Author Topic: Absolution (Read 4128 times)

94CougarGrad · « **on:** April 18, 2014, 10:59:37 pm »

I feel so dirty.

I was so desperate to see National League Baseball on tv, today... I... turned on the Reds-FTC game for a while.

I didn't mean it. I didn't even really like it. I just can't handle being inundated with Rangers, Rangers, Rangers anymore with so little opportunity for televised Astros in sight. I'm feeling really soured on baseball. Can't see my own damn team unless they play someone else who televises in my area. Sigh.

I patiently await my sentence. But. I do reserve the right to appeal.

Mr. Happy · « **Reply #1 on:** April 19, 2014, 06:49:29 am »

Don't feel dirty at all. You are hereby absolved. It's baseball. I listen to afternoon games at the office all of the time, and it doesn't matter who's playing, even the FTC. In fact, I listened to the Cubs' radio broadcasters yesterday against the Reds.

94CougarGrad · « **Reply #2 on:** April 19, 2014, 08:45:42 am »

Is there still not even a decent tv deal in sight for the Astros, or am I a victim of living in AL-enemy territory?

Fredia · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2014, 09:21:36 am »

sigh i want my astros and admit to still knowing more of the nl players than al

Matt · « **Reply #4 on:** April 20, 2014, 06:32:46 pm »

That's nothing, I've been watching K-League games way more than I probably should be.

Limey · « **Reply #5 on:** April 20, 2014, 09:10:29 pm »

Quote from: Matt on April 20, 2014, 06:32:46 pm

That's nothing, I've been watching K-League games way more than I probably should be.

I am enjoying my godson's little league. The quality is way better.

Matt · « **Reply #6 on:** April 21, 2014, 01:30:02 am »

Quote from: Limey on April 20, 2014, 09:10:29 pm

I am enjoying my godson's little league. The quality is way better.

Oh I'm sure. The team names are probably more mature too. There's a team here called The Dinos...

Limey · « **Reply #7 on:** April 21, 2014, 09:02:35 am »

Quote from: Matt on April 21, 2014, 01:30:02 am

Oh I'm sure. The team names are probably more mature too. There's a team here called The Dinos...

He plays for the [ugh] Mariners.

NeilT · « **Reply #8 on:** April 21, 2014, 09:52:44 am »

Quote from: Limey on April 21, 2014, 09:02:35 am

He plays for the [ugh] Mariners.

I hope you curse him out thoroughly after every game, just because.

Astros Fan in Big D · « **Reply #9 on:** April 21, 2014, 03:14:03 pm »

Quote from: Limey on April 21, 2014, 09:02:35 am

He plays for the [ugh] Mariners.

Last year my youngest was on the [ugh] Mariners. This year he's on the [bilious projectile vommit] Yankees.

To make matters worse there is an Astros team in the same age group. They wear Rainbow Guts and orange caps. Sigh.

Fredia · « **Reply #10 on:** April 21, 2014, 03:43:28 pm »

little league is a cruel cruel master

Matt · « **Reply #11 on:** April 22, 2014, 08:01:25 pm »

Quote from: Limey on April 21, 2014, 09:02:35 am

He plays for the [ugh] Mariners.

I stand corrected.

Reuben · « **Reply #12 on:** April 22, 2014, 08:06:51 pm »

When I played Little League there wasn't any of this MLB name/logo cribbing. I played for the Forbis & Dick Stars. Forbis & Dick was a funeral home.

HudsonHawk · « **Reply #13 on:** April 22, 2014, 10:26:12 pm »

When I played LL, we used both MLB and non-MLB names. For example, we had the Astros and the Cubs and the Reds, but also had the Rebels and Colts and Fireballs and Bucks. In my LL career, I played for the Mets, Rebels, Astros, Tigers, Tigers, Tigers, Mets and Mets. Of course we all had sponsors too. One of my favorite years was playing for the Astros. That was the first year we wore real uniforms. We had old flannel hand-me-down suits from the late 60's, but we wore real stirrups. That's when I fell in love with strirrups. It's not a real baseball uniform without them.

What I don't like is this trend to call your team some non-specific singular noun...like "Heat" or "Blaze" or "Terror". It just ain't right.

Ebby Calvin · « **Reply #14 on:** April 22, 2014, 10:31:38 pm »

Agree with the non-specific singular noun names.
I've been a Wolf x2, a Cub x2 (we were green), a Panther, an Oriole x2, a Blue Jay x2 and a Tiger. I still root for the Orioles.

Bench · « **Reply #15 on:** April 22, 2014, 11:17:54 pm »

Quote from: Ebby Calvin on April 22, 2014, 10:31:38 pm

Agree with the non-specific singular noun names.
I've been a Wolf x2, a Cub x2 (we were green), a Panther, an Oriole x2, a Blue Jay x2 and a Tiger. I still root for the Orioles.

I played CYO which was all made-up names. I remember being the Lancers, the Trojans and the Sliders at various times, which seems vaguely perverted now that I look back at that string of names.

ferret · « **Reply #16 on:** April 22, 2014, 11:24:29 pm »

Quote from: Limey on April 20, 2014, 09:10:29 pm

I am enjoying my godson's little league. The quality is way better.

I suspect he knows to retouch 2nd when he retraces back to first on a long fly ball.

Ron Brand · « **Reply #17 on:** April 22, 2014, 11:24:55 pm »

Ours were just the name of the sponsor. I started playing for a team named after some optician, but then I was honored to be the first draft pick of Emy Griggs Nursery. Man, those were some great months.

Later, when we moved to the sticks, I played Babe Ruth ball and those teams were called by their town names. We played Taylor and Georgetown and Round Rock and Granger and Elgin, etc. I was envious of that new vogue of naming teams after actual MLB team names, but that didn't start until I was in late high school.

Mr. Happy · « **Reply #18 on:** April 23, 2014, 04:32:59 am »

Quote from: Ron Brand on April 22, 2014, 11:24:55 pm

Ours were just the name of the sponsor. I started playing for a team named after some optician, but then I was honored to be the first draft pick of Emy Griggs Nursery. Man, those were some great months.

Later, when we moved to the sticks, I played Babe Ruth ball and those teams were called by their town names. We played Taylor and Georgetown and Round Rock and Granger and Elgin, etc. I was envious of that new vogue of naming teams after actual MLB team names, but that didn't start until I was in late high school.

That was my experience too. Sponsors named the team after themselves because they bought the unis. It was advertising.

Reuben · « **Reply #19 on:** April 23, 2014, 10:46:23 am »

Quote from: Mr. Happy on April 23, 2014, 04:32:59 am

That was my experience too. Sponsors named the team after themselves because they bought the unis. It was advertising.

Bingo. Thankfully adult slow-pitch softball has stepped up to carry on this glorious tradition. I've played on A New Leaf (health food/vitamins store), Cabot Liquors (team didn't adopt my brilliant suggestion of 'Cabinets' as nickname), the Extra Office Swingers, and... I guess the others didn't have a sponsor.