 I was a jock. Baseball, football & ice hockey, (Hoops suck) but there's something special about baseball. Maybe it's the season. Winter is over. "The Boys of Summer." No more "Wait 'til next year" THIS is our year! 162 games to show 'em. Maybe it's just remembering my dad to take the time to toss a ball with me in the backyard. Lots of luck to your favorite team, unless they're playing my MN Twins, ya bum ya. LOL.
By Ernest Lawrence Thayer 1863–1940 Ernest Lawrence Thayer
A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888
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BASEBALL, FOOTBALL,AND HOW WE HAVE CHANGED George Carlin
Baseball is a 19th century pastoral game.
Football is a 20th century new world order paramilitary power struggle.
Baseball is played in a park...the baseball park.
Football is played in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.
The baseball field is...a diamond.
The football field is a gridiron.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying.
In football, you wear a helmet.
In baseball, you wear a cap!
Football is concerned with downs. What down is it? Oh, it's the last down.
Baseball is concerned with ups. Who's up? Are you up? He's up! I'm up!!
In football, you get a penalty.
In baseball, you make an error...oops!
In football, the specialist comes on to kick something.
In baseball, the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.
Football has tackling, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting, sacking, and unnecessary roughness.
Baseball has . . . the sacrifice.
Football is played in any kind of weather--rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog, major catastrophe, can't see, don't know if there's a game going on, mud on the field, can't read the uniforms, can't read the yard markers--doesn't matter, the struggle will continue.
In baseball, if it rains, we don't go out to play. I can't go out, it's raining out!!
Baseball has the s e v e n t h i n n i n g s t r e t c h .
Football has the twominutewarning.
And, of course, the objectives of the games are also completely different.
In football, the object is for the quarterback, sometimes called the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack which may consist of power plays designed to punch holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.
In baseball, the object is to get home . . . safe.
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Comments: 36
Last night a friend of mine was talking about a player and I had no clue to whom he was referring. He said it was the Reds' "powerhouse first baseman." I said, "Oh, Danny Driessan."
They were one helluva team!
I'm glad my family moved back to CA before Harry Caray came to Chicago. :)
Do you remember Milt Famey, the baseball pitcher. He was so good that to keep him the manager and the coach had to agree to put a small beer box in the dugout. That way, Milt could have a beer on a hot day.
One day it was the bottom of the 9th, the teams were tied, and Milt came out to pitch. He struck the first one out, but then he walked the second, third, and fourth player. The coach came out to talk to Milt, and he assured the coach that he was okay. He quickly walked the fifth played. That forced the the second (and winning) player in -- ending the game.
As the winning team walked by the dugout, one of the players looked in at the beer bottles on the ground, and said, "There is the beer that Milt Famey walk us."
The only time I got excited about baseball was when the Pirates won the World Series in 1960 and we got a day off from school to celebrate.