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- shutaro, on 08/13/2009, -1/+26The Montreal Expos
- Blinker1315, on 08/13/2009, -0/+23I'll keep it simple. Yes, I miss organ music instead of awful 80s rock. I miss the relative quiet between innings when you could strike up a baseball conversation with strangers in your section. I like unbalanced schedules. Finally, I miss the days when going to the ballpark was a relatively inexpensive event. Oh, and obviously the late start times for post-season games (even though supposedly they'll be earlier this year), since it's baseball malpractice that young fans, who supported their team all year long, can't stay up until the wee hours with school the next day.
- StueyPidass, on 08/13/2009, -0/+21when baseball players didn't have 220 lbs of muscle
- theAzone, on 08/13/2009, -0/+21I'd miss baseball on the radio too, except for the fact that its still on the radio.
- peak1700, on 08/13/2009, -0/+18Rusty Kuntz
- chicagojack, on 08/13/2009, -5/+20Pete Rose
- plutoid, on 08/13/2009, -1/+12Stop naming stadiums after companies.
- Upon66, on 08/13/2009, -0/+11My Baseball team sucks (The Pirates)
- badenglishihave, on 08/13/2009, -0/+10In my opinion baseball is the quintessential radio sport. It's almost as easy to follow by ear as it is by sight, since most of the action is between pitcher and batter.
- Slacker99, on 08/13/2009, -2/+12harry caray
- vagrant13, on 08/13/2009, -0/+9Stadiums not being named after tampons
- felixsauve, on 08/13/2009, -0/+8Dugg for all on the same page... and the Expos.
- prolikewhoa, on 08/13/2009, -0/+8Complete games.
- dlm85, on 08/13/2009, -0/+8The Big Red Machine.
- ileftfark, on 08/13/2009, -1/+9Nickelbeer rules!
- FreddieD, on 08/13/2009, -0/+8I always wondered if the Expos franchise would have turned itself around had it not been for the 1994 strike. They had the best team in baseball that year by any reasonable measure (Moises Alou, Marquis Grissom, Larry Walker, John Wetteland, and hell Pedro Martinez was only their *4th* best pitcher), and a WS win (or even appearance) might have sparked enough interest in the city to keep the sport around.
- catpuke, on 08/13/2009, -1/+8I miss the Expos.
- richito, on 08/13/2009, -0/+7affordability
- lordmike, on 08/13/2009, -0/+6Nickel beer night!
- GreenBag, on 08/13/2009, -0/+626. Get rid of the ***** All-Star outcome determining home field advantage for the World Series. All-Stars shouldn't determine that...teams should.
- RealmDown, on 08/13/2009, -1/+7and when the stats book was asterisks free
- jba68, on 08/13/2009, -0/+5I too prefer 220 lbs of beer swillin' hot dog chuggin' goodness!!
- sbcea, on 08/13/2009, -0/+5I miss the old playoff process. 2 leagues (National/American), 2 divisions each (East/West). In each league, the team that won the most in the East squared off in a best of 5 game pennant series against the team that won the most in the West. The teams that won those series went on to the best of 7 game World Series. So, in the end, the champs were quite simply the team that won the most games.
The math was simple for a simple guy like me.
Now with 3 divisions, inter-league play, wild cards BLAH, BLAH, BLAH ... I just get dizzy and confused. - Shookit, on 08/13/2009, -1/+6I agree! Wrigley Field is the one that bothers me the most.
- StinkyPudding, on 08/13/2009, -0/+5Dugg for the Baseball Bunch and Tommy Lasorda as the Wizard. I had completely forgotten about that show.
- Hetman, on 08/13/2009, -0/+4I do not miss drunk fans running onto the fields. Yes it is funny the first time you see it. It gets old after the 100th time you see it though.
- endustry, on 08/13/2009, -0/+4#22 is the best: Old School Managers. Jerry Manuel of the Mets is the worst. Sometimes the 7th and 8th innings take 45 minutes apiece as he shuffles in this reliever or that reliever based on righty-lefty or righty-righty match-ups, etc. No gut, all academics. I was at the last game played at Shea and he had Stokes in there for a bit and everything was going fine. Suddenly Stokes is pulled for another reliever who would "match-up better" against a certain batter. The result: back-to-back homers off two separate pitchers.
- FreddieD, on 08/13/2009, -0/+4As a Cardinals fan, you guys need to pull a serious mutiny on your ownership. Not one winning season since 1993 Van Slyke/Bonilla/Bonds days... between Jason Bay, Aramis Ramirez, Freddy Sanchez and Jason Kendall, you could have had an all-star team had management properly drafted and developed their younger players.
I thought the coolest thing was a few years ago when Pittsburgh native Michael Keaton threw out the first pitch of the season wearing a Steelers hat... in other words, showing his love for the city with a big "screw you" to ownership. - doobiebrother, on 08/13/2009, -0/+4Griffey -100 lbs
- lordmike, on 08/13/2009, -0/+4But, it's different now... For example, they mentioned the tigers and Ernie Harwell... well, they are no longer on WJR 760 which is a 50,000 watt superstation... you can no longer hear Tigers games outside of Detroit. On clear summer nights, the radio signals from KMOX would bounce off the atmosphere half-way across the country, and I could listen to the dulcet tones of Jack Buck announce a Cardinals game through the haze and static of AM radio... I don't know if that's still the case...
- LeMAD, on 08/13/2009, -0/+4MLB and the Expos owners did a terrible job with the team. Montréal loved the Expos and people would have packed an open air ballbark located downtown every game. But year after year they destroyed the team. And watching a baseball game at the Big O is simply painful.
- Charlie1er, on 08/13/2009, -0/+4At least Youppi is still alive! http://sarcelle.unblog.fr/files/2006/10/Youppi2.jp ...
The Montreal Canadiens bough the rights on that orange fury abobination. - Red1000, on 08/13/2009, -1/+4Knuckleballers (only 2 currently in the majors, I believe)
Scheduled doubleheaders
Bubblegum baseball cards
4 man rotations
Great players that play their entire career for one team (still happens, but rare)
Drag bunts
Players with glasses
Eye black (not the stickers)
The hidden ball trick
Stadium names that weren't awkwardly named after companies (I don't mind Wrigley or Busch, but 3Comm, Cinergy & CoMerica sound stupid) - GreenBag, on 08/13/2009, -0/+3The team with the better record gets home field advantage...just like basketball...just like how it used to be.
- zad1, on 08/13/2009, -1/+4I miss the time when there were no cheaters and steroid users in baseball...
Oh, wait a sec... - s5demigh, on 08/13/2009, -0/+3The team with the best record going into the World Series. The All-Star game is supposed to be fun, not determine something like that.
- tdrtdr8, on 08/13/2009, -0/+3I agree, There is too much other crap going on at the game besides a game. It is impossible to strike a conversation with the person next to you. Double headers were fun. Players no longer spend a career with one team. Its all about business now. None of the new stadiums have any character, they're all the same.. I much rather go to an older ball park than these new ones. Inner league play completely takes the fun out of the all star games or world series.. I would rather have the mystery/suspense of wondering which league will prevail
- zekis, on 08/13/2009, -0/+3Dugg for Bill Veeck, I really miss when TWIB was good, I'd give anything to see the old TWIB episodes again.
- Sianegad, on 08/13/2009, -0/+2Youppi was cast out of baseball, yes but he now works as the Canadiens de Montréal Mascot. Maybe the first Trans-game mascot?
He was the Expo's best player anyway! - Hetman, on 08/13/2009, -2/+4To bad there skills are below average. At least they do not appear to be doing steriods though.
- macromorgan, on 08/13/2009, -0/+2Bring back 10 cent beer night and disco sucks night!
- tooldork, on 08/13/2009, -0/+2I listen to parts of most games on AM radio. 700 WLW, home of the Cincinnati Reds.
If no stirrups, at least keep pants above the ankles. - s5demigh, on 08/13/2009, -0/+2Yea, I'm not sure what that guy was complaining about but I can hear the Giants game every day, FM or AM.
- JCEEZ, on 08/13/2009, -0/+2@Hetman, they won the past 2 world baseball classics FYI.
I dunno, Baseball in Japan is more of a Euro-soccer feel, with horns and songs and *****. 7th inning stretch, they do some weird balloon thing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTjTCQ24C8w] It's fun, and yes there are LOTS of hotties that are actually into it.
But nothing beats Baseball in America, with dudes throwing bags of peanuts down the stands, high-5s (arguable kind of lame), heckling from fans, and take me out to the ball game. - Sardic, on 08/13/2009, -0/+2totally nike is coming back that rules
- s5demigh, on 08/13/2009, -0/+2Ever since their wins in the WS, Red Sox 'fans' are so annoying that this year, it actually made me hope the Yankee's beat them for the division this year...and that's coming from a Giants fan. Do you know how hard it is for me to admit that?
- ELCad, on 08/13/2009, -0/+2Oh man, I am blown away that I could have forgotten about that show. Johnny Bench is the man!
- bovilexia, on 08/13/2009, -1/+3#1
I was watching baseball the other night for the first time and years and this was my first thought. I was like what is up with everyone wearing baggy pants? I can understand maybe some 13 year old playing sandlot wanting to wear them, but why on earth would a pro? Besides looking ridiculous it seems like they would slow you down significantly. - Tegurit34, on 08/13/2009, -1/+3@JCEEZ, the WBC is a joke. It's fun, but it in no way filters out the best from the worst (Hey, just like the divisional postseason format!). The sample size of games is too small and the countries with the most talent, like Team USA and Team DR, have trouble getting the best eligible players to participate. The WBC is also just one of many International baseball tournaments, in which Korea has done better than Japan over the last few years.
Make no mistake; Nippon Professional Baseball has a lot of fantastic players, but league overall is inferior to MLB. Better than Triple-A, and it's extremely impressive considering how small their talent pool to draw from is (they have trouble attracting very much talent outside the country), but MLB has so many more talent pools to draw from that it's still no competition.
It can be seen in the former NPB players that come to the US. Even the players with the most success, like Ichiro and Hideo Nomo, put up Bondsian- and Clemensian-like numbers in Japan. - s5demigh, on 08/13/2009, -0/+2I'm a Giants fan...and I'm always mad when they don't make it to the World Series (if they make the playoff's). But for some reason, I can't bring myself to hate the Marlin's (even though they swept in '97 and beat us in '03) because....well, they aren't a hate-able team to me. I just had to throw my 2 cents in on that one.
As for the Wild Card, it brings excitement to a few more teams who almost have no chance in winning their own division. If a team is leading the division by 10 or 20 games but your team still has a good win/loss compared to other divisions, don't you like seeing your team still be in the race for post season? -
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