Baseball Opening Day (Page 1 of 2)

Next Year is Here!    GO  Cubbies!!!!!!!!!!!

Red Sox fan here. It must be tough being a Mets fan...spending all of that dough and getting very little in return AND having to share a town with the Yankees....eeeehhhhhh.

I used to be a Cincinnati Reds fan back in the Big Red Machine days. George Foster was my favourite player when I was a kid. Now days I root for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. They actually changed the name of the team to the "Rays" last year. I refuse to succumb to this change. I've been a fan since the teams' inception in 1998 and I'll always call 'em the Devil Rays. What a year they had last year! Hopin' for more of the same, if not a little better this year. The  family tries to attend at least one game per season. We usually sit out in right field and relentlessly heckle the opposing teams right fielder. Tons of fun!!!!

Now nobody Boo me here...

Being a Canadian I have been a fan of Toronto Blue Jays since day one.There's a few bright spots on the team this year but I fear with the Red Sox and Devil Rays talent...Oh yeah and the Yankees payroll it's gonna be a long year. Doc Holliday for Cy Young anyone.
Hey Cam...sounds like you have a gold mine in the closet. The way sports memorabilia sells now a days you might be able to retire early.
I wish I kept my cards from when I was a kid.......Dam

Kenny

Right now We're starting Junior A hockey playoffs...London Knights. We have John Tavares, the #1 pick in the country, future NHL'er. London has had awesome teams since the Hunter brothers took over. Maybe another Memorial Cup coming our way

Baseball is the greatest game on Earth.

Go Twins! I've been geared up for baseball since the Vikes bowed out of the playoffs in the first round...and the Wild haven't been anything special to watch this year either. But, I'm going to the game tomorrow which I'm stoked about! Just glad we have the Dome for one more year...would likely be throwing snowballs if we didn't have it!

Hi Kap, nice to see Cito Gaston back with the Jays, bet you were in your glory when they won it all, I watched all those games and were very exciting. Would love to see the Jays go all the way again.

Should the steriod players be inducted to the hall of fame?? or should they start a new steriod hall of fame??   Hank Arron still the homerun king in my books.

take care..     Badeye 

Ken Griffey Jr back in a Mariners uniform makes me very very happy.    Watching him belt a homer on opening day was perfect.

I don't think Griffey has that much more ball in him.  He's gotten pretty big and is playing the DH spot right now, where he'll probably stay.  His days of spider man out in center field are long gone.

We love him here, though, so having him go out in a Mariners uniform will be a banner day.

I second that

I don't know if I agree. I think you can call records from other eras into question as well. Was Babe Ruth really playing against the best of the best as he didn't play in a fully integrated league? Many of the pitching records were set when the mound was 6 inches higher (Bob Gibson's dominance forced MLB to lower it). Baseball has evolved over the years so it's not fair to compare stats and players across eras, and therefore, not fair to single out something different about the era and declare that they can't be in the HOF as a result.

I honestly feel hypocritical (and MLB should too) screaming about steroids in baseball because steroids put baseball back on the map. I turned my back on baseball after 94 like a number of other fans did. What brought me back? McGwire and Sosa...everyone knew they were juicin'...and no one cared because we all wanted a reason to watch baseball again. The casual fan loves the long ball (I dig the fundamentals and "small ball" because I grew up watching the Twins...and that's all they've ever played), so MLB, owners, and players looked the other way when it came to steroid use because: more HRs=more fans=more ticket/merchandise sales=more profit to team owners and higher salaries for the players. Basically, MLB and players put a product out there that we wanted...how can we be so irrate about steroid use now?

Don't get me wrong, I wish roids had never become a part of the game so players like Griffey, who most people believe did it the "right" way, could have been highlighted even more. We will never be able to separate users from non-users so I don't think steroids should be a factor in HOF voting. Now, with better testing procedures etc, we can be more confident that users will be caught (except HGH users) and then we could start keeping roid users out.