7 months of baseball

**Schmalgar** · 03-31-2011, 10:43 AM

Ah. The Braves are playing now, and I get to work from home so I can watch it! Heyward has another opening bat home run. The Braves are wining 2-0 in the 6th.

All is good in the universe again. I'd like to have a good running thread for baseball like we did for football...

**Schmalgar** · 03-31-2011, 10:48 AM

Ok, well my first complaint as an arm chair coach of the Braves' new manager:

He has pulled the pitcher after 5 innings. Bobby Cox used to drive me nuts pulling pitchers, even when they were in a rhythm. So many times he'd do that, and the new pitcher would give up the game. I hope this isn't going to be a trend for Gonazalez too. But it probably will be. That's one of the things I really don't like about baseball, the mentality around pitchers. Put a new pitcher in to face 1 batter, then pull him. Put the closer in, because that's what he's paid for, even if your starter is still in kicking ass. Go through 6 pitchers in 3 innings. It's all silly.

**jetaws6** · 03-31-2011, 11:25 AM

ORIOLES WOOOT lol they are so bad they sell tickets for five bucks but I still stick with them. Hopefully we can break 500 this year.

**rajiv1998** · 03-31-2011, 11:32 AM

One word that will kill this entire thread...YANKEES

**Schmalgar** · 03-31-2011, 11:41 AM

I dunno. Yankees are going to be a different team without Big Stein. His kids have proven much less agreeable to overpaying for every position. I think the high spending Yankees of the 90s and 00s are past. They'll stay the highest paying team I imagine, but much less exhorbitantly so than before methinks. So they might not be as dominant going forward...

**Schmalgar** · 03-31-2011, 11:45 AM

Braves win!

We are currently the best team in all of baseball! Woo hoo!

Great start to the season. McCann had a perfect throw to pick off the steal at second. Heyward started with a home run. Chipper was 2 for 4 with a double. All the pitchers looked great. Only 161 more games left

**krese** · 03-31-2011, 01:20 PM

yes, my little world is now a better place since baseball has started back up. i am and always will be a yankee fan.

**67CamaroRSSS** · 03-31-2011, 01:22 PM

Only game I can think of besides baseball that's more boring to watch is golf...

Come on Football season...

**Schmalgar** · 03-31-2011, 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by 67CamaroRSSS

Only game I can think of besides baseball that's more boring to watch is golf...

Come on Football season...

bah.

**024mula** · 03-31-2011, 03:22 PM

Good that the Braves won.

I heard that if they didn't win the opening game there would be no beer.

Get it............................

You can't have beer, if your don't have the opener!

**bigrondownhiller** · 03-31-2011, 04:49 PM

I am a Mets fan. Nothing else to say.

**Schmalgar** · 03-31-2011, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by bigrondownhiller

I am a Mets fan. Nothing else to say.

True, there won't be anything to say about the Mets this year.

**Nastyfoot** · 04-02-2011, 03:09 AM

My team the Red Sox, are on pace to go 0-162

**Smittro** · 04-02-2011, 03:44 AM

Baseball?

They still play that?

Sorry..

I got into watching my lawn grow so something had to go..

**blackSS01** · 04-02-2011, 01:43 PM

I quit watching baseball when the little pansies wanted more money and went on strike for a whole season. If Football or Basketball were to do the same thing then buh bye! Can't stand pieces of shit that make more in 2 days then the average person and bitch about it. Just my .02

**Schmalgar** · 04-02-2011, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by blackSS01

I quit watching baseball when the little pansies wanted more money and went on strike for a whole season. If Football or Basketball were to do the same thing then buh bye! Can't stand pieces of shit that make more in 2 days then the average person and bitch about it. Just my .02

Well, there have been labor disputes in every sport. Football had a strike shortened season in 82, exactly like baseball, and the NBA had a strike shortened season in 98. So you shouldn't be watching those already. It's usually the UNIONs within those sports, not the individual athletes themselves. Much like in other industries with unions...

**Schmalgar** · 04-02-2011, 05:06 PM

The Braves came out and choked in game 2. *sigh*

**blackSS01** · 04-02-2011, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by Schmalgar

Well, there have been labor disputes in every sport. Football had a strike shortened season in 82, exactly like baseball, and the NBA had a strike shortened season in 98. So you shouldn't be watching those already. It's usually the UNIONs within those sports, not the individual athletes themselves. Much like in other industries with unions...

I was born in 82 so I know nothing of what you speak about

Are you sure about Basketball though, I watched the 98 season and don't remember it being shortened

**Y2KPewterSS** · 04-02-2011, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by blackSS01

I was born in 82 so I know nothing of what you speak about

Are you sure about Basketball though, I watched the 98 season and don't remember it being shortened

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2...99_NBA_lockout

**blackSS01** · 04-02-2011, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by Y2KPewterSS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2...99_NBA_lockout

I see, I see

I was wrong, I didn't watch that season since Jordan had retired. At least they still played some games unlike baseball.

Back on topic though (Sorry to

but I learned something

)