It’s one of those days when thoughts turn to baseball. Take your turn at bat, take a hack, see if you can get a hit!
By what date will Ken Griffey Jr. land on the DL (for the first time this year)?
What’s sadder, another year for the Cubs without a healthy Mark Prior or another year for the Cubs without a healthy Kerry Wood?
What, exactly, is the official location for the Angels this year?
Do Nationals fans have anything to look forward to in 2007 beside Ryan Zimmerman?
Couldn’t George Steinbrenner’s son-in-law have waited a few more years to screw up his marriage and ruin his chance to inherit the Yankees?
Will there be any joy outside San Francisco the night Barry Bonds breaks Hank Aaron’s career home run record?
What will be more depressing, another inning Phillies fans have to endure of new announcer Gary Matthews or additional details about Gary Matthews Jr. and his alleged purchase of human growth hormone?
What gimmick will MLB tack onto this year’s unbelievably boring Home Run Derby?
Who will be the surprise teams of the NL and the AL?
Do you agree that this is the year Brett Myers wins the NL Cy Young Award?
Who will win the battle of Ichiro vs Dice-K, when the Mariners and Red Sox square off?
Will Peter Gammons do more than 5 stories through the course of the year that don’t involve the Red Sox?
Do you think Pedro Gomez is counting the days ’til he gets released from the Bonds beat?
What key question about the upcoming season did I forget to ask?
1. They’ll have all-star outfielders in the stands and outside the stadium trying to catch the home run balls, then they’ll have the batter and the outfielder sign them and sell them for a mint.
2. NL: Pirates or D-Backs AL: O’s or Tribe.
3. Brett seems focused enough to win the Cy, but our soft pen will lose it for him.
4. Dice! Itchy still hasn’t learned to make pitchers throw alot of pitches.
5. If Gammons DOESN’T do at least 5 sox-related stories, he winds up bound and gagged in the trunk of some Masshole’s Sport Fury.
6. I think we’re all secretly hoping that one of Bond’s limbs falls off before he breaks Hank’s record.
7. How many games under .500 in early June will it take for the Phils to fire uncle Charlie?
Thanks for indulging my baseball sweet tooth!!!
oops!
i forgot the questions above the youtube!
here they are:
– Griff’s on the DL by July 1.
– no doubt, another year for the Cubs without Kerry Wood’s absolutely STICKY arm is a sad sad thing for all of baseball…
– the Angels franchise has relocated to Norristown.
– The Nats blow!
– Steinbrenner’s son-in-law’s an idiot! I’ll run the Yanks (into the ground!).
– I heard some call in idiot on w.i.p. talk about how great it will be when barry breaks the record because bonds doesn’t kowtow to the white media. he said hank aaron was a “minstrel act”. can you BELIEVE that? I can, because people can be REAL assholes. so, yeah, i think there will be a very misguided, ignorant portion of the muddville population who will rejoice. Unfortunately, life is like a Celine novel most of the time….filled with deluded fools.
I heard that caller on WIP (the Character Assassination Station), truly unbelievable.
No wonder I only kind of fit in here! I thought this was ROCK town hall, not JOCK town hall.
Rock and Roll is REBEL music.
SPORTS is for well adjusted members of society.
We might as well have a conversation about the next mayor…or AlQueda…or how bout a little car talk?
You must not know very many athletes.
Townsman Shawn, cool out. This won’t happen often, but your Moderator has his needs too.
The day you find a place where you perfectlly fit in with a group of REBELS is the day you’re no longer a rebel, no?
You know what’s really weird about this opening day? The Boston sports media seem…content. Dare I say, happy.
There are no calls for Manny Ramirez to be publically beheaded at dawn near the Ted Williams statue. No one has yet bitched about Matsuzaka’s paycheck. Nobody seems to give a shit one way or the other about the Yankees. People in the media just aren’t being dicks about it all.
It just doesn’t feel right.
I just like saying ManRam.
May 1st
Mark Prior. He was supposed to be the chosen one
Becuase of the success of the various TV hows they are to be called “The Orange County Angels @ Anaheim, Los Angeles”
Nick Johnson coming back in July and then immeadiately put back on the DL for his protection
No shit. The real question is why his own sons are not running it anyway
Victor Conte might get a chuckle out of it
Listening to Gary Matthews and Wheels is going to be painful. I may have to listen to the away broadcasts on XM or MLB.com
Allowing particiapnts to juice on HGH to see how far a human can hit a baseball
AL: Who cares? Is it really baseball?
NL: Phils (no one locally is all that convinved that the Phils will do well
Nope. Cole Hamels will win it first
Dice K’s entourage will kick Ichiro’s entrourages butt
That’s enuff for now.
I’m sorry guys. I just get fucking crazy sometimes.
I don’t know ANY athletes.
shawn,
don’t let the jocks have sports all to themselves.
i remember what liberating moment it was to meet mike lenert of caterpillar and have an argument about AL ball vs. NL ball with someone who was in a great indie rock band.
before that, i hadn’t talked sports with anyone but my dad and my uncles for years.
i thought everybody in indie rock subscribed to the brand of anti sports fascism you spout above.
i’m glad that’s not the case.
i also accept your apology.
Dodgers/Brewers starts in 5 minutes. I’ve got my Pee Wee Reese shirt on. We’re going undefeated this year.
May 3.
Mark Prior. I loved watching him pitch. Wood was a big ole’ hoss/lunkhead.
Disneyland.
Knocking the Phils out of wild card contention around the time of Yom Kippur.
He must be a Mets fan at heart.
Maybe Mark McGwire will feel his popularity rebounding.
Watching Manual bring Gordon in top start the top of the 9th at home with the score tied .
Virtual walls from classic stadiums will be errected at each round.
AL: No surprises – the A’s will win the AL West and then get eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. Billy Beane and statheads around the country will cry “No fair!”
NL: The Marlins will win the NL East
I agree with you.
Ichiro loves the Gyroball!
Ah, Mr. Kilroy, you must be new here. Every so often, as the inmates line up for their evening gruel, the kinder gentler despot kommandant makes everyone sit through an exhaustive chat about baseball. When you’re still green, and the hash marks of the passing days have yet to extend beyond the first wall of your cell, you may counter with some non-Rock interest of your own, believing naïvely that some kind of opening has presented itself. Without raising their voices, the powers that be will direct you to that little giblet hidden in the mission statement, as though it were an obvious joke. By now, I just sit quietly in my spot, contemplating the feet of the bronze Costello icon, rubbed to a high gloss by the lips of countless pilgrims. There is much I don’t understand here. But I have come to understand *that* much, at least.
Too funny, General. Thanks for explaining it to those unaccustomed to this practice. I promise you we will save it for rare and special occasions.
Surprisingly, I’m completely anti-hockey-talk or watching it on TV (being the canuck and all, plus having the spitfires/redwings in my home town – maybe it was too much). But I can definitely dig a home game or being in the seats for all sorts of sports events except for golf. I really hate golf. I love baseball, but really love soccer too. As far as baseball is concerned though, I remember hitting my first line drive and knocking someone out on 3rd base with a softball hit (woops!) and my mum probably has my MVP trophies from grade school stashed somewhere. I haven’t talked with ANYONE about sports in eons, not even the guys I’ve dated, well – all but maybe the last one… I haven’t tried not to date non-sporties, but I find that kind of weird thinking about it now. I’m kind of sad (don’t throw any baseball mitts at me!!) but I missed out on one of the biggest deals of the detroit century in never being able to make it to a Tigers game at the original stadium, although we stopped in that area often because it was right by the wonder bread factory and my dad had a thing for fresh wonder and hostess twinkies. I remember liking these guys: Chet Lemon, Alan Trammell, Lou Whitaker, Kirk Gibson and Lance Parrish… Otherwise, it’s like you’re talkin’ another language here because I haven’t followed it since the mid-80s, but it’s cool. I can dig it. What an initiation to local sports!:D
Did I say “undefeated”? I meant to say 161-1.
Ms. Cinnamon recalls:
we stopped in that area often because it was right by the wonder bread factory and my dad had a thing for fresh wonder and hostess twinkies.
I dag:
Wow. From the Products That Almost Don’t Exist office, Oxymoron Drawer: fresh Wonder bread and Twinkies. With a tasty mix of irony and genuineness, this is what our doughboys are fighting for in Iraq. Not just that such products are out there, or are ubiquitous, but that they represent the dreamy vacation-goal memories of anyone’s halcyon days is an odd thing, and, against reason, heartening.