What were your favorite players back then, Spline?
Oh, I want in on this game. My favorite as a kid was The Wizard. It was great to watch baseball back then, before all of the home-run hype. I still like small-ball, but I doubt we'll see it played so well again. People understand a home-run; they don't understand a hit-and-run. The most exciting play in baseball is the squeeze play, and you rarely see them anymore.
As for favorite players, Cal Ripken was the hometown hero in the Baltimore-to-DC area. I also remember liking Don Mattingly, perhaps mostly because of his mustache of comical proportion. So I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the Yankees. At least it gives me cred to hate-on the biggest bunch of assholes in the American sporting universe: Bostonians. Granted, Bostonians are pretty tame in comparison to scousers.
My favorite team was probably the '94 Orioles with Palmiero, Ripken, Mussina, etc.
Cardinals in the '60 for me, I also had a 1968 Topps Nolan Ryan rookie card at one time, but I lost it in a move. It would have been worth a few hundred dollars today.
My favorite team was probably the '94 Orioles with Palmiero, Ripken, Mussina, etc.
Mussina was a damn good pitcher. There were some games he had with the Orioles and Yankees where he just looked invincible. For whatever reason I have always watched the pitchers, and Mussina was one of the few who had enough variety that he was usually fun to watch.
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Arod will relieve him of that in the not too distant future and do it completely legitimately.
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What were your favorite players back then, Spline?
Oh, I want in on this game. My favorite as a kid was The Wizard. It was great to watch baseball back then, before all of the home-run hype. I still like small-ball, but I doubt we'll see it played so well again. People understand a home-run; they don't understand a hit-and-run. The most exciting play in baseball is the squeeze play, and you rarely see them anymore.
As for favorite players, Cal Ripken was the hometown hero in the Baltimore-to-DC area. I also remember liking Don Mattingly, perhaps mostly because of his mustache of comical proportion. So I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the Yankees. At least it gives me cred to hate-on the biggest bunch of assholes in the American sporting universe: Bostonians. Granted, Bostonians are pretty tame in comparison to scousers.
My favorite team was probably the '94 Orioles with Palmiero, Ripken, Mussina, etc.
And of course, Barry. But that's a whole 'nuther story.
Don't follow sports at all today.
My favorite team was probably the '94 Orioles with Palmiero, Ripken, Mussina, etc.
Mussina was a damn good pitcher. There were some games he had with the Orioles and Yankees where he just looked invincible. For whatever reason I have always watched the pitchers, and Mussina was one of the few who had enough variety that he was usually fun to watch.