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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:Rob Manfred truly believes they can get the pace of the average MLB game down to 2 hours and 40 minutes (down from this year's 3 hours and 5 minutes. He would settle for somewhere in the 2:40 to 2:50 time range. Anything above that, to him, is a problem.

It goes without saying that the biggest time waster is the one paying for everyone- the long commercial breaks between innings and pitcher changes. But as it's the money supply, the players are going to have to hustle faster.
My suggestion is to simply end the game at the seventh inning stretch. That tradition pretty much admits that the game has too many innings.
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:Rob Manfred truly believes they can get the pace of the average MLB game down to 2 hours and 40 minutes (down from this year's 3 hours and 5 minutes. He would settle for somewhere in the 2:40 to 2:50 time range. Anything above that, to him, is a problem.

It goes without saying that the biggest time waster is the one paying for everyone- the long commercial breaks between innings and pitcher changes. But as it's the money supply, the players are going to have to hustle faster.
My suggestion is to simply end the game at the seventh inning stretch. That tradition pretty much admits that the game has too many innings.
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:Well, in other changes to America's past time, word is that the commissioner's office will be implementing pace-of-play rule changes to baseball. They will be along the lines of the proposal submitted and rejected by the MLBPA (the player's union) last year. According to the agreed upon terms, the commissioner can unilaterally impose any pace of play rules he likes but, he will be submitting proposals a year in advance for the players to accept or reject as a matter of deference.

After the players' rejected this year's proposals, it looks like the commish will go forward with last year's rejected rules, which are as follows:

1)There will be a 20 second pitch clock on all pitches thrown during a game. The first violation for each pitcher will receive a warning, and any subsequent violation will result in a called ball on the present batter.

2)Batters will be set in the batter's box within 30 seconds of the last play. Once in the box, they will not be able to leave it and must keep a foot inside at all times until a ball is actually struck, foul or fair. The first violation for each batter will be a warning, followed by called strikes against the batter.

3)All locally televised games will have a 2 min and 20 second break between innings, nationally televised games will be 2 mins and 40 seconds and this will not be succeeded for any reason. Pitchers will get no more than 6 warm up tosses between the start of half-innings.

4)Mound visits will be curtailed severely. No matter who visits the mound during a half-inning now, whether it is the pitching coach, 2nd basemen, catcher, manager; it will be counted as a "mound visit" and the 2nd mound visit will necessitate an automatic pitching change. So catchers/infielders will no longer be able to approach the mound and talk to the pitcher will on the field. The way it's being talked about, the umpire will have full discretion to call any conversation a pitcher has with someone on the field from his team a "mount visit."


Players are not happy about this coupled with a lot of strife about the dead free agent market and a growing sense the union has lost a lot of power since the steroid scandal...people are actually talkin' strike when the next collective bargaining agreement comes up.

While I'm not thrilled about the rule changes, if these are indeed the ones being implemented, the player's screwed up by not taking the more lenient ones (overall) presented to them this year, nor understanding how seriously the commissioner is about shortening the length of games. After letting the players police themselves about it a few years ago only to see the length of play shoot back up over 3 hours last year, they had to know this was coming.
in 3 hr cricket the penalties are far stronger than this for breaking timelimits - players lose their match fees and/or the captain is banned for 2 games.
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Nonc Hilaire wrote:
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:Rob Manfred truly believes they can get the pace of the average MLB game down to 2 hours and 40 minutes (down from this year's 3 hours and 5 minutes. He would settle for somewhere in the 2:40 to 2:50 time range. Anything above that, to him, is a problem.

It goes without saying that the biggest time waster is the one paying for everyone- the long commercial breaks between innings and pitcher changes. But as it's the money supply, the players are going to have to hustle faster.
My suggestion is to simply end the game at the seventh inning stretch. That tradition pretty much admits that the game has too many innings.
It's an enduring tradition which may or may not have been started by President Taft.

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noddy wrote:
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:Well, in other changes to America's past time, word is that the commissioner's office will be implementing pace-of-play rule changes to baseball. They will be along the lines of the proposal submitted and rejected by the MLBPA (the player's union) last year. According to the agreed upon terms, the commissioner can unilaterally impose any pace of play rules he likes but, he will be submitting proposals a year in advance for the players to accept or reject as a matter of deference.

After the players' rejected this year's proposals, it looks like the commish will go forward with last year's rejected rules, which are as follows:

1)There will be a 20 second pitch clock on all pitches thrown during a game. The first violation for each pitcher will receive a warning, and any subsequent violation will result in a called ball on the present batter.

2)Batters will be set in the batter's box within 30 seconds of the last play. Once in the box, they will not be able to leave it and must keep a foot inside at all times until a ball is actually struck, foul or fair. The first violation for each batter will be a warning, followed by called strikes against the batter.

3)All locally televised games will have a 2 min and 20 second break between innings, nationally televised games will be 2 mins and 40 seconds and this will not be succeeded for any reason. Pitchers will get no more than 6 warm up tosses between the start of half-innings.

4)Mound visits will be curtailed severely. No matter who visits the mound during a half-inning now, whether it is the pitching coach, 2nd basemen, catcher, manager; it will be counted as a "mound visit" and the 2nd mound visit will necessitate an automatic pitching change. So catchers/infielders will no longer be able to approach the mound and talk to the pitcher will on the field. The way it's being talked about, the umpire will have full discretion to call any conversation a pitcher has with someone on the field from his team a "mount visit."


Players are not happy about this coupled with a lot of strife about the dead free agent market and a growing sense the union has lost a lot of power since the steroid scandal...people are actually talkin' strike when the next collective bargaining agreement comes up.

While I'm not thrilled about the rule changes, if these are indeed the ones being implemented, the player's screwed up by not taking the more lenient ones (overall) presented to them this year, nor understanding how seriously the commissioner is about shortening the length of games. After letting the players police themselves about it a few years ago only to see the length of play shoot back up over 3 hours last year, they had to know this was coming.
in 3 hr cricket the penalties are far stronger than this for breaking timelimits - players lose their match fees and/or the captain is banned for 2 games.
how strong's the union?
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I think I'll be playing some slow-pitch softball this year.

The hardball leagues are too far a commute to join up, and besides, I've always avoided joining these things because of injury worries. The last thing I need is something to go wrong and I end up with doctor's bills.

But I was talking about it to this older guy I know who recently turned 40 who told me to do it before it was too late. He wasn't going to be doing anymore himself because all the aches and bruises started catching up with him overnight and it's not as much fun when you are not only the old guy on the team, but the next oldest guy is almost 15 years younger than you.

And he has a point. So I'll be getting a team together for one of the low intensity, mixed leagues which should be fun.
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: how strong's the union?
very strong actually.

long story short, the players are currently very aware of who butters their bread and all agree that keeping the families (paying customers) entertained is the highest priority and anyone who doesnt work towards that is ruining it for the others.
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
But I was talking about it to this older guy I know who recently turned 40 :o who told me to do it before it was too late. He wasn't going to be doing anymore himself because all the aches and bruises started catching up with him overnight :x and it's not as much fun when you are not only the old guy on the team, but the next oldest guy is almost 15 years younger than you. :(
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noddy wrote:
in 3 hr cricket the penalties are far stronger than this for breaking timelimits - players lose their match fees and/or the captain is banned for 2 games.
Yep baseball games are too long. They have always seemed mind-numbingly boring to me. American football is even worse. A better sport to listen to on the radio while doing other stuff than watch on TV, or in person.

Some day, as an experiment, I might have to go to a game, or visit someone who watches baseball on TV, and see what percentage of the time they spend watching the game versus looking at their smart phones.

Modern life has a different tempo than when baseball when in it's hay day.
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hah, the premier cricket format is 25 days long, 450 deliveries a day, broken up into batches of 5 days.
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Simple Minded wrote:
noddy wrote:
in 3 hr cricket the penalties are far stronger than this for breaking timelimits - players lose their match fees and/or the captain is banned for 2 games.
Yep baseball games are too long. They have always seemed mind-numbingly boring to me. American football is even worse. A better sport to listen to on the radio while doing other stuff than watch on TV, or in person.

Some day, as an experiment, I might have to go to a game, or visit someone who watches baseball on TV, and see what percentage of the time they spend watching the game versus looking at their smart phones.
My goodness, how un-American can one man be! :P

But you are right in several ways- baseball works better on radio because it is excellent background chatter.

It isn't designed to be consumed in whole, daily by fans, with the exception being those professionals in and around the game making a living off of it.

Luckily, baseball is pretty good for varying levels of attention and participation...before the smart phone, baseball had the program with the box score after all. ;)
Modern life has a different tempo than when baseball when in it's hay day.
Poppycock. Modern life has a lot of different distractions to sell you, so we're bombarded with the message about how much faster life is now; then thousands of magazine articles are written to help you "balance" that life by making sure you know how to use all their advertising products in a single day. :lol:
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Simple Minded wrote:
noddy wrote:
in 3 hr cricket the penalties are far stronger than this for breaking timelimits - players lose their match fees and/or the captain is banned for 2 games.
Yep baseball games are too long. They have always seemed mind-numbingly boring to me. American football is even worse. A better sport to listen to on the radio while doing other stuff than watch on TV, or in person.

Some day, as an experiment, I might have to go to a game, or visit someone who watches baseball on TV, and see what percentage of the time they spend watching the game versus looking at their smart phones.
My goodness, how un-American can one man be! :P

But you are right in several ways- baseball works better on radio because it is excellent background chatter.

It isn't designed to be consumed in whole, daily by fans, with the exception being those professionals in and around the game making a living off of it.

Luckily, baseball is pretty good for varying levels of attention and participation...before the smart phone, baseball had the program with the box score after all. ;)
Modern life has a different tempo than when baseball when in it's hay day.
Poppycock. Modern life has a lot of different distractions to sell you, so we're bombarded with the message about how much faster life is now; then thousands of magazine articles are written to help you "balance" that life by making sure you know how to use all their advertising products in a single day. :lol:
Your right. Probably all caused by global warming.....

Although listening to a pro comment on a baseball game in real time is entertaining, mostly due to all the "inside baseball" stories. Dennis Miller's interviews of Tommy Lasorta, and Charles Krauthammer's analysis come to mind.

If you don't think modern life is faster paced than in the past, your horse is probably way past his prime, you should stay out of the passing lane, and maybe consider getting a younger one. Or maybe one of those new fangled automobiles you hear so much about these days. :P

How's that Commodore 64 work these days for video games? ;)
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Simple Minded wrote:
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Simple Minded wrote:
noddy wrote:
in 3 hr cricket the penalties are far stronger than this for breaking timelimits - players lose their match fees and/or the captain is banned for 2 games.
Yep baseball games are too long. They have always seemed mind-numbingly boring to me. American football is even worse. A better sport to listen to on the radio while doing other stuff than watch on TV, or in person.

Some day, as an experiment, I might have to go to a game, or visit someone who watches baseball on TV, and see what percentage of the time they spend watching the game versus looking at their smart phones.
My goodness, how un-American can one man be! :P

But you are right in several ways- baseball works better on radio because it is excellent background chatter.

It isn't designed to be consumed in whole, daily by fans, with the exception being those professionals in and around the game making a living off of it.

Luckily, baseball is pretty good for varying levels of attention and participation...before the smart phone, baseball had the program with the box score after all. ;)
Modern life has a different tempo than when baseball when in it's hay day.
Poppycock. Modern life has a lot of different distractions to sell you, so we're bombarded with the message about how much faster life is now; then thousands of magazine articles are written to help you "balance" that life by making sure you know how to use all their advertising products in a single day. :lol:
Your right. Probably all caused by global warming.....

Although listening to a pro comment on a baseball game in real time is entertaining, mostly due to all the "inside baseball" stories. Dennis Miller's interviews of Tommy Lasorta, and Charles Krauthammer's analysis come to mind.


The stories can be wonderful. The great thing about a baseball season is you get to know the announcers very well, and personalities (especially story-teller ones) really shine through.

Unfortunately, as a Yankees fan, I am stuck with the worst radio broadcast team in baseball. John Sterling is an eighty year old man who can no longer see and Suzyn Waldman (who very surprisingly is an award winning singer) has the speaking voice equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.
If you don't think modern life is faster paced than in the past, your horse is probably way past his prime, you should stay out of the passing lane, and maybe consider getting a younger one. Or maybe one of those new fangled automobiles you hear so much about these days. :P

How's that Commodore 64 work these days for video games? ;)
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Even the Commodore is making a comeback!

For the past couple of Christmases, my sister has purchased something old-timey for me.

This year it was a self-playing music box. Last year it was a frock coat. Previously it was a top hat, a pocket watch, and a walking stick. I'm a few articles short of being the perfect Victorian Gentleman:

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As my father remarked to me later, "What year does she think I was born?" :lol:

...I may need to purchase the horse just to complete the outfit. ;)
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Simple Minded wrote:
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Simple Minded wrote:
noddy wrote:
in 3 hr cricket the penalties are far stronger than this for breaking timelimits - players lose their match fees and/or the captain is banned for 2 games.
Yep baseball games are too long. They have always seemed mind-numbingly boring to me. American football is even worse. A better sport to listen to on the radio while doing other stuff than watch on TV, or in person.

Some day, as an experiment, I might have to go to a game, or visit someone who watches baseball on TV, and see what percentage of the time they spend watching the game versus looking at their smart phones.
My goodness, how un-American can one man be! :P

But you are right in several ways- baseball works better on radio because it is excellent background chatter.

It isn't designed to be consumed in whole, daily by fans, with the exception being those professionals in and around the game making a living off of it.

Luckily, baseball is pretty good for varying levels of attention and participation...before the smart phone, baseball had the program with the box score after all. ;)
Modern life has a different tempo than when baseball when in it's hay day.
Poppycock. Modern life has a lot of different distractions to sell you, so we're bombarded with the message about how much faster life is now; then thousands of magazine articles are written to help you "balance" that life by making sure you know how to use all their advertising products in a single day. :lol:
Your right. Probably all caused by global warming.....

Although listening to a pro comment on a baseball game in real time is entertaining, mostly due to all the "inside baseball" stories. Dennis Miller's interviews of Tommy Lasorta, and Charles Krauthammer's analysis come to mind.


The stories can be wonderful. The great thing about a baseball season is you get to know the announcers very well, and personalities (especially story-teller ones) really shine through.

Unfortunately, as a Yankees fan, I am stuck with the worst radio broadcast team in baseball. John Sterling is an eighty year old man who can no longer see and Suzyn Waldman (who very surprisingly is an award winning singer) has the speaking voice equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.
If you don't think modern life is faster paced than in the past, your horse is probably way past his prime, you should stay out of the passing lane, and maybe consider getting a younger one. Or maybe one of those new fangled automobiles you hear so much about these days. :P

How's that Commodore 64 work these days for video games? ;)
TGM35K1vHhQ

Even the Commodore is making a comeback!

For the past couple of Christmases, my sister has purchased something old-timey for me.

This year it was a self-playing music box. Last year it was a frock coat. Previously it was a top hat, a pocket watch, and a walking stick. I'm a few articles short of being the perfect Victorian Gentleman:

Image

As my father remarked to me later, "What year does she think I was born?" :lol:

...I may need to purchase the horse just to complete the outfit. ;)
You're an old soul in a young body. good deal!

Your past life regressions would probably make a good book!
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Simple Minded wrote:
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Simple Minded wrote:
NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Simple Minded wrote:
noddy wrote:
in 3 hr cricket the penalties are far stronger than this for breaking timelimits - players lose their match fees and/or the captain is banned for 2 games.
Yep baseball games are too long. They have always seemed mind-numbingly boring to me. American football is even worse. A better sport to listen to on the radio while doing other stuff than watch on TV, or in person.

Some day, as an experiment, I might have to go to a game, or visit someone who watches baseball on TV, and see what percentage of the time they spend watching the game versus looking at their smart phones.
My goodness, how un-American can one man be! :P

But you are right in several ways- baseball works better on radio because it is excellent background chatter.

It isn't designed to be consumed in whole, daily by fans, with the exception being those professionals in and around the game making a living off of it.

Luckily, baseball is pretty good for varying levels of attention and participation...before the smart phone, baseball had the program with the box score after all. ;)
Modern life has a different tempo than when baseball when in it's hay day.
Poppycock. Modern life has a lot of different distractions to sell you, so we're bombarded with the message about how much faster life is now; then thousands of magazine articles are written to help you "balance" that life by making sure you know how to use all their advertising products in a single day. :lol:
Your right. Probably all caused by global warming.....

Although listening to a pro comment on a baseball game in real time is entertaining, mostly due to all the "inside baseball" stories. Dennis Miller's interviews of Tommy Lasorta, and Charles Krauthammer's analysis come to mind.


The stories can be wonderful. The great thing about a baseball season is you get to know the announcers very well, and personalities (especially story-teller ones) really shine through.

Unfortunately, as a Yankees fan, I am stuck with the worst radio broadcast team in baseball. John Sterling is an eighty year old man who can no longer see and Suzyn Waldman (who very surprisingly is an award winning singer) has the speaking voice equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.
If you don't think modern life is faster paced than in the past, your horse is probably way past his prime, you should stay out of the passing lane, and maybe consider getting a younger one. Or maybe one of those new fangled automobiles you hear so much about these days. :P

How's that Commodore 64 work these days for video games? ;)
TGM35K1vHhQ

Even the Commodore is making a comeback!

For the past couple of Christmases, my sister has purchased something old-timey for me.

This year it was a self-playing music box. Last year it was a frock coat. Previously it was a top hat, a pocket watch, and a walking stick. I'm a few articles short of being the perfect Victorian Gentleman:

Image

As my father remarked to me later, "What year does she think I was born?" :lol:

...I may need to purchase the horse just to complete the outfit. ;)
You're an old soul in a young body. good deal!

Your past life regressions would probably make a good book!
Ah! But see, it's merely a misunderstanding.

I'm not even close to be an antiquarian but I've taken to heart the dictum to "prove all things; hold fast that which is good."

Like baseball ;)
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Simple Minded wrote:
You're an old soul in a young body. good deal!

Your past life regressions would probably make a good book!
Ah! But see, it's merely a misunderstanding.

I'm not even close to be an antiquarian but I've taken to heart the dictum to "prove all things; hold fast that which is good."

Like baseball ;)
Whatever floats yer boat baby! Me, I'm a Leo!
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NapLajoieonSteroids wrote:
Simple Minded wrote:
You're an old soul in a young body. good deal!

Your past life regressions would probably make a good book!
Ah! But see, it's merely a misunderstanding.

I'm not even close to be an antiquarian but I've taken to heart the dictum to "prove all things; hold fast that which is good."

Like baseball ;)
Whatever floats yer boat baby! Me, I'm a Leo!
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MLB announces New York Yankees- Boston Red Sox Games Next Year, in London.

It'll be the first time regular season games between MLB teams will take place in Europe. It'll be June 29th and June 30th at the West Ham football stadium, as it being one of the few stadiums wide enough to be fitted to baseball dimensions.

The Yankees also played the first games in Asia, back in 2004- which took place as the season opener against Tampa Bay, in Tokyo.

The Yankees, especially, complained bitterly about the travel time, with some big stars being so upset as to file formal grievances iirc. Others believe that the ordeal of going from Tampa (where their spring training facilities are) to Tokyo and then to New York, affected their early season performances; or they never felt right for the season.

So the next year or two, Boston and Oakland played preseason games in Tokyo, but this led to more whinging from the players and the idea was dropped.

The New York Mets and San Diego Padres played the foreign MLB games in '96, in Monterrey, Mexico. MLB has long wanted to break into the Mexican market but the best places to expand have such high elevation that they would be a nightmare when considering how bad pitching gets in Colorado and Arizona.

The Mets and Marlins have also played/hosted several series in Puerto Rico- the problem with Puerto Rico expansion is that it's not feasible financially.

Australia has also hosted some Major League spring training games.

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So I don't see how London and the European market is not going to be a redux of the Tokyo experience. London is closer to New York and Boston; but it's still a 7 hour plane ride/jet lag...and they'll be doing it in the middle of the baseball season. I expect lotsa complaining.

Though, the players will receive a 60,000 dollar bonus for participating...so maybe that'll make up for it?
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The Yankees are a real juggernaut this year.

The team is so good that the biggest concern (and media chatter) is how they are to fit all of the talent on the 25-man roster.

Right now 4 or 5 MLB-quality players, some of them with star-potential, are sitting in the minors (or are on the verge of coming off the disabled list and in need of spots.)
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It has come to my attention that a world record dearly beloved of australians was taken by an american - however trying to convert from 4% beer to 5+% beer over different distances is a hard task - not to mention removing the boastful exaggerations from both accounts.

http://theniche-cache.com/american-spor ... s-and-boon

boonie is a huge legend in australian cricket circles - the kind of guy modernity would never allow to play, too fat, too slow, but with a killer eye for hitting the ball and an unholy taste for beer and meat pies.
There’s also the certainty that each of these burly men were outliers in their bodies’ ability to process alcohol. Probably through years of intense training. Just as there are Buddhist monks in the Himalayas that have mastered the art of levitation through a lifelong dedication to the art, there are moustachioed sportsmen from the 1980s whose livers can withstand a volume of alcohol that would kill a horse twice-over.

Also, there’s no way of measuring the litres and litres of beer that never quite made it from the can to the mouth, left soaking instead on the hirsute upper lips of these two great sporting heroes.
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Oh man! Wade Boggs!

One of my favorite all-time players. I patterned my swing after his. Even learnt to work a walk, like Boggs. He was doing that before it was cool.

I only caught the tail-end of his career but he had superior hand-eye coordination. His prowess at bat is legendary; but so is his off the field stuff- like the beer drinking.

He was extremely superstitious. For example, before every game he'd only he chicken, cooked at certain places, with portions of a certain size, at certain times. He wouldn't run out of the clubhouse onto the field unless it was a precise time- it got to the point where opposing teams would try to mess him up by changing all the clocks in the visiting clubhouse/scoreboards.

He also was involved in a sex scandal that was a huge deal at the time. I can't remember the details of what I've read, and wasn't around when it hit; but the gist of it was something about his mistress suing him and how the Red Sox helped him escort his mistress with the team and there were scores of other women...and it was a mess.

Then he goes on national television with his wife they air all their dirty laundry the first time through, then years later did a whole thing about fixing their marriage. I think they're still married- both chalked it up to poor communication; which lead to a lack of honesty, which lead to a wandering eye...

Which is neither here nor there but something about a sex scandal which settles into a happier marriage- something very Wade Boggsian about that. :)
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Which is neither here nor there but something about a sex scandal which settles into a happier marriage- something very Wade Boggsian about that. :)
That is working a walk.
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Nonc Hilaire wrote:
Which is neither here nor there but something about a sex scandal which settles into a happier marriage- something very Wade Boggsian about that. :)
That is working a walk.
:lol:
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