I love baseball

suds00 said:
my favorite professional team is the chicago white sox.i don't know too many of the players anymore but like to watch them on occasion when they're on t.v.i do read the sports section and enjoy the " idea" of baseball
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I hope you attended a few games at the old Comiskey. I've been to several pro baseball stadiums and Comiskey had the finest baseball atmosphere of any stadium I ever entered into. I tell you in truth that if you were blinded folded, put into the middle of the parking lot or in the field, and asked where are you, you would immediately say "I'm in a baseball" stadium.

D@rn. They just don't make them like they used to.
 

suds00 said:
i have been to the old comiskey .to bad they replaced it.
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Never been there. :( I used to love going to Yankee Stadium and was bummed when they replaced that.

Dodger Stadium is a gorgeous setting to watch baseball. So glad there are no plans to tear that one down.
 

Comiskey Park is where I saw Mickey Mantle and the other great stars of that team era. From the back MM looked like he was four feet wide.

Cubs traded Rizzo to the Yankees-very pissed about that and I'm sure the junior Cubs fans are screaming bloody murder! Now the Mets want Chris Bryant and Havier Biaz. Sports is truly a business
 
Pink Biz said:
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I was dancing with my daughter and grandson to this song in my kitchen yesterday! I grew up in NY and went to Yankee Stadium many times. After moving to Los Angeles I became a Dodger fan, too. Since then, the only time I've rooted against the Yankees is when they've played the Dodgers in a world series.

Thanks for posting this terrific video. Brought me back to the days of my youth!
 
I never got the hang of baseball. Never watched it except when visiting my father in law who was a big fan.
I did attend one game in ST Louis playing California Angels. That was many years ago. It was boring to me
so I never watched another game. Almost feel the same way about basketball. I have been ancollege football
fan but after OU and Texas signed on with the SEC conference, I may drop football. I may wind up in the corner
talking to myself.
 
I also like watching baseball, all the more as I have aged.

As a kid, I was never good at hard ball, but we played it alot as kids. I was never good enough to play on the school teams but we was always playing football or baseball or basket ball.

By the time I got up in High School I was hunting and fishing all the time and then went to work in the Oilpatch and soon met a barely 17 year old Brunette who sat the hooks deep into me..... and it was Living on Love and Buying On Time..... even though it's been 43 year that was a blink of the eye ago.

As others have said, my favorite is College Ball and High School especially if we know some of the kids.

I also enjoy watching the College Girls Softball - they can put some heat on the ball for sure !

I just watched this one 2 nights ago....

 
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During Depression, Joe Engel, owner of Minor League Baseball's Chattanooga Lookouts, traded a shortstop for a 25 pound turkey.

I doubt this is when 'He's a turkey,' entered America's Lexicon, but I would like to think so.
 
Start of my love of baseball really happened when we lived in Florida and the Pittsburgh
Pirates had their spring training camp there.
We collected pop bottles discarded by fans, for a refund at the concession stand.
The Pirates were not very good back then but we didn't care, we still believed in them.

Later in life, I lived in the Seattle area and attended a lot of Mariners games.
This was back when they were also not very good, but I got to watch games in one of the best
stadiums, the Kingdome.

Then on to Nebraska and attended the College World Series every chance I could.

Now it's watching Vanderbilt University games and our minor league team, the 'Nashville Sounds'.

Love the sport. Just give me a bag of peanuts and a beer and I'm there...
 
Watched the Giants vs Dodgers games, all nine innings-kinda got burnt out.
The feud between these two teams has been the case since the 1940's
Braves are a good team, but we have to pull for Dodgers
 
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Red SOX have become viewed by the nation throughout the season, due to the Damn Yankees beating them all those years.
Beating the Yankees is great fun, great viewing.
Houston, i share the same state, so I'm kind'a rooting for both of them, but the Sox are my hearts desire.
 
I love baseball. I love going to the games at Fenway, but do not like watching them on TV, unless they are playing the yankees. It's fun to be at Fenway with tons of other fans. I read about the games and my son always gives me the highlights.

When they are in the World Series, I love watching the Red Sox on TV. I am still furious with the management, though, for letting Mookie Betts go.

When my daughter was 16, a teacher's final question on a test was who is your favorite team. She answered the Boston Red Sox. The teacher made some a**shole comment about her being a "bandwagon fan". She said no, actually she was born in Boston and had lived there her entire life. He apologized. I would have probably let loose of a few more antagonistic words. We had a rule in our house - no yankee fans allowed. Of course, we didn't know any yankee fans, simply because there weren't that many of them where we lived.
 
WheatenLover said:
When they are in the World Series, I love watching the Red Sox on TV. I am still furious with the management, though, for letting Mookie Betts go.
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I'm sorry for your loss but it was our gain. Mr. Betts is by all accounts not only an incredibly skilled baseball player, but a stellar human being. Los Angeles is thrilled to have him wearing Dodger Blue.

I grew up in NY and was a Yankee fan before moving to LA and becoming a Dodger fan. Mostly, I'm a baseball fan. I love the game and enjoy seeing it well played, from pick up games to Little League to college to MLB. Also greatly enjoy women's softball and watch those games, too.

What I can't abide is cheating, so I root in favor of whoever is playing the Astros.

Other than our professional baseball team allegiances you and I often see eye to eye. I hope this doesn't damage our relationship. ;)
 
StarSong said:
I'm sorry for your loss but it was our gain. Mr. Betts is by all accounts not only an incredibly skilled baseball player, but a stellar human being. Los Angeles is thrilled to have him wearing Dodger Blue.

Other than our professional baseball team allegiances you and I often see eye to eye. I hope this doesn't damage our relationship. ;)
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Oh, you are super lucky to have Mookie, no doubt about it.

Oh, I like the Dodgers okay, StarSong. A long time ago, I read a novel to the kids in which the main character was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. The only problem I have since then is thinking of them as being from Brooklyn instead of, is it Los Angeles? I just know that because of that book, I am a little bit fond of your team.

I also like reading biographies or autobiographies of baseball players. It helps that one of my autistic sons loves baseball. His science project in 8th grade was about how the location and design of ball parks effects pitching. Anyway, I've been hearing about the players for years - he makes it very interesting. So I started reading books about them. Too bad being a college professor of baseball (or philosophy or Old English) isn't a good choice if one wants a job. He actually speaks, writes, and reads Old English fluently, can you imagine that? I can't!
 

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