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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!
 
Xericx said:
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!
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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 . . .
 
it's_GO_time said:
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 . . .
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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'm a Dodgers fan whenever they play the Giants.
 
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 hate baseball...I play fantasy baseball just to kill time in the NBA offseason
 
I dont mind going to a game about 3 times a year...I can appreciate doing that with friends
 
Xericx said:
nope! i'd like to..especially Wrigley and Fenway.
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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.
 
gambitnut said:
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.
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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.
 
Minstrel said:
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.
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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.
 
gambitnut said:
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.
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To me, the main problem with the MLB draft is that few people know the players being drafted. High school players almost no one has seen except obsessive baseball fans in the region the player comes from. And even college players aren't well-known since college baseball isn't popular like college football and college basketball. So there isn't a big focus on the MLB draft by mainstream baseball fans. Bigger fans get interested in prospects after the draft and after they've begun doing something to get on prospect lists. Casual fans get interested in players once they reach the big league team.
 
Minstrel said:
To me, the main problem with the MLB draft is that few people know the players being drafted. High school players almost no one has seen except obsessive baseball fans in the region the player comes from. And even college players aren't well-known since college baseball isn't popular like college football and college basketball. So there isn't a big focus on the MLB draft by mainstream baseball fans. Bigger fans get interested in prospects after the draft and after they've begun doing something to get on prospect lists. Casual fans get interested in players once they reach the big league team.
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Yes, that is a factor, but we don't know all of the football players either. Part of the reason the NFL Draft works is we have Mel Kiper telling us who is good. If ESPN were to send somebody like Rob Neyer, to throw out an ESPN baseball writer who happens to live in Portland, to televise the draft and tell us who to look out for and who will be a bust, we'll learn who is good early and maybe some people will start to follow prospects and college baseball more.
 
Doyers!!!! I'm considering a trip to Chicago to watch....flights are only about 300, which is doable.
 
DaRizzle said:
Dodgers are playing the Cubs? Is that a sure thing?
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Depends on who the wildcard is.

If it's the Mets, the Dodgers will play the Phillies. If it's the Brewers, the Dodgers will play the Cubs (since teams from the same division can't play each other in the first round).
 
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