Hey Batter Batter SWING!
 

Here we go TEAM a new baseball season :carrot:

The winter :shocksn: trades came and went with little excitement...

Cold weather is slowly :snail: moving out in a lot of areas....

:sunny: is returning....

Spring Training is in the air :flow1:

A few :rain: showers linger but bottom line....

BASEBALL IS BACK :woohoo:

The OLYMPICS gave us a great show :congrat:

DANCING WITH THE STARS :dance: has posted their new line-up.....

But some of us are just flat out crack (:club: of the bat) addicts ;)

So here we go :cb:

Let's PLAY BALL :woohoo: :cheer: :woohoo:

As usual I will be :cheer3: rooting for my DODGERS and :cheer2: ANGELS....

that's a given ;)

But this year we are adding a little twist...

We will pick our favorite team and a fantasy team....a team you would :love: love to :cheer: root for but you just can't :nono:

I will post the rules in the next post.....

So come on EVERYONE....this thread is open to ALL BASEBALL LOVERS :)

Here are the rules for our FANTASY BASEBALL Contest...

Pick your favorite team....for me it's the DODGERS

Then pick the team you wish you could root for this year but just can't...since we are all loyal to our teams!!

This year mine is the Chicago White Sox....

then give your reason.....I have 3 reasons....I have always loved the White Sox uniforms...one of my favorite Dodgers ever is playing for them this year, Juan Pierre, and one pitcher I always wanted to be a Dodger, Jake Peavy, was traded to them from the padres....

So....I have the DODGERS and the WHITE SOX...

Points will be scored for the combined wins of both teams in the regular season....

You must submit your teams before Opening Day to qualify for the grand prize....

which is....drum roll....

1 FANTASY 3FC :chicken: B(cl)UCK:chicken: for each win...

AND...

A :cp::bravo: good job :bravo::cp: from all us sore :headache: losers.....;)

Of course in reality, I'll be rooting for the Red Sox... :cheer:

Secretly, :sssh: I would love to see the Mets do well this year, I'd like to see them dominate the press coverage and take everyone by surprise.. they've been through so many ups and downs, ... they've waited long enough... its time to out shine the Yanks...
:club: oh pretty pretty please...

Yes, yes,yes.

:high: :cp: :woohoo: :cheer2:

Well obviously my team is the Cardinals.

My fantasy team is the Mariners. I'd love for them to do well this year.

I really like Cliff Lee and Suzuki.

I am so ready for Opening Day.

Yay! A new thread!

Let's go Rockies!!!!! They are MY team!
Now for a fantasy team, I would have taken the Mariners, but I'll leave them to Clyde. So, I'll go with the Phillies.

ETA - I'm picking the Phillies just for Halliday. :)

Originally Posted by Slashnl:
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ETA - I'm picking the Phillies just for Halliday. :)

:( you do know what they have done to me the last 2 years in the play-offs don't you....:(

meanie.....

What we have so far ~

EZMONEY ~ DODGERS and WHITE SOX

SWEET-C ~ RED SOX and METS

BIG BIRD ~ CARDINALS and MARINERS

COLORADO D ~ ROCKIES and :mad: phillies :mad:


CALLING BILL....what's your fantasy....;)

EVERYONE WELCOME TO JOIN :carrot:

We just booked a weekend in Kansas City and 2 games against the Royals :)

I know, EZ. I figured it wouldn't be a popular choice. They have had the Rockies number, too, but I love Halliday.

It was so cool yesterday to turn on the radio and have a Rockies game on! Granted, it was at the end of the game and I didn't know a lot of the names, but it was BASEBALL!!!

JK D

BIG BIRD good for you....this year I decided to NOT BUY ANY TICKETS...or try too....after the last few years of going on the computer as soon as sales start and not being able to get 4-10 tickets in a decent area for a decent game.....protest! I bet they are much easier to get this year!

Originally Posted by Clydegirl:
We just booked a weekend in Kansas City and 2 games against the Royals :)

Sounds like an awesome time !!!! What month are you going ?

June 25th.

I'm looking forward to some BBQ.

Kauffman Stadium is supposed to be a great place to see a game.

After Angie and I watched some dvr'd Men Of A Certain Age this afternoon we caught the end of Bull Durham...her favorite movie....we have the dvd but she always watches it on the tv....knows it by heart....

anyway Susan Sarandon finishes it with...

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will ... Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. ~Walt Whitman wrote it you can look it up"

So.....

I did...she did leave out some of the quote....you can look it up!

be good TEAM

We are playing the Red Sox today.

Won't see it though. Caroline is it on in your area of the world?

Hi BigMike.

Welcome to the baseball thread.

Your year can't be any worse than last year, so many injuries.

Let's go GIANTS!!!!

I live in Phoenix - home of Spring Training so there are games all around me!

Originally Posted by BigMikeNYPD:
My team is the Mets and since I hate the Yankees the team i wish i could root for has to be the Red Sox. If the mets stay healthy we will have a good year, however reyes is already having problems.. I think its gonna be a longggg year

Hey, I'm a big Red Sox fan, hate the yanks and secretly rooting for the Mets.. I see a trend here... Welcome Big Mike...

High school baseball started last weekend. Yes! Spring should be here any minute.

Oh wait, it snowed today. Maybe not.

Checking in. Red Sox in real life. In fantasy baseball, it'll have to be ...








Red Sox





[Sigh, one trick pony here.]

Diane it was about 60 here today... the little neighbor kids throwing the bb around the parking lot... ah... its almost Spring... maybe they will find the playground by then... lol

Bill... the pony doesn't have one little trick left in him ?

Bill you will have to see the big boss about that!!

Caroline my thoughts exactly. I see a trend :)

Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax. ~Mike Royko, 1981

Originally Posted by EZMONEY:
Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax. ~Mike Royko, 1981

That's hilarious and so true ... I've never seen the Yankees inserted in that quote but it definitely fits.....

Gary, I've been meaning to say I like the new pic...

thank you SWEET-C

Great to see you here Mike...we may out number the gals here yet!

hope to be back tonight to update the "fantasy" league teams...

Originally Posted by EZMONEY:
Great to see you here Mike...we may out number the gals here yet!

Ooo. Scary thought.

From ESPN:
Stephen Strasburg is a baseball IMMORTAL
Today we all witnessed the birth of a new supergod. The greatest phenom in sporting history descended from high atop Mount Strasburg, the secret mountain that towers over Mount Olympus, to bless the lives of all those enlightened souls who can recognize transcendent beauty......(Or maybe we just saw a couple innings of meaningless spring training baseball. Either way, he did make Miguel Cabrera look foolish.)

Originally Posted by EZMONEY:
Great to see you here Mike...we may out number the gals here yet!

Wishful thinking :D

I never saw Strasburg pitch, other than our local news, but I read about him often in the San Diego county paper....

he is the real deal....

What we have so far ~

EZMONEY ~ DODGERS and WHITE SOX

SWEET-C ~ RED SOX and METS

BIG BIRD ~ CARDINALS and MARINERS

COLORADO D ~ ROCKIES and phillies

BILL ~ RED SOX and 1911 RED SOX (78-75)

BIG MIKE ~ METS and RED SOX

EVERYONE WELCOME TO JOIN

LIGHTS76 feel free to join in with a team plus those....giants (the team I love-love to hate)

Since Bill is not co-operating I have picked a Red Sox team for him...to be fair I have given him a winning record...:D

Looks like it's about 3-3 gals...

now then if BUTTERDFLY and LIGHTS76 join in...

us guys are toast...burnt freakin' toast....

Do we count Spring Training games?

If we do I'm on the bottom of the list :(

Originally Posted by Clydegirl:
Do we count Spring Training games?

If we do I'm on the bottom of the list :(

:D NO!!...lucky girl.....

the $$$ FANTASY $$$ League starts on opening day :)

Originally Posted by EZMONEY:
Looks like it's about 3-3 gals...
now then if BUTTERDFLY and LIGHTS76 join in...
us guys are toast...burnt freakin' toast....

OK - consider your self .... toasted.....
I'm a New Englander at heart so I have to go with the
RED SOX

In fantasy land it would be Texas Rangers

right on....I will up-date the list later...

sad baseball news for me this morning....

one of my favorite Dodgers growing up passed away...Willie Davis aka 3-Dog....man that guy could run!!

Such a pleasure to hear Vin Scully calling Willie's triples!

late 60's...early 70's were some good years for those boys in blue

Fav - Giants

Fantasy - Diamondbacks
1. Live in AZ - should probably root for the home team
2. Love their new unforms - sedona red is such a pretty color
3. LOVE that we can cheap seats to pretty much any game (especially Giants games) :)

UPDATED LIST :)

EZMONEY ~ DODGERS and WHITE SOX

SWEET-C ~ RED SOX and METS

BIG BIRD ~ CARDINALS and MARINERS

COLORADO D ~ ROCKIES and phillies

BILL ~ RED SOX and 1911 RED SOX (78-75)

BIG MIKE ~ METS and RED SOX

BUTTERFLY49 ~ RED SOX and RANGERS

LIGHTS76 ~ giants and DIAMONDBACKS