The Baseball Thread

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pitchers and catchers reporting soon!

Finally.

for people with the MLB Network, they have been showing an "inning" of Ken Burns' "Baseball" every tuesday night

Yeah, it's awesome. I can't wait to see what kind of coverage they'll have during the season.

http://ussmariner.com/2006/03/12/bugs-bunny-greatest-banned-player-ever/

I cannot wait to catch me some spring training games... I just hope that my mets do not choke again this year, i don't think i can handle it again...

Comcast doesn't offer the MLB Network in my town... Not first on the list of things I'm not happy about, but definitely in the top half.

Alex, how many chances am I supposed to give you? How many are the Yankees supposed to give you... Not first on the list of things I'm not happy about, but definitely in the top ten.

Go Natties.

I was in Arizona yesterday for work, so I went to the Cubs game. Here's Micah Hoffpauir hitting a game-winning grand slam.

Very cool.

Baseball? Pfft.

People still care about this game?

thanks for you input

Sox won yesterday. Good to see Gavin Floyd back on the mound, now if he can only keep last year going

Yes. Over 78 million people attended Major League Baseball games last season -- an average of 2.6 million per team, or 32,516 per game, or 72 percent of capacity.

Considering that baseball is a virtually-everyday game, not a 2-to-4-times-a-week game like basketball or hockey, or a once-a-week game like football or "football," and considering what a lousy economic year 2008 was, I'd say that's pretty darn good.

I wonder how many of the 20 Premier League teams averaged 32,516 per game, with home games once every other week. In fact, I'm aware that some don't even have the capacity for it.

And except for a few drunken, bandwagoning college students in Boston, and client-impressers there, and in New York and Los Angeles (and to a lesser extent elsewhere), there are no "muppets" in the stands. Most people on hand are there because they love the game.

I wonder if we can talk Manchester City into buying out A-Rod.

It's amazing that the Dodgers are offering Manny 2yrs/$45m. They are bidding against themselves.

As the grandson of a Brooklyn Dodger fan from Queens, who never forgave the evil O'Malleys (and still hated the Giants after the Mets came along), I enjoy seeing the Dodgers look like not the brightest bulbs in the Southern California chandelier.

On the other hand, one of the things I'd really like to see now is Scott Boras squirm. So if Opening Day comes and his client is still Manny Being Not Signed, whose fault is it? Probably not the Dodgers': What they're offering is, at least from their perspective, quite fair.

And while Manny puts up big numbers, from the neck up, he's no Kaka -- then again, history-wise, Manchester City is no Los Angeles Dodgers.

I hate Manny.

My bias aside, he's a great hitter but plays crap defense and is a whiner in the clubhouse. I'd really love to see Boras overplay his hand and have Manny have to beg for a contract.

thats awesome

The Great Johan Santana is out indefinitely.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...mets_ace_johan_santana_could_miss_openin.html

So if you had September as when the Mutts would fall apart, it's understandable (it would be the 3rd year in a row), but you may have been way off!

Go Tribe!

It's kinda hard to think of baseball season when it's still in the low 20's here in Cleveland. Remember a season or two ago when we had had to go to Milwaukee for our opening series because we still had over a foot on the ground? Hopefully we won't have to worry about that again!

Any avid fantasy baseball players in here? I am having trouble picking my four keepers for one of my leagues and am looking for as many opinions as I could get.

Sox and Flubs today. Burls on the bump. Haven't seen him pitch on TV yet this spring, so I'm excited.

Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed in a car crash, just hours after pitching six shutout innings against the A's. He was only 22.

Tonight's game between the teams at Anaheim has been postponed. The Angels have had a lot of tragic losses over the years -- not "tragic" the way some people define it, in a Bill Buckner way, but real tragedy. This adds to them.

********ing drunk drivers.

this is such a sad story! Apparently the guy who hit them was driving on a suspended license for another DUI.....f*cker.

RIP Nick Adenhart.

My condolences goes to his family.

Crazy. I drove on the street where the crash happened this morning.