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  1. IdahoBert
    Spring training, hot baseball wives.
  2. IdahoBert
    Those were the ones I was thinking of that I didn’t like. I think that was the ‘79 World Series team. At least the hats.
  3. IdahoBert
    He killed Keller!
  4. IdahoBert
    Those uniforms have a quiet traditional dignity about them.
  5. IdahoBert
    So, we are playing the NL team with whom we have been most associated for 121 years.
  6. IdahoBert
    I am starting to get optimistic about this season. My optimism has a poor track record.
  7. IdahoBert
    I feel like one of those Japanese soldiers after World War II who wasn’t sure that the war had ended. Is it safe to come out now?
  8. IdahoBert
    Forget Correa. I wouldn’t authorize a 10-year deal for Jesus. Yes his first three seasons were spectacular, but he got to the show at 30 and he’s 33 years old. His inordinately high BABIP is clearly unsustainable. He hangs out with a pretty rough crowd too. I think he’s a public relations problem waiting to happen. I vote no.
  9. IdahoBert
    So let me get this straight; instead of playing teams within our own division something like 72 games a year we will play 48 games a year? That’s like a dream come true. Also, can owners make major changes to the structure of the leagues and basic rules at will? Like abolishing separate leagues altogether? Or is that years away when there’s another CBA negotiation? I guess I could look this up but I don’t want to do my own research.
  10. IdahoBert
    I’m glad the DH will be universal. For me, celebrating a pitcher’s AB is the equivalent of applauding Jim Crow, lynchings, and book burnings.
  11. IdahoBert
    I will be glad not to play the same damn teams in our division over and over again. And if part of the price I have to pay to get that is to play more interleague games I can live with that.
  12. IdahoBert
    I had honestly given up and stopped following the news on the CBA and was on the verge of burning my baseball paraphernalia, rubbing the ashes all over my body and walking through the streets shouting “Woe, woe, the End is near!” I’m glad I didn’t do that.
  13. IdahoBert
    Ay, caramba como en el fútbol?
  14. IdahoBert
    When much of the season was canceled in 2020 I discovered how little I really need this hobby. The part of me that’s a cynic and a nihilist thinks Pol Pot was pretty much right about burning the whole thing down (although I do disagree with his position on people who wore glasses). i’m really tired of this But I’m not a cynic and I’m not a nihilist and I know that as soon as baseball begins I’ll be back like a dog excited that his owner has come home at the end of the day. But I might bite him really hard.
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    AH-knee-BALL, at least that’s what Dan says and I’m sticking with it. When you pronounce it “Annabelle” you should be playing a banjo at a hoedown.
  17. IdahoBert
    Regarding Dan Dickerson, I haven’t noticed egregious mispronunciations exceeding common Anglicizations — like saying Paris instead of PEAR~d-d-d-d-eeeee so maybe I’m not paying close enough attention — but I remember Vin Scully mispronouncing Anibal Sanchez as Annabelle when the Tigers were playing the Dodgers and it really grated on me. But I think Vin made up for it by telling an interesting anecdote about Anibal’s personal life that I found unusually fascinating although I can’t remember it now.
  18. IdahoBert
    I sure am glad that spring training season has only been delayed by one week; that must mean that we have lots of reasons to be optimistic.
  19. IdahoBert
    Just to go off topic for a moment, I’m presuming that because it’s the Holy Holiday of Super Bowl Sunday that there won’t be any resolution to the lock out today.
  20. IdahoBert
    I was thinking the same thing when I saw the story. Well you know what they say about great minds thinking alike; it’s similar to the saying about big hands and big feet inferring big shoes.
  21. IdahoBert
    I keep checking this site to see if “we’ve got there yet.“ Whenever there is news it’s like being on a road trip in the backseat and dad pulls into McDonald’s and everyone gets excited and he buys a coffee for himself then drives away. There’s no good news.
  22. IdahoBert
    As for a lottery I can see this as a rational solution to a concrete problem but many decisions everywhere all the time are made due to factors other than reason alone such as power relations etc. I’m not holding my breath for anything to happen because reasoning parties have found Jesus and arrived at some notion of the common good. But it could happen.
  23. IdahoBert
    To summarize: being nothing more than just one component among many in a revenue stream is a real boner shrinker.
  24. IdahoBert
    When something you hold dear to your heart and person is so obviously held hostage by a remote conflict akin to Olympian Gods (owners) against Greek and Trojan Kings (players), it makes you feel small and insignificant. We are not owners or players, and we’re not even spectators; we’re outside the stadium on flip phones wondering whether we will “win” or not. It makes the illusion of the spectacle so unrewarding. Seeing the Wizard behind the curtain in Oz is a real letdown. When all is said and done I’m sure I’ll go back to being a complacent moron and buy back into it all over again. I sure wish they would just finish up with their struggle and allow me to return to the stupid little fantasy land I take pleasure in.
  25. IdahoBert
    Creatine was routinely in the water or Gatorade that the football players at Bishop Kelley High in Boise Idaho drank during practice and games. One of my best friends was the assistant football coach and a theology teacher and he wouldn’t make this stuff up. In 1987 I knew ordinary morons at gyms were using ‘roids who had developed these ugly stretch marks on their pectoral muscles because they had grown so fast the skin could not adequately stretch to accommodate the artificially obtained musculature. If idiots could get hold of it then, surely professional athletes with vastly more at stake could and did.
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