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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: videoholic on August 30, 2002, 10:39:54 AM

Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: videoholic on August 30, 2002, 10:39:54 AM
Whatever.  I don\'t give a shit about baseball..   Isn\'t there a football game on?
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: ben_high on August 30, 2002, 10:48:56 AM
Awesome.Now i can get right back to not paying attention to baseball again.
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: Luke on August 30, 2002, 11:08:13 AM
as they say on the score sportsradio 670...

all chicago baseball is good for is keeping our minds opccupied untill the beloved bear hit the field.


go bears.
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: shockwaves on August 30, 2002, 11:20:24 AM
Well, thank god they finally came to their sense.  As in 5.
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: Luke on August 30, 2002, 11:24:42 AM
yep... no contraction, for now at least.
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: theomen on August 30, 2002, 11:37:04 AM
meh, really didn\'t care either way, but I\'m glad it\'s over so that it stop hogging all the time on sportscenter
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on August 30, 2002, 11:56:03 AM
I wanted the strike, baseball is corrupt.  Fix the game, make salary caps.  There\'s no reason NYY should have 144 million while Tampa Bay gets maybe 3 or 4 million.  What garbage.
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: ben_high on August 30, 2002, 12:41:00 PM
No no no hurricane.You don\'t understand.You see that\'s exactly what\'s going to kill baseball,that\'s what we want.

            You see ten years from now there will only be four teams left,NY,NY,La,and Chicago.Predictably 162 games between 4 teams will be quite boring.And since the Yankees will have all the best players,including all the young talent from Cuba and the Dominican Republic(who\'s first words upon entering our country will be"We want to immigrate to the NY yankees!")they will have won the next ten WS.

       The other three teams will cry foul and grumble about the "unfair" advantage (forgetting how they themselves ran out the Tampa bays and Minnesotas)and call a strike of the yankees.Well you can\'t have a season with only three teams,so this will finally bring about the end of baseball.
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: luckee on August 30, 2002, 01:43:11 PM
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Originally posted by The Hurricane
I wanted the strike, baseball is corrupt.  Fix the game, make salary caps.  There\'s no reason NYY should have 144 million while Tampa Bay gets maybe 3 or 4 million.  What garbage.


I think something should be implemented to keep powerhouses from being them for 10 years. At the same time, I think its rather fair..they create the revenue..why should they suffer and not be able to spend it.

Pretty much a loss either side you look at it.
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: videoholic on August 30, 2002, 02:36:06 PM
revenue won\'t be like this forever.  God willing the TV contract won\'t be through the roof next time.  FOX is losing their ass on this one.  Sports packages are always a losing proposition for networks, but usually they at least get viewers and use it to promote other shows.  Baseball though is suck.
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: KillaX on August 30, 2002, 03:15:35 PM
I heard about it around 12:00 this afternoon...I was almost certain those $$$ hungry ball players would force a strike.......guess not........ now maybe the indians can pass the Whitesox for second place in the AL Central to get atleast some dignity back..........and if the Twins TOTALLY tank maybe squeak into first....In my dreams!


:hat:scottyJ:hat:
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: Titan on August 30, 2002, 03:18:30 PM
I hate baseball. I find it really boring.
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: jp6666 on August 30, 2002, 03:21:39 PM
welL I lovE basebalL anD I hopE thaT wE don\'T losE thE montreaL expoS !!!!!! :(
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: KillaX on August 30, 2002, 03:39:39 PM
ther will be No contractions till 2006 at the earliest, that was part of the Deal




:hat:ScottyJ:hat:
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: luckee on August 30, 2002, 04:18:25 PM
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Originally posted by KillaX
ther will be No contractions till 2006 at the earliest, that was part of the Deal




:hat:ScottyJ:hat:


If the deals werent meant to be broken, they wouldn\'t strike in the first place :)

BTW..in yer dreamz...if anything the sox will take first and cleveland will be luck to have 2nd.
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: KillaX on August 30, 2002, 05:40:06 PM
Boston is TOTALLY destoying the indians tonight.....why did they bring Jaret Wright back up......he cant pitch...........he used to....rookie fluke.........


:hat:ScottyJ:hat:
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: Bozco on August 30, 2002, 08:01:53 PM
Boy would it ever suck to be a Cubs fan.
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: shockwaves on August 30, 2002, 09:25:11 PM
Or a Red Sox fan ;)
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: M4 on August 30, 2002, 09:35:42 PM
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Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: Jar O Pickles on August 30, 2002, 11:20:16 PM
i like the pic of alex gonzalez looking like he just farted
i wish they did go on stike and the mlb fell to pieces and only the stong teams survived and formed a new league with only like 12 teams or so baseball needs less teams less bad players and lower salaries
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: shockwaves on August 30, 2002, 11:56:11 PM
Yes, bring it back to like the 50s and before, prior to modern expansion.  Lower salaries, fewer teams, better talent.  That is how it should be.  Ideally, the league should have maybe half the teams it has.

The only problem: what teams do you take away.  Originally you didn\'t have all these west coast teams.

By the way, you know what event I trace overexpansion back to?  The year that the Dodgers and Giants moved.  That not only changed baseball by bringing it to California while ripping it away from New York, but it also is directly connected to the beginning of baseball expansion.

God I hate the Giants and Dodgers.  Especially the Dodgers.
Title: Play Ball!!!
Post by: Kurt Angle on August 31, 2002, 08:29:00 AM
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