Red Mosquito

philpritchard wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I lived in Seattle and had season tickets during Ichiro's prime. As a fan that has been going to MLB games regularly since I was 5 or 6, I can say that only Rickey Henderson was more exciting to watch. And the fact that Ichiro is only 21 hits away from 3,000 MLB hits is what I wish everyone was talking about considering how old he was when he started playing here.

Man I loved watching that guy run out a little dinker down the third base line.

I paid close attention to his early career because, after the Jays, I cheered for whoever Olerud was playing for.

We were happy to have you cheering for the '05 Red Sox.

Yeah, I probably should have clarified that the Olerud thing only applied to the Mets and Mariners.

philpritchard wrote:Yeah, I probably should have clarified that the Olerud thing only applied to the Mets and Mariners.

He was on the Blue Jays too.

philpritchard wrote:Yeah, I probably should have clarified that the Olerud thing only applied to the Mets and Mariners.

I was rooting for the Jays in 92/93, you jerk.

@SkitchP wrote:

philpritchard wrote:Yeah, I probably should have clarified that the Olerud thing only applied to the Mets and Mariners.

He was on the Blue Jays too.

This sounds made up.

so now there's special father's day uniforms? ugh.

spike wrote:so now there's special father's day uniforms? ugh.

I was watching the Orioles / Blue Jays today, and it took about 4 pitches before I realized it was the Orioles in the field, so stupid. It looked like they had on Blue Jays home uniforms.

MadTIGERmaN wrote:

spike wrote:so now there's special father's day uniforms? ugh.

I was watching the Orioles / Blue Jays today, and it took about 4 pitches before I realized it was the Orioles in the field, so stupid. It looked like they had on Blue Jays home uniforms.

martin maldonado looked like a rock em sock em robot behind the plate today

MadTIGERmaN wrote:

spike wrote:so now there's special father's day uniforms? ugh.

I was watching the Orioles / Blue Jays today, and it took about 4 pitches before I realized it was the Orioles in the field, so stupid. It looked like they had on Blue Jays home uniforms.

Yeah, that was really, really stupid. Wear a special patch or ribbon or let the players where the blue arm bands or use blue bats or whatever, but everyone wearing all-blue uniforms? No thanks.

philpritchard wrote:

MadTIGERmaN wrote:

spike wrote:so now there's special father's day uniforms? ugh.

I was watching the Orioles / Blue Jays today, and it took about 4 pitches before I realized it was the Orioles in the field, so stupid. It looked like they had on Blue Jays home uniforms.

Yeah, that was really, really stupid. Wear a special patch or ribbon or let the players where the blue arm bands or use blue bats or whatever, but everyone wearing all-blue uniforms? No thanks.

Mostly agree - depends how much blue is already in your regular uni. Looked fine on the M's but really really bad on the Red Sox.

Bammer wrote:

philpritchard wrote:

MadTIGERmaN wrote:

spike wrote:so now there's special father's day uniforms? ugh.

I was watching the Orioles / Blue Jays today, and it took about 4 pitches before I realized it was the Orioles in the field, so stupid. It looked like they had on Blue Jays home uniforms.

Yeah, that was really, really stupid. Wear a special patch or ribbon or let the players where the blue arm bands or use blue bats or whatever, but everyone wearing all-blue uniforms? No thanks.

Mostly agree - depends how much blue is already in your regular uni. Looked fine on the M's but really really bad on the Red Sox.

That's why the Orioles looked so bad.

My wife's boss (who is a well respected man) is a Cards fan and he posts a picture of flag with an "L" on it every time the Cubs lose. Cards fans are the worst.

Monkey_Driven wrote:My wife's boss (who is a well respected man) is a Cards fan and he posts a picture of flag with an "L" on it every time the Cubs lose. Cards fans are the worst.

Every rival team's fans are the worst. Why would you expect any differently? Every fanbase has good fans and bad fans. You should know that, being a Cubs fan.

matt reeder wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:My wife's boss (who is a well respected man) is a Cards fan and he posts a picture of flag with an "L" on it every time the Cubs lose. Cards fans are the worst.

Every rival team's fans are the worst. Why would you expect any differently? Every fanbase has good fans and bad fans. You should know that, being a Cubs fan.

I'm not a Cubs fan. My problem with Cards fans is that many call and consider themselves the best fans in baseball.

Monkey_Driven wrote:

matt reeder wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:My wife's boss (who is a well respected man) is a Cards fan and he posts a picture of flag with an "L" on it every time the Cubs lose. Cards fans are the worst.

Every rival team's fans are the worst. Why would you expect any differently? Every fanbase has good fans and bad fans. You should know that, being a Cubs fan.

I'm not a Cubs fan. My problem with Cards fans is that many call and consider themselves the best fans in baseball.

You do realize that for like 80% or more of Cards fans this is either an ongoing joke, or trolling? Like, I know a lot of Cards fans and I don't know anybody who actually believes that crap. I don't. It's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Cards fans are loyal as shit but it doesn't make them the best; it just means they don't have much of a life. Given the region, this isn't surprising.

Speaking of Cubs fans: the 20-30% of fans who live and die with the team are some of the best sports fans, period. I have a ton of respect for diehard Cubs fans, and I know a few. Great, great people to watch a game with. But at least 50% of the Cubs fans I've known over the course of my life are just awful, awful sports fans who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. I realize that such a description could apply to a lot of fanbases in every sport, but man, bad Cub fans are obnoxious on a level that is borderline pathological.

Not MLB but I don't want to start a college baseball thread.

Coastal Carolina down to the final four in the College baseball world series!

matt reeder wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

matt reeder wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:My wife's boss (who is a well respected man) is a Cards fan and he posts a picture of flag with an "L" on it every time the Cubs lose. Cards fans are the worst.

Every rival team's fans are the worst. Why would you expect any differently? Every fanbase has good fans and bad fans. You should know that, being a Cubs fan.

I'm not a Cubs fan. My problem with Cards fans is that many call and consider themselves the best fans in baseball.

You do realize that for like 80% or more of Cards fans this is either an ongoing joke, or trolling? Like, I know a lot of Cards fans and I don't know anybody who actually believes that crap. I don't. It's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. Cards fans are loyal as shit but it doesn't make them the best; it just means they don't have much of a life. Given the region, this isn't surprising.

Speaking of Cubs fans: the 20-30% of fans who live and die with the team are some of the best sports fans, period. I have a ton of respect for diehard Cubs fans, and I know a few. Great, great people to watch a game with. But at least 50% of the Cubs fans I've known over the course of my life are just awful, awful sports fans who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. I realize that such a description could apply to a lot of fanbases in every sport, but man, bad Cub fans are obnoxious on a level that is borderline pathological.

I don't know about Cards fans not believing in that stuff, I know several that do. They're loyal fans for sure, but still incredibly annoying to be around all the time.

You're right about Cubs fans.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Not MLB but I don't want to start a college baseball thread.

Coastal Carolina down to the final four in the College baseball world series!

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