Is Baseball Dead?

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<p>peariceparent - I’ll be switching back and forth as well. Love my Sox, love my Patriots and also love my BC Eagles (what a game last night!).</p>

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<p>LOL - Red Sox - Patriots - Red Sox - Patriots - tough choice - soooooooo watching both!!! :slight_smile: - thanx to hubby LOL</p>

<p>GO DETROIT!!!</p>

<p>I agree - how dare they schedule the Red Sox and the Patriots at the same time!!! GEEESSH :D</p>

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<p>garland, </p>

<p>no offense but could you name the title of this post for me? :wink: </p>

<p>Wait, I’ll do it “Is Baseball Dead?”</p>

<p>My guess would be with such a title differing views of the sport are very much welcome… </p>

<p>If the title were “tell me how much you love baseball and that only” I’d skip it.:)</p>

<p>I guess you could mark me down on the “baseball dead” side of the board.;)</p>

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<p>Well, I was almost dead myself last after watching those last 2 innings.
Go Yankees!!</p>

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<p>double post</p>

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<p>Opie, no offense but could you read the OP for me?–the context of “dead” in the title was clearly meant to be dead as in finished, on its way out, not being watched anymore. Read the OP if you don’t remember that. You are using a meaning of dead which is not what the discussion was about–the question posed was “does anyone watch baseball anymore?”</p>

<p>When a resounding YES filled this thread, you got insulting. You changed the topic, not me.</p>

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<p>With the Cubs taking three out of four from the Cardinals (in St. Louis), and now leading their division by one game with thirteen games left, baseball could hardly be more over-the-top alive in Chicago.</p>

<p>Jerry Reinsdorf, who owns both the Bulls and the White Sox, once said that nothing in all of the Bulls’ championship races had prepared him for the excitement in town when the White Sox were contending (and then won it all) in 2005. He also “once said he’d trade all six of the Chicago Bulls’ NBA titles for a single Series ring.” </p>

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<p>Hey garland, that “resounding YES” would be the Yankees Entertainment & Sports network, correct? ;)</p>

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<p>Um, sorry, no. I have to be a professional Yankee hater (it’s in my Mets contract.)</p>

<p>Though, after this weekend, baseball may be dead to me for a while. Ugh, ugh, and ugh. (congrats, Philly fans.)</p>

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<p>While the outcome - like the Yankees - s**** (to use the local vernacular), if you did not enjoy last nights game you do not have a pulse. Masterful pitching by two Hall-of-Famers-to-be, great efforts by 3 rookie phenoms, a clutch HR by another HOFTB, and finally bases loaded, 2 outs, bottom of the ninth, one run down, David “walk-off HR” Ortiz at bat - but it was not to be: pop fly to end the game. Two fine managers as well, but they are not the guys out there on the field.</p>

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<p>Yes, last night’s game was terrific (good outcome too)! I was particularly stressed because I had to watch the NY Giants game (Tivo’d from earlier in the afternoon), the Yankees/Sox game AND the Patriots game (big Tom Brady fan). The baseball game was so good, however, that I ended up just letting the Patriots game go to Tivo while I watched the Yankees pull out another one. (I should have deleted the Giant’s game before I even spent any time on it, however.)</p>

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<p>What did we do before TIVO?</p>

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<p>We still don’t have TIVO. We either tape things or I check scores on-line.</p>

<p>o/~ Boy the way Glenn Miller played… o/~</p>

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<p>^me too.</p>

<p>"songs that made the hiiiitttt parade… " (and I sing like Edith, too.)</p>

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<p>Well, the magic of baseball was on full display in tonight’s Cubs game.</p>

<p>Going into the bottom of the ninth, they were losing to the Reds 6-4. If they’d lost, they would have fallen into a tie for first place with the Brewers, who had beaten the Astros earlier.</p>

<p>First a walk; then a single (liner to right), leaving runners on first and second; then a triple by Ramirez (liner to the right-center gap), driving in two runs and tying the game; intentional walk; Reds change their defensive alignment, adding another infielder; and then a single, a grounder, by DeRosa (who went 5 for 5, including a home run), scoring the winning run.</p>

<p>Cubs win 7-6.</p>

<p>After the game ended, Wrigley Field reportedly levitated several feet off the ground.</p>

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<p>I was keeping an eye the pitch-by-pitch thingy for that game on ESPN online while on a long involved call with another agent. It all worked out…my client is going to gain another $5-10K and the Cubs won.</p>

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<p>There’s a happy, tired 15yo in my house today after the Phillies’ win!</p>

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<p>Yankees are only 2 1/2 behind you-know-who!</p>

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<p>“Over there! Over there! Send the word! Send the word! Over There! For the Yanks are comin’! The Yanks are comin’!” :smiley:
With apologies to Mr. Cohan.</p>

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<p>After last night’s Red Sox loss, the post-game host opened the show with, “There’s panic in the streets of Red Sox Nation.” :-</p>

<p>I’m almost dreading the playoffs, only because the stupid TV networks start the games so LATE. During the 2003 and 2004 playoffs and World Series, I think the entire New England region was bleary-eyed for 2 weeks. Sox - Yankees games tend to run longer than normal games anyway (per the Sox announcers, a normal 9 inning MLB game averages 2 hours 54 minutes, a 9 inning Sox/Yanks game averages just over 3 1/2 hours). How many Sox playoff games in a row ended after midnight in 2004? If, as the OP suggested, baseball is dying, it may be because young fans can’t watch the big games because they’re on too late at night!</p>