Y'know what's wrong with baseball?

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Guys wearing their pants down to their shoes.

2. Guys saying "team" instead of "ball club."

:grr:

[SeattleGirl]

1. Also, people saying "stadium" instead of "ball park".

:puke:

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Who does that?

Lemme at 'em. :grr:

I say "ball yard" or just "yard," but "ball park" is also quite acceptable. :thumbsup:

[SeattleGirl]

8. I've heard it from people going into Safeco Field for a game.

:eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Ah — fans

A lot of 'em just don't know any better — bless their hearts. :)

[KitchenWitch]

2. I miss the old stirrups and sanisocks!

:grr:

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. Me too

There're still a couple guys who wear 'em. They automatically have my respect.

They might hit .029 and eat babies, but they respect the game. :patriot:

[uppityperson]

5. It is boring?

golf, baseball, bowling, curling, oooooooooooooooooooo, fun fun fun.





Actually I have been to 1 pro game in my life and it was quite fun.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. My stock answer:

People who say baseball is boring:

a.) don't know how to watch it;

b.) are boring people.

[hfojvt]

39. I suppose spending twenty hours taking a class

to learn how to watch baseball wouldn't be boring either.

It wouldn't have to be, but it sure would be if the class was run like a baseball game. :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

43. Yeah

The only way to really learn baseball is to go to games. If you just watch 'em on teevee, you ain't gonna get it.

[wildhorses]

7. yeah ---

what you said :grr:

:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

10. Someone needs to TEACH young ballplayers how to wear their pants!

:mad:

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. And to shave those STOOPID Fu Manchu goatees

Those are soooooooooooooo 1992. :eyes:

[Connonym]

65. that's so funny because I was just complaining about that yesterday

I cannot believe how many men still wear that style. I bet most of them wore mullets too.

[KitchenWitch]

70. OMG - Are you reading my mind?

[mark414]

12. that sounds like something that's wrong with those guys,

not wrong with baseball

nothing is wrong with baseball :thumbsup:

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. It reflects on something that's wrong:

All these fuckpies trying to change it.

It doesn't need changing.

[VenusRising]

14. Guys on a field

trying to hit each other's balls with big sticks?

:shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Um... noooo...

But I might add that nobody calls the other guys "Ya bums, ya!" anymore.

:P

[VenusRising]

18. What is civilization coming to??

:eyes:


:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. Dunno

Bumless chaps? :shrug:

[VenusRising]

21. Oh, I get it.

Cause of the other thread.

Funny.

Ha.











:P:pals:

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. ...

:hug:

[VenusRising]

27. Get your fresh hot nut here....

Points at teh Rex.
:rofl:



:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. Hells, yeah!

Nah. I like these lots better. :9

[VenusRising]

34. Nothing like peanuts, dogs, brews

and a day at the ball park.

[Oeditpus Rex]

40. One of the best 'Peanuts' lines ever:

Charlie Brown and Linus were eating hot dogs.


"Good hot dogs, huh, Charlie Brown?"

"Fair, I guess. A hot dog doesn't taste right without a ball game in front of it."

:thumbsup:

[Nicole]

15. No cheerleaders?

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Actually, there's two or three clubs

that have cheerleaders. Florida's one of 'em; I forget the other(s).



They, of course, should be banned from the league and their cities destroyed. :grr:

[Nicole]

25. Really?

I had no idea there were any.

I only said cheerleaders because of a conversation we had last year about that. I can't find it right now because the advanced search is turned off. :mad:

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. Wow, you remember that?

:wow:

[Nicole]

49. Yes I do

I'm pretty sure you said no cheerleaders allowed in baseball. However you reconsidered upon mention of those outfits. :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

56. Well...

If they were wearin' cutoff jeans and halters and drinking beer in the cheap seats, yeah — I'd be all for 'em. :D

[AllegroRondo]

64. St Louis has girls in skimpy outfits that throw t-shirts to fans

in between innings, but i wouldnt call them cheerleaders.

[reyd reid reed]

66. Cheerleaders are

one of the things that IS wrong with baseball. It's just wrong, wrong, I say.

x(

[VenusRising]

20. Okay....is it

that they bread the chicken in cornflakes for interfering after the game?

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. LOL!

Good job. :thumbsup:



I met the Chicken once, out of costume. Ted Giannolous. He's a jerk.

He worked me into his act, too.

[VenusRising]

31. So, he's a jerk for being inclusive?

Chicken racist!


Why do you hate Amuricah? :eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

52. Heh!

Nah, he was a jerk because he was a jerk. He objected to me taking photos of him. I guess he thought he should have all the rights to his image.

When he came back years later, though, I was on the field shooting one of his bits between innings, and that's when he worked me into it — voguing for the camera, and then finally sticking his butt into it. :D

[VenusRising]

53. Jerk chicken!

Mmmmmmmm!! :9


:rofl:

[Blue_Tires]

22. 1. of course, the DH

2. competitive imbalance
3. "performance enhancers"
4. Bonds (see #3)
5. Lowlife ratfink scumbag piece of shit criminal of a commish
6. Interleague play
7. No world series day games
8. The gross overuse of the color black as both a primary and secondary uniform color (I'm not too keen on the overuse of red, either)
9. League structure -- I mean honestly; I'm the only baseball fan i know that has bitched from the beginning about one league having two more teams than the other...
10. Jaggoff ego-driven players (see Schilling, Sheffield, and a host of others)...
11. Moronic owners
12. The 8 in. x 8 in. strike zone
13. An farce of an All-Star game that doesn't even rotate to every MLB city
14. A playoff format that allows an 83-win team to not only make the playoffs over better teams, but win the whole thing:evilfrown:
15. Too much emphasis on offense on hitting for power rather than using speed, hitting to all fields, and playing small ball (even though some of the old philosophies are starting to come back)
16. The lost art of stealing 3rd
17. The fact that the media will brand a superstar power hitter as one of the league's greats, even though that player looks like a drunkard while trying to play the field
18. "100-Pitch counts" ugh...The mental cripple that came up with this concept needs to be hunted down, along with the genius that came up with the five-man rotation.
19. Players that feel the need to wear body armor while at the plate
20. The lost art of defensive hitting with two strikes
21. Players that feel the need to wear huge earrings or thick gold ropes while playing (just a personal pet peeve of mine)
22. I could probably write 100 more but now I'm tired


I agree with the other sentiments in the thread, especially the one about the low pajama pants covering shoes...bring back the high socks and stirrups (as a baseball historian would tell you, the socks were the only distinctive color feature to differentiate the two teams in the early days)...

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. Yup — those, too

BTW — you hear some managers are talking about a six-man rotation? :eyes:



More history: The idea for white sanitary hose came from the need to more readily see spike wounds. They played hardball then.

When was the last time you saw a shortstop or second baseman dumped on his ass? When was the last time you saw a retaliatory "purpose pitch"?

(That reminds me of something else: Seems like a lotta people these days think "beaned" means hit by a pitch anywhere on the body.)

[SeattleGirl]

30. Saw a retaliatory pitch just the other day.

A Mariners player got hit, so our pitcher hit the first batter up in the next inning, with the first pitch. :evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. Good

But I was really thinking of the pitcher who does the head-hunting getting thrown at — something you don't even see in the NL anymore.

[SeattleGirl]

41. True, dat.

I'm not a big objector to the DH, but it is rather unfair when the pitcher who hits a batter doesn't face direct retaliation.

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. Yeah, that's one of my big gripes about it

And since it'd be a little too obvious to throw one into the dugout...

[SeattleGirl]

45. ROFL! I'd love to see that! Can you imagine....after your team's

pitcher hits someone, none of the players will sit anywhere NEAR him when he's back in the dugout!

"Dude, you're on your own here!" :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

55. Maybe they could have a new position

Designated Target.

[SeattleGirl]

58. Bwahahaha!!! I love it!

Let's send a letter to Butt Selig! :rofl:

[saltpoint]

26. I like the old terraces at Crosley Field better than the modern warning tracks.

How's that for OLD.

Baseball is still more interesting for me to watch than most other sports, but I'm awfully partial to the true ballparks like Wrigley and Fenway, and appreciate Cincinnati for instance tearing down that hideous concrete thing and building their new heritage-friendly ballpark instead. If it must be new, at least make it old.

The game is played in its most true expression in sandlots and neighborhood parks by 7 years olds and 14 year olds, etc. No scoreboard, no broadcast, no fans dressed up like this or that mascots -- just kids playing the game because they love it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Oh, man, you've got me trippin' now

One of the first games I ever saw on teevee — I couldn't have been more than 6, maybe 7 — was the "Game of the Week" with Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese. It was at Crosley, and I remember asking my dad if that park was smaller than the others. Wasn't it 390 to center?

As for the "most true expression," yeah — and I think that's what it was before the Wrights lured players from their home towns with the promise of pay. I would've loved to have been around then, when the home team really was the home team.

[saltpoint]

38. Yes! The right, center, and left fields were all very short distances from

home plate. Which favored Frank Robinson's hard pull-hitter stance, and made Vada Pinson's extra base hit totals even more impressive.

Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee. Holy cow. I can still hear their voices. At Crosley the Reds had Waite Hoyt, who wasn't terribly charismatic but was extremely authoritative. He knew the game completely, so my grandparents assumed he knew EVERYThing COMPLETELY. I grew up believing that Waite Hoyt was doubtless the most intelligent soul on earth.

And for my purposes at age 6, he was!

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. My dad was an Arkie, like Dean

He told me how Dean would say stuff like "He slud into third and they throwed him out." :rofl:

Holy christ. Fred Hutchinson managed the Reds then. Mr. Calm. :D

[saltpoint]

47. Your dad is exactly right. Dean horrified English teachers with

some of the verb forms that came out of his mouth, but he delighted a LOT of people.

To me, it was pure delight. I didn't question anything that came out of that 6-transistor radio. It was the oracle, it was the source of truth and light. Grammar? Never heard of it!

A moment of silence greeted your mention of Fred Hutchinson. I wish the Reds had chosen to name their new/old ballpark for him, but then again MLB seldom phones me up for my input! He was a baseball man, and as you say, one of the last calm managers.

[Oeditpus Rex]

48. I was kidding about that

I read a story once — might've been Garagiola who told it — that said Hutch once kept it in after he lost a game when he was pitching, until he was home having dinner, when he suddenly threw a punch and put a hole in the wall. :7

Oh, and Babe Pinelli wrote that he once got into an argument with Hutchinson, who started bumping him all over the field with his stomach.

I dunno, though. Maybe he was more mellow as a manager.

[saltpoint]

51. I saw him on tv at every opportunity and he looked stoic to a fault.

I never knew about his temper.

That's funny about managers. Joe Torre is a man of deep passions but seems very stoic in the dugout. And he works for a real horse's ass, too.

Billy Martin, on the other hand, was explosive, and the more public the setting, the more explosive he was.

I'm glad I was never a baseball manager!

[SeattleGirl]

50. Bwahahaha! Reminds me of my dad, also an Arkie!

Except instead of "throwed", he'd say "thowed"! :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

54. Oh, gawd!

That reminds me of Tim Webb, one of the more... inimitable characters I've met. He was from Hobbs, N.M. — which is to say, West Texas.

This is Tim Webb during a baseball game:

"THOW it! THOW it!"

This is Tim Webb after throwing a bad pass in a pick-up football game:

"OH! Mah fuckin' fawlt!"

:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

57. ROFL!!!! A few more gems from dear ol' dad:

"Roll down yer winder if yer hawt."

"Gotta stop at the Guf station fer some gas."

And my fav: Whenever he stood up to go somewhere, he's stick his hands in his pockets, hitch up his pants (and there was ALWAYS one pantleg caught up in his cowboy boots), lean back, and go, "Welp, Ah'm goin' now." The last picture of he and I ever taken, there was that damned pantleg, caught up over his cowboy boot! :rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

59. 'That good Guf gas'

:D

My dad always said, "I'm gonna carry your sister to school."

I was like, "Why don't you drive her instead?"

:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

60. That's what a lot of dad's relatives said too!

And my grandmother (dad's mom) would say she "disremembered" something instead of "forgot" something! :rofl:

Damn, I love my relatives!

[camero]

33. Nah. It's bad pitching

I'm seeing way too many so-called MLB "pitchers" with ERAs over 8. Sheesh.

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. Hell, in the American League

guys with ERAs in the 5s wind up on the All-Star Team. :eyes:

[enigmatic]

35. Dale Murphy isn't in the Hall Of Fame

http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/murphda05.shtml

[wildhorses]

61. truly that is an injustice

:patriot:

[taterguy]

62. Well, the Braves haven't won many games since he retired

[reyd reid reed]

63. Players who wear their sunglasses

ON TOP OF THEIR CAPS when they're in the outfield. Drives me batty. Flip-down flip-down flip-down.

Still some players out there who wear the short pants, but only a few who wear stirrups. Juan Pierre is the only one that I can think of right off the top of my head. He wears the flip-down glasses, too. Now if he'd only wear a cap that fit and wear it straight....

:eyes:

[Zavulon]

67. Why not just "club" instead of "ball club?"

I live in the DC area and unnecessary words remind me of the pain of having "ball coach" Steve Spurrier in the area.

[Oeditpus Rex]

73. It's usually 'ball club' on first reference

and a few subsequent "highlight" references.

You used to get guys saying stuff like, "We've got a good ball club here. There're guys on this club playing better ball than they've played in years. This club's gonna win some ball games."

Seems like "ball" is something of a buzzword. Everybody knows what you mean when you say "ball cap," and I recall a song — I think it was by K.T. Oslin — that had the line, "Willie watches ball." I can't imagine anybody thinking that means anything other than baseball.

[Zavulon]

76. But when it gets repetitive it drives me insane.

If they use "ball club" twice in a row I generally turn off the sound.

Do you watch football? "Larry Johnson is an outstanding FOOTBALL player who helps his FOOTBALL team win FOOTBALL games." Yeah, yeah, bite me. I know what sport I'm watching.

Some of the worst offenders on that: Mike Ditka, Mark Schlereth (a guest on Mike & Mike on ESPN) and pretty much every jackass who announces games live these days.

[Arugula Latte]

68. Well, no matter what, it's fifty times better than American Football.

Gawd, that is the worst game ever invented. x(

[leftofthedial]

69. Twelve-dollar hot dogs

"God Bless America" during the seventh inning stretch

[Oeditpus Rex]

74. You shoulda seen me Sunday

I was listening to the Dodgers-Padres game (at San Diego), and during the stretch they played... that song. I sprinted across two rooms to turn down the sound.

:puke:

[Mrs. Venation]

71. 3. Barry Bonds

4. Designated hitter rule

5. Peter Angelos

[InternalDialogue]

72. Not to mention the lack of the "Mystery Base" option

Three hidden bases arrayed in short center field, timed with a computer to randomly appear at any point during the game. The Mystery Base replaces second base, so when a Mystery Base appears, second base drops down into a trapdoor beneath the ground as the new base pops up.

Rounding first and second base disappears? Better find the Mystery Base really quick!

Standing on second when it disappears beneath your feet? Scramble for the Mystery Base!

See the runner break for the Mystery Base as the pitch arrives? Shortstops or second basemen better make sure you run to cover the right area!

I imagine this being thrown in as an option every other Sunday. I'd also like to see the cultivation of white turf for special "whiteout" afternoon games. The challenge of spotting the ball on sizzling ground balls rises dramatically, and the fans get a special under-chin tan.

[TommyO]

75. Absolutely nothing when you're at the...

Padres Hall of Fame Bar & Grill at Petco Park in San Diego during the second seating with a whole bunch of friends enjoying Tanqueray 10 and tonics!