I'm Not Your Typical Homer.sauce1977October 16 2006, 12:12:35 UTC
Until 1994, I pretty much breathed baseball . . . started watching in 1983-1984. I did little league right up through to high school. I wasn't good enough to make the HS team, but up until that point, I spent most summers trying to learn every position, what to do, you name it, I had studied and played the position. Went to a number of games . . . best game I attended was a Dave Stewart no-hitter at the Skydome in 1990.
1994 really killed it for me. Also, most of the teams went to slugger-heavy lineups, and the pitchers, my favorite position . . . ERAs went crazy, so many shitty pitching staffs, not enough quality pitchers . . . really really bothered me. Suddenly, guys like Ozzie Smith and Rickey Henderson . . . Rod Carew . . . didn't mean as much as the super-sluggers. Strikeouts by batters were tolerated because so many sluggers existed on rosters . . . so many guys only batted one way . . . swing for the fence.
Pitching staffs are still filled with crap for quality on too many teams. Guys like Reyes on the Mets . . . good sign that the SB still has a pulse. Maybe this Howard guy on the Phils isn't a juicer. I don't want to see McGwire 5-10 years from now, what with bitch tits and all the side-effects.
Above all . . . Selig the hell out of the league. Commish has got to come from outside of this . . . not a hand-picked lackey from the owners. MLB needs a stronger leader, and Selig's history is a sad joke.
One thing that's better now . . . more stadiums with a classic feel to them like Minute Maid, et cetera . . . growing up, lots of astro-turf space stadiums were out there. Three Rivers, you name it . . . way too many like that. I hate Comerica, though . . . can't stand the circus feel to it, and the design was all wrong . . . would have rather had a copy of Tiger Stadium (which the Rangers somewhat emulated) than this open-air freak show with the merry-go-round and the deep power-alleys.
I could probably learn to love the pitcher's park that it is . . . I do love pitching . . . I just wish that Detroit had prepared for this new stadium and stocked better pitching and some left-handed bats after the 1999 season.
1994 really killed it for me. Also, most of the teams went to slugger-heavy lineups, and the pitchers, my favorite position . . . ERAs went crazy, so many shitty pitching staffs, not enough quality pitchers . . . really really bothered me. Suddenly, guys like Ozzie Smith and Rickey Henderson . . . Rod Carew . . . didn't mean as much as the super-sluggers. Strikeouts by batters were tolerated because so many sluggers existed on rosters . . . so many guys only batted one way . . . swing for the fence.
Pitching staffs are still filled with crap for quality on too many teams. Guys like Reyes on the Mets . . . good sign that the SB still has a pulse. Maybe this Howard guy on the Phils isn't a juicer. I don't want to see McGwire 5-10 years from now, what with bitch tits and all the side-effects.
Above all . . . Selig the hell out of the league. Commish has got to come from outside of this . . . not a hand-picked lackey from the owners. MLB needs a stronger leader, and Selig's history is a sad joke.
One thing that's better now . . . more stadiums with a classic feel to them like Minute Maid, et cetera . . . growing up, lots of astro-turf space stadiums were out there. Three Rivers, you name it . . . way too many like that. I hate Comerica, though . . . can't stand the circus feel to it, and the design was all wrong . . . would have rather had a copy of Tiger Stadium (which the Rangers somewhat emulated) than this open-air freak show with the merry-go-round and the deep power-alleys.
I could probably learn to love the pitcher's park that it is . . . I do love pitching . . . I just wish that Detroit had prepared for this new stadium and stocked better pitching and some left-handed bats after the 1999 season.
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