I thought they fixed that problem with some new rules?
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Even 2.5 hours of baseball feels like a lifetime.
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I’ll take your word for it! It’s literally been decades since I’ve seen a game… I remember we went down to see the Braves play sometime in the 80s when I was a kid…
Now I’ve been to a couple of soccer matches for ATL United… that was pretty exciting, fast-paced, and fun!
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I don’t know, my wife and I are enjoying the game today.
We made popcorn and getting ready to make Friday fish and chips.
We’re considering a Monday night game because tickets are practically free but it’s gonna be cold, as in below 40.
Our daughter just shared my all time favorite photo from Opening Day a few years ago. It will be front and center on my memorial board.
It’s me with the entire Tigers cheerleading squad. My wife took the picture, she’s a good sport, so are the cheerleaders
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Wat?
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I assume that’s law enforcement and not a shooter!
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Yes, the law.
She said the stadium, especially the perimeter, is loaded with well armed cops, probably state police.
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Okay, last ones.
She sent me the wide angle.
They really were in the cheap seats, and notice the $16,000 seats are empty. You’d think they’d let some of the standing room only people have a treat in the unpaid seats.
I always heard pigeons loved baseball.
My wife and daughter both love horses, here’s some giant horses.
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How’s that World Cup going, Mr Infantino and Mr Trump?
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this was recommended by FD Signifier (and the guy showed up in the recent Hotep video he did)… I’m watching it now… so far, so good…
I think that @tcg550 is/was a wrestling fan? You might find it interesting!
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Baseball was never intended to be exciting. A good game is tense.
That’s why the lower the score, the better the game.
I appreciate the game, but I have to admit I haven’t seen a complete game since around 1999.
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I loved baseball. It’s a pastime that was once played by athletes who weren’t goons. It’s now screamingly loud, with too many roided-out domestic abusers, and has an ignorant, dictatorial boss (sound familiar?) who evidently hates the game and its history. He wants to make it even more like Yankistani football, and he can fuck right off.
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That’s too bad. I had to look that guy up. Honestly never heard of him.
I guess I was celebrating the game in abstracto.
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I’d given up on it when my favorite player, Carlton Fisk, was forced to retire w/o warning. The use of steroids had also begun around that time, as the game simultaneously became cheap and way too expensive. I had no interest in watching assholes w/bull necks whose feet had grown 2 sizes b/c steroids. They broke the records of men who had set them on merit, not by shooting up.
I got sucked back in when the Tigers had made it to the playoffs - our pal Ms V came over and insisted we put on the game. My Tigers choked, but I enjoyed watching baseball again for a few years.
More and more players were again being busted for steroids. Baseball’s boss started his campaign of making baseball no longer baseball. Talk of letting the druggy cheaters into the Hall of Fame began. Players were being treated even more like commodities, and suffered weird injuries that past players never experienced. Prices of everything at the games spiralled out of control, as players’ contracts broke records, and owners made (mostly tax-free) millions hand over fist.
Capitalism really does kill pretty much everything it touches.
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Don’t forget the head! (Looking at you, Barry Bonds.)
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Babies, but this is what happens when they start the season while winter is still wintering.
I just checked Stubhub, tickets are 2 bucks.
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