You Know What's Awesome About Pitchers And Catchers?
Nothing.
I've never understood why so many people look forward to this. Give me games.
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BJ Ryan
Yet it's news when all the other pitchers in the league show up on today to do the same.
I respectfully disagree
but how is that any different than yesterday?
It's like a simple landmark on the way to
by seattlebruin on Feb 13, 2008 11:44 AM PST up reply actions
its more like
unless you take vacations that are ~6 months long... if you do, i am incredibly jealous
It's like
it's no different then
What is this mile 20.
I've driven as much as 900 miles in a day,
Yeah, 900 miles is about 14 hours.
;)
Years ago I was talking to a friend of mine
In the beginning...
You're no baseball fan...
Get out from behind that Excel spreadsheet!
The Mariner pitchers take physicals today.
by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 13, 2008 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
TURN YOUR HEAD AND COUGH DAY!!!
by PositivePaul on Feb 13, 2008 11:33 AM PST up reply actions
Per Geoff Baker
This is an inconvenience
I'm so pissed they closed the Oly team store...
With gas prices high and rising higher, even w/a full-time job I might not even be able to afford too many games this year.
Good thing I love Cheney Stadium...
by PositivePaul on Feb 13, 2008 12:10 PM PST up reply actions
They closed the Olympia team store?
Here's the difference between Feb. 12th
And, yes, most of it is psychological. It's knowing that the players are there practicing, banging slump-busters, taking greenies, shooting up steroids, etc.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 13, 2008 11:36 AM PST reply actions
Huh?
No one in baseball is on steroids, or has ever used steroids. You are mistaken.
by seattlebruin on Feb 13, 2008 11:45 AM PST up reply actions
Shooting beaver, enabling flu like symptoms...
by John Morgan @ Lookout Landing on Feb 13, 2008 12:09 PM PST up reply actions
I guess it is that first TV or Radio report
We get a whole new set of puff-pieces, I guess
by tworsandtwols on Feb 13, 2008 12:05 PM PST reply actions
It's the canary in the coal mine
It's tangible evidence that baseball is coming soon.
It's no more rambling about the stupid effing hot stove.
It's no more Bedard talks.
It's something to make February worth having.
For the first time
its just been such an angst filled off-season that even thinking about getting baseball going doesn't bring on that same excitement of years past.
I'm sure that will change in the coming weeks, I just don't seem to be anxious about the season right now.
It'll come
by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 13, 2008 12:35 PM PST up reply actions
I need to find a job that just lets me take
the real question on everybody's lips
by Bearskin Rugburn on Feb 13, 2008 12:46 PM PST reply actions
I did.
That went over my head upon first reading
by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 13, 2008 12:58 PM PST up reply actions
it's a tall order to tell a joke
I first read it
by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 13, 2008 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
Sure, having a wallet that big seems nice
it wouldn't be the first thing
Just ask George Costanza.
I first read it that way
Warning: Cheesy analogy
Along the way there are landmarks, some with importance:
-Stopping at a fort for some supplies you don't have on the first day of free agency, hoping you're a banker from New York and not a farmer from Florida.
-Coming up on a river, not knowing how dangerous it is to get to the other side, and then crossing your fingers with hope that your GM isn't named Bavasi and he won't pay $50 to the Indians GM asking for $10 because his Plan A was to ford it but that fell apart when the water level was too high and he then waited around for a month hoping it would subside.
-Always my favorite part, rafting what's left of your wagon down The Dalles to your final destination during Spring Training.
But there are also landmarks that come without any real significance. Pitchers and Catchers reporting to spring training, just like Independence Rock, is certainly one of them. After you've played through a few dozen offseasons, the inevitable tombstones of horrible memories involving bad trades and worse free agent decisions begin to litter the side of the trail and add the association of heartbreak to an increasingly large pool of dates.
But how monotonous would that game be if you didn't have these landmarks to help remind you that you're growing ever closer to Opening Day? Four-plus months of nothing but barren wilderness with a buffalo named Beluga Tits and a gritty squirrel named Willie occasionally making an appearance. Today may be insignficant in the grand scheme of things, but it's an emotional pick-me-up. Baseball grows nigh. It's sunny and over 50 in Seattle for once. I can almost smell the fresh cut grass and hear the sound of baseball smacking glove.
This, amigos, is what Pitchers & Catchers is all about. I'm inscribing my random thoughts on the side of Independence Rock as we pass by. Anyone want to trade me a wagon wheel for some clothes? My DH broke both of his and I'm tired of watching him GIDP.
Oregon Trail?
If nobody dies of dysentery then you are playing the game wrong.
And hunting for dinner
For some reason
by Liebkartoffel on Feb 13, 2008 4:20 PM PST up reply actions
Oh yeah,
by Liebkartoffel on Feb 13, 2008 4:23 PM PST up reply actions
Ouch! That's rough...
Spring Training has the same feel.
I just want Opening Day to come ASAP.
Old people like
piss off, junior
But you did have training.
by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 13, 2008 3:35 PM PST up reply actions
and I crawled there
And you didn't have them
You know what he did have?
by Jeff Sullivan on Feb 13, 2008 3:50 PM PST up reply actions
And lawns.
by PositivePaul on Feb 13, 2008 3:51 PM PST up reply actions
You know what he didn't
BRENT ****ING LILLIBRIDGE!
that's all you got?
and golf shoes.
We had toothpaste
And yeah, we had video games - if you count 'drawing on the side of the tree with chalk' as a video game. It was a lot of fun, but for fast moving games, it got awkward.
And now
A, What the hell is a
by Liebkartoffel on Feb 13, 2008 4:26 PM PST up reply actions
One who believes all alcohol is evil.
by Mariner John on Feb 13, 2008 4:40 PM PST up reply actions
So, what...?
by Liebkartoffel on Feb 13, 2008 4:53 PM PST up reply actions
Those were my exact thoughts.
One tends to do one's
by Liebkartoffel on Feb 13, 2008 6:09 PM PST up reply actions
You just hang in there, little buddy
by Liebkartoffel on Feb 13, 2008 8:02 PM PST up reply actions
You know what I just realized...
;-)
At least the local media doesn't do this
by KENtastic @ Lookout Landing on Feb 13, 2008 9:40 PM PST reply actions
It's incredibly annoying
After the Super Bowl
I loooove this time
It's like, 3 weeks until I go to my first game of the year (Yakult vs. Seibu at Jingu, preseason game). It's gonna be awesome even if it's COLD. Woooooooooooooooooo.
Sounds like fun!
Hey Jeff, you want games? Sounds like you're on the wrong continent. It's 2:30am tomorrow in Japan right now... They're living in the future!

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