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BOYCOTT MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL IF THEY CAVE IN AND MOVE THE 2011 ALL STAR GAME FROM ARIZONA.
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Posted on 05/04/2010 12:15:38 PM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99

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To: Alberta's Child
I was a die-hard Yankee fan

I forgive you.

61 posted on 05/04/2010 2:33:50 PM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (Burn Congress Burn!)
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To: Churchillspirit

Since most of us already hate baseball our boycotting of the game will make a minimal impact. That is why I suggest we put pressure on the sponsors of baseball to tell the MLB people to mind their own business.

If we start to boycott Minute Maid or Petco or Coors or other businesses that give money to MLB then maybe MLB will feel the economic pinch more then a few freepers boycotting the games.


62 posted on 05/04/2010 2:39:54 PM PDT by sennabanderas
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

LOL.


63 posted on 05/04/2010 2:43:14 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
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To: advertising guy

PINGAROO

They can’t be stupid enough to even consider this right?
wait, Bud is still in charge. nevermind....

CAVS sucked, Suns rolled last night....


64 posted on 05/04/2010 2:56:23 PM PDT by cleveland gop (2010 NBA PLAYOFFS--NEXT VICTIM THE CELTICS!!! 5 DOWN 11 TO GO! GO CAVS!!!)
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To: relictele

I always get a chuckle at people complaining about the length of baseball games which are, on average, shorter than football games.


65 posted on 05/04/2010 2:58:41 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

Since my team is the Baltimore Orioles, boycotting baseball this year would be easy. LOL!


66 posted on 05/04/2010 3:03:28 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

I have been boycotting them since the strike about 20 years ago.


67 posted on 05/04/2010 3:05:02 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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To: sennabanderas
Since most of us already hate baseball.....

Speak for yourself.

68 posted on 05/04/2010 3:12:04 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/01...NEVER FORGET.)
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

I’m in. I boycott Los Angeles and San Fran also. And I live in LA county.


69 posted on 05/04/2010 3:24:13 PM PDT by Always Independent
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To: stevecmd
Please don’t compare “soccer” [or any other kind of football--BD] to... baseball.

Q: What do you do if you can’t hit a baseball?

A: Play soccer.

You also play football or (remembering Dave DeBusschere, once an aspiring pitcher, or Danny Ainge, once an aspiring outfielder) basketball.

Those who could play either or at competent levels have been exceptions. (Bob Gibson played one season with the Harlem Globetrotters before sticking with the St. Louis Cardinals; Bo Jackson, obviously, for all the favours playing football and baseball at once did him; Deion Sanders, though he proved far better suited to football---in talent and in personality, for better or worse---than baseball; Sandy Koufax was thought on his way to a life in the NBA---he still holds a snertch of Lafayette High basketball records and went to college on a basketball scholarship before he went into baseball.)

70 posted on 05/04/2010 4:00:08 PM PDT by BluesDuke (Another brief interlude from the small apartment halfway up in the middle of nowhere in particular)
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

I heard on the radio that the Phoenix suns will be wearing jerseys with the spanish translation of their name for an upcoming game to show solidarity with the illegals. Lovely.


71 posted on 05/04/2010 4:02:23 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

Somebody should make a facebook page that says if the MLB boycotts Arizona I will boycott MLB, including going to games, watching games on TV or listening to them on radio. I bet a page like that would get 10K “Likes” in no time.


72 posted on 05/04/2010 4:39:12 PM PDT by TexasKate
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To: ArmedConservative

I stopped watch major league baseball after that strike
back in the mid-nineties. Anybody making BIG $$$ and has the balls to strike . . . he can have somebody other than I help to pay that big salary!!


73 posted on 05/04/2010 4:42:17 PM PDT by Mr. Wright
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To: dragnet2

F the companies. I plan on attending that game. If the owner caves, I have bought my last ticket in Phoenix.


74 posted on 05/04/2010 5:54:18 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: TexasKate

Yeah, I gave them a call and left a message. I posed two questions for them:

1. Will the illegal immigrants fill the arenas and pay their salary?

2. What other skills do the Arizona players have aside from being able to play a kid’s game really well?


75 posted on 05/04/2010 6:02:12 PM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (Burn Congress Burn!)
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

Perhaps people should agree to join the boycott if MLB agrees to play out the season with out umpires. Isn’t that what they are asking Arizona to do with regard to the enforcement of immigration law?


76 posted on 05/04/2010 6:04:47 PM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Football games are once a week. Baseball games are nightly most weeks of the season.

I take it you don’t have season tickets to MLB?


77 posted on 05/04/2010 11:25:40 PM PDT by Carling (I'm a neo-McCarthyite ... Obama is a Communist.)
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To: Carling

I live a few hundred miles from the nearest team so no.


78 posted on 05/04/2010 11:26:32 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Carling

So are you following me from thread to thread now tough guy?


79 posted on 05/04/2010 11:27:17 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Well, as someone who has had MLB season tickets, it’s easy for me to see why the NFL vs. MLB argument doesn’t hold up. Getting home at midnight every night wasn’t fun.


80 posted on 05/04/2010 11:28:15 PM PDT by Carling (I'm a neo-McCarthyite ... Obama is a Communist.)
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