Baseball Season 2011

[Gazwag]

Apologies if I came across a little harsh, sunday morning, 2 kids and a hangover = not as clear and concise as one should be.

No, not harsh at all.

LA certainly isn't a place we would go back to now we have "done it"

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Nope I have listened to ATH before, for me it's just a poor imitation.
I was thinking about it a while ago, and decided it's not what Mike & Mr Tony say, it's the way they say it.
I can't think of 2 better broadcasters (talking heads), there love of sport, language, and each other (not in a gay-lord way!) sets them apart.
There has to be a reason, other than sport, why I listen, during college basketball.

I get to meet a few of the Round The Horn and PTI guys at NFL events. Mike Wilbon is a top, top bloke. I once spoke to him for a piece on Beckham's possible impact in the USA, and his knowledge of soccer is immense - he used to cover the NASL. Tim Cowlishaw, Jackie McMullan and Bill Plaschke are also good people, as well as having the sort of knowledge across many sports that you rarely find in the UK. Woody Paige, on the other hand, is weird ...

 

[Stat Brother]

I get to meet a few of the Round The Horn and PTI guys at NFL events. Mike Wilbon is a top, top bloke. I once spoke to him for a piece on Beckham's possible impact in the USA, and his knowledge of soccer is immense - he used to cover the NASL.

None of which surprises me, he's obviously so very well respected, not only by the level and quantities of pro's, active and retired, he classes as friends. But he can even throw Mr President into the mix, too.

I now also listen to Tony Kornheiser's show, which is very enjoyable.
It's very interesting to get an American, insular (as you would expect) but pretty liberal view of the world.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Not wishing to gloat, but Phillies 3 and 0 already!!! Play a series against the METS Tuesday through friday.

 

[Barry Izbak]

A Cardinals fan has absolutely no justification to have a pop at another team - but did you see how the Red Sox kept their winless start to the season going? I love a squeeze play myself.

MLB.com Gameday | indians.com: Gameday

 

[BeepBeepImaJeep]

A Cardinals fan has absolutely no justification to have a pop at another team - but did you see how the Red Sox kept their winless start to the season going? I love a squeeze play myself.

MLB.com Gameday | indians.com: Gameday

that was very nice and I always love to see the Red Sox lose... a lot.

C'mon Blue Jays!

 

[Igor Gurinovich?]

you are not alone Beep.. however given how things are in central florida right now, im not saying a word.

 

[Peter Grummit]

Been going over to Boston every April to take in 4 or 5 mighty Red Sox games for the past six years, but too skint this year boo. Shame as we probably have our best roster in decades this season. Still, mlb.tv is great value, lets you watch all 2,430 regular season games online live for about a hundred quid. I will be subscribing as ever, even though watching a game usually means staying up til 6 or 7am...

LOL! As a huge Rangers fan (and of course Albion STH) think I have your number FA.

Delighted Tex have kept last year's form going despite the loss of the awesome Cliff Lee (can you believe the Phillies' rotation?) but 6-0! Wow. Still, we all know it's a long season.

Baseball, cricket, sunshine, may not be the worst time to take redundancy...

PG

 

[Mtoto]

LOL! As a huge Rangers fan (and of course Albion STH) think I have your number FA.

Delighted Tex have kept last year's form going despite the loss of the awesome Cliff Lee (can you believe the Phillies' rotation?) but 6-0! Wow. Still, we all know it's a long season.

Baseball, cricket, sunshine, may not be the worst time to take redundancy...

PG

It's June through August you need to worry about if you follow the Rangers. Gets very hot and humid down in Texas, can be very difficult to maintain your A-game in those conditions.

 

[Peter Grummit]

It's June through August you need to worry about if you follow the Rangers. Gets very hot and humid down in Texas, can be very difficult to maintain your A-game in those conditions.

Evidence from last season was that it was the opposition who struggled to deal with the heat. The hot weather makes the ball fly further and this suits the Rangers offence too. But yeah, I'm a Rangers fan because I worked in Dallas 1986-87 and it gets HOT! I have a photo somewhere of the scoreboard at the old Arlington stadium at a double-header showing 100F at midnight!

PG

 

[Scotty Mac]

caught the phillies mets game last night on espn - talk about a raping

tomorrow has got the potential to be a CORKING day in front of the box - grand national, red sox v yankees at 6pm and then hockey night in canada starting at midnight with montreal v toronto followed by vancouver v calgary

 

[Barry Izbak]

100F at midnight!

I saw the final three games of the season in Phoenix about seven years ago, Diamondbacks/Cardinals.
Although it was even hotter than that, with the roof closed and the air con on, it was quite comfortable.
I still can't comprehend what it must cost to bring the temperature down 25 degrees in a 45000 capacity stadium?

 

[Eggman]

Nice win for the Phils. Now come on Boston. I have an accumaltor on all the divisional winners.

Red Sox
White Sox
Rangers
Phillies
Reds
Rockies

 

[Barry Izbak]

With the Cardinals now unbelieveably top of their (desperately weak) division after a poor April, the main news is MLB takeover of the Dodgers. This is such big news I even read it in The Times this week.

Here's the LA Times story:
Dodgers: Major League Baseball seizes control of Dodgers - latimes.com

It sounds like as if The FA had taken over Pompey, to find a buyer and even had the team manager reporting to them.

Not saying its right or wrong, but we all know the FA are piss poor at managing and controlling the clubs. It seems that MLB are much stronger and won't take any shit from bad management / ownership.

Imagine if you will, its 1996. A tough no nonsense Graham Kelly issues a statement:


"I have taken this action because of my deep concerns regarding the finances and operations of the ALBION and to protect the best interests of the club, its great fans and all of FOOTBALL," he said. "My office will continue its thorough investigation into the operations and finances of the ALBION and related entities during the period of Mr. ARCHER'S ownership."

 

[Barry Izbak]

Not wishing to gloat, but Phillies 3 and 0 already!!!

Wow! Great result for the Phillies last night. 4-3 over the Reds with a walk off in the 19th innings!!
45,000 there at the start. Only 10,000 still there when it finished after 1 a.m. six hours later.
You can't really blame those fans for leaving early.

MLB.com Gameday | phillies.com: Gameday

 

[Dave the OAP]

on t'cruise last month, I got chatting to some( in fact almost everyone) baseball fans and you would not believe the animosity between red sox and Yankee fans. makes our palace rivalry look
like a love in

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

The Twins are having a mare this season. I've seen three games where we hardly scored and the pitching was atrocious.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

AL East really close. Go Yankees!

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

on t'cruise last month, I got chatting to some( in fact almost everyone) baseball fans and you would not believe the animosity between red sox and Yankee fans. makes our palace rivalry look
like a love in

When they were building the New Yankee Stadium one of the concrete gang was a Red Sox fan and buried a Red Sox shirt in the foundations. When they found out they had to dig up the foundations to retieve said shirt. His boss suggested that he did a very quick runner.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/sports/baseball/14jersey.html

 

[Man of Harveys]

When they were building the New Yankee Stadium one of the concrete gang was a Red Sox fan and buried a Red Sox shirt in the foundations. When they found out they had to dig up the foundations to retieve said shirt. His boss suggested that he did a very quick runner.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/sports/baseball/14jersey.html

Wasn't it David Ortiz's shirt? I'm surprised the stadium didn't buckle slightly. He's a big boy.

Anyway there are many reasons for disliking the Yankees, the Man United/Bayern Munich/Real Madrid of baseball. But Derek Jeter and Mark Teixera's highly-punchable faces should be enough for anyone. :myfatherinlawwasbatboyatfenwayparkintedwilliamsheyday: