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tommyrusty7tommyrusty7 Posts: 2,022 ✭✭✭✭
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At least we will be able to watch some minor league games while the rich and famous overpaid players argue with the rich owners over their control of the game.

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  • LandrysFedoraLandrysFedora Posts: 2,145 ✭✭✭✭✭

    RIP MLB

  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,101 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @tommyrusty7 said:
    At least we will be able to watch some minor league games while the rich and famous overpaid players argue with the rich owners over their control of the game.

    The REAL baseball.

    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 8,681 ✭✭✭✭✭

    May 13th - Home opener for the Lake Erie Crushers..........8 minutes down the road from me - $6 General admission!

    "When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"

  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,101 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Love the cheap seats, family atmosphere, affordable food, free parking and being able to hear the players, coaches and umpires.

    My favorite memory was a couple years ago we did a golf trip to Burlington Iowa and also went to the Burlington Bees Class A game. About have way through the game I bought a bag of peanuts. A couple seats away was a couple with a young son (about 5 or 6 YO) and he was amazed watching me eat the peanuts. About a half inning later the Dad comes back with a bag a peanuts and shares with his son.

    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,839 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Agree with Alfonz24!
    Love the cheap seats, family atmosphere, affordable food, free parking and being able to hear the players, coaches and umpires.

    Who couldn't enjoy the Savannah Bananas or the Wichita Wingnuts?? My home town of Lowell, Mass had the Lowell Spinners, a single A Red Sox affiliate. I think they folded their tent a year or two ago. Of course there's always the Toledo Mudhens from MASH fame as Klinger's favorite team.

    If I may...a Fenway Park story...
    So, I'm at a Yankees/Red Sox game at the Fens with a few buddies. We're sitting about 20 rows up just abeam the Pesky Pole, which is the foul pole in right field. A group of guys are sitting in front of us and a couple of dads behind me with their two young boys.

    Up comes Hensley Muelens, a RHB, who fouls a ball and its coming like a rocket right towards us. We all reach for the ball, it falls to my right and gets scooted behind our seats to the "dad group". One of the boys tries to get the ball with his glove and manages to clumsily boot it to his right and out of reach. It rolls towards two teenage looking guys sitting alone and one of them scoops the ball. The kid is now in major boo hoo city and is trying to be comforted by his dad. My group and the group in front holler to the guy to give the kid the ball. Well, a couple of innings pass and no ball goes to the kid despite comments now escalating to physical harm to the ball owner. They wisely depart and are not seen again.

    Up comes Don Mattingly, a LHB who astonishingly fouls a ball directly at us...deja vu!! The guy in front of me does a one-hand snag and catches the ball! He immediately reaches back and hands it to the kid who lost the first ball! Kid lights up like Christmas, the dad's thank the guy and his beer is free for the rest of the game...about 5 innings worth. We tell the kid the other ball wasn't a real star ball, you got a Don Mattingly ball.

    Beautiful moment and wonderful memory.

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