I just saw my first Hickory Crawdads game tonight. Who else cares besides me???? \n\nI love the game of baseball and enjoyed it immensely even though it wasn't the most exciting game and even though the Crawdads lost.
199910
glad you like the minor league baseball. I like it also its cheap and the games aren't that bad. Some of the promotions are just too crazy but hey, its great.
270001
Hey I'm a Tigers fan, so please don't ruin this for me.  lol.  The Tigers haven't made the playoffs since 1987 when I was 6 years old.  So even though we all know they are probably going to blow it at the end of the season, at least let us Tiger fans "pretend" that they will win the World Series this year.  I say that before every season, but perhaps this year I may actually be right.
349505
I agree, bring it on. One of the best games I have seen in a while, it was truley #1 vrs #2. If they do not meet again,it is ok because to me that was the national championship.
580524
It was very amusing. In fact it made me laugh my a$$ off. Remember though, for all his theatrics he did not bump, touch, or physically make contact with an umpire. Nor did he throw anything at an umpire. It was really more show than harmful. \n\nBasically he performed a montage of Managers anger at umpires greatest hits incorporating scenes from past arguments from experts like Lou Pinella, Billy Martin, and Larry Bowa... \n\nHe probaqbly doesn't even deserve his one week suspension, but because of the widespread play of it, they had very little choice.\n\nIMHO his comments after the game about how terrible the umpires are was a worse crime than his heat of the moment theatrics on the field.
526718
Is drop kicking midgets as fun as chicken hockey? I think not!\nPower sticking a Rooster is rewarding and Spiritually uplifting.\nSo is Bull tipping and gator rape... or so I'm told. Getting an Alligator to have sex with me is not on my to do list.\nYour thoughts?
512368
I have been waiting for that one.  I thought with the WNBA starting that if it succeeded, it would show that there is an interest.  But, so far I havent' seen it.  I see an answer above says there is a league, but it sounds so small.  I'd like to see a lot more teams and coverage.\n I have been a baseball fan since I was 8 and then discovered fastpitch in college.  I loved it!!  I actually find it to be a more exciting game than baseball now.  So much more small-ball skills are needed.  It's fast paced and it's a sport where it is possible to legitimately hit over .500 if you're a good slapper or drag bunter.  I definitely prefer small ball to cheap easy home runs that dominate the MLB today.
330800
Oh my god yes, I know exactly what you mean. I'm not into the NBA, and I just can't get into baseball anymore (which isn't hard when you're a Cubs fan,) at least not until later in the season. Arena League is ok if you want to go to a game, but I can't get into it like i do the NFL. I spent weeks getting excited over the friggin draft, for christs sake. I check the sports sites every day, knowing damn well nothing of any significance happened, but praying there will be something new. 11 weeks til pre-season...
659345
Because my friend, being a die hard Red Sox fan, I knonw that if Torre can make a AAA team win, then he is a good manager. They have had so many of their normal players hurt. I mean, the lineup they threw out there, the Sox should have KILLED them, but instead the yankers come up out of nowhere. I knew this game was going to hell when milky cabrera (yes i know its spelled wrong) scored from FIRST on a goddam* wild pitch.
44001
You are lucky.The game will be good since one af the best teams are there.Steelers! are you a fan? Well can't chat the games on T.V and I have to get my lungs ready.LOL Hope your not freezing.LETS GO PITTSBURGH LETS GO!!!\n\nHope you liked the game.And hope there were no idiots in your town,keep the peace!
267371
right here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\ncan't pick a favorite....love 'em all, but hate to say, wish they would get a different closer...I think Reitsma is gorgeous & sweet & has a beautiful family, but it scares me to death when we enter the last innings by a small margin & he comes up to pitch....otherwise, I LOVE 'EM ALL!
361588
I just saw your question and even though, the Slicers lost on Friday night, I was so hoping they would be the next Cinderella story told on ESPN. I don't know if they ever had a real chance, cause Carmel was just a faster team, but man, the stories we could have told! I am just so proud of our Slicers for having made it that far. I think New Prairie as had a fantastic year too!. You guys should be very proud of yourselves too!
467014
I read this in "Our Game," by John Thorn:\nDouglass Wallop put it nicely:\n\nSaturday morning and hurtling from the house with a glove buttoned over his belt and a bat over his shoulder, rushing to the nearest vacant lot, perhaps the nearest alley, where the other guys were gathering, a place where it would always be spring. For him, baseball would always have the sound and look and smell of that morning and of other mornings just like it. Only by an accident of chance would he find himself, in the years to come, up in the grandstand, looking on. But for a quirk of fate, he himself would be down on that field; it would be his likeness on the television screen and his name in the newspaper high on the list of .300 hitters. He was a fan, but a fan only incidentally. He was, first and always, himself a baseball player. \n\n\n...for my perspective, baseball is what connects me to my great-grandfather, whom I never met, and the child and young man I was, whom I shall never meet again.  And for all its intricacies, just the simple acts of hitting, catching, throwing, and running are more beautiful to me than all the verse and prose that have been poured over the game.\n\n\nPS Curling is boring too but soooo fun!
421895
i was laughing all night after the game!  can't believe the faghorns lost to k-state!  i mean seriously...k-state???  jesus christ!\n\nfor a while there, we had all the faghorns thinking they were gonna play for the national championship => especially that nuke lefties guy who is always writing that hook'em!!!!!! crap.\n\nwell hook'em up another loss!\n\nwhere's nuke lefties now?  after a humiliating loss, it's tough to talk trash isn't it!\n\nsuck'em horns!!!!!!!!
409233
It Occurs to me that anyone who is more concerned about someone elses team than their own isnt really a fan of ANY team... Thats you Georgie. Because in all honesty, if every 3 words out of 5 that spew out of yer mouth is about the Yankees and you have the Old english D as yer icon, i seriously call into question what the hell you TRUELLY are! I mean, are you a front running Detroit fan who only recently with this years success found god and the Tigers and decided to let go of your moms nipple and leave home to become a bandwagon jumping "Fan" of the Tigers. Or are you a closet yankee fan who became embittered by the fact they let go of sum player you adored so youve decided that to be what you are, a Hatter, is better than to root for them anymore.. ILD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW! I actually respect Detroit, and like their team, but can they actually WIN a World Series BEFORE you annoint them the team of the coming decade... afterall, it has been AWHILE for them. Talk about your team, talk about yer amazing pitching..talk about yer great manager, and blossoming young lineup and downright scarey bullpen... because if you were a real Tiger fan, THAT is what you would be doing you Freegin Pretender.  You beat the Hated Yankees and then in a WS that everyone and their grandmother thought the Tigers would Walk Through (including me), The Tigers get bent over, lubed up, and buttpounded on national TV... and now after reading the crap youve spewed on here, it couldnt happen to a nicer team. Oh! and by the way Georgie..PINETAR ANYONE!!?
200770
I too LOVED Johnny Damon until he became a Johnny Judas.  Go anywhere... Just don't go to the Yankees.  I wish I was going to the game on May 1 as I would join you in booing him.  I am going to the game on 9/17 AT YANKEE STADIUM.  I was thinking of taking my old Johnny Judas t-shirt and burning it outside the stadium.  :o)
187354
If you're intrigued, then Baseball Tonight is as good a place as any to start. You'll learn plenty about the game and you'll be seeing the highlites which are all the exciting parts of the games. Just keep in mind that John Kruk and Harold Reynolds are complete idiots.
601831
Coco's catch was unbelievable....all I can say after that catch is.....Johnny who????  Definitely the best of 2006 thus far!!!  A Web Gem for sure. \n\nGo BoSox!!!!!