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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: crone_lover720 on April 30, 2010, 04:14:00 am
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welcome to the gaming W basball thread members and non-members alike mets and grets yankeys red sox phillies cubs rays dingbats dingbacks sarah palin braves marlins mariners giants padres dodgers angels anaheim oakland bluejay cardinals ty cobb tim lincecum cliff lee doc halladay cole hamels jayson werth tucker brisket allister mccorn strike grand slam line drive popup's slider changeup
anyone got baseball posts? I want this to be a friendly and fun environment for all ball fans. you're safe here as long as you're into the BW. who do you like, which teams are looking good this season? who cares about baseball at all?
my home team is the phillies. they just got back from a kinda nuts game at san francisco that went into the 11th inning w/ starting pitchers cole hamels and tim lincecum. pretty sure these links will start playing highlights if you're interested a (http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7717259&c_id=phi&topic_id=8877464) a (http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7716281&c_id=sf&topic_id=8878828).
right now they're half a game behind the mets in the NLE but hopefully that will be fixed when they play em back here in philly tomorrow. the team's defense is still pretty fantastic (in the phillies video you should eventually get to a nuts double play from one of the giants games) but their offense has been lacking and their pitching could be more consistent. enough about them let's hear about some more teams. go teams go te
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let's go nats.
ahhhhhhhhh fuck it
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i am supporter of the baltimore orioles. i am petitioning the local government of baltimore to change the team name to the BALTIMORE TESTICLES STOMPED BY ANGRY BLACK MEN
i am hoping that the orioles break the record for most losses ever in a season, which is held by the 1899 cleveland spiders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899_Cleveland_Spiders_season). they are slightly behind the pace but they have a bunch of fat fucks in the bullpen who love to give up home runs, and a bunch of mexican guys who do not understand what the strike zone is, so i am hoping that they all cowboy up and break the record.
GO ORIOLES!!! TESTICLES SMASHED!!!
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(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/i191.photobucket.com/albums/z219/agenthundley/42532873.webp)
GASEBALL!!!!!
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Baseball is a threat that much be dealth with immediately! Burn all bats! Throw all the players into a bottomless pit! Turn the stadiums into churches!
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hockey is only dangerous if you have teeth
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I really like baseball. And the Orioles will never be good unless Albert Belle comes back from retirement (lol) and cal ripken jr.
My home team is The Rockies. Not the best team, but I support them.
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I don't really care about baseball, we have red sox, a lot of ppl here regard baseball highly.
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i also support the baltimore orioles. this is because the only think i know about american baseball teams is that my favourite shirt when i was 10 was an orioles baseball shirt. i was very reluctant to take it off. i occasionally have pangs to become interested in baseball, but it doesn't make any sense being in new zealand. closest I get to baseball is wii sports.
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i don't really care about baseball too much, but i was pretty pumped when those red sox won the world series for the first time in 70-something years. i guess because of my dad primarily, but it's still fun to root for a team. (i had basically fallen asleep by the end of the game as i was younger at the time but he sure woke me up with celebratint)
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a lot of people outside america are american baseball fans biggles, granted they are generally from countries that have players on american teams. still no one will blame you if you wanna watch another sport besides netball and rugby
orioles have been winning, they just got a sweep of the red sox. looks like they won't be breaking any records this year
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johan santana gave up a grand slam to victorino !! phillies got their offense back. also the first grand slam I've seen
only the 5th inning but it's 11-5 and it'd be really cool if they could unexpectedly end this series ahead of the mets
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Baseball is great. There's a lot of interesting history and overall MLB is doing really well. This is because it's run by a bunch of nepotistic, super-capitalists, though, and there are organizations that basically try to put out as cheap a "team" as possible so they can pocket revenue sharing. Also, the ownership is really good at making the players look like criminals for wanting more millions while they get to be part of the most successful american sport right now!
That stuff is just a reality though (the MLBPA is a pretty effective Union and does a lot to keep the owners in check) and doesn't detract too much from enjoying the game. The game is cool because you can look at all the statistics and junk and/or live in a game to game mindset, celebrating when your scrappy white short stop hits his first and last dinger of the season
I watch probably 5 or 6 Twins games a week. The team produces pitchers who do not issue walks which saves a lot of frustration, though their staff isn't great. Liriano is making a comeback which is nice. Their offense looks solid, a good blend of sluggers and OBP machines, and of course Joe mauer. Their front office has been pretty poor, with trades like the Garza or Johan swaps netting virtually nothing of value (Delmong Young is a free swinging assshole) but had a good off season.
They are spending more than previously, have a cool new stadium I hope to get home to see, and have some fortune. Denard Span is probably my favorite player right now, he basically was shit in the minors, got lasik eye surgery, and in 2+ mlb seasons looks to be one of the most discerning players at the plate in the majors.
The Twins do have some flaws, and constantly winning a shit division seems to encourage fans that small ball or w/e is where their strength is and a historically bad front office is a few terrible contracts away from putting themselves in a tight spot. They are also one of two MLB teams that do not have a department dedicated to statistical analysis, and to appease the writers and fans whining about this, they brought someone in. A week later it was revealed this was just an internship hah
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minnesota what are you doing all the way out there?? this is the first time I've ever encountered anyone from that part of the country
I agree about watching baseball, all the stats and player history is what really drew me in this season. I ususally don't get the channel the ball game is on since I only have basic cable, but I usually keep tabs on the game with mlb.com's scoreboard and gameday if I'm at a computer or if not I get text message alerts on my phone. baseball forever (https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.banditsbaseballteam.com/images/baseball-spinning.gif)
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actually that gif is nauseating
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Baseball is a threat that much be dealth with immediately! Burn all bats! Throw all the players into a bottomless pit! Turn the stadiums into churches!
From my view, baseball stadiums are already churches.
Twins rock, Twins and Tampa Bay are the best teams in baseball this year. I'm a Twinkies fan so that's my bias, but even without Nathan they've been dominating. They're also one of the few teams that do it right. I'm also from New Britain, CT home of the rock cats double -A affiliate of the Twins.
Punto is underrated.
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http://homepages.sover.net/~johnd/baseball.html
also apparently most japanese teams are named after the company that owns them eg Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
and congrats Jamie Moyer for being the oldest grandpa to ever pitch a shutout!! you're great!!
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baseball would be 10000% better if mark teixeira gets lou gehrig's disease
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what about jeter, a-rod and posada
actually it hasn't been since the world series that I've seen the yankees play so I'm not sure which one of those grabbed his genitals and shook them at ryan howard. whoever it was they're gross
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Today the Kansas City Royals named Rusty Kuntz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Kuntz) their first base coach
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Holy shit Russell Jay "Rusty The Kunt" Kuntz
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Ricky "The Doctor' Duck Doc Halladay perfect game :fogetbackflip:
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let's go blackhawks
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help where am i
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here is friendly:
f bball
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let's go blackhawks
why do you hate philly. well I guess north philly can kill anyone's spirit
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why do you hate philly. well I guess north philly can kill anyone's spirit
nah man I don't hate philly really although you are spot on with the second part. this is just SPORTS and now that I think about it you were probably just joking anyway but I don't really even hate philly sports teams that much either. I mean I don't like them particularly but I don't hate them at the same level as, say, someone from new york. at the same time I live with a guy from jersey (devils, yankees, giants) and a guy from new york (rangers, mets, JETS but I guess they don't really apply here) so that has probably had an affect on my view of philly teams a little. also I'm a caps/redskins fan anyway. so I would rather see the blackhawks win because I couldn't be genuinely happy if the flyers won, but I wouldn't be DISTRAUGHT if they won either, it's just that personally seeing flyers fans celebrating a cup would ENHANCE the pain of the capitals losing to god damn montreal that much more.
I don't know why I even brought that up in the first place guess I was just bein a dick huh. how about that jim joyce guy though right
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it was mostly a joke about north philly but I was kinda wondering. it makes sense!! I'm not much of a flyers fan, and I care even less about the eagles
also what part of jersey/ny?? I've been trying to figure this out. a really dumb person I know is from somewhere in jersey and supports the yankees, and this other guy from north jersey is a mets fan. Fox Mulder is apparently a mets fan despite growing up in massachusetts, living in DC and being a redskins fan. then there's also this http://slyoyster.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/baseballcounties.jpg and http://www.commoncensus.org/sports_map.php?sport=2. second one seems a little more accurate, since I know there are loads of yankees fans up towards scranton and the water gap