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makes me long for summer, and baseball (Original Post) AmandaRuth Mar 2019 OP
Had to watch the replay to see it. Tiggeroshii Mar 2019 #1
*Sigh*...I wish I was as enthusiastic about baseball as I used to be... First Speaker Mar 2019 #2
valid AmandaRuth Mar 2019 #3
I have lost my enthusiasm also for many reasons rurallib Mar 2019 #5
Of course, it was Miggy! Ohiogal Mar 2019 #4

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
2. *Sigh*...I wish I was as enthusiastic about baseball as I used to be...
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 04:22 PM
Mar 2019

...I've reached the point of advanced Old Fogeyism. It seems a natural thing--baseball now has "advanced analytics", and I'm an advanced Old Fogey. This is not a total coincidence. I'm sorry, but 13-man pitching staffs are making the game a travesty...

AmandaRuth

(3,105 posts)
3. valid
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 04:25 PM
Mar 2019

but for me,sitting in the sun drinking 10 dollar beers has got this march cold and snow beat hands down.

rurallib

(62,415 posts)
5. I have lost my enthusiasm also for many reasons
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 04:45 PM
Mar 2019

4 hour games and endless commercials, kingly salaries for average ballplayers, greedy owners with no ties to the community, taxpayers funding ballparks for said owners.

Mind you I don't watch pro football and very little pro basketball.

When homers started flying out like slow-pitch softball games in the 90s, baseball was no longer fun.

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