The baseball thread.

**ak_powder_monkey** · 03-07-2007, 11:19 PM

papelbon should close, I can't see him being super effective in the mid innings but he looks like he'd be a rediculous closer

**The AD** · 03-07-2007, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by 72Twenty

Craig Biggio will get his 3,000th hit this year.

That's awesome. I had no idea he was so close.

**Missing Sock** · 03-08-2007, 06:43 AM

Best part of the Rockies are how cheap the tickets are. I can remember a couple years ago getting three dollar tickets with my king soopers receipt. Not the best seats but a cheap fun way to spend three hours. Those same seats at Shea are going for $20 or so.

**soul_skier** · 03-08-2007, 06:56 AM

I'm sorry, but a sport with 2-5 seconds of action and then a minute or more break doesn't do it for me. It is my personal opinion that a sport such as soccer is much more enteraining, and besides, I'll put my soccer hooligans against your baseball fanatics any day

**smmokan** · 03-08-2007, 08:22 AM

Originally Posted by soul_skier

I'm sorry, but a sport with 2-5 seconds of action and then a minute or more break doesn't do it for me.

So you don't like football? Because there's a lot less action (granted, its people hitting each other) with a lot MORE downtime inbetween. I don't want to argue about the viability of each as a spectator sport, but the stoppage inbetween baseball games averages only about 20 seconds... football its usually 40-45 seconds, if not more.

And Sock- those same King Soopers tickets last year were $6, and there was a decent selection of seats. I used it quite a few times. I paid full price for a few games this year- opening day, and two of the three Yankees games.

**Missing Sock** · 03-08-2007, 09:03 AM

Originally Posted by smmokan

And Sock- those same King Soopers tickets last year were $6, and there was a decent selection of seats. I used it quite a few times. I paid full price for a few games this year- opening day, and two of the three Yankees games.

Cheap tickets make those $8 beers a bit easier to swallow

**Shen** · 03-08-2007, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by soul_skier

It is my personal opinion that a sport such as soccer is much more enteraining, and besides, I'll put my soccer hooligans against your baseball fanatics any day

How many Yankees/Red Sox games have you attended?

**smmokan** · 03-08-2007, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by Missing Sock

Cheap tickets make those $8 beers a bit easier to swallow

Too bad you can't bring in your own beer... they allow you to bring in everything else, why not beer?!?!

**smmokan** · 03-08-2007, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by ak_powder_monkey

papelbon should close, I can't see him being super effective in the mid innings but he looks like he'd be a rediculous closer

I disagree. He was never a closer until last year- he can handle being a starter.

And if you didn't notice, he WAS a ridiculous closer last year.

**72Twenty** · 03-08-2007, 02:16 PM

I think Brad Lidge will be back on top as one of the most feared closers in the NL.

He has been working with Nolan Ryan this spring.

**smalls** · 03-08-2007, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by 72Twenty

GO ASTROS!

you're a good man. baggy and biggio had/have been my faves for years. such fantastic examples of model franchise players.

hopefully lidge will shake off whatever ailed him last year and get back to his bad mamma-jamma self.

go 'stros!

**smmokan** · 03-08-2007, 02:29 PM

I think Lidge will be back too- his stuff is just too good to fall off into Bolivia.

**72Twenty** · 03-08-2007, 06:59 PM

I became an Astros fan in high school when my dad got transferred to Houston for his job. I moved there with my mom and dad for a few years before I came back to Wyoming for college. I started following them everyday in the papers and on TV, and I used to be able to get a student ticket in the outfield at the Astrodome for $3, then it went up to $5. Ahh, the Dome.... great memories. My good buddy was from outside of Pittsburgh and we used to go to games almost weekly (he was a Pirates fan

). We would pay the 3 bucks for the student tickets and wait 'til about the 3rd or 4th inning and make our way down behind the dugouts, especially on weekdays when the attendance wasn't that great. Anyway, when I moved back home to Wyo, I kept following them and have been ever since. I'd like to go back to H-town and see a game at Minute Maid someday. For now I just catch them at Coors every year when they play the Rockies, which is a damn nice ballpark as well. I fully recommend anyone who is in or near Denver in the summer to catch a game at Coors Field. Being back up here, I am able to follow the Rockies alot more too, especially their televised games. I am catching on to them alot more lately, but I will always like the 'Stros as my number one team.

**72Twenty** · 03-08-2007, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by soul_skier

I'm sorry, but a sport with 2-5 seconds of action and then a minute or more break doesn't do it for me. It is my personal opinion that a sport such as soccer is much more enteraining, and besides, I'll put my soccer hooligans against your baseball fanatics any day

You need to go to a live MLB game and experience the whole thing. It is a completely different kind of game than soccer, in that you actually have to think in baseball. It is far more cerebral. And go to a game where you can sit as close to home plate as possible and see in person from a few feet away what a Major League fastball is really like.

If you want to compare soccer fans to something, go to a big rivalry college football game.

**72Twenty** · 03-08-2007, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

That's awesome. I had no idea he was so close.

It is projected to happen around late June to early July. I bet if it works out, they will try to time it to happen in Houston for the fans, but it would be sweet if he does it at Coors while I am there!

**72Twenty** · 03-10-2007, 01:03 AM

**detroit** · 04-06-2007, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by A-wreck

Go tigers

Second that.

I bet they're hoping winter comes to an end soon. They look pretty cold out there.

**steve** · 04-06-2007, 08:19 PM

the mets are KILLING IT RIGHT NOW!!
three undefeated teams left in baseball - two of them are the mets and the braves. and the mets are winning 11-1.

the top of the eight inning against the braves was an hour of beauty.. (:

-steve

**72Twenty** · 04-08-2007, 09:21 PM

Well, so far my 2 teams are already starting to choke. Houston is at an embarrassing 1-5 record, while the Rockies are doing a little better at 3-3. I know it is early... the 'Stros need to start bringing the bats and the Rockies are actually looking really good, losing some close ones. Hopefully they both get it turned around.

**fez** · 04-08-2007, 10:25 PM

welcome back big papi!

**Brock Landers** · 04-09-2007, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by fez

welcome back big papi!

That second homerun was ridiculous. It was a nasty pitch, 94 mph, just off the inside corner above the hands. Not many hitters in baseball could even touch that pitch

And Papelbon was absolutely dominating.

And Joe Morgan is the worst. Tied with Tim McCarver.

**smmokan** · 04-09-2007, 07:54 AM

No shit, its about time Papi did something. My fantasy team was waiting for him to do something. He and Pujols were no-shows this week.

Joe Morgan was getting better last year- but he seems to have regressed over the winter. Give me Gammons and Orel any day of the week.

**Brock Landers** · 04-09-2007, 08:08 AM

Originally Posted by smmokan

Give me Gammons and Orel any day of the week.

Orel and Fernando Vina are great on Baseball Tonight, better than John Kruk. Gammons is still the man though, lives in the town over from my parents and I see him around the summer all the time at Cape League games. Nicest guy youd ever talk to.

**smmokan** · 04-09-2007, 08:14 AM

The Dalai Lama himself. His word is the baseball gospel.

**SKISC** · 04-09-2007, 08:53 AM

Well, the Braves are 5 and 1. Good way to start the season. Last year felt like the 80's all over again when you could just go to the stadium and buy a cheap ticket and sit where ever you wanted. It is still early however, and a lot can happen.