Guest Paragon Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 Baseball is near! The teams are now at full strength in spring training, and Phoenix welcomes all of them- at least until there is an openly gay player. One reason to like the Yankees: Who is your favorite team/player? Quote
Guest tomcal Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 I started putting together a team....only have 3 positions filled so far! Quote
Members MsGuy Posted February 24, 2014 Members Posted February 24, 2014 We just broke the barrier in basketball and are just weeks away in football. I would love to see an out baseball player. Hell, even as cheap as I am, I would still buy a team cap or something. (Dear Lord, please let him not be a catcher. Come on, God, you owe us that much). PS Jason Collins, the first openly gay basketball player will probably see his first court time tonight since coming out and signing with the Nets. Game at 9:00 pm Eastern on ESPN. Can't remember who the NETS are playing. Quote
Guest hitoallusa Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 On my I think baseball players are hot but I don't like when they spit on the field... Quote
Guest Paragon Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 Handsome Red Sox player Jose Iglesias is hazed: This guy's not a baseball player, but... Quote
Members MsGuy Posted February 24, 2014 Members Posted February 24, 2014 My God damned Comcast cable up-chucked on itself again and shut down for the basketball game and then some. Missed the season finale of Downton Abby and this week of Walking Dead too. Now it's coming up for a bit, going blank, on and off. Piss on it; I hate Comcast. They're notorious for cheaping out on maintenance. ==== Cute baseball teams you guys are working on. Maybe we should start a fantasy league, but based on cuteness rather than stats. Quote
AdamSmith Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 Piss on it; I hate Comcast. They're notorious for cheaping out on maintenance. And now they'll own TimeWarner Cable so good-bye to that one too. Quote
Members MsGuy Posted February 24, 2014 Members Posted February 24, 2014 First thing I thought of when I read about the TimeWarner takeover was "And there goes my maintenance money for the next ten years." AdamSmith 1 Quote
Members RA1 Posted February 24, 2014 Members Posted February 24, 2014 I thought "cuteness" was a stat. Any thought about DirecTV? Yes, it goes out during heavy rain and under certain icing conditions but does not require a tech to fix it, only a little patience. Here I am generally talking about a few minutes. Of course, the local weather guesser still interrupts if he can get extra air time. Best regards, RA1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 For anyone living where it's available, I had Verizon FiOS for a year and had 0.000% problem rate. Quote
Guest Paragon Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 The cute guy in the batting helmet in my originating post is Yankee backup catcher J.R.Murphy, who is probably the handsomest Caucasian player on the team: Jacoby Ellsbury, new to the Yankees from Boston, was always a favorite of mine. I called him "baby" until he lost some of his baby fat: Quote
Guest Paragon Posted February 24, 2014 Posted February 24, 2014 Jacoby Ellsbury's hazing photo...it's something almost all rookies have to do: Quote
Members MsGuy Posted February 25, 2014 Members Posted February 25, 2014 According to Obermann and confirmed by Wiki, Glenn Burke, Dodgers & Oakland, April 76 to June 79, was the first out MLB player. By 1978. everyone knew, including sports writers, as Burke was very open about his life to everybody. According to Obermann, Burke later said, "Everyone just pretended not to hear me [when I talked about being gay]." I guess they were a lot like my Moma. Somebody else has probably posted about this before but it's news to me. Given the state of my brain, I'll probably post this again next year. Every day is a new day. lookin 1 Quote
