Life really sux...

[Gil]

We're looking at only one more MLB game this season, and then it is nothing but the long cold winter. From where I sit, looking out the window at moonlit, snow covered Nevada pinyon pines, my Harley in winter storage, life looks grim.

[chilliwilli]

I decided to lose another fifteen pounds this winter. Rather than bum that I have nothing to do, I will do something very self centered in the spirit of the holidays and not waste anymore time/money/energy on the female. (GF was a dud, liked sex with a guy that can't cum, but has no love to spare!)

So the next fifteen pounds will require dietary restrictions and no caffiene, nicotine or alcohol. It will be about a six hour per day comittment. The days will fly by faster than the pounds! I love my self! Don't you?

Very excited here! Can you tell? The new body is so fun! Tight clothes fit wonderfully without all the muscle, 230lbs this time last year. Just under 190lbs now. 175 is the goal! Running is a blast...almost like a butterfly...no longer a truck!

Time to p'up some young sexy college kid! Sorry your outlook is so bleek.
chilli-

[Riverwind]

MLB OMG I would just as soon watch paint dry.

Baseball the most boring sport in the world,

There is one out and a man on first,
The pitcher takes the mound, looks at the runner on first, looks at his catcher, he gets a sign, he rejects it, he gets another sign, he waves it off, (now if the pitcher knows what he wants to throw why doesn't he just sign the catcher?) he reaches down for the bag of dust for his hand, he wipes his brow, he looks back at the catcher for a sign, he gets the finger, he stands tall on the mound, he takes a quick look at first, the runner has taken a lead off the base, he goes into his windup, the runner starts to move, he throws the ball to first, the runner is back on base, the first baseman throws the ball back to the pitcher, the pitcher wipes his brow, he looks to the catcher for a sign, he waves it off, he adjusts his shirt, he looks for another sign, (the one he got before is and old one and cant be used again), he gets the sign, he looks to first, he stands tall on the mound, he goes into his wind up the runner takes a bigger lead off first, the batter steps out of the box, the....................................

And for this they get paid millions of dollars and have you buy there ball park on tax money so you can buy a seat and pay $10 for a beer, to watch the guy on first taking a lead the pitcher standing tall on the mound, he wipes his brow with his cap, he adjusts his shirt, he looks for a sign................

River

[Paolo]

Agreed - pro ball, boring.
Kids ball - entertaining!

[Elizabeth]

Are you kidding me? 160 games each plus the playoffs and world series? How can anyone take any game serious with that many games? The only thing that dulls my glee about baseball ending for the short time it does, is basketball starting which only takes a few months off also. Both are beyond boring.

Elizabeth

[Riverwind]

I could not agree more, Basketball at one time was a good game now its slam dunk, the scores were always over 100 points for each team now there lucky to get 80. Boring.

Now hockey or football, that's exciting. NASCAR is exciting if you understand its more than go fast turn left.

For TV viewing I think bowling and golf and baseball are the worst. OMG. The only time I ever put them of is if I want to take a nap because they can put me to sleep in minutes.

River

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Elizabeth

Are you kidding me? 160 games each plus the playoffs and world series? How can anyone take any game serious with that many games? The only thing that dulls my glee about baseball ending for the short time it does, is basketball starting which only takes a few months off also. Both are beyond boring.

Elizabeth

I will always take baseball seriously. It is the one and only American sport. There is nothing like it in the rest of the world. I grew up a baseball fan and I will die a baseball fan.

[transward]

I may suffer from Curmudgeon's Disease, ("Why, in my day everything was the way it's supposed to be... etc. etc.") but it seem lately all professional sports, no how much gravitas they once had are rapidly morphing into Professional Wrestling. Witness the endless sack dances , the end zone choreography, the taunting, the posturing & posing. Football and basketball are in full pursuit of this, baseball is following. It has been in tennis since the days of Ivan Lendl. Its even beginning to creep into golf, swimming and track and field. And I hate Professional Wrestling.

Transward

[eefje46]

Why harley in winter storage? I would like riding my bike in the snow. OOK I do not have a harley, but just an old russian Dnepr mt16 but is is quite fun.

[MacTheWolf]

Originally Posted by chilliwilli

I decided to lose another fifteen pounds this winter.
So the next fifteen pounds will require dietary restrictions and no caffiene, nicotine or alcohol. It will be about a six hour per day comittment. The days will fly by faster than the pounds! I love my self! Don't you?-

Yes chilliwilli, we love ya. And I can say that after meeting you in person at a MOM and knowing as soon as I saw that physically fit body of yours, I had no chance with Daughter...

[Riverwind]

Originally Posted by Dave

I will always take baseball seriously. It is the one and only American sport. There is nothing like it in the rest of the world. I grew up a baseball fan and I will die a baseball fan.

I grew up in LA, Dodger Blue, we went to and watch or radio Dodgers games with Vin Scully, I remember my father two brothers and I went every fathers day to watch the boys in blue, I have watch Sandy Kolfax pitch a no hitter. We as a family did not watch football, then I went into the service and found football. I can count on my hands the number of baseball games I have watched sense.

They call baseball Americas game but is it? They can't even fill the stadium after the first week, look at a Saturday or Sunday game and the place is over half empty. The year after the strike you were lucky to get 5,000 people to a game, if it would not have been for Sosa and McGuire having a home run hitting contest baseball may have totally died, yet both of them are looked at with scorn. * should be put in front of there names, they should never make the Hall of Shame. But they did nothing wrong, there was nothing in the rules at that time? NO. They save your game, so the rest of us get 15 minutes of sports news witch is 14 minutes of baseball. Yup I really wanted to see that guy hit a home run, again. The unassisted triple play, that was worth watching a couple times. But with most sports watching a home run, guy catching a ball in the end zone, making a 6 in putt, doing a slam dunk just gets old. Show me something exciting or nothing. There are simply to many games in baseball, hell even preseason gets more coverage the hockey playoffs and you never hear much about NASCAR and if you do its only the cup series, and then only if there is somebody doing a 2 1/2 double half gainer down the back stretch.

Charles 'Red' Barrett, pitcher for the 1946 St Louis Cardnial's pitched the fewest number of pitches to a win for a world series game. The record still holds because pitchers don't ever pitch a complete game anymore.

He was my uncle Red,

River

[chilliwilli]

Originally Posted by MacTheWolf

Yes chilliwilli, we love ya. And I can say that after meeting you in person at a MOM and knowing as soon as I saw that physically fit body of yours, I had no chance with Daughter...

Wolfie-
Once you've seen one you've seen "em all! It's the multi-orgasmic nymphos that are the most fun though.

standing in the unemployment line.
chilli-

[Gil]

Originally Posted by Riverwind

MLB OMG I would just as soon watch paint dry.

Baseball the most boring sport in the world,


River

...and you probably don't get out much. Baseball is a social sport. Its tempo dates to an unhurried time. A tempo that allows for conversation and social interaction, between the dramatic moments that determine the outcome of the game. If your mental ethos is such that you need to be galvanized at every moment, it might be good for you to take a deep breath, and to look around and try to see what you're missing.

[Gil]

Originally Posted by eefje46

Why harley in winter storage? I would like riding my bike in the snow. OOK I do not have a harley, but just an old russian Dnepr mt16 but is is quite fun.

Is the mt16 the Ruskie knock off of the the 70's vintage BMW tourer? A cool bike.

[Riverwind]

Originally Posted by Gil

...and you probably don't get out much. Baseball is a social sport. Its tempo dates to an unhurried time. A tempo that allows for conversation and social interaction, between the dramatic moments that determine the outcome of the game. If your mental ethos is such that you need to be galvanized at every moment, it might be good for you to take a deep breath, and to look around and try to see what you're missing.

If I want an unhurried time between dramatic moments that determine the outcome, I go fishing.

and

Base Ball will still be boring.

River