Baseball is back

[Yoko Oh No]

I'm driving around boston tonight with the windows down and the ball game on the radio. I can't remember...did winter ever come this year?

 

[killdeer43]

Mariners....3-0. :applause:

Joe

 

[killdeer43]

A little tidbit from Baja. A good looking stadium in El Sargento, BCS.

....been berry, berry good to Chico! :wink-new:

Joe

 

[davismanLV]

Short term memory loss? Or spring? Not sure.....

 

[killdeer43]

Short term memory loss? Or spring? Not sure.....

He's just being Yoko. layful:

Joe

 

[griehund]

Sox in first place in AL East. Yeah baby:excitement:

 

[Bikerdoc]

Yeah, baseball is back. On the backburner as far as t.v. goes. Not one single game on network channels on opening day. :frustrating:

 

[rampside]

The Twins are like spring here in Minnie. Neither has bothered to show up yet!:05.18-flustered:

*UPDATE* seems to be a reversal of fortune: Twinkies pulled it out in the ninth yesterday and spring is set to arrive this weekend and will stay around (knock on wood)

 

[NEONMOONY]

GO Cards!

 

[Midnight Toker]

Baseball is finally back for me and a multitude of Orioles fans that have bitten our lips for decades watching Peter Angelos drive a once revered franchise into the laughing stock of MLB! I can finally feel good about purchasing game tickets again!! (And am no longer as worried about all the young Allstate leaving after their first contract runs out!)

 

[West R Lee]

I'm still in shock that the Rangers won the Series.........with that team. At the start of the '23 season, I thought they looked like a team full of misfits, kind of the "Bad News Bears", but they sure pulled it together. So now they'll find a way to get rid of them all.

West

 

[chazmo]

Baseball is finally back for me and a multitude of Orioles fans that have bitten our lips for decades watching Peter Angelos drive a once revered franchise into the laughing stock of MLB! I can finally feel good about purchasing game tickets again!! (And am no longer as worried about all the young Allstate leaving after their first contract runs out!)

Just curious, MT, but why did you bump a 10 year old thread?

 

[Midnight Toker]

Just curious, MT, but why did you bump a 10 year old thread?

I did a search for “Baseball” as a topic title, and “Baseball is back” was the most fitting for the news of the Orioles being sold. The other thread that came up was “Opening Day”.

I’m all for the practice of doing a search for any relatable threads before ever starting a new thread. That’s how forums quickly turn into Facebook type posting and vibrant discussions quickly get buried by endless new threads (especially when so man could legitimately be lumped together in one umbrella thread. Plus it keeps things more organized and weeds out constant repetitive posts. This is the only forum I’ve ever seen that warns “this thread is X days old, are you sure you want to reply”. Most I’ve seen encourage bumping of old pertinent threads before ever starting new ones, IMO, (for example) it’s better to have one thread about a particular guitar model w/ 50 pages that has been going for 10+ years than 20 threads 2-3 pages long w/ redundant info. It doesn’t have to be pinned, people just need to use the search function more before starting new threads!

The owner/admin of a forum I’ve been on for 25 years, if you start a thread that has already been discussed ad nauseam, would immediately close the thread, give a link to the long running thread, and finish w/ “The search function is your friend, use it!!”

 

[chazmo]

No argument here, MT, but it was odd. Thanks!

 

[West R Lee]

No argument here, MT, but it was odd. Thanks!

I noticed that myself. I guessed that was what Toker did. When you think about it, it saves the old response........"Hey, there was a thread discussing that a while back".

West

 

[chazmo]

I noticed that myself. I guessed that was what Toker did. When you think about it, it saves the old response........"Hey, there was a thread discussing that a while back".

West

Exactly,

Just FYI, though, we moderators often find that users that bump old threads are spammers or something else. It's mostly new users, but we pay extra attention to necro-threads.

Again, nothing wrong here, Jim, MT, but we do run into that.

 

[Midnight Toker]

No argument here, MT, but it was odd. Thanks!

I hear ya. Probably not something you’re used to seeing.

As for Peter Angelos….good riddens! He was a traitor to the fan base in that he openly advertised ticket and travel packages to rival markets! It got to the point where Camden was being called Yankee Stadium South or Fenway South! Ugh! It’s like the man sat in his owners box counting empty seats without ever once looking at the scoreboard! Field a winning team and you wouldn’t have that problem. Baltimore has a hard core fan base when there’s even an inkling of something to cheer about! This is the best baseball news I’ve heard in 20+ years!

 

[RBSinTo]

Normally, baseball fans, when opening day approaches, are looking forward to the start of the season.
However, living in Toronto, and being a Blue Jays fan, the baffling off-season moves by the two people directly responsible for running the team, have prepared us for another season of likely meaningless baseball.
And when one factors in the ineptitude of the alternative local sports teams (Maple Leafs, Raptors Argonaughts, Toronto FC), Toronto is a pretty desperate place to be a hometown sports fan.
RBSinTo

 

[FNG]

I love my MLB.TV subscription. I get all the Yankees games, only blacked out for Tampa Bay, but my cable package has the Tampa Bay games.

Glad to see Baltimore do well, pretty storied franchise. Those Earl Weaver era teams were classic!

 

[Westerly Wood]

I plan on going full on Dbacks this season. I have been so long out of New England that I think it's time to wave goodbye to my beloved Sox.
I am not really even sad.