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To: GuavaCheesePuff

1994: The year I stopped caring about baseball.


2 posted on 08/20/2019 12:26:30 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Cowboy Bob

IMO...
Baseball needs a major upgrade for the 21st century.
many don;t have the patience or the attn span anymore.

maybe institute a “shot clock” for pitches.
A timer for innings change overs.
Some sort of 3 pointers for home runs.
Blocker in the base lines
Water traps/ alligators between 3rd and home..

Anything!! Just speed up the pace and get more excitement in there!!


9 posted on 08/20/2019 12:33:11 PM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: Cowboy Bob

But after 1994, baseball was back on top!

1995: Atlanta Braves end postseason failure, finally win a championship

Mid ‘90s-Early 2010s: New York Yankees back on top; the rise of Derek Jeter

2004: Boston Red Sox end curse

2016: Chicago Cubs break curse

Baseball has done wonders since 1994


11 posted on 08/20/2019 12:35:55 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: Cowboy Bob

“1994: The year I stopped caring about baseball.”

Same here! That strike turned me off to baseball.

And Krapperdick and the reaction to him did that for me for football.

Now I’m pretty much cured of the addiction to all the “opiods of the people”- which includes TV, movies, sports... Life is so much better.

I’m left with one addiction - FR.


12 posted on 08/20/2019 12:36:37 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: Cowboy Bob
1994: The year I stopped caring about baseball.

For me it was interleague play, the baseball version of shacking up.

I have gone to a couple of games with my ten year old son, because that's part of raising a son. Plus, Cactus League is really cool.
20 posted on 08/20/2019 12:43:57 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Games are getting longer too. I can just check ESPN, I don’t have time for MLB anymore.


52 posted on 08/20/2019 1:40:36 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Cowboy Bob

“1994: The year I stopped caring about baseball.”
Same here, I believe that was the year they had a strike and did not play the World Series. Making all that money to play a kids game!


78 posted on 08/20/2019 2:17:01 PM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I pretty much gave up on baseball when they stopped making pitchers have to bat.


108 posted on 08/20/2019 4:26:52 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Somewhere in the mid 80s I quit caring about sports.


110 posted on 08/20/2019 4:50:53 PM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Yep - can’t remember the last time I watched an inning, much less a game...


120 posted on 08/21/2019 3:08:06 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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