How about Virginia Tech?

Tim; Money has surely ruined all sports not just baseball. The constant hot-dogging and woofing and posturing in football has turned me off. I was a Browns season ticket holder for all the 80's.....Sipe and Kosar era. But when they left town...that was it.

I know that as a fan in the past, as I can tell from your post, you must realize that Baseball is surely not a game of "standing around"....maybe on tv where you only see what the camera sees but at the park there is so much going on on the field between each pitch that it is hard to follow it all. But the best part is...no time clock and the defense must give up the means for the offense to score, by pitching the ball.

Best part of this site: we can agree to disagree.

john

In the "For Love of the Game" (a decent baseball movie) starring Kevin Costner, there is a conversation where Costner's character says to the owner of the team something like this: "Money won't ruin the game; it's still a great game."

I agree Morfoot that the dollars are way out of line, as they are in all the sports. There are a lot of people who should get paid more than ball players. A whole bunch of the players come across to me as arrogant, but there are still many who play the game because of the game.

I like football a lot, collage basketball is great, but baseball is a story, a drama that unfolds over a season, and part of that drama involves the matchup of pitcher and batter. It's the only sport where defense starts the play.

OK, enough of that, it's the game that my dad first took me to and that I first took my boys to. I've spent hours at Kaufman stadium before and after games because my kids wanted to meet the players, and most of players were great, giving autographs, even having conversatons.

Perfect day? Take the kids skiing in the afternoon, and go to the ballpark at night.

Chuck

Tim: I know I don't have to remind a smart guy like you that they were playing Baseball way before fat guys started running into each other calling it a sport.

I can take being contradicted by a person of ReidP's stature.

john

Hey jbear............Baseball is a sport? don't get me started

Dropping like flies. Clemson got knocked off too, so no more undefeated. The Hokies ain't hokey.

Baseball is for outboard owners.

When is the last time a conference team beat Duke and North cCarolina in the same week?

Go Gators...