Who's your favorite baseball player currently? Who's your favorite baseball player of all-time?
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What's depressing to me is how much incentive there is to be the worst in baseball to get high draft picks, especially in smaller markets. Kudos to the Cubs and Astros making it work. However, my team went from champs to the second-to-third worst team in baseball a few years later. Now, they're mired in another string of 90-100 loss seasons, while they try to re-stock their farm system. Most of the AL has teams tanking just so they can try to copy what the Astros and Cubs did. The same can be said in the NFL and NBA, however the amount of time it takes to rebuild is so much longer in baseball.
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dankind said:I'm fairly close to giving up on it altogether. The changes they've made to the game to appease the short attention spans of today's "fans" has killed the spirit of the game. There was a purity about it that just isn't there anymore for me. I'll likely not renew my 10-game plan next season. I still love Fenway Park and the Red Sox, but the game being played on the field these days is soulless.
The whole world will be different soon... - EV
RED ROCKS 6-19-95
AUGUSTA 9-26-96
MANSFIELD 9-15-98
BOSTON 9-29-04
BOSTON 5-25-06
MANSFIELD 6-30-08
EV SOLO BOSTON 8-01-08
BOSTON 5-17-10
EV SOLO BOSTON 6-16-11
PJ20 9-3-11
PJ20 9-4-11
WRIGLEY 7-19-13
WORCESTER 10-15-13
WORCESTER 10-16-13
HARTFORD 10-25-130 -
Current: Ronald Acuña
Growing up: Tom Glavine
Yes, I'm a Braves homer.0 -
markymark550 said:Current: Ronald Acuña
Growing up: Tom Glavine
Yes, I'm a Braves homer.
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BumgarnerBondsIf I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14Philly I & II, 16Denver 22
Missoula 240 -
I still love the game of baseball at its core, but I admit I'm a little old & grumpy when it comes to the exit velo, launch angle, home run or sit the fuck down that the game is quickly becoming. It's always going to be my favorite sport, no matter what, and I'm sure we'll eventually cycle back to hitting, slugging (and by that I mean hitting doubles & triples, not just homers), advancing runners, etc. History repeats and I can't help but think what we're going through now is likely how many people felt 100 years ago. But the bottom line is, baseball is and always will be the best.Growing up, Ryne Sandberg was my favorite player. He and Harry Caray are the two main reasons I'm a Cubs fan. Grace, Dawson, & Sosa are up there as far as Cubs fandom goes. Kirby Puckett was my favorite non-Cub, and I was also a big fan of the hometown boy John Kruk.Favorite current player is Anthony Rizzo. Non-Cub would be Buster Posey.Star Lake 00 / Pittsburgh 03 / State College 03 / Bristow 03 / Cleveland 06 / Camden II 06 / DC 08 / Pittsburgh 13 / Baltimore 13 / Charlottesville 13 / Cincinnati 14 / St. Paul 14 / Hampton 16 / Wrigley I 16 / Wrigley II 16 / Baltimore 20 / Camden 22 / Baltimore 24 / Raleigh I 25 / Raleigh II 25 / Pittsburgh I 250
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Current: Rhys Hoskins.Runner-up: Mike Trout (if he didn't play on the west coast maybe would be my favorite). I'm on the east coast so I rarely get to see him play.All-time: Mike SchmidtRunners-up: Cal Ripken Jr., Ken Griffey Jr., and when he first came out until the steroid scandal I was a huge Roger Clemens fan8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PATres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA0 -
HesCalledDyer said:I still love the game of baseball at its core, but I admit I'm a little old & grumpy when it comes to the exit velo, launch angle, home run or sit the fuck down that the game is quickly becoming. It's always going to be my favorite sport, no matter what, and I'm sure we'll eventually cycle back to hitting, slugging (and by that I mean hitting doubles & triples, not just homers), advancing runners, etc. History repeats and I can't help but think what we're going through now is likely how many people felt 100 years ago. But the bottom line is, baseball is and always will be the best.Growing up, Ryne Sandberg was my favorite player. He and Harry Caray are the two main reasons I'm a Cubs fan. Grace, Dawson, & Sosa are up there as far as Cubs fandom goes. Kirby Puckett was my favorite non-Cub, and I was also a big fan of the hometown boy John Kruk.Favorite current player is Anthony Rizzo. Non-Cub would be Buster Posey.
worst. ever.If I had known then what I know now...
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14Philly I & II, 16Denver 22
Missoula 240 -
I loved Ron Santo.Caray? Not so much.The love he receives is the love that is saved0
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Mattingly first. Jeter favorite ever. CC at the moment0
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Shawon Dunston is my favorite of all time, don't really have a current favorite, so i suppose I'll leave now.
The worst of times..they don't phase me,
even if I look and act really crazy.0 -
Malroth said:Shawon Dunston is my favorite of all time, don't really have a current favorite, so i suppose I'll leave now.I wish I was a sacrifice, but somehow still lived on.0
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Baseball has always been, and still is, the best0
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Maddux - Ever
Grace - favorite Cub after Maddux
Bryant - current"A smart monkey doesn't monkey around with another monkey's monkey" - Darwin's Theory0 -
Mike Hargrove... the human rain delay. I mimicked his approach when I was very early baseball.
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mrussel1 said:Mike Hargrove... the human rain delay. I mimicked his approach when I was very early baseball.
https://youtu.be/8tGm_JajqLo
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Wobbie said:HesCalledDyer said:I still love the game of baseball at its core, but I admit I'm a little old & grumpy when it comes to the exit velo, launch angle, home run or sit the fuck down that the game is quickly becoming. It's always going to be my favorite sport, no matter what, and I'm sure we'll eventually cycle back to hitting, slugging (and by that I mean hitting doubles & triples, not just homers), advancing runners, etc. History repeats and I can't help but think what we're going through now is likely how many people felt 100 years ago. But the bottom line is, baseball is and always will be the best.Growing up, Ryne Sandberg was my favorite player. He and Harry Caray are the two main reasons I'm a Cubs fan. Grace, Dawson, & Sosa are up there as far as Cubs fandom goes. Kirby Puckett was my favorite non-Cub, and I was also a big fan of the hometown boy John Kruk.Favorite current player is Anthony Rizzo. Non-Cub would be Buster Posey.
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cutz said:mrussel1 said:Mike Hargrove... the human rain delay. I mimicked his approach when I was very early baseball.
https://youtu.be/8tGm_JajqLo
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I was always a little disappointed that he was a completely normal manager.0
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