw to people so infuriated that they could have committed murder on the spot... 

 

was cheering for the Mets myself...

 

 

 

Edited April 15, 2019 by row_33

[Gugny]

11 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

great role in the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode

 

watching that game in a sports bar was the closest i saw to people so infuriated that they could have committed murder on the spot... 

 

was cheering for the Mets myself...

 

 

 

 

They blew a lead in game 7, too.  

[row_33]

11 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

They blew a lead in game 7, too.  

 

it was the Red Sox, Aaron Boone sadly was the closer on choking of that run...

 

Even as an AL East Toronto fan I despise the Red Sox, never could hate the Yankees, they are the only team i bother to watch these days, unless i really need to watch a game and they have a day off...

 

 

Edited April 15, 2019 by row_33

[Turk71]

5 hours ago, The Senator said:

 

Well, see, I lived in Boston in ‘86, when Buckner let that routine grounder between his legs.

 

Had season tix at Fenway.  So you can understand why I don’t like the Mets OR the Yankees.

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I was living at the south rim of the Grand Canyon and could barely watch. Had a few hundred bucks on the Mets. When Mookie hit that dribbler right to Buckner I thought for sure it was over, when it went through his legs I jumped out of my chair and went crazy. 

  When the Sox were down 0-3 to the Yankees I was telling people they were gonna come back and win the series. The greatest comeback in baseball I have ever seen.

[The Senator]

4 minutes ago, Turk71 said:

I was living at the south rim of the Grand Canyon and could barely watch. Had a few hundred bucks on the Mets. When Mookie hit that dribbler right to Buckner I thought for sure it was over, when it went through his legs I jumped out of my chair and went crazy. 

  When the Sox were down 0-3 to the Yankees I was telling people they were gonna come back and win the series. The greatest comeback in baseball I have ever seen.

 

2004 was magical - coming back against the dreaded Yankees, then sweeping St.Louis.

 

There were septuagenarians and octogenarians walking the streets in the middle of the night, zombielike, grateful that they saw the Sox win a series while they were alive.

 

1986, I was the zombielike one wandering around, wondering how we blew that one...

 

 

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[row_33]

21 minutes ago, Turk71 said:

I was living at the south rim of the Grand Canyon and could barely watch. Had a few hundred bucks on the Mets. When Mookie hit that dribbler right to Buckner I thought for sure it was over, when it went through his legs I jumped out of my chair and went crazy. 

  When the Sox were down 0-3 to the Yankees I was telling people they were gonna come back and win the series. The greatest comeback in baseball I have ever seen.

 

The Red Sox were the far better team for the comeback year, at a golf tourny a week before it started I couldn't get any of six diehard Yankee fans at my table to bet $10 on the Yankees, the surprise was the Yankees took the first 3 games.

 

 

[Turk71]

20 minutes ago, row_33 said:

 

The Red Sox were the far better team for the comeback year, at a golf tourny a week before it started I couldn't get any of six diehard Yankee fans at my table to bet $10 on the Yankees, the surprise was the Yankees took the first 3 games.

 

 

That's why I felt pretty strongly they could come back, that team was stacked.

21 minutes ago, The Senator said:

 

2004 was magical - coming back against the dreaded Yankees, then sweeping St.Louis.

 

There were septuagenarians and octogenarians walking the streets in the middle of the night, zombielike, grateful that they saw the Sox win a series while they were alive.

 

1986, I was the zombielike one wandering around, wondering how we blew that one...

 

 

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I remember thinking about my dad rooting for the Red Sox his whole life. He had to witness Buckner's blunder but died before the 2004 victory. My dad knew Warren Spahn growing up in South Buffalo. Spahn, Williams, and Yastremski were his favorite Red Sox.

[Turk71]

7 hours ago, KD in CA said:

MEET THE METS,
MEET THE METS,
Step right up and greet the Mets!
Bring your kiddies,
bring your wife;
Guaranteed to have the time of your life
because the Mets are really sockin' the ball;

knocking those home runs over the wall!
East side,
West side,
everybody's coming down
to meet the M-E-T-S Mets of New York town!

Reminds me of Seinfeld, the Keith Hernandez 'magic loogie' episode.?

[KD in CA]

8 hours ago, Gugny said:

 

I love Bill Buckner. 

 

But not nearly as much as Calvin Schiraldi.  Sending him to the Sox was the best trade in Mets history.

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Turk71 said:

When Mookie hit that dribbler right to Buckner I thought for sure it was over, when it went through his legs I jumped out of my chair and went crazy. 

 

 

You weren’t going to watch the 11th inning?

[Uncle Joe]

3 hours ago, row_33 said:

 

The Red Sox were the far better team for the comeback year, at a golf tourny a week before it started I couldn't get any of six diehard Yankee fans at my table to bet $10 on the Yankees, the surprise was the Yankees took the first 3 games.

 

 

Johnny Damon made a damn good Yankee 
 

I had a hard time rooting for Clemens and Boggs in pinstripes. 

 

Edited April 16, 2019 by Uncle Joe

[Turk71]

13 minutes ago, KD in CA said:

 

 

 

 

 

You weren’t going to watch the 11th inning?

I definitely would have watched but for some reason when Mookie hit that ball I was peeking through my fingers I was so nervous that whole bottom half of that inning. I started with a hundred dollar bet with a bookie and let it ride through every round of the playoffs. I am not usually a gambler and I had 400 riding on the series which was a significant amount to me at the time.

[The Senator]

28 minutes ago, Turk71 said:

I definitely would have watched but for some reason when Mookie hit that ball I was peeking through my fingers I was so nervous that whole bottom half of that inning. I started with a hundred dollar bet with a bookie and let it ride through every round of the playoffs. I am not usually a gambler and I had 400 riding on the series which was a significant amount to me at the time.

 

Paying the bag man always sucks!  You made out well. ?

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[PromoTheRobot]

My favorite team is the local AA Eastern League affiliate of the Blue Jays. $14 sit where you want, $4 craft drafts on Thursdays.

Edited April 16, 2019 by PromoTheRobot

[apuszczalowski]

1 minute ago, PromoTheRobot said:

My favorite team is the local AA Eastern League affiliate of the Blue Jays. $14 sit where you want, $4 craft drafts on Thursdays.

Fisher Cats? Were the prices higher last year for the honor to watch Vlad Jr?