Baseball Talk

[Challerain]

The Baltimore Orioles. Gonna be tough this year but last year was so cool after 15 years of losing.

[oldspec4]

The Milwaukee Braves (great pitching and Hank Aaron), Kansas City Athletics (The NY Yankees farm team[:)]), and Washington Senators (seem to always finish in last place.)

[rodney727]

Truth is I have really grown fond of disliking baseball . Each team should have the same amount of money to pay players like football. Baseball players are the most overrated and overpaid athletes in the world. At this point I feel MMA fighters have more skill than 90% of most baseball players.

[Will_L_OLD]

Mets fan, hoping for 80 wins this year. As for Yankee fans... I'll never forget 2004 when the Red Sox beat the Yankers in the playoffs and within weeks half the Yankers in Queens were wearing BoSox caps [:D]

[Rtwfreak]

ORIGINAL: rogo727

Truth is I have really grown fond of disliking baseball . Each team should have the same amount of money to pay players like football. Baseball players are the most overrated and overpaid athletes in the world. At this point I feel MMA fighters have more skill than 90% of most baseball players.

<sigh> Another Socialist ^ baseball fan. I certainly don't like teams having to have the same amount of money and certainly don't like salary caps. That's what made baseball what it is today is the franchises like the Yankess, Boston, St. Lous, San Fancisco, LA Dodgers just to name a few dominating the league and getting some of the best players you ever saw on the "same" team. Football did it for revenue's sake and so, all the crybaby fans of every team might get a chance to see them in the playoffs one day an even the Super Bowl and those owners get their fair share of the profits. But, that's sooooooo socialistic I can't stand it and I hardly watch football anymore.

I love baseball but it really is turning into too much of a business as well instead of the great sport it once was. Players shooting up the PEDS, taking steroids anything to make them more powerful than they should be for the money instead of for the love of the game. I've watched it change sooooooo much since the early 60's.

My favorite team of all time The 75' Reds.

I'll watch just about any game because I just love the sport and I love my beer and krautdogs while watching.

[parusski]

ORIGINAL: Rtwfreak

ORIGINAL: rogo727

Truth is I have really grown fond of disliking baseball . Each team should have the same amount of money to pay players like football. Baseball players are the most overrated and overpaid athletes in the world. At this point I feel MMA fighters have more skill than 90% of most baseball players.

<sigh> Another Socialist ^ baseball fan. I certainly don't like teams having to have the same amount of money and certainly don't like salary caps. That's what made baseball what it is today is the franchises like the Yankess, Boston, St. Lous, San Fancisco, LA Dodgers just to name a few dominating the league and getting some of the best players you ever saw on the "same" team. Football did it for revenue's sake and so, all the crybaby fans of every team might get a chance to see them in the playoffs one day an even the Super Bowl and those owners get their fair share of the profits. But, that's sooooooo socialistic I can't stand it and I hardly watch football anymore.

I love baseball but it really is turning into too much of a business as well instead of the great sport it once was. Players shooting up the PEDS, taking steroids anything to make them more powerful than they should be for the money instead of for the love of the game. I've watched it change sooooooo much since the early 60's.

My favorite team of all time The 75' Reds.

I'll watch just about any game because I just love the sport and I love my beer and krautdogs while watching.

Just like so much of American society we must, for the children, make everything and everyone equal. Lord when will this nonsense stop. When my children were in their young some of the sports teams they played on awarded everyone a trophy or ribbon, score was not kept. My young brats quickly grew bored and disinterested, though almost all the children surreptitiously kept score. One basketball team my daughter played on had a rule requiring players who scored "an unbalanced number of points"(I kid you not) be benched for three-fourths of the game in order to bring "parity to opposing teams and players", my daughter played just a few games before quitting in disgust.

[RedArgo]

Another Dodgers fan here. A lot of guys on the downside of their careers on that roster, but still anything less than a world series appearance will be a disappointment.

[rodney727]

Even professional wrestling regulates drug tests why can't MLB? While baseball was once "Americans game" I do see it declining in popularity with kids and adults. Remember when a player stayed with a team for years and years. This is what I miss most about professional sports and it is a huge reason I love college sports today. Not a socialist but the whole Berry Bonds scandal really turned me off MLB. You know that just about every major player uses PEDs.

ORIGINAL: Rtwfreak

ORIGINAL: rogo727

Truth is I have really grown fond of disliking baseball . Each team should have the same amount of money to pay players like football. Baseball players are the most overrated and overpaid athletes in the world. At this point I feel MMA fighters have more skill than 90% of most baseball players.

<sigh> Another Socialist ^ baseball fan. I certainly don't like teams having to have the same amount of money and certainly don't like salary caps. That's what made baseball what it is today is the franchises like the Yankess, Boston, St. Lous, San Fancisco, LA Dodgers just to name a few dominating the league and getting some of the best players you ever saw on the "same" team. Football did it for revenue's sake and so, all the crybaby fans of every team might get a chance to see them in the playoffs one day an even the Super Bowl and those owners get their fair share of the profits. But, that's sooooooo socialistic I can't stand it and I hardly watch football anymore.

I love baseball but it really is turning into too much of a business as well instead of the great sport it once was. Players shooting up the PEDS, taking steroids anything to make them more powerful than they should be for the money instead of for the love of the game. I've watched it change sooooooo much since the early 60's.

My favorite team of all time The 75' Reds.

I'll watch just about any game because I just love the sport and I love my beer and krautdogs while watching.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: rogo727
it is a huge reason I love college sports today.

How is this a rationale to preferentially follow college sports? In college sports, you're guaranteed to have turnover of the entire body of the team in 4 years. 100%. OK, maybe a few guys get redshirted, but you get the idea. Plus, most freshmen don't start with regularity. Sophomores and Juniors are really where it's at for most of the College sports. Thereafter, they're focusing on 'going pro' and getting the big payday, so their reliability in their senior years wanes.

At least with the professional teams, there's a chance that marquis players will be with the same team for a prolonged period of time. Much depends on management, of course. I'd say that the popularity of the pros is because you *can* follow some of the players on 'your' team for a prolonged period.

Plus, college teams are competing within the NCAA. The National Socialist party's got nuthin' on the NCAA. So much so that NCAA runs all the fun out of events by their insane PC quest for justice and correctedness. So many of the best teams in the sport 'don't exist' for years at a time or have their history voided when it suits NCAA's retrospective-obsessed whitewashing of history. Nope, I'll take my lumps with MLB or the NFL over the zealots at NCAA, thanks.

In any case, this conversation (pro versus college sports) is a little off the OP mark for the thread, rogo727. You want to talk socialism in baseball or national socialism in NCAA, that's well and good for another thread. The OP was merely starting a thread on the start of baseball season. Light hearted! Go home team!

I'll participate in your other thread if you like, but maybe we can move the 'heavy' stuff out of here? [8D]

[rodney727]

I meant the pay for professional athletes and its all about the money. That's why I love college sports . Your rambling statement above is of course your opinion not shared by most college fans. I do understand your non interest in college sports being from Minnesota, that would be tough year after year with such disappointment [:'(]. But your right way off topic here.