There was a little kid, and his mom would beat him, so social services took him out and put him in his grandma’s custody. But then she beat him, so they put him in foster care. But then his foster parents beat him. So social services put him with the Nationals, because the Nationals don’t beat anybody.
We’re 4-11; not just the bottom of the standings in NL East, not just the bottom of the standings in the National League, but the bottom of the standings in all of MLB. LoDuca’s hurt, Young’s hurt, Dukes is hurt, Pena and Cordero are off the DL, but still not playing…
But hey, at least our stadium’s got the Pope. I wonder how his fastball is?
The online MLB package (live video, audio, packaged highlights) is $90 I think for the season. The only limit is you get blacked out if the game is on tv in your area. Since I’m following the Cardinals from the L.A. area, this comes up very little. I think it’s a pretty good deal.
I have Fox Sports at a monthly premium. They did not have the Tigers on last night. Thats what I pay for. They had the Wings on but they have a bunch of empty channels… I wanted to flip back and forth.
You always want to flip back and forth. You have the knack that, when you flip between two or more channels, you miss everything. True story: we hadn’t seen many Pistons games all season long due to my dad’s dislike of regular season basketball. I told him I wanted to watch a game when we were flipping past, so we watched for a while and the Pistons were down big. He changed it.
He missed the Artest melee.
I found about it later on ESPN.com and had to stay up until 4 in the morning for the rebroadcast.
I have a masters in flippology. I flip back and forth are rarely miss any action. I hate commercials. The Artest melee has been on tv a million times. No loss.
I didn’t mean TiVo for a particular incident, just that I use it in general that way. And I’ve had it since about '00 (1st thing I ever TiVo’d was Dark Angel, so that sounds about right).
While i can understand being thankful that the game is finally over and you can get to bed, i certainly wouldn’t consider a 22-inning, 3-run game to be a “yawn,” asFoieGrasIsEvil believes.
I appreciate that some people are obsessed with offense, and can only really have fun if there are heaps of hits and plenty of runs, but i personally love the tension of a tight, low-scoring game, especially when it goes into extra innings. The crowd hangs on every pitch, every hit or walk is crucial, and the longer it goes, the more the tension mounts.
Don’t get me wrong—a 12-11 slugfest can also be fun, in a different way. But FoieGrasIsEvil seemed to be implying that the very fact of a long, low-scoring game is inherently boring, and i completely disagree with that.
Who would have thought the Tigers would have so many at bats from Inge and Clete Thomas? It is already a weird year. Yet both have performed quite well.
I like high scoring games. I like low scoring games. I also like the other ones too. A baseball fan takes them as they come.; Years ago I took my kid to a double header. Both went extra innings. I got my moneys worth as I left at 12:30 pm.
I was mostly messing around. I generally like pitching duels as much as a slugfest, but 22 innings is a LONG game, and if I had my druthers, a game that stretched out would have more runs scored than that.
Although I suppose you could argue that were there more runs scored the game wouldn’t have gotten to that point in the first place!
I guess I’d prefer my pitching duels to be a 1-0 game in nine tidy innings.
And on another note, My beloved Reds have now lost 7 of their last eight, mostly due to inept offense. Fuck 6-4 and cruising along looked good a week and a half ago!
:mad:
In the Baseball Almanac’s message board a couple years back there was a thread about the longest game you’ve attended. One poster said when he was about 16, his church group attended a night game that went to extra innings. Finally, at the bottom of the 14th, one of the kids spoke up, “You know, Rev? I’ve discovered I really do care if I ever get back.” They stuck it another half-inning then left.
