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RabbitMPD

03-02-2005, 01:25 AM

Now that baseball is somewhat underway, what is YOUR favorite team? If it's the Yankees (spank-me's) just don't post here at all :D

I for one have a passion for baseball (perhaps to an unhealthy extent) and am so glad spring training is finally underway. That was a long winter.

GO CUBS!!!!

And thank you Orioles for taking

Delta784

03-02-2005, 01:39 AM

The World Champion Boston Red Sox, of course. :D

I think the key to this year for the Sox will be the performances of Matt Clement and Wade Miller. One of them needs to replace the 15 or so wins that Pedro Martinez guaranteed us, and my money is on Miller. He has phenomenal stuff when he's healthy, so if he can avoid injury, you might see two 20-game winners in Schilling and Miller.

RabbitMPD

03-02-2005, 01:44 AM

That reminds me Delta; DAMN you for taking Clement from us!!!! Even though the number of wins he had last year werent all that impressive, he is an outstanding pitcher and I am very sad to see him go. Treat him well :( :mad: :(

Delta784

03-02-2005, 01:48 AM

That reminds me Delta; DAMN you for taking Clement from us!!!!

It was actually Theo Epstein, but I can feel your pain, having lost Pedro to a f*&^#@ New York team. :mad: :D

Clement told the Boston media that he wanted a veteran pitcher to mentor him, and who better for that than Curt Schilling?

Welpe

03-02-2005, 02:25 AM

Ahem

GO GIANTS

BaseballBabe

03-02-2005, 02:31 AM

RabbitMPD

03-02-2005, 02:38 AM

Oakland Athletics....

Wooohoo!! I get to go to their Spring Training in Arizona.

I leave on March 16th and will be back on March 20th..

yipppeeeee

I'll be sure to take lots of pictures... ;) :D :p :cool:
If your going to be in Arizona you might as well watch a worth while team! Go watch the CUBBIES!!!! :D

Seriously though, take some pics and share them here would you? That should be a great trip!

H74

03-02-2005, 02:42 AM

Go Mariners!

Hopefully the power they bought this winter won't turn out to be money poorly spent....Then again, anything is better than last year's lineup.

45acp

03-02-2005, 02:54 AM

Been a Red Sox fan since I was born and I will be one until I die. This season should be good with Renteria, Clement and Wells (as long as he stays healthy... and sober). Delta, I for one am not that upset over Pedro leaving, his shoulder probably will probably end his career in the next couple years anyway, I would prefer he threw out his arm on the mets bill instead of the sox'.

Groundhog

03-02-2005, 04:47 AM

Time to chop.....

code3_K9

03-02-2005, 11:10 AM

Id love to see the SOX go Back 2 Back...

code3_K9

03-02-2005, 11:11 AM

And Baseball Babe...

I hate to say it, but your beloved A's dont stand a chance anymore, after trading 2 of the big 3...

Seattle and the Angels walk away with the AL West...

JUST TO LOSE TO THE SOX AGAIN!!! :D

code3_K9

03-02-2005, 11:13 AM

Sadly Im torn between the SOX, and my new hometown team the Braves...

I guess we can all have a fav. in each league... :D

m_smith16

03-02-2005, 01:31 PM

GO TWINS

Also, if I had to pick it would be the twins and cubs in the WS.

Quopper

03-02-2005, 01:44 PM

Now that baseball is somewhat underway, what is YOUR favorite team? If it's the Yankees (spank-me's) just don't post here at all :D

Rabbit - My FAVORITE team is the Arizona Diamondbacks! Sorry spent 30 years growing up in Phoenix, and the happiest day of my life was getting a real team, instead of just the yearly spring training!

As far as the Yankees go I have a T-shirt from the 2001 WS that says: It Takes More Than Nine Yanks To Beat Our Johnson! Has to be one of my fav shirts ever! But now I AM ****ED that Johsnon is playing for them...D-Backs managment really needs to pull their head out of their *****, and find a way to keep the good players!

RabbitMPD

03-02-2005, 02:35 PM

I feel for you Quopper. Last year was a really tough year for you guys. By the way, did the "Spank-Me's" make the Unit shave? I never actually heard if they made him do it or not.

As for the Braves chop, that is one of the most annoying things in baseball. Only second to the drunk guy sitting right next to the microphone. The only reason I really hate the Braves is because every time I watch them, I need to listen to that chant every 5 minutes. Every once in a while wouldn't be so bad but come on! Braves are doing good? Yeah! Lets do the chant! Oh no a strike out? Lets cheer em' up guys! Lets do the chant! :rolleyes:

Nothing personal Groundhog. But you did hit a nerve. :p

BaseballBabe

03-02-2005, 02:36 PM

If your going to be in Arizona you might as well watch a worth while team! Go watch the CUBBIES!!!! :D

Seriously though, take some pics and share them here would you? That should be a great trip!

I will be sure to take pictures...

BaseballBabe

03-02-2005, 02:38 PM

Delta784

03-02-2005, 02:45 PM

Delta, I for one am not that upset over Pedro leaving, his shoulder probably will probably end his career in the next couple years anyway, I would prefer he threw out his arm on the mets bill instead of the sox'.

I think he'll do very well for at least the first year, not having to face the DH. That will touch-off a ****storm of the highest magnitude among us self-loathing Sox fans. I can just hear the sports talk radio calls now. :rolleyes:

Delta784

03-02-2005, 02:46 PM

Sadly Im torn between the SOX, and my new hometown team the Braves...

I can't stand the Braves. It's the whole Ted Turner/Jane Fonda connnection.

ASUMach1

03-02-2005, 02:50 PM

Ahem

GO GIANTS

Couldn't agree more! Grew up in the East bay, now that I'm living in AZ I get to go to all the spring tranining games. Barry Bonds is the Great One :D

Quopper

03-02-2005, 02:55 PM

I feel for you Quopper. Last year was a really tough year for you guys. By the way, did the "Spank-Me's" make the Unit shave? I never actually heard if they made him do it or not.

They said he sacrificed his "No-Shave" clause, but in his Spring Training pictures it looks like he has a small mustache???? Who know, SOB is ugly anyway you slice it! :D

Titan67

03-02-2005, 03:21 PM

Go Cubbies!!! You sit in that waiting room for tix the other day too Rabitt? I was there for 8 hours and still had not gotten in.

45acp

03-02-2005, 03:29 PM

I think he'll do very well for at least the first year, not having to face the DH. That will touch-off a ****storm of the highest magnitude among us self-loathing Sox fans. I can just hear the sports talk radio calls now. :rolleyes:

Probably true, but Peter Gammons (espn baseball tonight comentator) said that Pedro probably won't make it to the third year of his contract. The Red Sox must have agreed since they refused to give him more than a two year contract. The Sox are the most intelligently run team in baseball, if they felt it wasn't worth keeping him than they were probably right. I was honestly more upset that they let Cabrerra go, since he played great in the post season, although I definatly can't complain that Renteria is taking his place.

45acp

03-02-2005, 03:32 PM

Barry Bonds is the Great One :D

And he owes it all to BALCO :D

Welpe

03-02-2005, 03:42 PM

Couldn't agree more! Grew up in the East bay, now that I'm living in AZ I get to go to all the spring tranining games. Barry Bonds is the Great One :D

I'm not a big fan of Bonds, especially because he drags *** so much out in the field. He'd be a perfect DH.

I absolutely agree with having a favorite team per league. My AL favorites are the Oakland A's but if you were to pit them against each other, I'd be rooting for the Giants all day long. ;)

The same is true for the 49ers and Raiders, they are my respective conference favorites but I'll take the Raiders any day in a game against the Niners.

Edit: This goes out to Rabbit....

OOHHHHHHH OHHHHHHHH OHHH, OHHHH OHHH OHHHHHHHHHHH :D

(My dad hates that chant too)

TXLady

03-02-2005, 03:44 PM

Really I'm kidding. They're a joke. :D

Stan Switek

03-02-2005, 04:03 PM

I'm not a big fan of Bonds, especially because he drags *** so much out in the field. He'd be a perfect DH.

Im not a Bonds fan either but in all fairness, he played in more games than anyone else on the team last year.

USAcop

03-02-2005, 07:21 PM

I like the Rockies and Twins.

The Rockies are supposed to be the worst team in baseball. At least the stadium is nice and a good spot for beers.

You can get tickets to the Colorado Rockies cheaper than the beer!

Shouldn't be that way with Coor's field.

Creeker

03-02-2005, 07:30 PM

Sorry, I stopped following BaseBall when the players deserted the fans.

Come Series time I am a Braves fan...got to support the home team and Carolina/Va/upper Fla. has none. Yeah Ted and Jane are Hypocrites to the Max, I know. Outside of Atlanta, my "home" choices are Miami (do they still HAVE a team?) and Baltimore, Both 10+ hours away. I could almost get to St. Lewis faster... AAAHhh, maybe not. But I have Bob Gibson & August Busch's Autograph on a baseball from their spring training in Fla when I was a kid. That was before you had to pay for them.

I simply resent it when they interrupt regular tv for games, now.

mrcarroll71

03-02-2005, 07:41 PM

Go Astros.............

Welpe

03-02-2005, 07:44 PM

BaseballBabe

03-03-2005, 12:15 AM

:D Couldn't agree more! Grew up in the East bay, now that I'm living in AZ I get to go to all the spring tranining games. Barry Bonds is the Great One :D

I would love to live where I am now or in Arizona where the A's have their spring training games. :D

TRichie

03-03-2005, 12:21 AM

Drayton McClain has spent quite a bit of money getting the Rocket to come back for one more year. Everyone here in Houston wants them to make it to the series this year. We were so close last year that we are allhyped up to get the season started. I am looking forward to opening day. Nothing like getting paid to go to opening day, the joys of extra jobs.

sgttom

03-03-2005, 12:36 AM

um, go SF Giants....

Delta784

03-03-2005, 01:36 AM

Im not a Bonds fan either but in all fairness, he played in more games than anyone else on the team last year.

Yes, steroids allow you to avoid injury, and heal injuries faster.

Bonds can hit 900 home runs for all I care, he's a complete fraud and a cheat. Hammerin' Hank Aaron will always be the HR King to me, until someone who isn't a juiced-up, Cro-Magnon headed cheat comes along. :mad:

Groundhog

03-03-2005, 01:42 AM

I can't stand the Braves. It's the whole Ted Turner/Jane Fonda connnection.
:o I gotta give you that.......at least he doesn't own them anymore. He's hardly in town much nowadays, but Hanoi Jane's communist a** is still here.

Groundhog

03-03-2005, 01:43 AM

Bonds can hit 900 home runs for all I care, he's a complete fraud and a cheat. Hammerin' Hank Aaron will always be the HR King to me, until someone who isn't a juiced-up, Cro-Magnon headed cheat comes along. :mad:

AMEN......

Delta784

03-03-2005, 01:44 AM

Creeker brings up a valid point...I find I very much enjoy going to both minor league baseball and college games (Go Cal Poly!!). The games are pretty good, and the players act like they still care about the game. Not to mention they are much cheaper than major league games. :eek:

Minor league baseball is great.

My wife and I used to go see the Pawtucket Red Sox (http://www.pawsox.com/) (AAA team for Boston) a few times each summer. The level of play is excellent, the players hustle their asses off, box seats are $9, and it's a very family-friendly park. Drunk idiots are not tolerated. I can't wait until my kids are old enough to enjoy it.

One of the very cool things about the minor leagues is that you can sometimes catch major leaguers on rehab assignments from the parent club. In 1995, I saw two former MVP's (Willie McGee and Jose Canseco) on rehab assignments at Pawtucket.

Photogrrlz

03-03-2005, 01:45 AM

Yes, steroids allow you to avoid injury, and heal injuries faster.

Bonds can hit 900 home runs for all I care, he's a complete fraud and a cheat. Hammerin' Hank Aaron will always be the HR King to me, until someone who isn't a juiced-up, Cro-Magnon headed cheat comes along. :mad:

I agree with you again....Maybe they always want raises to pay the raising cost of steriods and to keep the suppliers quiet...

Baseball is a joke anymore, don't remember the last pro game I watched....I think it was several years ago when I was in SF watching the giants and cubs...

But my team was the Reds.... And if people can use steriods...Pete Rose should be in the hall of fame....Cheating is cheating all the way around....

:::jumping off soap box:::

Delta784

03-03-2005, 01:48 AM

But my team was the Reds.... And if people can use steriods...Pete Rose should be in the hall of fame....Cheating is cheating all the way around....

I agree. Pete Rose is a complete a-hole and a reprehensible human being, but his numbers speak for themselves. Both he & Shoeless Joe Jackson should be in the Hall of Fame.

Photogrrlz

03-03-2005, 01:51 AM

I agree. Pete Rose is a complete a-hole and a reprehensible human being, but his numbers speak for themselves. Both he & Shoeless Joe Jackson should be in the Hall of Fame.

and you know I bet Pete Rose didn't use steriods to make his numbers....

Also is it true, I can't recall did Mark McGuire admit to using?? I thought I heard that but wasn't for sure....Or was tat something to do with Jose Canseco's book or whatever he is doing??? :confused:

Groundhog

03-03-2005, 01:58 AM

Come Series time I am a Braves fan...

Why Creek? We choke every year :)

Delta784

03-03-2005, 02:04 AM

code3_K9

03-03-2005, 02:08 AM

and you know I bet Pete Rose didn't use steriods to make his numbers....

Also is it true, I can't recall did Mark McGuire admit to using?? I thought I heard that but wasn't for sure....Or was tat something to do with Jose Canseco's book or whatever he is doing??? :confused:

Big Mac never admitted to using, and he never will. The RAT stated in his book that he injected Mark over 100 times durring the 88-89 season and again in 90... Yet on his 1st TV interview with 60 minutes, he said" I only saw mark do it once or twice, and I only injected him once, to show him how to do it"

Durring the 98 season when McGwire and Sosa were at it, he was using ANDRO, and possibly HGH which were both legal at the time, and could be purchased at your local GNC. Many will say that the ANDRO and HGH were a deversion to hide the fact that he was juicing.

As can be said about Sosa's corked bat...

What blows my mind is this... Up till last year, they could be ussing an illegal drug, which was a class 3 felony... and the players union wouldnt let them test, because its an ivasion of privacy... Yet they test for pot, and coke and what have you...

I love it, get suspended 5 games for having a corked bat... 3 games for punching AROD in his sissy boy nose... Use an ILLEGAL drug, and face up to 30 years in prison if caught... NO PENALTY in baseball world... :confused: :confused: :confused:

Photogrrlz

03-03-2005, 02:10 AM

code3_K9

03-03-2005, 02:11 AM

Didn't that steriod testing start this season and the players are protesting it??? Like I said I haven't followed the whiners errr I mean baseball hardly at all, but was curious about the new policy set forth....

It actually starts tomorrow morning... Or this morning.... What day is it? Anyways, the testing begins on Thurday...

I wounder who will be the 1st name to get busted...

Maybe I'll start another poll... :p

Creeker

03-03-2005, 06:22 AM

Why Creek? We choke every year :)

Naw, we had some really good years...maybe before you were born ? :D

Groundhog

03-03-2005, 11:29 PM

Naw, we had some really good years...maybe before you were born ? :D

:) Seems that way, but no. I was born in '64, 2 years before they came here from Milwaukee. They pretty much sucked all through the 70's....we had some fun in the early 80's, winning the old NL West in "82.

Seriously though, we should have more than one World Series to show for all the regular season success we've had for the last 14 years. I'm still proud of 'em though. If you think about it, we have a whole generation of Braves fans (who are now adults) that have never experienced a losing season. That in and of itself is pretty awesome, even if we do only have one World Series win.

code3_K9

03-04-2005, 12:03 AM

:) Seems that way, but no. I was born in '64, 2 years before they came here from Milwaukee. They pretty much sucked all through the 70's....we had some fun in the early 80's, winning the old NL West in "82.

Seriously though, we should have more than one World Series to show for all the regular season success we've had for the last 14 years. I'm still proud of 'em though. If you think about it, we have a whole generation of Braves fans (who are now adults) that have never experienced a losing season. That in and of itself is pretty awesome, even if we do only have one World Series win.

Should steal a page out of Florida's book... 2 in their 1st 7 years... pretty damn impressive if you ask me... I still look for the SOX to repeat

Creeker

03-04-2005, 12:49 AM

:) Seems that way, but no. I was born in '64, 2 years before they came here from Milwaukee. They pretty much sucked all through the 70's....we had some fun in the early 80's, winning the old NL West in "82.

Seriously though, we should have more than one World Series to show for all the regular season success we've had for the last 14 years. I'm still proud of 'em though. If you think about it, we have a whole generation of Braves fans (who are now adults) that have never experienced a losing season. That in and of itself is pretty awesome, even if we do only have one World Series win.

I thought I remembered A Series back in '69 or 70 (?) with the Mets ... not sure who won... I was 8 or 9.

Groundhog

03-04-2005, 02:35 AM

Yeah, I think you're right. The '69 Miracle Mets beat us for the NL pennant.

Creeker

03-04-2005, 03:25 AM

Yeah, I think you're right. The '69 Miracle Mets beat us for the NL pennant.

OOps, guess I forgot more about baseball than I remembered. :D I stopped caring really after the first strike, unless Atlanta gets to the Series.

usafcop64528

03-04-2005, 09:10 AM

BoSox all the way. They won the preseason opener last night..

GCPD0171

03-04-2005, 09:47 AM

Always been a Braves fan. When I was growing up the only time a Braves game was not on the tv was when they weren't playing. That was when they really stunk (remember the baby blue pajama looking uniforms?). Ever since the strike season I just haven't been able to get back into baseball. I'll watch it, mostly during the playoffs but its just not my thing anymore.

Delta784

03-05-2005, 01:16 AM

The Red Sox kicked *** today, won both games in a split-squad doubleheader.

The first game, the Sox combined for a 7-inning no-hitter, and mopped the floor with their opponent, 17-0.

Of course, that opponent was Northeastern University. :p

south

03-05-2005, 02:59 AM

Im not a Bonds fan either but in all fairness, he played in more games than anyone else on the team last year.

Yeah, well, if I spent good money on 'roids to juice myself up the all-time HR ladder, I'd play every chance I got, too.

While I'm at it, Sosa and his corked "practice bat" can go pound sand, too.

MLB is a complete joke, but I still go to the games from time to time. 'Course spring training leagues are 8 miles from my house, so that makes it a bit easier. :D

RabbitMPD

03-07-2005, 05:16 PM

CUBS WIN!!! CUBS WIN!!! HOLY COW!! God bless you Harry Carry. Cubs beat the Rangers on ESPN today. Boy do our prospects look good. We have some young guys that can really hit! Quoting what the announcer said today, "Sammy who?"

Not to mention our starting pitching staff is the best in the league. Now if we can only get a closer... :rolleyes:

GO CUBS!

BaseballBabe

03-11-2005, 12:42 PM

Here is the place where I will be staying at for Spring Training. The weather there in the 70's and its suppose to rain the day I arrive... oh joy!! :mad:

http://www.embassysuites.com/en/es/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=PHXPHES

jorkassyd

03-13-2005, 12:49 PM

[QUOTE=RabbitMPD]Now that baseball is somewhat underway, what is YOUR favorite team? If it's the Yankees (spank-me's) just don't post here at all :D

I for one have a passion for baseball (perhaps to an unhealthy extent) and am so glad spring training is finally underway. That was a long winter.

GO CUBS!!!!

And thank you Orioles for taking