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Camden Yards pretty much empty tonight in game between Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles.

Posted on 09/20/2017 4:17:13 PM PDT by SamAdams76

Not a big baseball fan. This isn't newsworthy. I'm not pimping a blog. I know not many people care. I also know there are more important things to talk about. Hurricanes. North Korea. Global Cooling. Healthcare. Tax Reform. Pizza...definitely pizza. Trump's Tweets - and he put out a mother lode of them today.

But I'm sitting here in a Long Island bar, Millers Ale House in Lake Grove, and they have this game on with Red Sox ace Chris Sale pitching and the stands are pretty much empty. Just thought I'd point that out.

Not a big baseball fan but I never remember a game that had this few people in the stands.

Those Cleveland Indians...they have now won 25 of the last 26 games. How amazing is that? Maybe they draw a bigger crowd.


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To: hillarys cankles
The baseball season is way too long and Football has gone political which is a huge turnoff. The days of Ronnie Lott blowing guys up and Jim Burt smashing QB’s are long gone and it seems like my enjoyment of that game disappeared with them.

Now people pay $200 a ticket to watch women-beaters like Ezekiel Elliott who quit on their team.

41 posted on 09/20/2017 4:49:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ladyjane

I don’t know but the area adjacent to the ball park looked pretty bad to me.


42 posted on 09/20/2017 4:50:24 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SamAdams76

My husband is a huge SOX fan.


43 posted on 09/20/2017 4:51:08 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: hanamizu

I would go to watch the Senators in DC when my dad could afford the $2 for nosebleed seats.
The first year the Nationals brought baseball back to DC they played at RFK and I paid scalpers prices for the home opener. Wanted to take my kids to see the bigs. First base line, three rows back. Wished my dad was still with us.
My middle boy took it all in and said, “Dad, wouldn’t it be cool to sit way up there?”


44 posted on 09/20/2017 4:54:12 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: ladyjane

The onramp for I95.


45 posted on 09/20/2017 4:57:05 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: leaning conservative

46 posted on 09/20/2017 4:58:01 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: dfwgator
Now people pay $200 a ticket to watch women-beaters like Ezekiel Elliott

Well, it's obvious you aren't following the case. Of the three investigators the NFL assigned to the case, only one of the three, a female, actually talked to the 'victim' and came away severely questioning the credibility of the the woman who changed her story every time she was spoken to. The case is another railroad job performed by that piece of garbage Goodell.

47 posted on 09/20/2017 4:58:29 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Donald J Trump 45th President of the United States !MAGA)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

I actually do somewhat agree that the NFL fouled it up, but he’s still a piece of ghetto trash just the same. And he showed his true colors on Sunday.

Frankly one of his teammates should have decked him in the locker room after the game.


48 posted on 09/20/2017 5:00:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: hillarys cankles
This is why the NFL is dying on the vine. You can say all you want about the Kapernick-style BS, and I wouldn't argue with you, but the major reason is, the NFL was a phenomenon of the Baby Boom Generation; it was born and bred in the 1960's for adolescent, college age and young twentysomething fans. We now are of an age where we finally have figured out that pro sports is a thin gruel compared to real life.
49 posted on 09/20/2017 5:00:59 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hillarys cankles

The actual funny part is that all the SJW virtue signaling by pro sports is pushed by a demographic that has no interest in pro sports other than as a target to attack.

The NFL, in particular, can win nothing from its antics and has been and will continue to constantly and consistently loose because of those antics.

NASCAR is jumping onto the same idiot death spiral.


50 posted on 09/20/2017 5:03:50 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SamAdams76

Yes...and $50.00 to pahk the cah.


51 posted on 09/20/2017 5:09:21 PM PDT by left that other site
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To: SamAdams76

I was a huge baseball fan until the 1994 strike...

Basically it was **** these players and owners...I wrote them off completely...

I pretty much never watched a game or had any interest until the Tampa Rays went to the World Series in 2008...

Hard not to watch your home team going to the WS !!!

I forgetten have much I loved the game...and really enjoyed telling my family the ins and outs of how the game is played...

I do catch a game or two when I can...I just wish they would play in a real baseball stadium instead of the toxidome.


52 posted on 09/20/2017 5:10:31 PM PDT by Popman
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To: SamAdams76

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On September 22, 1966, paid attendance of 413 was announced at the 65,000-seat Yankee Stadium.

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53 posted on 09/20/2017 5:11:04 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: SamAdams76
Used to go in the sixties as a kid with Rico Petrocelli, Yaz, George Scott, Jim Lonborg...

Those were the days...

54 posted on 09/20/2017 5:20:03 PM PDT by ex91B10
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To: SamAdams76

and many times using a pencil without an eraser.

As a kid, I used to buy a program and score the game with a number two pencil.


55 posted on 09/20/2017 5:20:26 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: left that other site
Yes...and $50.00 to pahk the cah.

It's crazy to drive to Fenway.Park in the burbs and take the T...that's what we always did as kids (of course we couldn't drive so we walked to the T).

56 posted on 09/20/2017 5:30:39 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: ladyjane

I live in the Baltimore suburbs, about 40 miles east up I-95.
I used to attend various sporting events in Baltimore, but haven’t been down in the city since 2004.
I remember when the Orioles had to relocate a series against Tampa down to Florida during the Freddie Gray riots.
Baltimore used to be known as “Charm City.” Now, it’s right in there with the likes of Chicago as far as the murder rate is concerned.
At this point, you couldn’t pay me to venture into town any longer.
So sad—and no hope for the future as Baltimore remains in the ironclad grip of the Dems.


57 posted on 09/20/2017 5:31:03 PM PDT by edie1960
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To: edie1960

Your words to my lips


58 posted on 09/20/2017 5:32:06 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper (Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. - George Washington)
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To: SamAdams76

I love baseball. Currently watching the Nationals at Atlanta. Lots of empty seats. Funny how the folks you can see close are all looking at their phones. Lol.

I follow the Nationals, Yankees and Indians and think the all have interesting players that are exciting to watch. Love baseball on the radio out in the yard in the summertime. Especially John Sterling and Susan Waldman.

But that’s just me.


59 posted on 09/20/2017 5:32:24 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Oh Indeed. Driving ANYWHERE in Boston is horrible, but the Fenway area on Game Day is LEGENDARY.


60 posted on 09/20/2017 5:32:49 PM PDT by left that other site
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