this thread is for sports . if you know about a good game or race or results or someone going to jail or maybe a trade /signing put it here with a comment.
I'll start with - The best womens fast pitch softball teams in the world are in Oklahoma City this weekend . these are olympic /national teams .
Teams from the USA , Canada , Japan , China , Austrailia and England are there .
It's being shown on ESPN /2 . Watched the USA thump Canada last nite. Got to see Cat pitch a couple of innings too
note- as Cher is to CP , Cat is to Dave . ( 'cept that Cher is a trampy sl## and Cat is a sweetpea )
The only thing I know is local, and that is that the Milwaukee Brewers closer Derrick Turnbow blew his third save in a row and seventh of the season last night to lose a game for us in Arizona.
This nine game trip is critical for us. On our small budget we're trying to decide if we can keep Carlos Lee, and it's kind of going to be determined on if we think we can compete this year.
A 3-6 trip, we fall out of it, Lee is gone and we're looking at a greatly reduced talent level on our club next year.
I HATE BASEBALL IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM. They have destroyed the sport I once loved with high payrolls and an uneven economic system.
Baseball is blind . They should have moved the Brewers years ago to a bigger city market. Ya , maybe fifty years ago Mil. was a big town but with westward exspansion it shouldn't have taken Einstein to see this coming.
Also- Barry Bonds' team of lawyers are passing the hat to get some bail money together.
There's not enough big citys to support 30 teams Dave. They're already learning that.
They need revenue sharing and more importantly a salary cap. Let the New Yorks make $300 million more a year in profit, good for them, but limit what they can spend on the field. Force them to BUILD a winner instead of BUYING one.
Just look at the success the Packers have had in the NFL's SMALLEST market! The difference is the salary cap and the revenue sharing.
It's all the players unions fault. Somehow they got it in their head that they have a God given right to a certain amount of the owners take. Try that at your job once. Go tell your boss that you deman the employees get 70% of the revenue and see how long you have a job.
We can draw just as many fans here as they do anywhere else if we have a winner. Hell, with the so-so teams the last three years we've still drawn 2 million plus. Give us a winner and we'll hit 3 million plus.
To be honest though, if they let Carlos Lee go I'm done once and for all. If we're forever gonna be a third rate team then by God we should have let them leave town. I'm sick and tired of excuses. They've done a great job on a limited budget, but if they're not gonna go out on a limb and do what they can to finish the job then screw them!
Uh oh. Could it be true that you would just give up and abandoned the Brewers forever JR? Is that possible?
May I interest you in some other loveable losers? They are called the Phillies. I am a fan when they are and good and when they suck. Sometimes they make it hard to support them. Our manager sucks. He uses pitchers that suck too.
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I just can't do it anymore Fuzzy. My time is too valuable and my money is even more valuable to be wasting it on a team that's not serious about winning. I really thought with the new owner that a situation like Carlos Lee would be a no-brainer. Take the chance, lock him up, be a major league ball club.
Everyone likes to say loyalty loyalty loyalty. They're the home team, you gotta follow them. Bullcrap. They turned this into a dollar and cents business about 20 years ago and they rely on our unending loyalty to a home team.
We don't follow players anymore we follow uniforms, and I'm sick of it.
From age 7 to about 27 I loved baseball more than anything. I had dozens of replica jerseys, tens of thousands of baseball cards, subscribed to every publication, went to as many games as I could.
I cried when Gorman Thomas got traded and I cried when he struck out to end our shot at the World Series Championship. (YES, THERE IS CRYING IN BASEBALL).
Even as the Wendy Selig Prieb years went on, and as I could feel my distaste for the game grow I still watched, I still went to games, I still read everything I could about them.
This was it. A new ballpark and a new owner. That was our one last hope at competing on a major league level.
If this is their best financial effort then I'm D. O. N. E.
I'll follow them until the players union manages to ruin that sport too.
Truth is I used to waste way too much time watching sports anyway. Maybe I'll be more productive now that I can cut out about 100 baseball games a summer.
There's still hope Attanasio will get the Carlos Lee deal done too. I'm hoping he's just playing it cool in the press so that Lee's agent doesn't think we're desperate to keep him.
I'm jumping the gun here a little, but the press reports in town have not sounded very positive.
Carlos Lee is probably the best player I've seen in a Brewer uniform since the late 80's. If we're not serious about keeping this guy I don't know why the hell we keep resigning Jenkins.
Don't be silly. There can never be enough sports on at any given time. I thought you guys have a nice, young team. Even I know keeping Lee is important - and it isn't my team! If Weeks learns how to field better, it strengthens the defense. You have a couple of good pitchers. If you don't want them, can we have them. We don't need a first baseman. Maybe a good third baseman.
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That's basically what we've been for the last 10 years, everyone elses farm team.
I just long for the days when a player was on your team until you released him or traded him.
The PLAYERS had loyalty to the city back then. Yount turned down much better money to stay here when he had the chance. Gorman Thomas got drunk and was crying on a barstool the night he got traded. I still remember seeing him on the evening news. They went to the bar he and another player owned and he was blotto, and saying how much he loved the city and couldn't believe he got traded.
Maybe you should try drag racing instead, JR. High speeds, fast cars, usually a few women with very little clothing, and great for people with limited attention spans.
Racers are currently qualifying for the Mopar Mile High Nationals in Colorado. The race is tomorrow. I usually follow Pro Stock Motorcycle, Funny Car, and Top Fuel. Chip Ellis is currently the top qualifer. He ran the quarter mile in 7.33 seconds at 180 mph. Yes, 180 mph on a freakin bike! These guys are nuts! (Not as nuts as the nitro bike guys, they go close to 300 mph, but they are for show only, no real races.) My favorite in Pro Bike right now is Antron Brown, who's currently qualified 6th at 7.43 seconds and 180 mph. I used to like Angelle Sampey, who's qualified 3rd at 7.42 seconds, but she whines and cries when she doesn't win, and I just can't support her any more. You guys might like her though:
I don't like Gary Densham, he's another that thinks he should win all the time, but he's currently the top qualifier in Funny Car at 4.83 seconds and 292 mph. John Force is the crowd favorite, and he is a pretty cool guy. He's qualified 10th at 5.04. His son in law, Robert Hight, is qualified 3rd at 4.91, and 301 mph.
But my favorite is Top Fuel. Doug Kalitta, yet another one that I think needs his ego deflated, is of course the top qualifier at 4.63 seconds and 319 mph. My favorite by far, out of all classes even, is Brandon Bernstein. His dad, Kenny Bernstein, was my favorite before he retired. Brandon's not as good as Kenny, but he still totally rocks! He's qualified 3rd at 4.64 and 324 mph. (The Bernsteins always have high speeds, Kenny was first to break 300.)
