tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.comments2023-10-31T09:01:11.464-04:00Church of BaseballCathiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07291479913130967235noreply@blogger.comBlogger486125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-27853776464361657072018-05-14T18:33:25.186-04:002018-05-14T18:33:25.186-04:00I had the same problem, but it didn't last tha...I had the same problem, but it didn't last that long. Their Twitter customer service guys helped and got me back up and running in less than an hour. <br /><br />Don't get me started on blackout areas though. Jason T. Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14315887218461638379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-55286165642508915542016-10-20T14:19:57.944-04:002016-10-20T14:19:57.944-04:00Hey, thanks for your comments! I'll definitely...Hey, thanks for your comments! I'll definitely check out your blog. Sorry, I thought I had responded to this earlier but I guess not.Cathiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07291479913130967235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-8407475113145444202016-10-11T19:34:58.488-04:002016-10-11T19:34:58.488-04:00Hey, I just wanted to say that I love your comment...Hey, I just wanted to say that I love your commentary on Twitter, which I've let become nothing more than a news ticker of sorts, for a variety of reasons. I share your baseball hatred of the Cards, and see the Cubs as Red Sox Midwest (Epstein, Lester, Lackey, Ross) in addition to them being annoying because of overwhelming hype on the part of the usual media clowns.<br /><br />I'm an O's fan, don;t really like the Nats at all, but I feel like you and I see eye to eye on most things. Certainly politics, though being anti-Trump these days is only a sign of non-idiocy. Sadly, too many fail that test.<br /><br />Anyway, I've been wanting to give you a hearty thumbs up for some time now, and this way I can do it while preserving Twitter anonymity (I refuse to DM anyone, especially a female). If you're interested, perhaps cripplingly bored sometime, you might check out my semi-popular blog. I write about mostly O's baseball during the season, but also cover other passions including old person music, ancient cartoons, various other media, and junky food. http://claudecat17.tumblr.com<br /><br />Keep up the good work! And get some sleep... you seem to be tweeting at any and all hours of the day.claudecathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12415743767539275513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-1380538217454559872016-05-18T19:31:08.453-04:002016-05-18T19:31:08.453-04:00Sorry Dan, don't recall the year.Sorry Dan, don't recall the year. Cathiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07291479913130967235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-43306526168987431462016-04-25T18:48:16.783-04:002016-04-25T18:48:16.783-04:00Do you know what year the cups were from in the pi...Do you know what year the cups were from in the picture third from the bottom? The ones with the hat,bat and glove? DEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13895610874643148438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-92193250471718073902015-05-08T11:01:27.272-04:002015-05-08T11:01:27.272-04:00I love this post, just stumbles across it from a b...I love this post, just stumbles across it from a blogger search on baseball blogs!<br />Would it be alright if I reposted it on my personal baseball blog (a mini blog). www.microleaguememories.com<br /><br />And I can tell you from personal experience that most natives of Syracuse are pretty much Yankee fans as they used to have a Double A affiliate team there not too long ago. There are also alot of Red Sox and Mets fans as well.<br />Thanks<br />Gordon<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07470696136329264602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-67837230511350973622015-05-03T13:01:05.702-04:002015-05-03T13:01:05.702-04:00Ha...just found your musings on baseball...I look ...Ha...just found your musings on baseball...I look forward to your future posts. Thanks for making the internet a better place.DDubbs76https://www.blogger.com/profile/18431599770761381737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-88044218026537806262015-02-24T13:59:59.804-05:002015-02-24T13:59:59.804-05:00Agree on the beer comment. Why not sell a draft li...Agree on the beer comment. Why not sell a draft license per season? Should bring in revenue.<br /><br />If you have quenched your thirst and want to bet on sports. Have a look at my site :) http://howtobet.netAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09021528856606851588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-45918446581407830242015-02-14T16:30:41.465-05:002015-02-14T16:30:41.465-05:00http://www.amazon.com/Under-March-Sun-Spring-Train...http://www.amazon.com/Under-March-Sun-Spring-Training/dp/B005IUZXE0NatsLadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06814911056080758503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-83634209192614529592014-10-14T01:06:11.629-04:002014-10-14T01:06:11.629-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Suziestamperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475234704197367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-44485049755836097152014-10-14T01:04:52.697-04:002014-10-14T01:04:52.697-04:00Sure am glad that Chris is a BASEBALL fan!Sure am glad that Chris is a BASEBALL fan!Suziestamperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01475234704197367108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-52301792402267476372014-10-09T23:50:45.325-04:002014-10-09T23:50:45.325-04:00Thanks Cathie! You have a good blog here.
The Reds...Thanks Cathie! You have a good blog here.<br />The Reds have a great history. Were you at any of the World Series games in the 1970s or 1990? <br />True, one of the things that make baseball and sports great is the heartbreak. It feels that much better when you finally win one. The White Sox winning its first WS in almost 90 years in 2005 was a big moment.<br />I was upset when the Rangers didn't win it in 2011 - the old senators team within one strike to the hated Cardinals.<br />I too hope it is next year that the Nats win it all. <br />That's interesting your boyfriend's first home run to see was Howard's. Frank is still a lively character. <br />bghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10792591708888997237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-83458534278003017042014-10-09T20:02:24.753-04:002014-10-09T20:02:24.753-04:00Thank you so much for your comment. Your story abo...Thank you so much for your comment. Your story about your son and the game brought a tear to my eye, the good kind of tear, though bittersweet given the outcome of the series. Tell your son that other Nats fans are proud of him for sticking through the whole game. I was raised a Reds fan but also a baseball fan and the one thing my mother never ever did with my two sisters and I was leave a game early. Magic could happen at any moment. You are teaching your son the right way!<br /><br />Count me as one who cursed Williams for pulling Zimmerman. It was weird - before the infamous walk came up, I suddenly had this sinking feeling, and then the missed strike calls and the walk and the pull and bam. But - even though it hurts, one of the things that make baseball great is the heartbreak. <br /><br />I'm actually writing something this very minute about my boyfriend Chris, born and raised in Rockville, Senators fan turned Orioles fan turned Nationals fan. Howard was the first mlb homer he witnessed. <br /><br />Also, no offense, but I hope your son isn't on the team that breaks the WS drought, because I'm hoping that happens in the next couple of years!<br /><br />Thank you so much for your comment. Warmed my heart, truly.Cathiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07291479913130967235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-80311673273749655892014-10-09T19:44:35.369-04:002014-10-09T19:44:35.369-04:00Interesting commentary on the city and park. I als...Interesting commentary on the city and park. I also like the Orioles but really want the Nats to bring DC its first World Series title since 1924.<br />Though born in D.C., I haven't lived here too long myself, having moved back from Dallas about a decade ago. My dad was a big Yankees fan growing up near NYC and later lived in D.C. for 25 years, becoming a Senators fan. Talk about a tough transition. Frank Howard, who we have met, was one of the few bright spots of those teams.<br />My son has grown up with the Nationals, having gone to games since that first season when he was five. He has met many of them through fanfests and the Sunday signature events. They are his team. <br />He and I were troopers at his first MLB playoff game that he actually witnessed from the inside last Saturday. We went to a playoff game in 2012 but couldn't get tickets and watched part of it from the big centerfield gate TV screen. I bought his ticket for well above face value through a reseller website and watched the game myself with some other fans from that centerfield TV. I had seen many games, including playoff ones, from inside the park and some pressboxes, and found the view from outside the gate not ideal, but good enough.<br />We stayed for the entire agonizing 6 ½-hour affair, and by the time it ended, well more than half the crowd had left, seeking a warmer and saner environment. But there was still a fairly substantial hardy contingent. We cheered, then groaned when the fierce wind kept potential walk-off home runs by Bryce Harper, Anthony Rendon and Adam LaRoche in the park. That cruel wind died down enough by the 18th inning to provide little resistance to Brandon Belt’s shot.<br />On the walk out, some fans cursed Matt Williams for yanking Jordan Zimmermann in the ninth, and a lot of fans cursed home plate ump Vic Carapazza for his wildly erratic strike zone. My son said his dream was to play for the Nationals and be on the team that broke Washington’s now 90-year string without a World Series victory. He said he’d take a ticket or something to his grandpa’s grave in Arlington Cemetery to show the former longtime Senators fan “we did it.” <br />Now, I guess we fans can take some solace that the team made the playoffs in its eighth season after moving from Montreal, whereas the former Senators took 24 years before making the playoffs after moving to Texas. <br />It seems most teams take a long time to win their first World Series, but how did the Diamondback do it in only their fourth year and the Marlins in only their fifth? Some teams just have more luck than others.<br />One day, the tables will turn. It may take a few decades or it may just take a few years, but they will turn. Some of us still believe.bghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10792591708888997237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-75109680800137352562014-10-04T15:52:06.104-04:002014-10-04T15:52:06.104-04:00Thanks...I think. ;)Thanks...I think. ;)Cathiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07291479913130967235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-34190791044230207302014-10-02T17:42:59.369-04:002014-10-02T17:42:59.369-04:00Very good story and I always enjoy your work - eve...Very good story and I always enjoy your work - even if you are a skirt.733714https://www.blogger.com/profile/01348685782432930816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-16624800130466381302013-11-29T15:49:36.780-05:002013-11-29T15:49:36.780-05:00That's what I say, too. What they've done ...That's what I say, too. What they've done to the city is disgusting. It's not just the baseball stuff, either. They've screwed cities around the area with their other businesses, taking corporate welfare in the form of development tax breaks, etc. Cathiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07291479913130967235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-10633068866772324562013-11-27T20:37:42.267-05:002013-11-27T20:37:42.267-05:00If they build a roof onto Nats Park, I will not go...If they build a roof onto Nats Park, I will not go to a single Nats home game ever again. This isn't a threat, because I know that one woman's boycott won't move the Lerners. I am just disgusted by the Lerners' greed. It makes me sick. Absolutely sick.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03208004502116869486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-37404576545192881932013-07-25T21:27:08.827-04:002013-07-25T21:27:08.827-04:00When I lived in St. Louis in the late 80's I w...When I lived in St. Louis in the late 80's I would have to sit in my car and listen to WLW on the radio with lots of static. Then we got our first computer and I could follow the game on the Prodigy network. It was like a very early version of gameday but 2-3 minutes behind the action. Gameday seemed wonderful, but now with a subscription to MLB.tv, I can watch all the games from Arizona. I can even watch the games on my Ipad sitting in McDonalds. Amazing times.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582990912598134354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-16972585882483190472013-07-23T17:55:45.723-04:002013-07-23T17:55:45.723-04:00I say let the players take anything they want, as ...I say let the players take anything they want, as long as it doesn't infringe on my safety, I don't care.<br /><br />Many of the players have a choice. Take PED's and get to the big leagues or don't and go back to unemployment on the island. I can't blame them a bit.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582990912598134354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-76194038400075721582013-06-18T15:09:42.733-04:002013-06-18T15:09:42.733-04:00Thanks for this. :)Thanks for this. :)Cathiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07291479913130967235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-56529956519663574742013-06-05T20:24:47.120-04:002013-06-05T20:24:47.120-04:00As a former football player in high school I would...As a former football player in high school I would never let my kid play football. Not with what I've learned about head injuries. Not even sure if I'd let my kid do headers in soccer. Sadly, my parents care more about stardom than any long lasting effects from head injuries.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582990912598134354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-61781667525514705092013-06-05T16:38:47.717-04:002013-06-05T16:38:47.717-04:00Every person has a characteristic about them that ...Every person has a characteristic about them that can be classified as mental "illness". Multiple personalities, depression, anxiety, shyness, stage fright, etc. could all be declared as some form of mental "illness". I put "" around illness because that word makes it seem like any person with some issues should be shipped off to some island like people with Leprosy once were. Yes, I absolutely agree we need to do more to help those with mental "illnesses". Yes, I also believe more should be done to help all of society be better people. <br /><br />Maybe a new list of commandments: <br />1. Thou shall not bully someone to commit suicide. <br />2. Thou shall not make ex-pro athletes feel like they have nothing left to contribute to society. <br />3. Thou shall not make people feel like lack of money should mean end of life.<br />4. Thou shall realize there is no such thing as a "normal" person.<br />5.Thou shall not kill - ok that one stays.<br /><br />We do need more support for organizations like NAMI and The Castle in Centerville, Ohio as well as research into what causes mental "illnesses". And maybe eliminate the stigma associated with it. My vote is we find a way to make society better people.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08386549046866272480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-48627060509680825952013-06-01T12:37:03.166-04:002013-06-01T12:37:03.166-04:00I watch less then 10 hours of tv a YEAR. But, I wa...I watch less then 10 hours of tv a YEAR. But, I watch almost all the Reds games on MLB.tv, some YouTube, TED talks and docs on Netflix. I tell people I don't watch tv.<br /><br />It really is a waste of time.<br /><br />*Dowton Abbey is worth it.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582990912598134354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21666786.post-42869408134657062022013-05-30T12:15:45.627-04:002013-05-30T12:15:45.627-04:00I've read two of your posts and they,ve both b...I've read two of your posts and they,ve both been spot on. It just goes to show that some bloggers do aim before shooting. I need to read more. Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582990912598134354noreply@blogger.com