Poll

Which current Major League Baseball parks have you been to for a game?

Angels - Angel Stadium - Anaheim, CA
5 (12.2%)
Astros - Minute Maid Park - Houston, TX
1 (2.4%)
Athletics - Oakland Alameda County Stadium - Oakland, CA
1 (2.4%)
Blue Jays - Rogers Centre - Toronto, ON
0 (0%)
Braves - Sun Trust Park - Atlanta, GA
1 (2.4%)
Brewers - Miller Park - Milwaukee, WI
0 (0%)
Cardinals - Busch Stadium III - St. Louis, MO
0 (0%)
Cubs - Wrigley Field - Chicago, IL
2 (4.9%)
Diamondbacks - Chase Field - Phoenix, AZ
4 (9.8%)
Dodgers - Dodger Stadium - Los Angeles, CA
6 (14.6%)
Giants - AT&T Park - San Francisco, CA
2 (4.9%)
Indians - Progressive Field - Cleveland, OH
1 (2.4%)
Mariners - Safeco Park - Seattle, WA
0 (0%)
Marlins - Marlins Park - Miami, FL
0 (0%)
Mets - Citi Field - Queens, NYC, NY
0 (0%)
Nationals - Nationals Park - Washington, DC
0 (0%)
Orioles - Oriole Park at Camden Yards - Baltimore, MD
3 (7.3%)
Padres - Petco Park - San Diego, CA
3 (7.3%)
Phillies - Citizens Bank Park - Philadelphia, PA
1 (2.4%)
Pirates - PNC Park - Pittsburgh, PA
1 (2.4%)
Rangers - Globe Life Park in Arlington - Arlington, TX
2 (4.9%)
Rays - Tropicana Field - St. Petersburg, FL
1 (2.4%)
Red Sox - Fenway Park - Boston, MA
1 (2.4%)
Reds - Great American Ball Park - Cincinnati, OH
2 (4.9%)
Rockies - Coors Field - Denver, CO
0 (0%)
Royals - Kauffman Stadium - Kansas City, MO
2 (4.9%)
Tigers - Comerica Park - Detroit, MI
0 (0%)
Twins - Target Field - Minneapolis, MN
1 (2.4%)
White Sox - Guaranteed Rate Field - Chicago, IL
0 (0%)
Yankees - New Yankee Stadium - The Bronx, NYC, NY
1 (2.4%)

Total Members Voted: 17

« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2 3 4 ... 18   Go Down

Author Topic: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!  (Read 50040 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline EasyAce

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,385
  • Gender: Male
  • RIP Blue, 2012-2020---my big, gentle friend.
BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« on: January 01, 2018, 09:08:14 pm »


Spring training is only 11 days away!!                                             Spring training is only 11 days away!!                               Spring training is only 11 days away!!                               Spring training is only 11 days away!!                               Spring training is only 11 days away!!                               Spring training is only 11 days away!!                               Spring training is only 11 days away!!
« Last Edit: February 01, 2018, 06:55:33 pm by EasyAce »
Logged


"The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right."---Albert Jay Nock.

Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

Offline Polly Ticks

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7,927
  • Gender: Female
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2018, 09:13:33 pm »
Can't wait!
Pitcher and catchers for the Braves report in 44 days.

Logged
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too. -Yogi Berra

Offline Machiavelli

  • Curmudgeon
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4,222
  • Gender: Male
  • Realist
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2018, 06:54:35 pm »
It’s an empty Hall without Bonds and Clemens

Mark Whicker
Orange County Register
January 11, 2018

Quote
... Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are in their sixth year of eligibility and, even though they creep toward 75 percent, they are hardly guaranteed to get there.

If they don’t, their names will go to a Historical Overview Committee, which compiles a list of 10 for the Veterans Committee, which is more likely to sign a peace treaty with North Korea than to vote for Bonds or Clemens.

Hall of Famer Joe Morgan urged the writers to bar Bonds, Clemens and anyone else associated with performance-enhancers. All he did was reinforce the suspicion that Hall of Famers would prefer to close and lock the door behind them.

Only those who are shocked to hear a telemarketer on the other end of a landline would doubt Bonds and Clemens used PEDs. As “Ball Four” author Jim Bouton once said, players would gladly take a pill that would guarantee 20-win seasons even it it cost them five years of life. If steroids were around in the 1960s, Bouton said, he and his colleagues would have been the first in line...

Read the whole thing.

@EasyAce
Logged

Offline GrouchoTex

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7,382
  • Gender: Male
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2018, 07:27:01 pm »
I am looking forward to this year.

There's a chance the Astros could still deal for Gerrit Cole.
It's not over, yet.


Logged

Offline EasyAce

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,385
  • Gender: Male
  • RIP Blue, 2012-2020---my big, gentle friend.
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2018, 07:38:27 pm »
Logged


"The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right."---Albert Jay Nock.

Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

Offline Machiavelli

  • Curmudgeon
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4,222
  • Gender: Male
  • Realist
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2018, 08:11:35 pm »
@EasyAce

I forgot. :(
Logged

Offline EasyAce

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,385
  • Gender: Male
  • RIP Blue, 2012-2020---my big, gentle friend.
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2018, 08:17:22 pm »
Quote from: Machiavelli on January 11, 2018, 08:11:35 pm
@EasyAce

I forgot. :(
@Machiavelli
You are forgiven. Say three Hail Koufaxes and perform one station of the Cronin. ;)
Logged


"The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right."---Albert Jay Nock.

Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

Offline Slip18

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,552
  • idiot savant
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2018, 11:27:51 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on January 01, 2018, 09:08:14 pm


Spring training is only 32 days away!!                                             Spring training is only 32 days away!!                               Spring training is only 32 days away!!                               Spring training is only 32 days away!!                               Spring training is only 32 days away!!                               Spring training is only 32 days away!!                               Spring training is only 32 days away!!

Bring it on, Easy!  Wheeee!

I have a list of our players' club from last year if you did not save yours. But then you know how to do that.  Mine is on paper.  Awwww, geez!

Thank you!
Logged
"It's fun; baseball's fun."  Yogi Berra

Offline EasyAce

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,385
  • Gender: Male
  • RIP Blue, 2012-2020---my big, gentle friend.
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2018, 11:35:05 pm »
Quote from: Slip18 on January 11, 2018, 11:27:51 pm
Bring it on, Easy!  Wheeee!

I have a list of our players' club from last year if you did not save yours. But then you know how to do that.  Mine is on paper.  Awwww, geez!

Thank you!
@Slip18
I still have the ping list!
Logged


"The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right."---Albert Jay Nock.

Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

Offline Slip18

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,552
  • idiot savant
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2018, 11:35:20 pm »
Baseball is back! ⚾⚾ ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾ Ladies first, remember?

@Polly Ticks  @musiclady @flowers  @skeeter @truth_seeker  @GrouchoTex  @catfish1957 @Bigun  @DCPatriot  @Machiavelli @TomSea
Logged
"It's fun; baseball's fun."  Yogi Berra

Offline Slip18

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,552
  • idiot savant
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2018, 11:36:50 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on January 11, 2018, 11:35:05 pm
@Slip18
I still have the ping list!

Sorry for pushing ahead of the line!  I am just so excited!
Logged
"It's fun; baseball's fun."  Yogi Berra

Offline Slip18

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,552
  • idiot savant
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2018, 11:47:46 pm »
@Machiavelli  Ewwwww!

And Pete Rose.  What an idiot!  I have nothing in my very large collection with anything of Pete Rose, Roger Clemens nor Barry Bonds.

Baseball is a good game.  Broke my nephew/Godson's heart when he found out Bonds was juicing. What do you say to the kids?

Roger Clemens has always been a jerk in my little black book.

Seeing Pete Rose announcing games outside of a stadium was just too stupid.

Two jerks and an idiot.  Arrrrggggh!

Now, let's play ball!  Wheeee!
Logged
"It's fun; baseball's fun."  Yogi Berra

Offline Slip18

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,552
  • idiot savant
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2018, 11:51:56 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on January 11, 2018, 08:17:22 pm
@Machiavelli
You are forgiven. Say three Hail Koufaxes and perform one station of the Cronin. ;)

Perfect, Easy! LOL!

You forgot one Act of Concession...
Logged
"It's fun; baseball's fun."  Yogi Berra

Offline Slip18

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,552
  • idiot savant
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2018, 12:43:06 am »
@EasyAce

I would like to put in my very own prediction for this year's World Series now.  Is that okay?

Diamondbacks and the Angels.

Diamondbacks are ready.  We have a more "together" team.  If it had not been for the very outstanding Dodgers last season, we would have been in like Flynn.  It also appears that we have a new and no stat pitcher who is 33 years old from Japan.  His name is Yoshihasa Hirano, No. 66.  Wonder which scout found him?

And the Angels are on my wish list.  Trout really deserves a ring. What a player!  Last year he was out with injuries for a large part of the season.  He is back this year.

Okay.  Anyone else brave (LOL!) enough to put out their list?

Do I copy and paste the ping list, Easy?  I am better than last year at this stuff, but not quite "there" yet.

@Polly Ticks  @musiclady @flowers  @skeeter @truth_seeker  @GrouchoTex  @catfish1957 @Bigun  @DCPatriot  @Machiavelli @TomSea

I don't believe it!  It worked!
« Last Edit: January 12, 2018, 12:44:12 am by Slip18 »
Logged
"It's fun; baseball's fun."  Yogi Berra

Offline GrouchoTex

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7,382
  • Gender: Male
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2018, 03:24:32 am »
I will say
Twins v Astros in the AL
Nationals v Dodgers NL
Astros 4-3 in series
Logged

Online Cyber Liberty

  • Coffee! Donuts! Kittens!
  • Administrator
  • ******
  • Posts: 80,012
  • Gender: Male
  • 🌵🌵🌵
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2018, 03:27:40 am »
@EasyAce

Checkin' in, Boss....
Logged
For unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death — if you’re unvaccinated — for themselves, their families, and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm. Sloe Joe Biteme 12/16
I will NOT comply.
 
Castillo del Cyber Autonomous Zone ~~~~~>                          :dontfeed:

Offline EasyAce

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,385
  • Gender: Male
  • RIP Blue, 2012-2020---my big, gentle friend.
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2018, 04:57:26 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on January 12, 2018, 03:27:40 am
@EasyAce

Checkin' in, Boss....
@Cyber Liberty
All checked in. First row center. Mrs. Liberty awaits.
Logged


"The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right."---Albert Jay Nock.

Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

Offline EasyAce

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,385
  • Gender: Male
  • RIP Blue, 2012-2020---my big, gentle friend.
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2018, 08:47:24 pm »
Logged


"The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right."---Albert Jay Nock.

Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

Offline EasyAce

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,385
  • Gender: Male
  • RIP Blue, 2012-2020---my big, gentle friend.
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2018, 12:24:05 am »
Logged


"The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right."---Albert Jay Nock.

Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

Offline EasyAce

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,385
  • Gender: Male
  • RIP Blue, 2012-2020---my big, gentle friend.
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2018, 12:26:17 am »
Logged


"The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right."---Albert Jay Nock.

Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

Offline EasyAce

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,385
  • Gender: Male
  • RIP Blue, 2012-2020---my big, gentle friend.
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #20 on: January 14, 2018, 12:29:18 am »
Logged


"The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right."---Albert Jay Nock.

Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

Offline GrouchoTex

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7,382
  • Gender: Male
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2018, 02:40:26 pm »
Quote from: EasyAce on January 14, 2018, 12:24:05 am
A big trade . . .

Pirates RHP Gerrit Cole traded to Astros in 5-player deal

Yep, it happened.
Now, if they can solve their closer issue....
Logged

Offline EasyAce

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,385
  • Gender: Male
  • RIP Blue, 2012-2020---my big, gentle friend.
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #22 on: January 15, 2018, 06:18:45 pm »
Hall of Fame umpire Doug Harvey dies at 87

Players called him God. Don Sutton once tried to sue him and the National League for "depriving him of his livelihood" after Harvey
ejected him for throwing doctored baseballs. (The league's then-milquetoast president Chub Feeney never imposed the mandatory
ten-game suspension.)

I remember Harvey calling balls and strikes for what proved Sandy Koufax's final major league win---on the final day of the regular
1966 season, when Koufax was forced to pitch the nightcap of a doubleheader on short rest (two days') to clinch a pennant
after Don Drysdale fell in the hole in the first game and was lifted after two innings. Koufax prevailed---even though he had to be
stretched in the clubhouse to get a slipped disc put back into place (one of the men who stretched him: former Dodger Don Newcombe,
who was no shrinking violet) midway through---and Harvey would remember the game this way: He threw seven and two thirds
innings with nothing but a fastball. And they knew what was coming. And he still won the game for them, and the pennant. It was
the greatest exhibition of baseball I've ever seen in my life.

In one of Harvey's earliest games, Stan Musial was batting when Harvey called a strike three anticipating the pitch's arrival---but it
brokie wide of the plate. Musial didn't flinch. He simply called for his glove from a bat boy and, without turning, told Harvey, "Young
fellow, I don't know which league you came from, but we use the same plate. It's 17 inches wide." Said Harvey remembering that
incident, "That's when I realised why they called him Stan the Man, and I learned not to anticipate the call. That's my gift to baseball
. . . Before, the umpires were always told, 'Be quick! Be decisive!'"

RIP Mr. Harvey.
« Last Edit: January 15, 2018, 07:29:18 pm by EasyAce »
Logged


"The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right."---Albert Jay Nock.

Fake news---news you don't like or don't want to hear.

Offline Machiavelli

  • Curmudgeon
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4,222
  • Gender: Male
  • Realist
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #23 on: January 22, 2018, 09:18:37 pm »
Meet the 20-year-old future star who beat out Shohei Ohtani as MLB's top prospect

Quote
...It’s speedy Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuna, a 20-year-old who hit .344 in 54 Triple-A games last season. If you already knew Acuna’s name, then you’re an astute baseball fan (or fantasy baseball player already looking for the next great youngster). Acuna was signed by the Braves when he was a 16-year-old in Venezuela...

Full article

Baseball Reference

MILB.com
Logged

Offline catfish1957

  • Laken Riley.... Say her Name. And to every past and future democrat voter- Her blood is on your hands too!!!
  • Political Researcher
  • *****
  • Posts: 31,425
  • Gender: Male
Re: BASEBALL 2018---BRING IT ON!
« Reply #24 on: January 23, 2018, 12:20:07 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on January 12, 2018, 03:24:32 am
I will say
Twins v Astros in the AL
Nationals v Dodgers NL
Astros 4-3 in series

Yep....We got Cole....without giving up our best prospects.....   Luhnow you magnificent bastard!!!!!!



And Yes.... I made it big on purpose!!!!!!
Logged
I display the Confederate Battle Flag in honor of my great great great grandfathers who spilled blood at Wilson's Creek and Shiloh.  5 others served in the WBTS with honor too.
Pages: [1] 2 3 4 ... 18   Go Up
« previous next »