Yeah, since this is a gaming forum, not a sports one or just a place where you get a wide range of people and interests, I was just wondering how many people here are actually into baseball?

Me, I'm becoming addicted to it or something. It's like no matter how much of it I take in at one time, I can't get enough of it. Like this past summer, I would play Roger Clemens MVP Baseball on an NES emulator while I watched a Cincinnati Reds game on TV, and then after that game went off, I'd flip over to ESPN Classics and watch some NL/AL playoff game from 1986. This season, I'm probably going to get nutty with it because I'm running a fantasy baseball league and I'm going to be keeping up with all my players and trying to find every stat about them I can and every opinion from every columnist to see if they seem to be doing well or sucking. So far, I've got a decent team. My stars are Bonds, Pedro Martinez, Ichiro, The Rocket, Freddy Garcia, Orlando Cabrera, Mike Young, Bill Mueller. After that, I've just got a lot of solid players who aren't bad--they're just not famous. For instance, Austin Kearns from Cincinnati. The boy hits homers fairly consistently and I think at one point, he was pretty much a workhorse out in RF. I'm kind of biased towards him, though, because he went to my high school. The main trend in my drafting was picking the best of the Mariners and the Reds, because they're the two teams I root for most of the time (I'm closer on the map to Cincy, but I root for Seattle because I've got a lot of fam that does and Seattle's probably more likely to make it to October).

I guess regardless of what the players do off the field, baseball's still a great sport. I remember being pretty disappointed with the strike that happened nearly a decade ago, but now that they still whine about being the richest guys in the world and they're getting caught with steroids, they're still playing the game. The game is still the game.

Hee hee. TheSandlot posting about baseball. Gold.

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Hmmm ... "baseball" ...

In England we have this game called "Rounders", which is the same principle.

It's played by girls...

-Jackpot

[EDIT - dang typos . Incidentally, I mean no offence, honest ]

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[This message has been edited by lucky_jackpot (edited March 11, 2004).]

I find baseball emphatically boring. Of course it's all relative, cricket being one of my favourite sports...

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We used to play that at school...

Our school kind of sucked, sportswise.

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Sweet irony...

peh. Baseball has lost interest to me since they had the strike. Now its just not entertaining anymore. THe only thing I watch is the Homerun derby and that's it

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"I'm seriously going to hump you until you scream like a banshee!"

I love baseball, and watching it, but playing it is even better. Actually, it's the most interesting sport to watch, because there are hardly any other sports where the fan can think about what the players are doing, what they might do, what they should do, and what they'd do in the players' or managers' places. I mean, take basketball: there's really not much you can think about, it's mostly just watching the players react. Football has a little more to think about, but the camera angles don't usually give you much of the big picture; for that you need video games. Hockey is the same as basketball in that respect. With baseball, you can think about what the pitcher's going to do, try to figure out if he did what he was trying to do, think about substitutions, positions, etc.

Oh well, there's forty cents.

I wonder if the Padres will finish above .500 this year...

We had a winning team at one point! I remember! I want that back!

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I am obsessed with football, but baseball just bores me. I don't know why, but I just really don't like to watch or play it. I know some stuff about it, but very little, and really don't care too much about it.

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Kids must be shot by Monday.

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Psychopaths are unpredictable.

Jay Leno's Headlines > Everything

It's a little slow for my tastes, but I often turn A's or Giants games on while I'm doing homework or working on the computer. That way, I can keep up with what's going on. I'm still hoping for a reapeat of the 1989 World Series: A's - Giants

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Minus the earthquake, right?


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