2025 MLB Thread

[romad1]

31 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I’m in a bad mood in general and far too snarky at times and I don’t want to go on record forever as disliking people who are attracted to a sports that do little or nothing for me. It’s petty. The world doesn’t revolve around me. It’s not the end of the world for a baseball game to happen at a NASCAR track I guess. 

I went to a demolition derby once and loved it as much as everyone else. Though I could’ve done without the Confederate flags. If it weren’t a 4 hour drive away I probably would’ve gone again. I’m perhaps even capable of liking tractor pulls. The food there is surely good.

So if other people like events and “sports” that to me are mere sideshows (oops I did it again) too bad for me. I probably need to lighten up.

I do, though, dislike pandering attempts to make baseball “relevant“ to people with even shorter attention spans than my own who seem unable to appreciate baseball for the right reasons or to grasp its nuances. I don’t like seeing my sport disfigured.

When I was a little kid and I figured out the complexity of the game and could understand it at a glance, there was a soaring sense of accomplishment and belonging that has never left me. I felt invited into the inner sanctum of a holy temple of sorts and I don’t like seeing that experience diminished.

But the push is to reduce it to a level everybody can accept. Make it big, make it loud, make it proud, bet on it, turn it into a home run derby along with all the other aspects of the military industrial sports complex because it’s nothing more than one big revenue stream anyway rubs me the wrong way  

Maybe Tennessee needs Major League Baseball. Maybe it’ll be a good thing. Maybe they even deserve it.

So I will stop praying for it to rain in Bristol and for tornadoes to touch down and lift everybody’s pick up trucks into the sky. I hope the event goes off without a hitch and everyone eats lots of funnel cakes and deep fried squirrel and whatever else it is they like down there.

 

[CMRivdogs]

I'm ambivalent about the Bristol Track game. After all the Dodgers played their first couple of years in the LA Coliseum. Left field fence was 250 feet away (with a 40 foot screen) it was about 300 feet..

BTW the Field of Dreams field was not the same location as the movie field. They moved it about 100 yards or so and turned it around a bit to get the house in the camera shots. 
 

Now if they played during a race, that would be something...

[Shinzaki]

That would be interesting..." Young OF Joe Jones' promising career was cut short today when he was run over by a Chevy that was clocked at 200mph"

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, IdahoBert said:

I’m in a bad mood in general and far too snarky at times and I don’t want to go on record forever as disliking people who are attracted to a sports that do little or nothing for me. It’s petty. The world doesn’t revolve around me. It’s not the end of the world for a baseball game to happen at a NASCAR track I guess. 

I went to a demolition derby once and loved it as much as everyone else. Though I could’ve done without the Confederate flags. If it weren’t a 4 hour drive away I probably would’ve gone again. I’m perhaps even capable of liking tractor pulls. The food there is surely good.

So if other people like events and “sports” that to me are mere sideshows (oops I did it again) too bad for me. I probably need to lighten up.

I do, though, dislike pandering attempts to make baseball “relevant“ to people with even shorter attention spans than my own who seem unable to appreciate baseball for the right reasons or to grasp its nuances. I don’t like seeing my sport disfigured.

When I was a little kid and I figured out the complexity of the game and could understand it at a glance, there was a soaring sense of accomplishment and belonging that has never left me. I felt invited into the inner sanctum of a holy temple of sorts and I don’t like seeing that experience diminished.

But the push is to reduce it to a level everybody can accept. Make it big, make it loud, make it proud, bet on it, turn it into a home run derby along with all the other aspects of the military industrial sports complex because it’s nothing more than one big revenue stream anyway rubs me the wrong way  

Maybe Tennessee needs Major League Baseball. Maybe it’ll be a good thing. Maybe they even deserve it.

So I will stop praying for it to rain in Bristol and for tornadoes to touch down and lift everybody’s pick up trucks into the sky. I hope the event goes off without a hitch and everyone eats lots of funnel cakes and deep fried squirrel and whatever else it is they like down there.

 

I worked with a guy who was into Nascar and I was giving him a hard time about how stupid I thought it was that people got into watching people drive in circles. He was quiet for a bit and then informed me, "sometimes they drive in figure eights." LMAO

I've heard it's one of the most popular sports in the country and I've mellowed. If people wanna get into it, fine. To each his/her own.

[Sports_Freak]

45 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

I'm ambivalent about the Bristol Track game. After all the Dodgers played their first couple of years in the LA Coliseum. Left field fence was 250 feet away (with a 40 foot screen) it was about 300 feet..

BTW the Field of Dreams field was not the same location as the movie field. They moved it about 100 yards or so and turned it around a bit to get the house in the camera shots. 
 

Now if they played during a race, that would be something...

That would give new meaning to...Dodger!!

[IdahoBert]

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

I'm ambivalent about the Bristol Track game. After all the Dodgers played their first couple of years in the LA Coliseum. Left field fence was 250 feet away (with a 40 foot screen) it was about 300 feet..

BTW the Field of Dreams field was not the same location as the movie field. They moved it about 100 yards or so and turned it around a bit to get the house in the camera shots. 
 

Now if they played during a race, that would be something...

I’m honestly ambivalent too. I just like to vent.

[IdahoBert]

38 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

I worked with a guy who was into Nascar and I was giving him a hard time about how stupid I thought it was that people got into watching people drive in circles. He was quiet for a bit and then informed me, "sometimes they drive in figure eights." LMAO

I've heard it's one of the most popular sports in the country and I've mellowed. If people wanna get into it, fine. To each his/her own.

Like I said, the demolition derby was fantastic and they didn’t just drive around in a circle. They drove around in an irregular manner and tried to crash into each other.

The fact that so many of these vehicles could withstand so much punishment was an epiphany. A lot of thought and craftsmanship has to go into making these vehicles worthy of this much punishment.

I’m really impressed with practical skills of that gravity, which I myself do not possess.

[monkeytargets39]

NASCAR was easier to get into in the 80s/90s/early 2000s for a variety of reasons.

Now it’s just lots of nonsense across the board that doesn’t really appeal to a wide audience.

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, IdahoBert said:

I’m honestly ambivalent too. I just like to vent.

The privilege of age