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Official 2007 MLB Season Thread

MacNut said:
Its a minor thing and its been a rule for a while, no other team is complaining about this but the Red Sox. The rules committee has added a lot of good rules this year so don't say they don't do anything. Aside from Barry Bonds I don't think there is much wrong with the game right now.
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Spoken like someone who roots for a team that's won their division for nine straight years. :rolleyes:
 
guys, want me to publish a 2007 national tv schedule for mlb games here? i can gather up the schedules from espn (they usually post them about a week before games), tbs, wgn and fox so everyone knows when there are some games coming on the tube.

i wish espn would bring back alternate games though, i miss the option of two games, as directv would also carry the alt. feed on many nights, so if you don't like the main game you get, just go over to the alt. channel and watch that.
 
You may not agree with a large part of it, but ESPN's Jonah Keri's 83 Story Lines of the Season is an interesting read. He gets by, again, with calling the Cards the "worst team" ever to win it all. I would have been alienated by that had he not led off with:

1. Are dynasties dead in baseball? "With apologies to the Chicken Little crowd stuck in the 20th century that thinks no one but the Yankees have a chance, we've now seen seven different World Series winners in the past seven seasons."

That comment leverages out his prevailing ignorance. :p
 
I think it's great to have different teams each get a slice of the World Series pie. The Yankees had too much pie at the turn of the millenium, so they got fat and had to go on a diet so now they can't have any pie. They've tried to sneak some pie, but it didn't work out.

So 6 other teams got some pie, including some teams that hadn't had any pie at all, and teams that hadn't had any pie for a very, very long time. :D

Pie is goood. :D
 
I got a funny story to tell. We went to the Braves/White Sox exibition today, and in the fourth, Langherans came up and took two straight strikes. This guy a few rows back (drunk) started saying to his friend really loudly "He's got no chance, he'll just strike out" and kept taunting and whatnot. So Langy works it into a full count, and the drunk guy says "If he hits a home run, I'll buy you a beer (to his friend); hell I'll buy everyone here a beer."

Boom- home run.

It was glorious, the guy walked out of the section and didn't come back for about 15 minutes.
 
mattscott306 said:
I got a funny story to tell. We went to the Braves/White Sox exibition today, and in the fourth, Langherans came up and took two straight strikes. This guy a few rows back (drunk) started saying to his friend really loudly "He's got no chance, he'll just strike out" and kept taunting and whatnot. So Langy works it into a full count, and the drunk guy says "If he hits a home run, I'll buy you a beer (to his friend); hell I'll buy everyone here a beer."

Boom- home run.

It was glorious, the guy walked out of the section and didn't come back for about 15 minutes.
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nice one. but i have a better one.

back during the first games of 2003, i was riding home from school at about 3 pm pt and listening to the angels/rangers game with the angels announcers in the car. arod was up and he was having a long at bat, so the guys talked about arod being close to 300 homers in his career. he went to 2 strikes and then one of them mentioned that he struck out a bunch in his career. next thing, bam goes #300 for arod. and then the guy that got it threw it back onto the field (this was at angels stadium). the announcers were just struck at that, that you would throw back a valued homer like that.

i'm still working on that national tv schedule for ical. i want to host it somewhere so everyone can see it.
 
Good day for the Twins last Spring game. Joe Mauer came up big in his first game back in a week, driving a bases-clearing double to the left-field wall to tie the game in the third inning. Took the lead for keeps later in the game with a number of minor league players. Another beautiful day in Southwest Florida :)
 
the ical is just about ready to go..

i've been spending the whole afternoon making an ical calendar on all of the games on national tv, so all us baseball junkies can see when games are coming on tv. note, this only covers games on espn (and affiliated networks), fox, tbs and wgn, so if your network isn't on the list, it isn't national.

i just need a server to host this on, since i don't have a .mac account.

reason i want this subscribed is that we will probably have some changes in the national tv schedule as the season goes on, as right now, most of the espn games, especially the wed. night ones don't have games on them right now, and they typically choose those 1-2 weeks in advance.
 
So I have concluded that the Mets will have a horrible season since they are starting the season on April fools they are doomed.:p
 
2007 national tv schedule

i just published an ical calendar for the 2007 baseball season for national tv games. the tagline is "find out when mlb is on tv!" and you can subscribe to it now. it covers all of the games on fox, espn 1+2, tbs and wgn, the national networks.

http://icalexchange.com/public/furcalchick/2007 MLB National TV Schedule.ics

i recommend a subscription, as this schedule will be changing as the season goes on, especially the espn dates (they are typically announced about 1-2 weeks before the game).
 
furcalchick said:
i just published an ical calendar for the 2007 baseball season for national tv games. the tagline is "find out when mlb is on tv!" and you can subscribe to it now. it covers all of the games on fox, espn 1+2, tbs and wgn, the national networks.

http://icalexchange.com/public/furcalchick/2007 MLB National TV Schedule.ics

i recommend a subscription, as this schedule will be changing as the season goes on, especially the espn dates (they are typically announced about 1-2 weeks before the game).
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couldn't get the link to work. :confused:
 
mattscott306 said:
Thanks furcalchick, I subscribed to it, glad you put in the time on it.
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took me about 3-4 hours yesterday to put it up. i'll be updating this list, as most of the espn games get announced about 1-2 weeks in advance, less for wednesday nights. expect for this week, nothing. so i put a generic time slot in there as a placeholder until we get an official announcement. many of the sunday and monday night games aren't chosen yet either, i'm still trying to figure the pattern for those.

but the wgn, tbs and fox dates are pretty much set in stone (we may have a few changes for rainouts, and i could have missed a couple dates). and the last two fox saturdays are playoff chase dates, where they will be announced later in the year depending on the pennant races.
 
furcalchick that's awesome that you did that!!! Thanks for doing it! Matt, if you see her at a Braves game buy her a beer (i'll send money for it, I swear)
 
In looking over the Yankees schedule they don't play that many games on Fox. Unless they are going to add more later.
 
i don't drink. just buy me something cheap (less than 10 dollars) at the braves clubhouse store.:cool:

this is the first time i put a calendar up public, since i saw nobody putting up a national tv schedule anywhere, and this also helps me, as i'm always trying to find some baseball on basic cable (i have directv though) outside of the local games i get already (marlins and devil rays, one middle of the road team and a doormat). sometimes i find out about a game on wgn or espn like in the 3rd inning and i kick myself that i missed it (if i'm at home). i'm sure us baseball junkies will love this.

and speaking on that, tomorrow starts the end of an era...36th and final year of braves on tbs. after that, they are going to some lame game of the week format. stupid.
 
furcalchick said:
i don't drink. just buy me something cheap (less than 10 dollars) at the braves clubhouse store.:cool:
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Will do, I'm hoping to be at alot of games this season.
and speaking on that, tomorrow starts the end of an era...36th and final year of braves on tbs. after that, they are going to some lame game of the week format. stupid.
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Yeah, I'm sure that sucks for you. They still play on Turner South and fox sports south for me, so I should be able to see every game. I actually kinda like what TBS had been doing with the Saturday games with all the extra cool stuff. Oh well, here's hoping the braves can take it this season and get some extra national games next year.
 
Every Yankee game will be in HD now since YESHD went full time today.

Its just a matter of time before the Braves start up their own network.
 
daily rewind and ical

daily rewind is not up at the itunes store, and i want to have the show for the whole season...i'll have a routine set up, watch 30 minutes of highlights every day throughout the season on my large monitor mirrored. then talk about it on the board.

one more thing on the fox game of the week, i'll probably change the url to regional maps as they get posted (week by week basis) so everyone can see what game you are getting. hopefully, i can get the guy who works on the nfl distribution maps to do this for baseball as well.
 
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