Stuff Baseball Fans Can Be Thankful For
In no particular order:
1. Wrigley
2. The 1975 Houston Astros uniforms
3. Alexander Cartwright
4. Abbott and Costello
5. Rookies
6. Annie Savoy
7. Triples
8. Minor league road trips
9. No-hitters
10. Near-no-hitters
11. The seventh-inning stretch
12. Manual scoreboards
13. #42
14. Leaping catches
15. Bench-clearing brawls
16. The bottom of the 9th
17. Vendors who throw peanuts really, really far
18. Fenway
19. Doubleheaders
20. Baseball on the radio
Please add your own!
November 27th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Ken “The Hawk” Harrelson should easily be on that list.
REPORT COMMENT
November 27th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Type A free agents
REPORT COMMENT
November 27th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Day games
REPORT COMMENT
November 27th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
really really long extra inning games.
REPORT COMMENT
November 27th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Interleague play that brought The White Sox to Atlanta, even if it was for only one year, but damn it ibwas there for all three games…
REPORT COMMENT
November 27th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Jamie Moyer’s refusal to act his age
Lenny Dykstra’s stock tips
Darren Daulton’s cosmic intuition
REPORT COMMENT
November 28th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Greg Maddux
REPORT COMMENT
November 28th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Hot Dogs and Beer
REPORT COMMENT
November 28th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Vin Scully
REPORT COMMENT
November 28th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
The Late HARRY CARRY
REPORT COMMENT
November 29th, 2008 at 2:46 am
A league without the DH
The home team
Pitchers going 9 innings
Inside the park home runs
the Eephus pitch
Knockdown pitches
Rivalries
Hot-Stove speculation
Blockbuster trades
The Brooklyn Cyclones
90 feet between bases
Double Plays
Triple Plays
4 strikeout innings
One of a kind moments
REAL grass
and the death of the cookie-cutter stadiums
REPORT COMMENT
November 29th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
-The kunckleball
The number 42 as in Mariano Rivera? Or the number 42 as in life the universe and everything?
REPORT COMMENT
November 29th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
As a Giants fan I have to say…Jon Miller
REPORT COMMENT
December 1st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Bob Gibson and the brush back pitch
cold beer on a hot summers day
Stan Musial
Learning to keep score
No clock telling us when the game will be finished
REPORT COMMENT
December 1st, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Infield singles.
Speculating on whether the guy on first would have scored on that ground-rule-double.
Keeping Mark McGwire out of the Hall.
Moving down at the fourth inning.
Kids wearing mitts in the upper deck.
Grownups wearing mitts in the upper deck.
Waiting in line at the concession stand, watching the game on the closed circuit TVs, and thinking, “Hey! I’m at that game!”
Fenway girls.
Chanting “Larry” at Chipper Jones.
.406
REPORT COMMENT
December 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
[At the risk of polluting this most excellent thread -- and truly, these comments are fantastic and make me feel even more thankful for baseball! -- I simply must respond to Ben L's question. But I will do so in these brackets.
"The number 42 as in Mariano Rivera? Or the number 42 as in life the universe and everything?"
Ben L, you fool. YOU FOOL. I'm sorry, but you deserve that. #42 as in Jackie Robinson. Whose number Mo wears as a form of paying tribute. YOU FOOL! I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I know it was probably just too much tryptophan. YOU FOOL. Okay, enough now from me.]
REPORT COMMENT
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:01 am
Sigh, Sarah Sarah Sarah… am I not allowed to have my fun at all? Sarcasm doesn’t translate well in print…
Oh and to add to the list:
-Harvey Haddix’s perfect loss
-The Double Steal
-The Ellsbury 2 Base Steal
-Stealing home
-Drunken oracles in the stands actually predicting a bizzare outcome within a game (personal experience, a drunk in front of me predicted a grand slam 2 batters before it happened)
-Drunken fans who fall asleep and have soda cups stacked on them
-The Mariners hierarchy who proudly distract their fans from their awful team by telling lesbians not to kiss in public
REPORT COMMENT
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 am
[Ben L, you forgot to put that part in brackets. I'm not sure I buy your reasoning...surely I'm not the only one who has used the feeble and transparent "oh, but that was supposed to be a JOKE" excuse. But WWJRD? What Would Jackie Robinson Do? He'd probably at least pretend to accept that you were only kidding. So that is what I will do, too. Merry Christmas.]
-scoring on wild pitches
-wild pitches that hit the mascot (perhaps only occurring in film, but still, definitely awesome)
-wild pitches in general
-shoestring catches
-strike ‘em out throw ‘em out double plays
-the hidden ball trick
-Hall of Fame arguments
-bumped umps! (how could i leave out that one before?)
REPORT COMMENT
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 am
[Fine fine... brackets then. Tsk tsk Sarah. Consider the following into the calculations. 1) I know you're a Red Sox fan. 2) I'm also a Red Sox fan. 3) My humor is more about sarcasm. 4) Douglas Adams was hilarious. 5) Jackie Robinson supposedly had a good sense of humor.]
-That look on a players face when he realizes he’s the third out of a triple play.
-Blooper reels
-Whoever runs Cot’s Contracts
-Izzy Alcantara
-That video of Nolan Ryan and Robin Ventura
REPORT COMMENT