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Posted 4/1/2019 2:53 PM (GMT 0)
Well, well, well, my Royals are still in first after taking 2 out of 3 three from from the ChiSox.
Tied with Minnesota at this early juncture in the season.
And low and behold who do we play for 2 at home?
Those same Twins.
Come on boys, let's take 2 and solidify our hold on first.
Next up after that, is a quick 3 game road trip to Detroit.
Before it's back home for a 7 game home stand against the Mariners and Indians.
Posted 4/1/2019 3:17 PM (GMT 0)
Cubs are 1-2, but it’s a long, hot summer...
Posted 4/1/2019 3:19 PM (GMT 0)
Yes sir, the boys of summer.
Best time as a kid, neighborhood kids going to the park and playing ball!!
Posted 4/1/2019 7:10 PM (GMT 0)

alephnull said...
Yes sir, the boys of summer.

Ha! I'll be at the Tigers home opener Thursday. Snow changing to rain, lucky to hit 40. Thank goodness for hot flashes.
Posted 4/1/2019 8:04 PM (GMT 0)
alephnull said: "... Best time as a kid, neighborhood kids going to the park and playing ball!"

Just out of curiosity, were any of you ever on an actually organized baseball team, such as your high school team, or even college?

Or how about Little League Baseball, when you were a kid? Personally, I was on a Little League team when aged 11 and 12 (1957-58), and I surprise myself at just how vivid some of those game memories still are for me now.

I wasn't all that good a player, I'm afraid, but the fun of the thing was very real, just as the memories of it are now so enjoyable. I especially remember that my team actually made it to the city championship game in 1958 (although we unfortunately lost), but the memory of that one game in particular is so remarkably vivid, even now.

Any of you have fond memories of playing in Little League, or even higher?
Posted 4/1/2019 8:28 PM (GMT 0)
I was an average little league player, but vivid memories yes. On those occasions I made a good play or a good hit - they are crystal clear in my mind to this day. So is the time I let three pitches go by for called strikes. I got mad at the Umpire. He told me to go sit down, which I did. 🙂
Posted 4/2/2019 1:01 AM (GMT 0)
I played Liitle League and all I remember is my father calling me out on strikes in a game. He never got talked into being an umpire again and just paid the extra money to not do anything.

I had one son who played Little League who fractured his ankle near the end of first season and had a nice lime green cast with a boot. The team was short players to play the last game so he played 3rd base with his cast on. All we heard were the other adults saying how can that boy’s parents let him play in that cast and so on. Heck, we could not have stopped him from playing to help the team and he got a couple hits and caught a fly ball while these astonished parents watched the little boy with the green cast show them how the game is played.

The next year he played in their All-Star game as a substitute because the best player went on vacation and hit his first home run ever over the fence. Little boys and baseball is as good as it gets.
Posted 4/3/2019 6:08 PM (GMT 0)
Never played anything above grade school level Optimist League ball.
I sucked, but had fun.
I played center field, decent arm but couldn't catch it worth anything. But I had fun.
Played two years, second year we collectively sucked, we won only 3 games. One of those wins was against the eventual city champion who only lost ONE game all season. Yep, that was us who put the one scar on the champions record. That was the highlight of the season!

Second biggest highlight was by a kid named Lanny D.
He was scared of the ball and would check swing and then jump back every time.
Except for once.
He checked his swing, the ball hit his bat and went straight down, two inches in front of home plate.
No one saw the ball but him, he took off for first and made it safe.
This was Lanny's one and only base hit of the season.
RIP Lanny, if you would listen to an old team mate.
We had fun buddy and that was the greatest hit of the year.
Lanny was killed in a car wreck just last year in VA.
Posted 4/3/2019 6:37 PM (GMT 0)
Here's an amusing (though hammed up a bit, of course) Hollywood look at the world of Little League baseball.

Saw this film with the family years ago (including my two sons, who were almost of Little League age at the time) and got some laughs out of it:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bad+news+bears+youtube&view=detail&mid=1425f0a92ec4292255ec1425f0a92ec4292255ec&form=vire
Posted 4/4/2019 3:57 PM (GMT 0)
hated little league...that's when I learned...and till this day...I do not play well with others...or have I ever played "Reindeer Games"...have gotten lots of grief over the years...still do...having said that..I work well with others till the rituals begin...peckin order...going along so as to get along...stop and chats...then blurting out true feelings to the first person seen ...at that point...wars of attrition began/begin...and guess what...I'm still standing...selfish??...maybe...or maybe just better at the game...occasionally...meeting others of the same mind...they are worth the patience...I mean...come on...we all know a few...who fit...ok...no mind never matter...no matter never mind...so when do we get back to nothing??….just kidding...the thread is evolving.from nothing to something and vibrating back again...just like...well....oops...I know nothing....I know nothing...whew...that was close!!
Posted 4/4/2019 4:00 PM (GMT 0)
I learned at a young age that my depth perception sucks. I don't know if it's the nearsightedness, or the astigmatism, or what..but I lack the ability to track a moving ball and either catch or hit it. So baseball, tennis, racquetball, volleyball, etc...all impossible for me.
Posted 4/4/2019 4:09 PM (GMT 0)
In little league I I learned the best part of the game was getting to go to the snack bar after the game for a box of 'Good & Plenty' only to discover in a adult life, they rarely have Good & Plenty at ball parks.

so I just make do with beer and peanuts.
Posted 4/4/2019 4:43 PM (GMT 0)
I love baseball, but my Royals are sliding. So, STOP IT!! Or I'll take my ball and go home!!

NCAA basketball is still alive, and even though I don't follow the Red Raiders.

Go Texas Tech!!

Put some of that vaunted D down and bring home the trophy!
Posted 4/4/2019 4:56 PM (GMT 0)
Well, so far it seems that men who have been diagnosed with PCa and spend time on a PCa forum are on the backside of the athletic skills curve.

Hmm...🤔
Posted 4/4/2019 5:52 PM (GMT 0)
Well ...................
In my slimmer days I ran middle distance in HS.
JR year -- 660 in 78 seconds,
9th gr 880 in 2:11
Did not win any races, ribbons or trophys.

As a SR I did beat in a game of One on One the guy that was our starting guard on my JR High BBall team. LOL
Does that count?

What I'm saying is, I haven't always been a butter ball. smile
Posted 4/4/2019 6:03 PM (GMT 0)
“Does that count?

What I'm saying is, I haven't always been a butter ball. smile”

Yep it counts. I was an okay athlete, but just okay. Stopped formal sports after middle school. But still played for fun.

Do kids do sports for fun anymore? Or are they all glued to electronic devices. That’s a huge social/health experiment .
Posted 4/4/2019 6:20 PM (GMT 0)
Elderly couple at Dr's. office to check prostate cancer, and hearing loss.

Wife to husband: They want a urine sample, a stool sample and a sperm sample.

Husband: What?

Wife: They want your underwear.

PS: The husband played high school baseball, and is rooting for Michigan State to win it all.
Posted 4/4/2019 9:16 PM (GMT 0)
Unfortunately so many parents try to relive their failed sports careers through their children.
They drive them too hard, or force them to play sports that they aren't really into.
When I was a kid, I had to ask if I wanted to play an organized sport. Parents didn't push me at all.

The end started when as a 16 year old, I umpired a Tee baseball game.
Tee baseball, Tee freaking baseball.
Two fathers got into a screaming match at each other.
I quit that job and decided we were finished as a society.
Posted 4/5/2019 2:02 AM (GMT 0)
My best position in sports was left out. Went to the Tigers opener today with winter coat, earmuffs, many layers. Sorry alephnull, Royals look bad. It was absolutely freezing. My luck I only had 1 hot flash, more like a warm flash. Where are they when you need them?
Posted 4/5/2019 1:03 PM (GMT 0)
GoBucks,
Thanks, but it's expected. KC chooses to not keep players with $$$ potential. That is except for our left fielder Alex Gordon, I'm not sure what everyone sees in him.
No more Moose, No more Hosmer, No more Lo Cain, and no more ...etc.
So much talent we've given up.
I would of tried to retain either Hosmer or Lo Cain.
That 2015 pitching staff was smoking hot. Darn, keep at least your best pitcher. Personally, I'd have kept Davis or Holland.
But oh well, we are supposedly rebuilding.
Seems like we are just a farm team.
Posted 4/7/2019 1:41 AM (GMT 0)
...I was, however, a swimmer in my college years: distance freestyle, 200 fly. I used to be fit...and I went "wire" not bulky. At that time, in season, I didn't weigh over 125 lbs.

Also, my wife shared THIS with me today: [URL]https://www.schluterbalikfuneralhome.com/obituary/tim-schrandt?lud=4759246C096BEEA2A07A23120E236986/[URL]

Sounds like the kind of guy I'd have wanted to know....
Posted 4/7/2019 3:36 AM (GMT 0)
I'm still amazed by people who run on purpose.
Posted 4/7/2019 11:49 AM (GMT 0)
Let's try this link again: https://www.schluterbalikfuneralhome.com/obituary/tim-schrandt?lud=4759246c096beea2a07a23120e236986

I particularly like the request for someone to come get the bathtub Virgin Mary, tomorrow.
Posted 4/8/2019 1:18 AM (GMT 0)
Halbert,
Distance swim and the 200 fly, well done man. I have NOTHING to brag about ... but I have always been a swimmer, I broke my magic 1 minute barrier in the 100 fly in our High School finals. Came in third. The all city- all star did a 54.5!! These days can not even attempt the butterfly, but swim freestyle when I can, Got a few medals in the "Oldlypics" mainly because the competition was... nearly NO One, only three in my age group!
Also love baseball so much , played Senior Men's Hardball up to 2 years ago, when I fouled a ball off my shin and got a hairline fracture. Doctors cautioned me "No more contact sports", but hey, got the bug so...,kind of foolish I guess.
Wings of Butterflies..err..WOE
Posted 4/8/2019 9:47 AM (GMT 0)
WOE, I did the 200 fly mostly because nobody else could survive it. (Small college). Distance Free? I could go all day, but I wasn't all that fast. Thinking back, I think my fastest 1000 yard was around 12:30, fasted 800 meter was right around 10:00. Back when I was diagnosed and had a full body bone scan, the report noted, "bone deterioration in the left knee and both shoulders". No more fly for me. I doubt I could even get my arms all the way around with any sort of technique.
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