Right here. To date myslef: Garvey, Lopes, Russell and Cey . . . what an infield. Are they making the playoffs this year?
hell yeah! Man Ram baby!!!! (that's just a wrong name. Oh well). never thought I'd like the dodgers when I moved here 10+ years ago...went to some games 2 years ago, got hooked...fun times!
Dodger stadium is a great place to go watch a game. What a difference when the a stadium is built for one purpose. I caught some Padres games when I was living in SD . . . there is an ugly place to go watch a game . . . football one day, baseball the next. An infield mound in the middle of a football field . . .
Yeah, trying to score some tix for Thursday's home finale against the Padres. Only thing that sucks is I work in West LA which takes forever to get to the stadium with traffic. Staples too....parents have a condo like 5-10 minutes from both though...so I can always go there, but games are always after work
I bought a "Giants Suck" T-shirt for 5 bucks last year when Bonds came to LA (right around his record breaking time)
I'm a Mariners and Mets fan myself. I started getting into baseball around 1986 and became a Mets fan. I didn't realize that there was a baseball team just a few hours away until a bit later and I didn't really get into them until the first year they got above .500. I might have become a fan of those teams when each was good, but I've remained a fan since. I'm glad to see fans of any team though, as I told Minstrel the other day, I enjoyed trying to build up the baseball forums at the other site until the management decided they didn't care that much and I'm trying to build up the baseball forums here now. Feel free to talk baseball here, and I'll join in sometimes, but also feel free to check out the Dodgers Forum. I think we only have one poster who posts in there right now and he probably gets bored talking to himself.
I just couldn't bring myself to ever cheer for a seattle team (Seahawks/Mariners). I cheer for the dodgers cuz Portland doesn't have a major league team and I live here now. still don't have a football team. i'm more of a casual baseball fan myself, not having grown up with it. they're fun just to drink some beers in the upper deck while shooting the shit with friends on a clear SoCal night.
I agree. Some people find it too slow, but I find it relaxing. Have you been to any games anywhere but Dodger Stadium?
I've been to Wrigley. It was fun, you could feel it is special. It is older though, so it isn't as wheelchair accessible as most, but not bad, you just have to go up a small curb to get to the landing for wheelchairs. The full list of stadiums I've been to is about halfway down this thread.
I love baseball. The tempo is quite different from basketball, but over six months, it's a good rhythm. I'm an A's fan (with some fandom in the Padres, since I went to school in San Diego). Also, much more trading happens in baseball. Baseball has the most fun off-seasons, IMO. But the most boring drafts.
yeah, i'd love to be a cubs fan there....the area around wrigley before and after games is insane with all those bars and partying. just seems like a real good community, something you miss with LA.
From what I read in "Money Ball", it sounds like the draft is boring because you aren't allowed to trade draft picks, although you can be forced to give a draft pick to another team if you sign their free agent, but what goes on behind the scenes is pretty interesting. I think they could find some way to make the draft interesting for television though, and that would draw in more fan interest.