Posted on 05/12/2019 4:19:37 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
When baseball didn’t do anything to Ted Turner about “Christians are losers” I lost interest.
I recommend the first thing MLB should do is go on strike for higher pay. Second the players should disrespect the POTUS by ignoring invitations to the White House. Third MLB should get involved and take sides in politicized social issues. Lastly tell the public how badly you have been discriminated against as you deposit your $60,000,000 paycheck.
If MLB can continue to do these things, as other major sport venues have dot, well, people will flock to their sport franchises.{sarc}
Domed stadium no less. Waste on a worthless team.
I love watching the caught cheating compilations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB79xJzRf40&list=WL&index=233&t=343s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyI9vhkoBh4
> Taking the games off broadcast TV and making people subscribe to a pay channel to watch MLB games has taken its toll. <
I agree. I used to enjoy a weekend game or two on TV. It didn’t matter who was playing. It kept me on board as a fan. Now I can’t find any games on broadcast TV. So I’m no longer a fan, and have little interest in the sport anymore.
Nice work there, MLB (not).
The Mariners started out 13 and 2, and I think they are now 18 and 21. Oh well . . . I think they are the only MLB team never to be in the World Series, and they haven’t made the playoffs in at least 15 years.
Why note drop the ticket prices and up the booze sales.
Razors and blades.
I’ve got a great idea: Ten-Cent Beer Night!
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I’ve heard a number of sports radio jocks discuss this. Many say that some teams are not spending to win.
But they do spend enough to keep a positive cash flow and to increase shareholder value.
Seattle is a prime example. This year they said they are rebuilding and do not expect to win many games as a result.
Many are asking “Rebuilding from what??? You have not been to the play offs in 20+ years!”
Especially on a 162 game season
In the world of the weird today, the Trop in Tampa Bay was “sold out” while Fenway in Boston looked half full. Boston had bad weather and were playing the sinking Mariners while the 1st place Rays were battling it out with the 2nd place Yankees.
Red Sox and Yankees both won.
* I put the sold out in quotations because they claimed 25,000 as sold out which makes it smallest MLB baseball stadium. Fenway capacity is 37,500
The Kentucky Derby in the time it takes to throw a pitch.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1127236417900490752
My dad worked for US Steel and used to be able to use the corporate tickets. So many Sundays saw us down at Forbes Field to watch the Bucs. Forbes Field had no parking (so we had to walk a long way) and had steel columns all over the stands which blocked the view, but I remember it as a great place to watch a ballgame (certainly better than Three Rivers Stadium).
One time when I was just a little fella an old guy that worked for the team sat near us. He took a liking to me and took us to his apartment near the stadium after the game and gave me a ball autographed by the whole team (real hand-signed, not stamped). So I have a ball signed by the ‘63 (I think) Pirates that includes at least 4 HOFers (Clemente, Stargell, Mazeroski, Wills).
My dad was at the 7th game of the ‘60 World Series. I had his scorecard from the game, but lost it over the years moving around. Lots of people claimed to have been at that game - he had proof.
I still follow the game but have not been to one in many years. Too expensive.
I like it.
Especially as a race fan.
Racing is straight-forward and to the point, and “never” gets delayed or canceled for weather.
You sound as excited by bazeball as I am. Golf moves a bit faster, from what I recall of dad watching it.
My younger brother came to visit us on the Big island, Hawaii. Never been here before, thought he would jump at the chance to go out on our boat and see the Kona coast.
No, he just had to watch the Dodgers on TV. Go figure, go to Hawaii, watch bazeball on TV.
Well, he is a liberal, that might explain it.
Yeah I don’t think MLS has the “Love means love” homo promo every game. Gag me.
Is that played in every state or do we only get to enjoy it ad nauseummhere in wonderful California?
(I only hear it cause hubs still watches. I sure don’t)
I’ve gone to a few FC Dallas games, had a good time, it’s a nice stadium. A bargain compare to going to Cowboys games, you get raped in the wallet just paying for the parking there.
With the media no longer reporting most violent crime in the inner cities due to complaints from race-hustlers, people from the ‘suburbs’ are risking a life-changing event every time they go ‘downtown’.
...so no surprise here.
Bonnaroo.
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