The Sports fan in all of us

Which sport had your favorite?

  • Baseball:

    Votes: 1 4.3%
  • basketball:

    Votes: 4 17.4%
  • American Style football:

    Votes: 9 39.1%
  • soccer:

    Votes: 1 4.3%
  • Olympics:

    Votes: 2 8.7%
  • Others:

    Votes: 6 26.1%
  • Ice Hockey:

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    23
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Laura M

#51
The official scorer shall credit a pitcher with a save when such pitcher meets all four of the following conditions:
(1) He is the finishing pitcher in a game won by his team;
(2) He is not the winning pitcher;
(3) He is credited with at least a third of an inning pitched; and
(4) He satisfies one of the following conditions:
(a) He enters the game with a lead of no more than three runs and pitches at least one inning;
(b) He enters the game, regardless of the count, with the potential tying run either on base, or at bat or on deck; or
(c) He pitches for at least three innings.

I believe he met 1, 2, 3 and 4(c)
 
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Dean Frederickson

#53
The official scorer shall credit a pitcher with a save when such pitcher meets all four of the following conditions:
(1) He is the finishing pitcher in a game won by his team;
(2) He is not the winning pitcher;
(3) He is credited with at least a third of an inning pitched; and
(4) He satisfies one of the following conditions:
(a) He enters the game with a lead of no more than three runs and pitches at least one inning;
(b) He enters the game, regardless of the count, with the potential tying run either on base, or at bat or on deck; or
(c) He pitches for at least three innings.

I believe he met 1, 2, 3 and 4(c)
Laura I am impressed. I wish I could say the same about the Twinkees and the Vikings.:(
 
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somerqc

#54
I had to vote Other as I play and watch hockey, golf, 10 pin bowling (only play...not even I can watch it now), baseball, and volleyball. This doesn't mean I am good at them all (decent in most of them though), but, I do enjoy them all.

Regarding the 30-3 shellacking - When I saw the score I thought it was an NFL exhibition score. I then realized it was a baseball score. I had to go to the internet (TSN.ca in Canada - no don't work for the channel) just to make sure it wasn't a typo by the person doing the ticker on TV channel. I was in complete disbelief. My sports fanaticism goes to the point where the games on our computer are all sports sims. I can't score 30 runs in Colorado with the wind blowing out yet an actual MLB team is doing it...WOW.
 
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Aaron Lupo

#55
The official scorer shall credit a pitcher with a save when such pitcher meets all four of the following conditions:
(1) He is the finishing pitcher in a game won by his team;
(2) He is not the winning pitcher;
(3) He is credited with at least a third of an inning pitched; and
(4) He satisfies one of the following conditions:
(a) He enters the game with a lead of no more than three runs and pitches at least one inning;
(b) He enters the game, regardless of the count, with the potential tying run either on base, or at bat or on deck; or
(c) He pitches for at least three innings.

I believe he met 1, 2, 3 and 4(c)
Comon, they were up by 11 runs at the time. I guess those are the rules.
 

BradM

Staff member
Admin
#56
All the time?? Last time a team scored that many runs was over 100 years ago. ...
Aaron, you're right; my statement was a bit vague:yes:. What I was saying is that Texas Rangers will do just enough to put a few people in the seats. They will win some games, have Nolan Ryan, 30-3 game, be in playoff contention, etc., but won't be able to pull it out. Since 1972, same season, every year. And.... tell me again why we got rid of Pudge Rodriguez, A-Rod, etc.??

Yankees fan are you??:) I'm not much of a sports fanatic or anything. I don't care that the Yankees win; however I do like seeing other teams winning also.
 
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Aaron Lupo

#57
Aaron, you're right; my statement was a bit vague:yes:. What I was saying is that Texas Rangers will do just enough to put a few people in the seats. They will win some games, have Nolan Ryan, 30-3 game, be in playoff contention, etc., but won't be able to pull it out. Since 1972, same season, every year. And.... tell me again why we got rid of Pudge Rodriguez, A-Rod, etc.??

Yankees fan are you??:) I'm not much of a sports fanatic or anything. I don't care that the Yankees win; however I do like seeing other teams winning also.
That's true Texas as well as a majority of the teams will do just enough to put fans in the seats and make money. As to why Texas let A-Rod go, I don't think they could afford to pay him any longer and Pudge was a player with skills on the decline.

People can say what they want about the Yankees, but George does it right. He spends the money to put a good product out there, Baseball after all is entertainment right and you have to give your fans what they want.
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J
#58
I voted baseball.
I like it primarily because it is both simple and complex. I mean how can one game consisting of throwing, hitting, running and catching a ball have so many statistics!!
It is a team sport played one on one. Pitcher vs Batter vs Fielder.
It is also a game of finesse and strategy.

I must admit though that I have issues with any of the major sports. Mostly dealing with mega salaries and Ego's.

Here in Cincinnati,of course, we have the Reds. The oldest team in baseball. Struggling.....

But across the river in Florence Kentucky we have the Florence Freedom. A Triple A team belonging to the independent Frontier League. We went over to watch them play last week and had a great time.
The stadium is new and the prices were excellant. $8 per seat (5 rows behind the Freedom Dugout.) and the concessions are about half what they charge at the big parks. For the evening, tickets included, we spent less than $80 for three people.
The level of play was good. A number of players from the frontier league have been signed by major league teams. So you know the players are pretty good and are playing hard trying to get noticed. Plus they have all sorts of things going on in between innings - which are always fun to watch.

Anyone else been to Frontier League Games? They have teams from PA to MO and North into MI and around big CHI.

If your interested in checking them out, Here is the link.

http://frontierleague.com/index.php


James
 
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ralphsulser

#59
That's true Texas as well as a majority of the teams will do just enough to put fans in the seats and make money. As to why Texas let A-Rod go, I don't think they could afford to pay him any longer and Pudge was a player with skills on the decline.
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I had my picture taken with A-Rod in 1996 at a Red Sox game in Boston. We went to see the game and a guy sitting next to us( I think he was a sports writer or reporter) said we could go under the stadium, to meet some players. Texas Rangers won the game. There were about 5 of us, (4 women and me). When A-Rod came out in civies after his shower, the guy called him over to meet us. Also got our picture taken with Gonzales. Those pictures are buried somewhere in storage boxes. I ran across them about a year ago when we were looking for something else.
 

Jim Wynne

Staff member
Admin
#60
I had my picture taken with A-Rod in 1996 at a Red Sox game in Boston. We went to see the game and a guy sitting next to us( I think he was a sports writer or reporter) said we could go under the stadium, to meet some players. Texas Rangers won the game. There were about 5 of us, (4 women and me). When A-Rod came out in civies after his shower, the guy called him over to meet us. Also got our picture taken with Gonzales. Those pictures are buried somewhere in storage boxes. I ran across them about a year ago when we were looking for something else.
Below is the text of a column I wrote for the local paper a little over two years ago. After writing the column I discovered a photo I had taken at the game I had attended at Milwaukee's old County Stadium. It depicts Henry Aaron at bat against a Rangers southpaw named Jim Umbarger.

In August of 1975 I made a trip from Chicago to Milwaukee for a game between the Brewers and the Texas Rangers. According to baseball-almanac.com, the Brewers won the game 7-4, defeating ex-Cub Bill Hands in his final major league appearance. I was one of only 13,893 who paid to get in that day. The Brewers came into the game with a record of 54-62, and the Rangers were a game better at 55-61.

Being a Cubs fan, it’s a safe bet that I didn’t make the 90-mile trek to County Stadium to see the Brewers play the Rangers in a meaningless game. No, I was there for a specific reason, and that was to see Henry Aaron. Somehow in all of my trips to Wrigley Field up to that point, I had never seen Aaron play. I know I must have seen the Cubs play the Braves at least once, but it must have been on an Aaron day off. Knowing that 1975 could be Aaron’s last year, I took the opportunity in the penultimate month of the season (it still ended in September back then) to make sure that I could tell my grandchildren that I had seen Aaron play.

Aaron hadn’t played the day before, so I thought it would be a good bet that he’d be in the lineup for the Sunday contest I attended. I was right; Aaron was the DH and went 0-for-2. The highlight of the game was Ranger manager Frank Lucchesi getting into a highly-animated, hat-tossing, dirt-kicking argument after being ejected by the home plate umpire, but I went home happy having finally seen the home run king at work.

Now fast-forward to 1999 and what was supposed to be the final year for County Stadium (its demise was delayed for a year after a crane accident during construction of Miller Park). Now living in Kenosha, I made another trip to the old ball park, this time with my son, to see the Brewers play the Cardinals. The reason for the trip was pretty much the same as it had been 24 years before; I hadn’t had a chance to see Mark McGwire play, and I wanted my son to have the opportunity to tell his grandchildren he had seen the reigning single-season home run champ in action. The highlight of the evening was watching McGwire take batting practice. He stood loosely in the box and took seemingly effortless, go-to-hell swings, several of which launched the ball into titanic parabolas that terminated behind the bleachers in left field. That alone was worth the price of admission.

Now fast-forward once more, to last month’s steroids hearing in Washington. Before the players testified before the congressional committee, Donald Hooton, an angry father whose teenaged son had committed suicide after using steroids, pointed at McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Jose Canseco and Rafael Palmeiro and said, “Players who are guilty of taking steroids are not only cheaters, you are cowards.”

I thought about that trip to Milwaukee in 1975, and the one in 1999. No one ever called Hammerin’ Hank a coward. He hit his home runs without benefit of performance-enhancing, illegal drugs over the course of a 23-year career, and without ever hitting 50 homers in a season. Aaron got his home runs the old-fashioned way—he earned them—every last one.
It made me sick to watch McGwire snivel his non-answers to the committee and not have the courage to stand up and admit what everyone with a brain knows is the truth. And we now have Barry Bonds on the cusp of eclipsing Aaron’s career homers record, and Bonds has denied knowingly taking steroids, allowing for the possibility, I guess, that extraterrestrials entered his room in the night and injected him as he slept.

I suppose Major League Baseball gave us what we wanted by failing to do something about steroid use before things got out of hand. There’s little doubt that I would not have been in the ball park in Milwaukee on that day in 1999 had it not been for McGwire’s previous “heroics.” For the weekend when I attended, the Brewers drew some 77,000 fans. The previous weekend, when they were playing the McGwire-less San Diego Padres, the attendance was 53,000, so I guess I wasn’t alone--do the math, as they say.

In the minds of most baseball fans, it won’t matter much if or when Bonds breaks Aaron’s record, or that McGwire, Sosa and Bonds all broke Roger Maris’s single-season mark. Aaron and Maris achieved what they did on pure guts natural adrenaline and native ability, and no one has ever questioned it. McGwire, Bonds and Sosa will go to their graves with huge black asterisks hanging over their heads, even if there are none in the record books.
 

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