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    There Is Something About Baseball

    That just makes it different. Is it 7 months long? Yeah. But that doesn't necessarily matter.

    The smell of the ballpark, the sun on your face, the intensity of a moment as it builds.



    Your team down 3 heading into the ninth, a leadoff double, a fly ball out, a walk, a single.

    Men on second and third.

    A strike out. An intentional walk to load the bases. A pitching change because the righty at the plate can't hit sliders away and the opposing manager is playing the percentages.

    Strike one, high and tight.

    A ball high.

    Another ball.

    Two pitches low and away, fouled off.

    3-2 two out and the runners go.



    The batter lays into one and the home crowd comes to their feet. Everything stops for 5 seconds. It's got a chance. You don't think about your bitching wife, your debt, the way your father treated you. Even the beer guy turns around and watches the ball flying towards the left field pole. The crowd gasps as the ball flies right past the foul pole. Everyone turns to the ump and looks for the call. He raises his arm and swings his finger around with excitement.

    That's it. It's bedlam. Everyone is screaming. At the game, in the bar, at their TV, doesn't matter.

    For one moment, at one particular time, there are no races, or religions, there are no worries, or troubles. There are just a bunch of people cheering for guy in a suit who swung his arms and hit a ball when it mattered.



    So who's ready for some baseball?
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    coug ur on point sir but fuking beers cost 8 bucks fuk that

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    can't wait to do another Cubs game with you Cougar! Would do White Sox too

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    I am.....

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    Baseball is my favorite sport, loved playing it growing up as a kid. Can't wait for the season to start.

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    ur a cubbie fan?

    cards all day coug

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    Quote Originally Posted by onetrickpony View Post
    coug ur on point sir but fuking beers cost 8 bucks fuk that
    you would love the minor league team in my town, thirsty thursday's $1 beers. It's a fukking party.

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    Quote Originally Posted by doublej95 View Post
    you would love the minor league team in my town, thirsty thursday's $1 beers. It's a fukking party.
    wheres that?

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    theres something about baseball: it is lame compared to action sports (football>basketball>baseball)

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    You guys will be broke before Rich Harden goes on the DL...

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    Quote Originally Posted by onetrickpony View Post

    wheres that?
    asheville nc

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    Love bases , means spring is here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pokernut9999 View Post
    Love bases , means spring is here.
    I agree that some other sports can be more exciting to watch on television.

    But baseball has always been there you know, through the years. People mark time by it. There is nothing like the feeling of being at the game and hearing the sound of the bat on the ball, or a head first slide into second, a play at the plate where the ball screams into the leather of the glove as the catcher dives for the out.




    Not saying that baseball is better or worse, but it marks the coming of spring and the end of a summer. And for those of us who experience seasons this way, that alone makes it unique.

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    Cardinals all the way!
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    Can't wait for baseball and betting some random Oakland or San Diego UNDER in the late game and having the windows open, sipping some beers.

    Is there anything better than matinee games in Chicago midweek?

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    Quote Originally Posted by onetrickpony View Post
    ur a cubbie fan?

    cards all day coug
    You live in the midwest?

    Quote Originally Posted by VegasInsider View Post
    Is there anything better than matinee games in Chicago midweek?
    No, nothing better. But I have to wonder if it has negatively affected the Cubs. I wouldn't trade it as a fan though, it's great.

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    I agree Cougar. Baseball makes me sooo jazzed up. Would take a game in April over the entire NFL season.

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    Let's Go Bucs! Ordered tickets to the season opening series today. Needless to say, good tickets are still available.

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    Quote Originally Posted by doublej95 View Post
    Baseball is my favorite sport, loved playing it growing up as a kid. Can't wait for the season to start.
    My absolute sport as well.
    Played it, coached it, umpired it..................
    No clock, which makes it so much more different than the other three sports.

    What did Casey say?
    Baseball must be the perfect sport, we've been trying to f**k it up for 100 years, yet it's still thriving"

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    Quote Originally Posted by stevenash View Post

    My absolute sport as well.
    Played it, coached it, umpired it..................
    No clock, which makes it so much more different than the other three sports.

    What did Casey say?
    Baseball must be the perfect sport, we've been trying to f**k it up for 100 years, yet it's still thriving"
    What position did you play Nash?

    I was starting shortstop and batted 2nd and 3rd for about 8 years. Never saw any real action though, as far as college, grew my hair and started listening to Pink Floyd a bit too much.

    It was kinda like this:



    And I actually owned a '71 Chevy Nova. No joke.

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    I was on the St. John's team that went to College WS.
    I was the backup catcher, and a right handed hitting pinch hitter.
    I was in the lineup against lefty starters, but mainly rode the bench.

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    Cougar look forward to staying in your pad fir 2 weeks in summer

    I swear you will not know I am even there

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    If you like taking prolonged naps during the game baseball is the best sport to watch without missing any action.

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    Well the Cubs suck.

    But baseball is awesome. Don't even enjoy "the game" so much, just enjoy betting on it more than any other sport. It has its moments where I want to pull my hair out, but by the end of the season, it always treats me well.

    Go Braves.

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    Pretty ready for bases.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WeinketoWarrick View Post
    Well the Cubs suck.
    and always will.
    My favorite player of all time was Sandberg, Cubbies had the Padres by the balls in '84, on their way to the WS, might have given the Tigers a tussle in that '84 WS, but nooooooooooo, Durham had to pull a Buckner at first base.

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    cougar i never knew a degen. gambler could appreciate a sport so much as you do with baseball.

    salud
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    I think i just miss whatever sport isn't on...

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Cougar look forward to staying in your pad fir 2 weeks in summer

    I swear you will not know I am even there
    When are you planning a trip?

    Does my girl have to make you dinner?

    I can arrange that.

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    Cougar, i've rarely had a more fun time than our game + the race track

    Want to plan on that again some random Friday this summer?

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    Can't wait.


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    Quote Originally Posted by VegasInsider View Post
    Can't wait for baseball and betting some random Oakland or San Diego UNDER in the late game and having the windows open, sipping some beers.

    Is there anything better than matinee games in Chicago midweek?
    Nope, nothin beats the old 1:20 Thurdsay start time in Wrigley

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    The ONLY problem with baseball is that it can be a grind. Fukking bullpens can kill otherwise perfectly good plays

    I'll reiterate what one of the top original posters told me

    Krackman

    "more money to be made on baseball totals, than ANY other sport"

    Always keep an eye on the total...

    Wrigley totals can be the most entertaining as they never come out before the day of the game, and are seriously impacted by the wind.

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    Nice story but if youre a Cubs fan its usually reversed, 3 run lead in the 9th then blow it when some retard like Marmol takes the mound

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    I wish you didnt make this thread... I have been wishing for baseball season to come out and I funally got rid of that want. Now that is what I want to see again on tv. I had a blast last year betting on baseball. It was the most I have made out of any sport season since I started in 2003.

    Let's play some ball!

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