Just out of interest are their any fellow English Baseball fans?
MLB 2016
- Thread starter Barbara Charles
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Marlins ace pitcher killed in a boating accident this morning. Only 24 years old.
Unbelievably sad and shocking news. Jose Fernandez was having a CY Young caliber season and was having one of the best starts of his career ever for a starting pitcher. He is someone who was jailed in Cuba at 15 for trying to escape, when he was finally able to escape as a 16 year old he had to save his mother from drowning on the journey to the US. For him to go through all of that and become one of the elite pitchers in Baseball is just a great story. For it to all end like this is just heartbreaking.
Yes!
Very emotional scenes at the game tonight. Gordon's homer, you couldn't write that stuff.
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I am not a baseball fan but today and tomorrow are last games being announced on radio by Vin Scully.
Scully first announced a Brooklyn Dodgers game in Spring 1950 and his last game will be for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Oct, 2016. This is just incredible to me. Vin Scully was broadcasting baseball before Uruguay beat Brazil in the World Cup in 1950! He will stop after Portugal has won the Euros and Chile beat Argentina in the Copa in 2016. This is such an incredible span of history that even non-baseball fans like myself have to give respect to this man for being a true legend in the history of sport.
This guy is old school. He tells stories of players like their superstitions about their socks. He seamlessly mixes that in with naming every player involved in a play and describing it.
Scully first announced a Brooklyn Dodgers game in Spring 1950 and his last game will be for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Oct, 2016. This is just incredible to me. Vin Scully was broadcasting baseball before Uruguay beat Brazil in the World Cup in 1950! He will stop after Portugal has won the Euros and Chile beat Argentina in the Copa in 2016. This is such an incredible span of history that even non-baseball fans like myself have to give respect to this man for being a true legend in the history of sport.
This guy is old school. He tells stories of players like their superstitions about their socks. He seamlessly mixes that in with naming every player involved in a play and describing it.
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I am glad the lad above posted something about Vin. Not only is he an immaculate play by play announcer, he weaves stories in and around the commentary, has quoted poetry when germaine and has never used a side man. Remarkable man indeed.
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Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall all alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
On a scale of Tim Sherwood to David Moyes, how shite is John Gibbons?
Not that I know a lot about Baseball management but everytime I see or hear him he seems to not know what is going on.
In other news, Jays host the wild card game on Tuesday.
Oh and they laid plastic all over the jays dressing room. Dexter wannabes.
Not that I know a lot about Baseball management but everytime I see or hear him he seems to not know what is going on.
In other news, Jays host the wild card game on Tuesday.
Oh and they laid plastic all over the jays dressing room. Dexter wannabes.
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Josh Donaldson 
what a game
bring on texas
bring on texas
Great win last night. Did a post-doc in Knoxville in the 80s when the K-Jays were the AA farm team. Got to see "big" Cecil Fielder, David Wells, Pat Borders, Juan Guzman (always a favorite of mine) etc... Been following them ever since. Go Jays!
Great start for the blue jays
GooooooooooooRed Sox!!
YAS!
Jays nearly home and hosed
We suck.
Rangers and Red Sox in spectacular meltdowns. Feckin' Rangers always choking in some manner.
I was wondering when you were going to show up, Marcello
The annual Rangers October collapse brought me out in anger.
I know the feeling Marcello. But having been a Sox fan since 1967, I am used to the pain of having knives stuck in my heart.
Not until relatively recently, Paz.
We just had a bit of a dry spell. I remember 1992 and 1993 like it was yesterday.
Boston game postponed until tomorrow evening.
Woohoo. Go Jays!
Tex ass
Great game, better than the debate
Great game, better than the debate
Donaldson FTW!
We just had a bit of a dry spell. I remember 1992 and 1993 like it was yesterday.
Toronto seems baseball (and Blue Jays) crazy everytime I go (a lot recently). I'm moving there next year, so getting on-board with it all!
Just nod your head knowingly and mention Joe Carter's walk-off home run in 1993 as being the best homer ever and you should do OK.Toronto seems baseball (and Blue Jays) crazy everytime I go (a lot recently). I'm moving there next year, so getting on-board with it all!
What's with all these Blue Jays glory hunters all of a sudden? Aaaaaaargh.
Go support a real team.
Go support a real team.
My wife is from Toronto and we're moving there to be fair....
I've been hunting that glory for 20+ years. It was time it came around again. In the late 80s and early 90s the Jays were a force to be reckoned with.
Toronto seems baseball (and Blue Jays) crazy everytime I go (a lot recently). I'm moving there next year, so getting on-board with it all!
They'll take anything given that their hockey team has sucked for a long ass time.
Bah I attended games in year one. Go Bobby Bailor.
i live here
Been following the Cubs for a whole month since going to see them in Chicago last month.
Now that's gloryhunting.
Couldn't sleep at around 2am so decided to stay up and watch a bit tonight. I'm still here.
Now that's gloryhunting.
Couldn't sleep at around 2am so decided to stay up and watch a bit tonight. I'm still here.
I see the Marlins dude is back again