I just don't know about Unk's

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I posted at Unk's the joyous news that baseball season starts in four days, and got some lip about baseball being supposedly boring (in a class with bowling, one turkey said). I'm sure there's no one that dopey in our high-class assemblage.

Anyway, my truly startling ESP tells me that the Cards will take it all this year.

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

Answers

I'm not a sports fan, but I love baseball.

Baseball...

Warm, sultry summer nights.

The smell of popcorn, hotdogs and warm river mud.

The sound of the hawkers in the stands--"Budhere! IcecoldBudhere!"

Watery cokes and Cracker Jacks.

Heat lightning over the river.

Jack Buck and Mike Shannon on the radio.

My Dad at the kitchen table, listening to the game on the radio every night. When the games were available on TV, he'd watch with the sound off and the radio on.

Ozzie Smith doing his opening day back flip.

Rick "Wild Thing" Ankiel. Hope his elbow gets better soon.

The cabdriver jumping up and down on his cab after the Cards won the 82 series. He invited everyone to jump on his cab. The cab looked pretty rough afterwards.

The Mizzou campus was festooned with toilet paper and underwear after the Cards won the 82 series. What a party! Wish I could remember all of it.

Road trips to Chicago (via Amtrak) to watch the Cards play the Cubs.

There was three hour rain delay during a Royals--Twins game in Kansas City. The game resumed about 11 pm, but most of the fans had left (bad, nasty thunderstorm)--there was only about 500 people left and we got a bit rowdy. Two fans--a man and a woman--went after a foul ball. The woman got it, but the man took it away from her. We all booed him and the game stopped 'til the guy gave the ball back. Then someone started yelling "Kiss him!" Pretty soon everyone--including the players--were yelling "Kiss him!" She kissed him, everyone cheered and the game resumed. They cut off beer sales after that.

Sigh...

But Sioux Falls has a good minor league team--The Canaries--and their games are a hoot. They have Corona with limes, hamster races, free carwash for the dirtiest car in the parking lot and all sorts of other crazy things.

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002


Obviously, the rude poster at Unk's has never seen cricket. I suggest you find a page on cricket and cut and paste the most boring bit of it you can find.

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2002

Big K, your family is definitely my kind of people. (Poor Ankiel. I hope he can come back, from what seems like some sort of nervous breakdown, but I'm not counting on it.)

OG, I watched some cricket in New Zealand. Wow, the heart-stopping excitement (snort, yawn, zzz).

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002


I hate to tell you, but I am one of those that find baseball boring. It used to be exciting when I was a kid, but now it is boring. I don't watch a lot of sports so you can take this FWIW :)

(Just had to give you some grief over here :lol )

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002


Well, Beckie, since you're from Iowa, I'll let you off with a gentle "Tut tut."

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002


I'm proud to say I have been to only one football game (over 30 years ago), never been to a baseball game. I did go to soccer and cricket games in England because both my father and brother played, the latter semi-pro. I did play spme tennis, did a bit of sprinting and swimming and quite a bit of hockey and netball. But then I got older and discovered boys. You might say I'm not team sports-oriented.

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002

I love to go and watch baseball games, and I used to attend some of the Braves games when I lived in Atlanta. But I don't watch much on TV as I find that time moves more slowly. I don't watch to much TV though.

Football, now that is a different story. If there is a team on that I enjoy, I'll sit and watch the entire game. My hubby finds that strange that a woman would enjoy football.

Oh, at the moment, I guess I should say GO SOONERS!!!

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002


Started shouting for the Tigers when I was two years old with great- big-grandpa and great-big-grandma, never have stopped for 56 years :>) (we cheered for the Yankees when the Tigers were not playing) Derick Jetter is from my hometown.

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002

that would be around the radio..........still can't get excited about baseball on T.V. Live at the stadium or radio is all I can do.

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002

Way back when I moved to NC, I was surprised to find only the three major networks and PBS. I didn't mind, though. My one favorite show was on a major network so all was well.

Then, when they started with the new episodes, basketball season started. I never knew that basketball was televised, but in NC it was all anyone local watched! Every friggin game that ever took place in NC was televised, some back to back all day long. I was not amused.

Now that I am back in Miami, I can avoid such barbaric backwardness.

I guess you can tell that I am not an armchair quaterback, as some call it regardless of the sport. I don't mind movies about sports. I went to the theatre to see North Dallas Forty. Still can't remember why. All I remember from that movie is some grueling impacts, and {I think} Nick Nolte groaning as he moved around his apartment drinking beercans with cigarette butts in them.

You can enjoy all the baseball and football, soccer and basketball, badmitton and croquet you want. I'll just turn the channel and watch some meaningless tripe like gardening or cooking, or maybe a horror or comedy movie.

go 'canes!

go 'noles!

go gators!

go Dolphins!

go Heat! Oh, wait, is that one still a team? LOL

-- Anonymous, March 28, 2002



BF you forgot ..go TRIBE!!!!

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2002

I don't mind if others want to watch sports, but unless I have company, the TV is pretty much off these days. If it is on, it's tuned to Animal Planet or some of the shows Barefoot mentioned, and I'm working on some sort of assembly or filing project at the same time.

Baseball is okay. At least when the OSU team loses, the students don't riot over it, as they do with football. Then again, they riot when the football Buckeyes win. The OSU president just stepped down; I hope the next one quells the rioting.

Or, maybe we can extend baseball season around here to December.

-- Anonymous, March 30, 2002


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