Baseball Season starting!!!!

[Sisterplum]

Newbie...I know! I was WAY pissed when I read that he was married...I didn't know that! *** now my dreams are all broken*** LOL!

I've heard that PacBell is nice....I really need to get to CA sometime (I've never been!)



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[bubbles17]

Hi there fellow baseball fans!! You guys ROCK!!!! BASEBALL rules.

Yep, yep, Newbie "hates" me for this (actually we're good friends despite it LOL) but I'm a DODGERS fan. Yep! Yeah, Gary Sheffield's getting on mylast nerves...but hey he's a Dodger, gotta respecthim!

Oh, and thanks so much Sisterplum for showing us that BEAUTIFUL picture of that hotty. *WOW* And you said that it only showed "parts" of his cuteness! (Or something to that nature .) Da*n, if you really mean that.....he is a hotty times twenty! LOL...boy crazy little me

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by newbie:
Rob, what happened to Rick Ankiel???!!! Is he OK?!!
[This message has been edited by newbie (edited April 03, 2001).]

Ankiel threw 5 wild pitches in a game in the NL playoffs last year - he's been having control problems since. He's gotten better since then, and is scheduled to start coming up here . . . hopefully he's over it, he's potentially one of the best young pitchers in the game.

[AXO Alum]

Originally posted by dzrose93:
Go Braves!!! I'm so excited the season is finally getting started! Time to go to the Chophouse and watch my boys! Sorry guys, but I went to school with John Rocker...

Doing my best "chop" cheer now!! GO BRAVOS!!! Love the braves....I just gotta LOVE my Chipper!

I cheer for the Yanks too because its my daddy's team - we root for both, but no other team, professional, college, or otherwise can compare to my Braves!

By the way - I am a HUGE tv talker -- I will coach the entire game (much to the pissiness of my husband who insists that Bobby Cox can't hear me, much less care what I have to say), but daddy taught me to coach early on, and I LOVE IT! I am trying to coach my hubby's softball team, but he is worried I will pull a Bobby Knight on them!

Anyone remember my embarrassing story I posted about being at the Braves/Mets game in NY? If you didn't catch that one, basically daddy and I were in town and SO EXCITED that the Braves were playing the Mets. So we got GREAT seats just in front of 3rd base (and its Chipper's rookie year) and the Braves are dogging the Mets (and Chipper hit his first homer) so I am just cheering like the devil (ALL alone - my loud Southern drawl echoing throughout the stand) and I keep hearing some loud mouth behind me yelling (in a HUGE yankee accent): "Shuddup! Shuddup!" -- well finally after a few innings, I couldn't control myself (think Bobby Knight again) and I stood up turned and screamed at the TOP of my lungs "I'll Shut Up when that score changes!" -- much to my dismay I find a vendor standing there with a cart full of drinks....he was yelling "SODDDAAAA! SODDDAAA!" -- I was WAY embarrassed and couldn't have sunk any lower in that seat if I tried! Daddy and I were afraid we'd be attacked before we got out of there -- Anyway, just a tee-hee for all you die hard baseball fans!

[Billy Optimist]

Chipper Jones rocks. I met him once, when he played for Richmond. That it was I don't like Atlanta too much, everytime we get someone good, they steal them from us. I know that were the farm team, and thats how its suposed work, but still... so anyway, Chipper should get traded to either the Yankees so I can root for him here, or the Dodgers so I can root for him when I go off to be a movie star.

[newbie]

Hey y'all!

Ksig, poor Ankiel. Yes, I know about those 5 wild pitches that he threw in the NL playoffs--I was actually watching the game...and though I don't like the Cards, I felt so bad for him. That really hurts any rookies' confidence. He seemed like a really good player..I hope that everything goes well for him soon!!!! I always like to root for young players.

AXO Alum, that is so funny!! I'm glad that you didn't get into any trouble from those Yankee fans!!

My poor Giants last night--we were on a roll (after sweeping the Padres!! YEAH!) but last night we lost bad to our nemisice (sp?), the Dodgers--10-1. Yuck. BUT, I'm kinda p.o'd b/c it's pretty obvious that my beloved pitcher, Shawn Estes, was tipping off his pitches, and so the Dodgers cheated...and that's why they ran big w/the victory.

(Last season, Estes only allowed 11 homers thru the WHOLE season!!! Yesterday, he allowed 4 hr's, in one game. I love Shawn--he better get better for me soon! )

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[newbie]

I want to start a "What I Love About Baseball" section!!! So here goes, and please add to it! thanks!

What I Love about Baseball:

-When you see players hosting underprivileged kids, or sick patients...and you see how happy those kids are!!!

-When you meet another fan of your team, and you INSTANTLY connect w/each other--though you are both strangers!

-The emotion you feel when your team wins the game in the bottom of the ninth, or in extra innings.

-How elated the announcers are when your team has just won incredibly...and how that elation just rubs off on you.

-When your team clinches a title, and you are just jumping up and down, up and down, and it just seems that everything is great in the world!

-When a player makes a klutzy move (i.e., slips 3 times but still runs home to WIN the game! ex: Calvin Murray of the Giants a few days ago...incredible game) to show that even the players are all human.

-After the players make the klutzy move, they laugh it off and have a grand 'ol time--to show that they still have the little kid in themselves

-How united the fans are at the game. You all are strangers, but you feel like hugging them after an emotional win

-The chills you get after you reach the postseason, and your team was written off by those da*n sportswriters and everybody, who thought your team had "no chance." And you PROVE them WRONG!!!! (Happens EACH year to my Giants.)

-Being at a ball park w/crazy fans--and forgetting all your worries

-When you see a sea of white (the fans are using their rags) rooting on the Giants.

-When you see, or hear on the radio, a milestone (500 HR's, no-hitters, perfect games, etc.)

-When a player has gone through so much personally (family matters), and comes back with 2 HR's--and seeing them cry w/tears of happiness. (ex: J.T. Snow a few years back.)


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[newbie]

Oh I have some more!

-Basking out in the wonderful sunshine while taking in the game

-the world-famous Garlic Fries, only available at Pac Bell!

-how you're a kid again at the park

-how Baseball is the OLDEST sport...America's pasttime!!

-how, if the gov't had to choose ONE sport, Opening Day of Baseball would become a National Holiday, just b/c it's Baseball, baby!! (I have seen discussions of how Opening Day should be a National Holiday--I'm all for it, most of my classmates just cut school and go to the game!!)

[prospectiverushee]

Aww newbie,

That's so sweet. I feel the exact same way about college basketball season. There's nothing like sitting in the student section,listening to the "front row lunatics" crack on the other team,standing up the entire game,yelling so much at the refs that you're hoarse for 2 days,and seeing the PMAC packed with a sea of purple and gold (god I wish it was November)

[Theta-cutie]

Awww, newbie, what a terrific list...had me smiling all the way!! Baseball is DEFINITELY the best sport out there...no question! Because:

-there's nothing like 7th inning stretch

-there's nothing like Fan Picture Day when you can get out on the field and take pics w/the hotties

-there's no other sport which has somuch history...and so many legends...Babe Ruth, Juan Marichal, Willie Mays...etc. etc.

-all those funny superstitions!

-there's nothing like the smell of spring and summer...w/the freshly mowed grass

-there's nothing like rowdy fans who are rooting against the rival team and the rival fans

Oh yeah, and there's nothing like seeing some players with the socks pulled up high...that is so cute IMO!!!!

[This message has been edited by Theta-cutie (edited April 08, 2001).]

[Theta-cutie]

ProspectiveRushee, I can't wait till college baseketball starts again, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KSig RC]

This seriously might be my favorite topic ever! amazing . . .

-I love just sitting in the stands - the game is so much bigger than any one person, so much tradition and history, i just love the feeling of being there . . . best thing in the world. In the 'not-sex' catagory of course.

-nothing better than watching the great players - pedro had 16 k's in 8 innings, 3 hits today, he's sick. watching guys like him, pudge rodriguez, a-rod, future hall-of-famers playing the best game - it's great.

-the stories - guys like "Govanah" lou merloni, from framingham mass playing for the sox. It was his dream growing up, and he's getting to do it as a job. that's just amazing

-poetic justice - one time i watched nolan ryan toss a no-hitter, he struck out the last batter in the 9th to finish it off. That's just brilliant - the all-time K leader punching a guy out for the no-no.

-history, like rickey henderson breaking all sorts of records, no-hitters and perfect games, craig biggio going 5-5 on opening day to drop off the list of most hits w/out having 5 in a game, stuff like that. it's hard to realize the fact that rickey was probably the best leadoff hitter ever, because we watched him while he was doing it.

-and another form of history - the great players of the past. Babe ruth was the babe, best power hitter probably ever - but he might have been the most effective left-handed pitcher ever as well (think koufax, but throwing 350 innings a year) . . . then there's nap lajoie, rogers hornsby, mickey mantle, all those great names and amazing stories; i find that stuff so amazing.

-the fact that you can just chill at the park - we go whenever we can, and definitely you can just kick it with your brothers for a couple of hours. it's the best - some great ballpark stories . . .

-hating the yankees, and coming up w/ all sorts of statistical evidence about why they suck (aka jeter being rated as the worst defensive SS in the american league by Rob Neyer, etc) - rivalries are sweet

I could come up with about a million more - but i think i'll save some

Rob

[newbie]

Rob, tell us some more!!! hehe

how about...

-watching a special segment yesterday following the news...that honored baseball's greats--the Say Hey Kid, Joltin' Joe...

-Watching the Say Hey Kid (Willie May's) highlights...including the one that is so famous (catching the ball in his cap)

-Listening to Lon Simmons, back in the 1960's, calling the home runs w/"AND TELL IT GOODBYE!!!" and to think that Lon Simmons is still an occasional Giants broadcaster today, still using the "Tell it Goodbye!"

-Watching the beautiful Closing Ceremony of the old ballpark, and bringing in the NEW ballpark!!

-how only baseball players could play almost every day for half a year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-listening to the famous calls of old--from announcers like Russ Hodges (sp?), to the famous calls of today--like the Yankees announcer, who goes "AND the Yankeees win!! The Yaannkees win!"

-seeing yesterday's news, w/Pedro having 16 K's!!! WOW.

-and then, seeing Randy Johnson, of the AZ Diamondbacks, get hit hard---YEAH!! Sorry I hate the D'backs--plus, Johnson was the one whose fastball hit lovely J.T. Snow's face in '97. Well, it also proves that Baseball is an up and down game--that's what makes baseball great! Anyone can be a hero, and anyone can fail!

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[IowaHawkeye]

you guys.. i've just recently become baseball obsessed.. my friend pat innocently got me started betting on baseball games and i love it - i watch or listen to games every day - my beloved white sox are up right now )(thank god )

[newbie]

Hiya IowaHawkeye! How are your Sox doing? I'm gonna reply to your mail soon--look for it in maybe an hour!