Dave (imported) wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:44 pm I will always take baseball seriously. It is the one and only American sport. There is nothing like it in the rest of the world. I grew up a baseball fan and I will die a baseball fan.

I grew up in LA, Dodger Blue, we went to and watch or radio Dodgers games with Vin Scully, I remember my father two brothers and I went every fathers day to watch the boys in blue, I have watch Sandy Kolfax pitch a no hitter. We as a family did not watch football, then I went into the service and found football. I can count on my hands the number of baseball games I have watched sense.

They call baseball Americas game but is it? They can't even fill the stadium after the first week, look at a Saturday or Sunday game and the place is over half empty. The year after the strike you were lucky to get 5,000 people to a game, if it would not have been for Sosa and McGuire having a home run hitting contest baseball may have totally died, yet both of them are looked at with scorn. * should be put in front of there names, they should never make the Hall of Shame. But they did nothing wrong, there was nothing in the rules at that time? NO. They save your game, so the rest of us get 15 minutes of sports news witch is 14 minutes of baseball. Yup I really wanted to see that guy hit a home run, again. The unassisted triple play, that was worth watching a couple times. But with most sports watching a home run, guy catching a ball in the end zone, making a 6 in putt, doing a slam dunk just gets old. Show me something exciting or nothing. There are simply to many games in baseball, hell even preseason gets more coverage the hockey playoffs and you never hear much about NASCAR and if you do its only the cup series, and then only if there is somebody doing a 2 1/2 double half gainer down the back stretch.

Charles 'Red' Barrett, pitcher for the 1946 St Louis Cardnial's pitched the fewest number of pitches to a win for a world series game. The record still holds because pitchers don't ever pitch a complete game anymore.

He was my uncle Red,

River

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:25 am Yes chilliwilli, we love ya. And I can say that after meeting you in person at a MOM and knowing as soon as I saw that physically fit body of yours, I had no chance with Daughter...

Wolfie-

Once you've seen one you've seen "em all! It's the multi-orgasmic nymphos that are the most fun though.

standing in the unemployment line.

chilli-

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:48 am MLB OMG I would just as soon watch paint dry.

Baseball the most boring sport in the world,

River

...and you probably don't get out much. Baseball is a social sport. Its tempo dates to an unhurried time. A tempo that allows for conversation and social interaction, between the dramatic moments that determine the outcome of the game. If your mental ethos is such that you need to be galvanized at every moment, it might be good for you to take a deep breath, and to look around and try to see what you're missing.

eefje46 (imported) wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:35 am Why harley in winter storage? I would like riding my bike in the snow. OOK I do not have a harley, but just an old russian Dnepr mt16 but is is quite fun.

Is the mt16 the Ruskie knock off of the the 70's vintage BMW tourer? A cool bike.

Gil (imported) wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:30 pm ...and you probably don't get out much. Baseball is a social sport. Its tempo dates to an unhurried time. A tempo that allows for conversation and social interaction, between the dramatic moments that determine the outcome of the game. If your mental ethos is such that you need to be galvanized at every moment, it might be good for you to take a deep breath, and to look around and try to see what you're missing.

If I want an unhurried time between

Gil (imported) wrote: Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:30 pm dramatic moments that determine the outcome,

I go fishing.

and

Base Ball will still be boring.

River

When I was in college, Forbes Field was very close. So in September, I used to take my homework in a bonder, pay my $2.00 to get into the really cheap seats in the bleachers and watch the ball game while doing my homework.

I spent many a pleasant evening smelling overcooked hot dogs from the stone and iron grill, watching the game and doing partial differential equations in between pitches. A late summer night in the slow and very comfortable, relaxing lane.

Now golf, that's the waste of a good walk.

I wish to correct my post, I was almost right when I talked about my uncle Red.

On August 10, 1944, throwing for the Boston Braves against his former team Cincinnati Reds, Barrett pitched a 2–0 shutout at Crosley Field (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosley_Field). It was the shortest night game in history, lasting just 1 hour and 15 minutes. His 58 pitches were also the fewest pitches thrown in a complete game. He faced the minimum 27 batters, surrendered 2 hits, walked no one and struck out no one. The game was umpired behind home plate by the noted umpire Jocko Conlon.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barrett#cite_note-1)[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Barret ... -NYTimes-0)

When my grandmother died my Uncle came to the funeral and the day after Red, his son, my brother and I went golfing. it was 1974. Red was 60 my brother 40, both 9 handicap, they decided to play for money, not much a buck a hole buck a put kind of thing. Now we were playing at a course that my brother played on every week, my uncle had never seen it, my brother had his own clubs, shoes, etc. Red rented everything. My uncle took him for about 80 bucks as I remember plus had to pay for the golf, including cart. My brother shot 11 over par, my uncle shot 3 under. As my brother was handing over the money I herd my uncle say "once a pro, always a pro".

I only spent a total of 9 days in my life with my uncle yet I received some great life lessons from him, he was one of a kind. Was on the cover of TIME in April 1946, I have a copy of it.

River