Shouldn’t there be an Astros thread here?

[CousinFreddie]

Everyone's gotta have standards...  
And call a game based on hits?  Akin to calling a football game based on first downs?
Guess I shouldn't be surprised a Big XIIer favors an offensive stat to decide outcomes.  

Not this Big XIIer.  I've always liked the open-ended nature of baseball, with no clock or other artifice involved.  Theoretically, a game could go on forever, which was a component of the plot underpinning a fabulous Kinsella book called the Iowa Baseball Confederacy.

[utee94]

If you like games that go on forever, you should watch cricket.

[BrownCounty]

And call a game based on hits?  Akin to calling a football game based on first downs?
Guess I shouldn't be surprised a Big XIIer favors an offensive stat to decide outcomes.  

I still support this.  Play 9 innings.  If necessary play the 10th.  After that, the game should be decided on hits, runners to reach third, LOB, or some such fiddle faddle.

4-1/2 hour baseball games are only a wee bit less excruciating than root canals.  The flu is better because it's cool when your fever breaks.  The fan wants to know when the damn thing will be over.  This way, you know what's coming down.

Offensive stats are typically the inverse of defensive stats.  You wanna call the game based on strikeouts?  Offense is where points (or potential points come from).

It's better than inventing an entirely new game, which is what's done in college football.  The only thing the NFL has over college.  In the NFL, they play the same game in OT.  Not a soccer shootout.

[CousinFreddie]

If you like games that go on forever, you should watch cricket.

I like cricket.  My Pakistani roommate in grad school hooked me into that. Would love to go to a match sometime in a cricket oriented country, even if it lasted a week!

[BrownCounty]

I've always liked the open-ended nature of baseball, with no clock or other artifice involved.  Theoretically, a game could go on forever,

This is only since you've been retired, yes?  Some of us have to get out of bed the next day.

[BrownCounty]

And furthermore, baseball burns itself out.

Watching baseball is refreshing if you haven't done it in a while.  But given each team plays 162 games, you have to create your own reprieve.

But even after about the 7th inning, the interest can wane if the game is not exciting.

Watching baseball is like listening to a Led Zeppelin album.  It's refreshing for a while, but by the last song you're ready for something else.

Any baseball game that drags past 10 innings is just brutal.  And one day I realized, this is baseball's choice, not my choice.  And voila!  The remote control came to my rescue.

[CharleyHorse46]

BC, ya know you don't gotta listen to the announcers. 

My brother taught me that around 1974.  Put on a game, turn down the volume and play The Guess Who or Steppenwolf.

'Course nowadays my tastes are a bit more eclectic that they were in the '70s when we had to listen to hard rock, lest we be labeled a square and miss out on somebody sharing a little some some.  

Last night while watching I listened to some Steve Miller, Steely Dan, Herb Alpert, Sade, George Benson and Johann Sebastian Bach.

As for extra innings, I was like "Yessssss.  All your pitcher belong to us"

[CousinFreddie]

I'm not retired, and it's a bit doubtful that I'll ever retire as I kind of like what I do, and I always have a ballgame going in the background while I work, except during those 4 months of annual darkness known as the MLB off-season.

Baseball for me is never ever boring, and can go on forever.  I don't know what form of musical genre I'd compare it to, but Zeppelin is definitely not something that comes to mind - too much bass, not enough ball. 

[CousinFreddie]

My favorite genre these days is Andean - Uña Ramos, Gustavo Santaolalla, etc.  I'm not really sure whether Andean goes with baseball either, but I'm an eclectic sort too and so it works for me at least.

[CousinFreddie]

As for extra innings, I was like "Yessssss.  All your pitcher belong to us"

Heh, yeah.  When they got to Jansen with the Gonzalez dinger it was like ... so now whatcha gonna do, cute lil baby boys in blue??

[longhorn320]

I kinda like listening to bias announcers

its very entertaining to me to listen to them when your team is kicking butt

and whats up with the dodgers wolfman

he may be a good player but lord does he look silly

kinda fits right in with LA

[BrownCounty]

and whats up with the dodgers wolfman

I quit asking about athlete's appearances long ago.  These aren't your guys on the Wheaties box anymore.  They all look like Cheech & Chong or Rick James.

But hey, even Bruce Jenner was on a Wheaties box, so who knows.

[longhorn320]

and another thing

why does almost every pitcher now have a long beard

looks like General Jeb Stuart is on the mound

[UT-Erin03]

So glad they are coming back to Houston for this weekend's games. 
GO ASTROS!