CowgirlsFan Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 May everyone's team have a healthy season 3 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Let's Go Yankees. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Got to wait another day for my Braves but still pumped!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike in Horseheads Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Lets go O's! (winning 11-1 in the 7th today) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobilz Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 11 hours ago, CowgirlsFan said: May everyone's team have a healthy season Alrighty then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bills!Win! Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 (edited) I’ve been trying to like baseball for years but it’s archaic. Why start when snow is on the ground in March and end when the snow starts falling in November? So dumb Edited March 29 by Bills!Win! 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US Egg Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Baseball knocked it out of the park with the rule changes. Every one of them improved the game. …..and the MLB season package for $149 is a steal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That's No Moon Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 14 hours ago, Bray Wyatt said: Got to wait another day for my Braves but still pumped!! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 17 minutes ago, US Egg said: Baseball knocked it out of the park with the rule changes. Every one of them improved the game. …..and the MLB season package for $149 is a steal. Lots of great exciting young players at the right time too. 50% of them on Baltimore and 50% distribute amongst the rest of the league. Just kidding….sort of. Holliday, Henderson, Rutschman, Ella, O Cruz, Langford, Carter, Carroll, And more. Plus the Eastern contingent with Yamamoto, Lee and Imanaga should be interesting following Ohtani and Senga. There are more on tge way too.. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US Egg Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 1 hour ago, 4merper4mer said: Lots of great exciting young players at the right time too. 50% of them on Baltimore and 50% distribute amongst the rest of the league. Just kidding….sort of. Holliday, Henderson, Rutschman, Ella, O Cruz, Langford, Carter, Carroll, And more. Plus the Eastern contingent with Yamamoto, Lee and Imanaga should be interesting following Ohtani and Senga. There are more on tge way too.. Orioles drafted quite well. Going from 100 losses to 100 wins in 3 seasons is…..unprecedented? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenorthremembers Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 Vladdy hits a 450 foot HR on opening day. May there be many more. Go Jays! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 9 hours ago, That's No Moon said: Gross 7 hours ago, US Egg said: Orioles drafted quite well. Going from 100 losses to 100 wins in 3 seasons is…..unprecedented? Always had a soft spot for the O's. Growing up Rochester was their farm team, and my friend was big into the O's because of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Info Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 10 hours ago, Bills!Win! said: I’ve been trying to like baseball for years but it’s archaic. Why start when snow is on the ground in March and end when the snow starts falling in November? So dumb I am with you on this. Loved baseball when I was a kid but the lack of a true cap makes it extremely difficult for low budget teams to compete with the high $ teams. Frustrating to root for a team on the lower end of player expense budget. Platitudes to those teams that are able to remain competitive in this environment. How can other teams in the NL compete with the Dodgers? Perhaps a low budget team can be opportunistic when the big budget teams have injuries but that should not be the basis for a team to succeed. I would stop following the NFL if they dropped the budget cap for all teams as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US Egg Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 2 hours ago, Mr Info said: I am with you on this. Loved baseball when I was a kid but the lack of a true cap makes it extremely difficult for low budget teams to compete with the high $ teams. Frustrating to root for a team on the lower end of player expense budget. Platitudes to those teams that are able to remain competitive in this environment. How can other teams in the NL compete with the Dodgers? Perhaps a low budget team can be opportunistic when the big budget teams have injuries but that should not be the basis for a team to succeed. I would stop following the NFL if they dropped the budget cap for all teams as well. I agree with the cap issues. Blame Curt Flood and George Steinbrenner. Yankee haters railed about their big spending ways in the late ‘70’s when free agency began and said that they had an unfair advantage. It immediately got them two World Series rings. That said, the game is much better than it was from a few years ago to watch. Regarding the NFL, it has become more annoying to watch. The NFL has taken away from the spontaneity of the game with their overdosing of rules, one has to refrain before enjoying a play to make sure it’s legitimate. The game has become near insufferably long. But, they are King. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That's No Moon Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 (edited) 7 hours ago, Bray Wyatt said: Gross We will see you in October. Briefly, as usual. Baseball has the most irrelevant regular season in sports. It's actually better to be a wild card than to win your division. Edited March 29 by That's No Moon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bray Wyatt Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 24 minutes ago, That's No Moon said: We will see you in October. Briefly, as usual. Baseball has the most irrelevant regular season in sports. It's actually better to be a wild card than to win your division. Dont get me started on Manfred and his baseball rules hahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Flanders Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 On 3/28/2024 at 5:31 PM, Mike in Horseheads said: Lets go O's! (winning 11-1 in the 7th today) Did you see the HR Jackson Holliday hit at Norfolk last night? Holy hell... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike in Horseheads Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 34 minutes ago, Ned Flanders said: Did you see the HR Jackson Holliday hit at Norfolk last night? Holy hell... The whole team is loaded there ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muppy Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 My best friend has 41 game San Diego Padres season tickets. I myself am not a huge fan of the sport but I would never cheer against them. GO PADRES Anyway I found this link for the promotional give aways. Some of those items do become collectors items. San Diego is a Huge baseball town. Great downtown crib Petco https://www.mlb.com/padres/tickets/giveaways Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike in Horseheads Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 On 3/29/2024 at 8:48 AM, Bray Wyatt said: Gross Always had a soft spot for the O's. Growing up Rochester was their farm team, and my friend was big into the O's because of that. Thats how I became a O's fan as a little chipper, Orioles AA team was in Elmira Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
major Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 I wish the Oakland A’s would pull a major league and win it all while the owner is trying to get them out of town 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
US Egg Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 40 minutes ago, major said: I wish the Oakland A’s would pull a major league and win it all while the owner is trying to get them out of town That would be ironic considering the A’s owner in the early ‘70’s, Charlie Finley, did a bit of a fire sale of players after they had won three straight World Series. He was easily the most reviled franchise owner in Oakland, until Al Davis, and maybe now this guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BADOLBILZ Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 On 3/29/2024 at 1:22 AM, US Egg said: Orioles drafted quite well. Going from 100 losses to 100 wins in 3 seasons is…..unprecedented? The O's are the latest to try to copy the Astros tanking model. It's not hard to get into contention that way but it's a lot harder to sustain momentum than it would seem it should be. Cubs did it, won a WS by the skin of their teeth and then quickly faded back into mediocrity and their stars fell to earth and changed teams. The Blue Jays were supposed to be owning the AL by now after their 2017-2019 tanking yielded a team full of sons of former HOF/star players. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4merper4mer Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 (edited) 15 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said: The O's are the latest to try to copy the Astros tanking model. It's not hard to get into contention that way but it's a lot harder to sustain momentum than it would seem it should be. Cubs did it, won a WS by the skin of their teeth and then quickly faded back into mediocrity and their stars fell to earth and changed teams. The Blue Jays were supposed to be owning the AL by now after their 2017-2019 tanking yielded a team full of sons of former HOF/star players. Tell me you’re clueless about the Orioles without saying you’re clueless about the Orioles. 1. It is highly questionable whether they were tanking by design or whether it was simply a function of ownership’s unwillingness to spend. 2. Characterizing how the Orioles have gotten into contention as “not hard” should mean the Marlins, A’s, Tigers, Royals, Guardians, Nats, Pirates, Reds, Giants, D-Backs, Mariners, are all similarly positioned. Of those maaaaaaybe you could make a thin case for the DBacks and Reds. 3. Henderson, Holliday, Kjerstad, Cowser, Westburg, Rodriguez, Mayo, Basallo, Rutschman, Norby, Bradfield. Easy? Oh, and that’s after trading Ortiz and Hall for Burnes. They also developed Kremer, Bradish, Bautista, and others far beyond their original profiles. You’re going to lean on the fact that they haven’t gone to 7 straight ALCS like the Astros and that’s true, so you’re right…..what they’ve done is “easy”. Now list the other teams that have gone to 7 straight AL or NL CS’s since that is your standard. Yanks? Dodgers? Edited April 11 by 4merper4mer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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