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A Brief History of Baseball (Original Post) CanSocDem Jun 2018 OP
Not familiar with your favorite team... True Dough Jun 2018 #1
None other. CanSocDem Jun 2018 #2
Maybe John Gibbons will join your slow pitch league too True Dough Jun 2018 #4
That's where I would start. CanSocDem Jun 2018 #6
How Baseball Was Invented Brother Buzz Jun 2018 #3
If you want to see real baseball SCantiGOP Jun 2018 #5
marking to return to tonight rurallib Jun 2018 #7

True Dough

(17,095 posts)
1. Not familiar with your favorite team...
Sun Jun 3, 2018, 11:35 AM
Jun 2018

With "Can" in your screen name, are you Canadian? Is it the Blue Jays you cheer for?

If so, I share your pain!

 

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)
2. None other.
Sun Jun 3, 2018, 12:03 PM
Jun 2018

Though 'cheering for' isn't the same as the bitter resentment of professional sports, I feel when I watch the Blue Jays.

And since the other part of my screen name stands for social democrat, I'm caught between the injustice of Big Money playing 'It's My Turn' with each other and my own irrational fanboy enthusiasm. I'm too old to be worrying about this shit. I should be out looking for a seniors slow pitch league...

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True Dough

(17,095 posts)
4. Maybe John Gibbons will join your slow pitch league too
Sun Jun 3, 2018, 12:09 PM
Jun 2018

Sounds like his job is in jeopardy. I don't think it would matter if the Jays had Tony La Russa, Jim Leyland, Sparky Anderson or Yogi Berra behind the bench, they aren't going anywhere with this struggling starting pitching, struggling relief corps and struggling offence (and throw in some injuries now too). Sigh.

https://jaysjournal.com/2018/06/01/blue-jays-rumours-swirl-john-gibbons-job-security/

 

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)
6. That's where I would start.
Sun Jun 3, 2018, 12:38 PM
Jun 2018

But like I suggested, it's just not our turn....to play in the World Series. With the amount of money generated by playoff baseball it would be un-American to let merit reap the rewards. It's not how capitalism works.

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Brother Buzz

(36,216 posts)
3. How Baseball Was Invented
Sun Jun 3, 2018, 12:03 PM
Jun 2018


My team is playing Teeter Totter with their archenemy, the Dodgers, for third place.

SCantiGOP

(13,856 posts)
5. If you want to see real baseball
Sun Jun 3, 2018, 12:18 PM
Jun 2018

Watch the regionals of college baseball going on right now. By Monday the field will be pared down from 64 to 16 teams, who will then meet in 8 best two out of three series to determine who goes to the College World Series.
Games are all over the ESPN channels today.
For most of these players, college ends their organized playing days, which probably began when they were 6 or 8 years old.

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