2012 MLB thread

[thepolishkid88]

Originally Posted by Broons66

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Have faith,pk88. With GM Huntington at the helm,the Bucs will be laughing stocks no longer! One of a handful of young GM's,like Epstein,Hoyer,Charington,who place a great emphasis on scouting. Bucs got some damn good talent in the pipeline,because of Huntington. Free agents will eventually come to Pitt,when the team starts winning,draws huge crowds. Not far off imho. And yes,that ballpark is one of the best. I thought Camden Yards and the Jake in Cleveland were great,but PNC has them beat by far! Good luck to the Bucs,i think your suffering will be over soon. Less than 5 years,im sure.

Oh I do have faith. The folks that don't are the ones that have been life long fans, but even some of them are coming around. Really the key that holds the future in his hands for this franchise is Alvarez. If he fails then we are a couple years back from where we thought we should be at by now.

I love Huntington, love Hurdle even more, and the team looks good. I just want a .500 season so I can end this misery.

Originally Posted by bigjack

Wow $5 is like stealing. My older brother graduated from Duquesne in 1980 and I was in Pittsburgh probably 4-5 times with my Dad seeing him and I loved the city.
My Dad worked for US Steel for years and knew all about Pittsburgh and all the huge mills that closed. He also in 1946 as a 13 year old drove out to Illinois to see his older sister and told me all about the pollution as they drove through Pittsburgh!
I've had Iron City Beer before also!

They also have some season ticket packages of $1 for each game. So $82 for season tickets.

The story behind the steel mills is sad, but we have overcome a lot and now we are more of a technology city. The towns I grew up in are just minutes from downtown and were steel mill towns. So many are now ghetto's and slum's.

[pigfarmer]

Originally Posted by shaud19

With the general thread for college and pro football creating a lot of good conservations, this seem like a good idea.


Who else is excited for baseball to begin next week!? Yankees on the quest to win the 28th World Series Championship. Interesting to see how well traded players perform for a different team. Will there be another perfect game?


Play ball!

I realize I'm a little late to this thread, but hate to burst your bubble, but baseball started at the beginning of last week...freaking east coast bias!

[Big Violence]

Originally Posted by thepolishkid88

I'm just hoping for a winning season. The Pirates made some really good moves and with some of our younger talent almost here we should be able to compete this year. I like the 6 playoff spots as well, that can only help our cause. I hope that if we can win 85 games we take the division. This town is starving for some playoff baseball. I can actually remember watching the Braves beat us in 1992. I was just turning 4, and my sister was a few months old. Now I'm 23 and my sister is in college.

It's starting to get to the point where if they don't win in the next year or two they better look at moving.

I also will be cheering for my adopted team the Rangers. I starting following them once my aunt and family moved to Ft. Worth. I will be rocking my Neil Walker on Monday then Rod Barajas on Tuesday.

Last year they were in first place well into July. Hopefully they can repeat that and keep it going without tailing off. I remember that series against the Braves back in 92 too. I was 9 or 10. My aunt and uncle were die hard pirate fans and I remember them being almost in tears after that loss to the Braves. We are well over due to make the playoffs. For Pittsburghers a Pirate playoff appearance would almost be like a world series victory. This whole town would be going nuts.

[The Rover]

And Opening Night is underway stateside.

Was it awkward for anyone else when they carted in Ali on that low speed extended golf cart? Everything from the PA announcer trying to get a chant started to Ali looking like he's about to die to the half hour it took for them to drive 350 feet, it was all horribly awkward.

Miami is loaded this year. Wow. Should give Philly and Atlanta a run for their money for the division.

[thepolishkid88]

Originally Posted by Big Violence

Last year they were in first place well into July. Hopefully they can repeat that and keep it going without tailing off. I remember that series against the Braves back in 92 too. I was 9 or 10. My aunt and uncle were die hard pirate fans and I remember them being almost in tears after that loss to the Braves. We are well over due to make the playoffs. For Pittsburghers a Pirate playoff appearance would almost be like a world series victory. This whole town would be going nuts.

I can remember 92 like the back of my hand. The sad part came when Bonds, Bonillia, Leyland, and Van Slyke moved on. The fact that Wakefield was the last active former or current Pirate player to be on a winning Pirates team tells you something.

I really think they have a shot of sneaking in this year. I really do.

[thruby]

Originally Posted by thepolishkid88

I just want a .500 season so I can end this misery.

I'm a Mariners fan, so i'm just going to co sign this. 07 and 09 were over .500, but not by ****ing much.

i just want to enjoy baseball more. part of the reason i was late getting in to watching "my teams" was i'm a Browns fan, a 'Hawks fan and a Mariners fan, so it was, essentially, impossible for me to watch "my teams".

i started streaming the Hawks and Browns in '06 and it's been like a mini revolution. i always had "a team", but it was more or less for video games or just casual following. when i started streaming, i really started to enjoy the ins and outs, specifically with hockey. i've watched every Browns game and at least 90% of the Hawks' games since then. i went from "casual fan", to "committed follower", i guess you could say.

anyway, i'm rambling because it's late, but the point of my post is to say that the Mariners being as bad as they have been, it's been really hard to care. it's one thing to watch the Brownies suck for 16 games, it's another to watch the M's suck for 162. especially because they were LAST in every god damn offensive category last year. i could stomach some games, if they'd at least score some runs. i'd love to listen to their radio feed, but the MLB makes you pay for it. plus, the games start at like 10 p.m. here, so that's a bit of a pain in the ass too. excuses, i guess.

[Redtown]

Originally Posted by thepolishkid88

They also have some season ticket packages of $1 for each game. So $82 for season tickets.

Normally I would say do not support a consistantly losing team but the Bucs have made it just too good to pass up with a deal like that. That is awesome.

[thepolishkid88]

Originally Posted by thruby

I'm a Mariners fan, so i'm just going to co sign this. 07 and 09 were over .500, but not by ****ing much.

i just want to enjoy baseball more. part of the reason i was late getting in to watching "my teams" was i'm a Browns fan, a 'Hawks fan and a Mariners fan, so it was, essentially, impossible for me to watch "my teams".

i started streaming the Hawks and Browns in '06 and it's been like a mini revolution. i always had "a team", but it was more or less for video games or just casual following. when i started streaming, i really started to enjoy the ins and outs, specifically with hockey. i've watched every Browns game and at least 90% of the Hawks' games since then. i went from "casual fan", to "committed follower", i guess you could say.

anyway, i'm rambling because it's late, but the point of my post is to say that the Mariners being as bad as they have been, it's been really hard to care. it's one thing to watch the Brownies suck for 16 games, it's another to watch the M's suck for 162. especially because they were LAST in every god damn offensive category last year. i could stomach some games, if they'd at least score some runs. i'd love to listen to their radio feed, but the MLB makes you pay for it. plus, the games start at like 10 p.m. here, so that's a bit of a pain in the ass too. excuses, i guess.

I understand where your coming from. My family lives all over the USA and even Ireland and Cambodia (yeah Cambodia) they actually have access to games even over there through TV, internet, and radio as well. To me technology has allowed sports to become even more accessable to fans all over the world.

I have followed or tried to follow Man United since 1998, maybe 1999. We use to get scores from family in Ireland. That was how we got any sort of news about soccer over there. Then in 2000 ESPN started to pick up soccer, and by 2004 I was watching the Champions League and World Cup from start to finish without calling the family in Ireland.

Now as far as supporting a ****ty team. I know, I've been there and even the Browns are proably pretty hard to cheer for but I digress. The point is I went to watch the Pirates when mother****ing Derek "Operation Shutdown" Bell was playing LF for all 9 games. I've seen so many players come in and out of this team since 2000 that I often sit watching a game going that guy use to play for us. When it comes down to it though I wouldn't trade that ****ty decade for anything, because I've had some of the best times ever in my life in PNC Park with my friends. Including a 9th innning rally with Jeff Reboulet knocking in the game winning run. My point is even when they suck you have a reason to cheer.

Originally Posted by Redtown

Normally I would say do not support a consistantly losing team but the Bucs have made it just too good to pass up with a deal like that. That is awesome.

To be honest they do anything and everything to get you into a game. $5 for any game you walk up to if you show your college ID, money off if you use a Giant Eagle card, and of course my favorite $40 for all you can eat seats (excludes beer). I love baseball.

[dodge8954]

Miami needs to get rid of that stupid ass thing in center field.

I'm looking forward to seeing the Rays continue to be competitive in the AL East even with such a low payroll. I see Boston missing out again this year. An im looking forward to seeing if the Cubs can actually start to turn this franchise around and become legitament in the next season or two.

[Sukoshi84]

[lakingsfan19]

Go D-Backs!!!

[Broons66]

My Sox are off to a wonderful start.0-3! Got taken to the woodshed by the Tigers in Detroit. Man,our pitching sucks! Gonna score some runs though. Think we will be fighting the Jays for 3rd place in the AL East. Started out 0-6 last year,im wondering if we might top that hideous start this year.

[thepolishkid88]

After being pretty terrible on opening day (other than Bedard), the Bucs took 2 of 3 from the Phillies and won in walk-off fashion in both games! Overcame a 4-1 deficit in 3 innings.

The key for the Pirates isnt the hitting, it is the pitching and seeing Bedard, Karstens, and McDonald throwing great in their first starts are a wonderful sign. Now it's off to LA.

[dodge8954]

Rays are 3-0 and yanks and sox are 0-3. Interesting start.

[Whaler Fan]

Originally Posted by Broons66

My Sox are off to a wonderful start.0-3! Got taken to the woodshed by the Tigers in Detroit. Man,our pitching sucks! Gonna score some runs though. Think we will be fighting the Jays for 3rd place in the AL East. Started out 0-6 last year,im wondering if we might top that hideous start this year.

It's a scary thought, but we have too much talent for this to go much longer.
Right?
RIGHT!!!!!????

I can't believe I'm actually starting to miss having Paplebum close games.