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Detroit Tigers 40.63% 13 40.63%
Cleveland Indians 15.63% 5 15.63%
Cincinatti Reds 3.13% 1 3.13%
Pittsburg Pirates 3.13% 1 3.13%
Chicago Cubs 3.13% 1 3.13%
New York Yankees 6.25% 2 6.25%
Other 18.75% 6 18.75%
I Hate Baseball 9.38% 3 9.38%
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OT: Favorite baseball team
Just curious?
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Indians by birth, Detroit by proximity and connection to the Hens.

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Yankees because my Little League coach said my stance was like Mickey Mantle's. Said my hitting was like a different Mickey.
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I have not watched a single inning of MLB in person or on TV since 1994. The only reason I even know who won the World Series last year is because it was the Cubs for the first time since 1908**. Starting when I was about 10 years old I closely followed MLB for 40 years until 1994. The totally consuming greed of both the owners and the players that year and their total disrespect for the storied history of the game completely turned me off the game forever. The lost of revenue eventually forced the owners and players to settle, but I felt if THEY of all people had so little respect for the game as to cancel the World Series, then I would be a total fool to care about it, so I am still on strike and will never watch another MLB game again. In fact I no longer watch any NBA games nor NFL games anymore either because they have also been corrupted by big time TV entertainment dollars, but with them it is not a matter of principal as it is with MLB, so much as it is just a lack of interest in big dollar staged entertainment.

**The Rockets' MBB team is still going have to sit out a lot more NCAA Tourneys to match that record.
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(04-04-2017 06:53 PM)T-Town Wrote:  I have not watched a single inning of MLB in person or on TV since 1994. The only reason I even know who won the World Series last year is because it was the Cubs for the first time since 1908**. Starting when I was about 10 years old I closely followed MLB for 40 years until 1994. The totally consuming greed of both the owners and the players that year and their total disrespect for the storied history of the game completely turned me off the game forever. The lost of revenue eventually forced the owners and players to settle, but I felt if THEY of all people had so little respect for the game as to cancel the World Series, then I would be a total fool to care about it, so I am still on strike and will never watch another MLB game again. In fact I no longer watch any NBA games nor NFL games anymore either because they have also been corrupted by big time TV entertainment dollars, but with them it is not a matter of principal as it is with MLB, so much as it is just a lack of interest in big dollar staged entertainment.

**The Rockets' MBB team is still going have to sit out a lot more NCAA Tourneys to match that record.

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Tigers...and a big part of my fandom for them is the connection to the Toledo Mud Hens.
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(04-04-2017 06:53 PM)T-Town Wrote:  I have not watched a single inning of MLB in person or on TV since 1994. The only reason I even know who won the World Series last year is because it was the Cubs for the first time since 1908**. Starting when I was about 10 years old I closely followed MLB for 40 years until 1994. The totally consuming greed of both the owners and the players that year and their total disrespect for the storied history of the game completely turned me off the game forever. The lost of revenue eventually forced the owners and players to settle, but I felt if THEY of all people had so little respect for the game as to cancel the World Series, then I would be a total fool to care about it, so I am still on strike and will never watch another MLB game again. In fact I no longer watch any NBA games nor NFL games anymore either because they have also been corrupted by big time TV entertainment dollars, but with them it is not a matter of principal as it is with MLB, so much as it is just a lack of interest in big dollar staged entertainment.

**The Rockets' MBB team is still going have to sit out a lot more NCAA Tourneys to match that record.

I feel sorry for you.........
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(04-05-2017 06:51 AM)T-Town Wrote:  
(04-04-2017 11:48 PM)utpotts Wrote:  
(04-04-2017 06:53 PM)T-Town Wrote:  I have not watched a single inning of MLB in person or on TV since 1994. The only reason I even know who won the World Series last year is because it was the Cubs for the first time since 1908**. Starting when I was about 10 years old I closely followed MLB for 40 years until 1994. The totally consuming greed of both the owners and the players that year and their total disrespect for the storied history of the game completely turned me off the game forever. The lost of revenue eventually forced the owners and players to settle, but I felt if THEY of all people had so little respect for the game as to cancel the World Series, then I would be a total fool to care about it, so I am still on strike and will never watch another MLB game again. In fact I no longer watch any NBA games nor NFL games anymore either because they have also been corrupted by big time TV entertainment dollars, but with them it is not a matter of principal as it is with MLB, so much as it is just a lack of interest in big dollar staged entertainment.

**The Rockets' MBB team is still going have to sit out a lot more NCAA Tourneys to match that record.

I feel sorry for you.........

Actually you should feel sorry for yourself----I mostly listened to and sometimes watched many of the legends play in the 1950's and 1960's although in the 1950s TV broadcasts with Dizzy Dean were really stone age by today's standards but it was still magic at the time. The leagues were still finite and you could pretty much know all the teams without a computer database. Back then it was still a sport with many star players spending their entire careers with the same team--- baseball was its own master and not slave to the big high stakes TV entertainment dollars that rule today. Don't know how old you are but I'll bet you missed the exciting Mantle/Maris race to top Babe Ruth's season record as the summer drew to a close-----the Herb Score tragedy off the bat of Gil McDougle--- My junior year in H.S. I had study hall last period and the teacher brought his radio in to listen to the last game of the World Series and most of us stuck around to the end of the game and heard live the highly unlikely Bill Mazeroski shot heard around the world. That great cross town Yankee/Dodger rivalry in mid-1950s when both were at the top of the games...particularly memorable was the 1955 series when Johnny Podres heroics finally brought the title to Brooklyn -----So Potts, don't waste time feeling bad for me because I was privileged to follow the sport for years when is was still a REAL SPORT played by REAL people, not some spoiled millionaire athletes and each league had 8 teams not a billion.
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RE: OT: Favorite baseball team
(04-05-2017 07:35 AM)T-Town Wrote:  
(04-05-2017 06:51 AM)T-Town Wrote:  
(04-04-2017 11:48 PM)utpotts Wrote:  
(04-04-2017 06:53 PM)T-Town Wrote:  I have not watched a single inning of MLB in person or on TV since 1994. The only reason I even know who won the World Series last year is because it was the Cubs for the first time since 1908**. Starting when I was about 10 years old I closely followed MLB for 40 years until 1994. The totally consuming greed of both the owners and the players that year and their total disrespect for the storied history of the game completely turned me off the game forever. The lost of revenue eventually forced the owners and players to settle, but I felt if THEY of all people had so little respect for the game as to cancel the World Series, then I would be a total fool to care about it, so I am still on strike and will never watch another MLB game again. In fact I no longer watch any NBA games nor NFL games anymore either because they have also been corrupted by big time TV entertainment dollars, but with them it is not a matter of principal as it is with MLB, so much as it is just a lack of interest in big dollar staged entertainment.

**The Rockets' MBB team is still going have to sit out a lot more NCAA Tourneys to match that record.

I feel sorry for you.........

Actually you should feel sorry for yourself----I mostly listened to and sometimes watched many of the legends play in the 1950's and 1960's although in the 1950s TV broadcasts with Dizzy Dean were really stone age by today's standards but it was still magic at the time. The leagues were still finite and you could pretty much know all the teams without a computer database. Back then it was still a sport with many star players spending their entire careers with the same team--- baseball was its own master and not slave to the big high stakes TV entertainment dollars that rule today. Don't know how old you are but I'll bet you missed the exciting Mantle/Maris race to top Babe Ruth's season record as the summer drew to a close-----the Herb Score tragedy off the bat of Gil McDougle--- My junior year in H.S. I had study hall last period and the teacher brought his radio in to listen to the last game of the World Series and most of us stuck around to the end of the game and heard live the highly unlikely Bill Mazeroski shot heard around the world. That great cross town Yankee/Dodger rivalry in mid-1950s when both were at the top of the games...particularly memorable was the 1955 series when Johnny Podres heroics finally brought the title to Brooklyn -----So Potts, don't waste time feeling bad for me because I was privileged to follow the sport for years when is was still a REAL SPORT played by REAL people, not some spoiled millionaire athletes and each league had 8 teams not a billion.

Wow, did that post bring back memories. We had a TV in my THIRD GRADE classroom because we had a televised course in Spanish, so the whole school packed our classroom and the hall outside to watch that 61 final. I was sick for a week after Mazeroski hit his walk off.
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Other - Blue Jays (1A) and Angels (1B) - mainly due to growing up in the Cleveland sports market and the Indians being unwatchable throughout most of my early childhood. Went to Jays games in Toronto (vacations) and several Angels games in Anaheim (family in that area) as a kid - I was impressed (shocked, even) to see more than 5000 people at a game, and at a ballpark that didn't smell like cigarettes and piss - I guess it sort of stuck with me.
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Other - Dodgers...been a fan since I can remember. Garvey, Cey, Yeager, Dusty Baker, Fernando...one of my earliest baseball memories / nightmares includes Reggie Jackson belting 3 HR's vs. the Dodgers in the World Series...hate the Yankees to this day and it all started with Reggie. On the other hand, my greatest baseball memory took place during my Freshman year at UT....the Kirk Gibson HR to beat the A's and Dennis Eckersley (SP?) in the 88 World Series....I think everyone on my floor at Carter Hall heard me celebrating that night.
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(04-05-2017 07:35 AM)T-Town Wrote:  
(04-05-2017 06:51 AM)T-Town Wrote:  
(04-04-2017 11:48 PM)utpotts Wrote:  
(04-04-2017 06:53 PM)T-Town Wrote:  I have not watched a single inning of MLB in person or on TV since 1994. The only reason I even know who won the World Series last year is because it was the Cubs for the first time since 1908**. Starting when I was about 10 years old I closely followed MLB for 40 years until 1994. The totally consuming greed of both the owners and the players that year and their total disrespect for the storied history of the game completely turned me off the game forever. The lost of revenue eventually forced the owners and players to settle, but I felt if THEY of all people had so little respect for the game as to cancel the World Series, then I would be a total fool to care about it, so I am still on strike and will never watch another MLB game again. In fact I no longer watch any NBA games nor NFL games anymore either because they have also been corrupted by big time TV entertainment dollars, but with them it is not a matter of principal as it is with MLB, so much as it is just a lack of interest in big dollar staged entertainment.

**The Rockets' MBB team is still going have to sit out a lot more NCAA Tourneys to match that record.

I feel sorry for you.........

Actually you should feel sorry for yourself----I mostly listened to and sometimes watched many of the legends play in the 1950's and 1960's although in the 1950s TV broadcasts with Dizzy Dean were really stone age by today's standards but it was still magic at the time. The leagues were still finite and you could pretty much know all the teams without a computer database. Back then it was still a sport with many star players spending their entire careers with the same team--- baseball was its own master and not slave to the big high stakes TV entertainment dollars that rule today. Don't know how old you are but I'll bet you missed the exciting Mantle/Maris race to top Babe Ruth's season record as the summer drew to a close-----the Herb Score tragedy off the bat of Gil McDougle--- My junior year in H.S. I had study hall last period and the teacher brought his radio in to listen to the last game of the World Series and most of us stuck around to the end of the game and heard live the highly unlikely Bill Mazeroski shot heard around the world. That great cross town Yankee/Dodger rivalry in mid-1950s when both were at the top of the games...particularly memorable was the 1955 series when Johnny Podres heroics finally brought the title to Brooklyn -----So Potts, don't waste time feeling bad for me because I was privileged to follow the sport for years when is was still a REAL SPORT played by REAL people, not some spoiled millionaire athletes and each league had 8 teams not a billion.

You do realize it's not the 50's and 60's anymore right? Times have changed. What are you going to when Toledo pays a head football coach over a million dollars? Are they spoiled? I still feel sorry for that you live 50 years in the past and reality has pass you by.
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It's funny that he says "baseball was its own master and not slave to the big high stakes TV entertainment dollars that rule today." Using the words "master and slave" to describe today's game is funny. Back in the "glory days," it was much more of a slave and master system with the owners and commissioners keeping the money and severely limiting the earning power of the players. They also prevented players from entering free agency. Once Curt Flood and others took the league to court over free agency, players got rights and proper compensation. Though the owners and commissioners responded by black-balling the players who were the pioneers in that effort. That pattern continued well into the 1980s, with the Andre Dawson case being the most famous one.

If you don't want to watch baseball fine, but saying that it's not REAL because players are being paid what the market dictates is just silly.
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(04-06-2017 02:10 PM)Rocket Pirate Wrote:  It's funny that he says "baseball was its own master and not slave to the big high stakes TV entertainment dollars that rule today." Using the words "master and slave" to describe today's game is funny. Back in the "glory days," it was much more of a slave and master system with the owners and commissioners keeping the money and severely limiting the earning power of the players. They also prevented players from entering free agency. Once Curt Flood and others took the league to court over free agency, players got rights and proper compensation. Though the owners and commissioners responded by black-balling the players who were the pioneers in that effort. That pattern continued well into the 1980s, with the Andre Dawson case being the most famous one.

If you don't want to watch baseball fine, but saying that it's not REAL because players are being paid what the market dictates is just silly.

Maybe "Real" is not the right word; maybe it is more appropriate to say that it is now a BIG BUSINESS and not a PURE SPORT. If you are OK with that, then that is fine by me, because I don't think that one size necessarily has to fit all, I but am not OK with it---not when they cancel the World Series based solely on greed. By that same token I assume that you realize that Tuesday night November MAC football games are also a result of those very same market dictates and are just another facet of the same phenomenon.
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Saying you "feel sorry for someone" because they don't like a game says more about the person making that comment. People aren't permitted to have opinions over liking baseball or not?

The pro game is NOT the same game. Just because a person liked one version doesn't imply they must also like a different or they're to be felt "sorry for." It's also not unusual for a person to stop buying a product if it is priced beyond a desire to pay or if it reflects values not desired. Most of marketing targets those very ideas.


Most unusual is to get so butt-hurt because someone else doesn't like what you like, that you'll say you feel "sorry for them." ESPN had a survey, most 40 recognized athletes or some such. NONE of them were baseball. So I don't think it's a lonely position to think the game has changed.
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If anything, I took the "feeling sorry" comment as more of "Hey guy, we just asked a fun question about baseball season, but thanks for coming by to drop a turd in the punch bowl."

Some people have a propensity for griping about things that they cannot change, always looking for the negative. I would imagine life is not enjoyable for someone with that mindset. I too would feel sorry for someone of that ilk.
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(04-06-2017 02:59 PM)T-Town Wrote:  
(04-06-2017 02:10 PM)Rocket Pirate Wrote:  It's funny that he says "baseball was its own master and not slave to the big high stakes TV entertainment dollars that rule today." Using the words "master and slave" to describe today's game is funny. Back in the "glory days," it was much more of a slave and master system with the owners and commissioners keeping the money and severely limiting the earning power of the players. They also prevented players from entering free agency. Once Curt Flood and others took the league to court over free agency, players got rights and proper compensation. Though the owners and commissioners responded by black-balling the players who were the pioneers in that effort. That pattern continued well into the 1980s, with the Andre Dawson case being the most famous one.

If you don't want to watch baseball fine, but saying that it's not REAL because players are being paid what the market dictates is just silly.

Maybe "Real" is not the right word; maybe it is more appropriate to say that it is now a BIG BUSINESS and not a PURE SPORT. If you are OK with that, then that is fine by me, because I don't think that one size necessarily has to fit all, I but am not OK with it---not when they cancel the World Series based solely on greed. By that same token I assume that you realize that Tuesday night November MAC football games are also a result of those very same market dictates and are just another facet of the same phenomenon.

That explanation is one I'm good with. You're right that 1994 was a disgrace. I think the game and business has improved dramatically for both sides since then, which why we aren't seeing any labor disputes in the sport while just about every other sport in the country has had big problems since 1994. I think the presence of regional sports networks and the evolution of MLB's streaming service has improved the ease of being a fan and connecting to your local team or team you grew up with; before that, we were forced to watch Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, and Cardinals on ESPN and Fox, with infrequent local broadcasts.

Regarding the MAC playing at 8:30 p.m. on weekdays in November, I think I'm in the majority when I say that I wish the schools and the conference had better revenue streams and didn't have to rely on a pretty terrible TV deal simply because it provides more money than anything else.
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(04-07-2017 09:19 AM)Carolina Rocket Wrote:  If anything, I took the "feeling sorry" comment as more of "Hey guy, we just asked a fun question about baseball season, but thanks for coming by to drop a turd in the punch bowl."

Some people have a propensity for griping about things that they cannot change, always looking for the negative. I would imagine life is not enjoyable for someone with that mindset. I too would feel sorry for someone of that ilk.

I see no reason to feel sorry for Potts. His life to live.

Anyhow, last choice of the poll: "I hate baseball." If someone "dropped a turd" on your fun, why blame the person answering the poll? Seems it would be OP ruined the day. 03-wink
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GO BUCS!

Baseball is far and away my favorite sport and I feel sorry for those who don't watch it anymore because of something that happened 23 years ago. Granted, you got to see some legends of the game in the 50's-80's, but you've missed out and are missing out on amazing ballplayers and talent since then.
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(04-08-2017 08:51 AM)bigdatut98 Wrote:  GO BUCS!

Baseball is far and away my favorite sport and I feel sorry for those who don't watch it anymore because of something that happened 23 years ago. Granted, you got to see some legends of the game in the 50's-80's, but you've missed out and are missing out on amazing ballplayers and talent since then.

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There's plenty of hungry working people you can save your pity for but it's your life to demean others simply because they don't see value in your favorite pastime. You're an excellent representative of your university and humanity. 03-wink
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