Posted on 09/12/2018 7:02:18 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Go A’s.
used to care- but they have gone full on homosexual supporting- donating money to gay organizations instead of sick children’s funds, old folks homes, etc- Sad that they took the route they have- course they come from a homosexual supporting state- but they went and got all political about it as such i no longer support the team-
Waited all those years fore them to win world series, Was devastated when bill buckner let that ball past him and lost game six- was ecstatic when they finally did win- was very disappointed when they went political correctness with the gay agenda- Lost all interest in them after that
Same here. I quit following the NHL in the late 90s, the NFL after that farce Super Bowl that was handed to the Steelers (I live in Pittsburgh ... That game was fixed) in 2005, and MLB after they let dirtbags like Pirates owner Bob Nutting get away with getting filthy rich off taxpayers paying for his stadium instead of paying better players. Pittsburgh never had an NBA team, so I never followed that.
I LOVE football season for the simple reason that you can get a lot of shopping done with the stores and roads empty on Sundays :-). I used to listen to almost every Pirate game on the radio if I wasn’t watching the game live. No more of that nonsense though ... I couldn’t care less if they’d move the teams out of the area these days.
How about some irony. Neither of those teams won the World Series the year they won 116 games.
LOL
Good for the BoSox, and I'm saying that as an Orioles fan.
Then we have the Brooklyn Superbras. Yes, a real team. They won 101 games in 1899.
We are all called to do our best. Yea, athletes aren't developing the Salk vaccine nor are they firing a kill shot from 3,871-yards away.
Still...while I'm a proponent of a Constitutional amendment banning the DH, the Red Sox' 100-game achievement is worthy of celebration, just like an eagle in golf or a hat trick in hockey or a 61-yard field goal or the Flyers beating the Soviets (literally) or the total yardage of Super Bowl 52. Bravo.
yes, I’m the first person to ever rain truth on anyone’s semi-accurate thread on FR. ever.
it’s deeply shocking.
Admittedly Bos Red Sox are owned by John Henry who also owns the Boston Globe aka the Fenway Gazette...Sam Adams, who loves Trump, is a big corporate sponsor though
Baseball and Politics 2004 though
I care. I dropped out of baseball with the ‘94 strike. I got back into it when my first son was very young. Been paying attention off and on (more on really) since about 2006. The Red Sox are quite the team this year. We cheer the Cardinals on.
This has actually happened thousands of times during NHL history. Wayne Gretzsky alone did it 50 times.
Way back when, when men were men and women were women, hats would be thrown onto the ice if a player scored three goals. Hence: Hat Trick.
No, No, No; I watched Jimmy Buffet end the curse on my DVD! This was in '04, I believe.
Parrot Heads Rule!
Well you know, I don’t watch too many games either, but I care. I’m a Mets fan, so clearly I care.
And I love the Red Sox too. My father’s mother was a YUGE Red Sox fan. She was old enough that she would have remembered their world series win before the curse happened, and it was shortly after her daughter’s death (my beloved aunt) that they broke that curse.
She was probably the biggest baseball fan I’ve known and when I was little it was in the days of Yastrzemski. I knew my grandma admired a man of true greatness, that much was clear.
Baseball is a great game, I personally think it is the perfect game. There’s something about it that is infinite, metaphysical, at any level it is played, up to and including punchball but I think that’s just played in NYC.
You say you don’t care and you don’t care, but I think you do and I hope you do. I care, and like I said, I’m a Mets fan. Basically I should throw myself off of the Driscoll Bridge, but I don’t, because I care.
Bruce Maxwell (the kneeling criminal), spent a big part of the year at AAA, batting .219. We might not hear much more from him.
I loved the "Broad Street Bullies."
A’s might pass the Yankees and host the Wild Card.
“Yea, athletes aren’t developing the Salk vaccine nor are they firing a kill shot from 3,871-yards away.”
Right, but we can’t all do those things. They’re not out hitting folks over the head in the alley to rob them, either.
But I certainly hope they are trying their best, and any team that wins 100 games has made a great effort, undeniably.
Agree on the DH BS.
PS - unless you want to say, it lets you give a guy a job, which is a good thing to do. I always sort of think that later.
I hear ya. back in the day I lived two miles from Memorial Stadium where the Orioles played. You could get bleacher seats for 90 cents. Even better was when your friend's dad worked in the front office during the season and he could get you in for free. The Os were lucky to draw a million fans over the course of the season (even during the glory years of 1966 - 1972), so there were always plenty of seats available.
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