Baseball Fever... CATCH IT!

Jose Reyes of the Blue Jays suffered an awful-looking injury and may be gone for months if not the whole season. He's a great player.

^Walk it off, man. Walk it off.

I gotta tell ya, the rookie Evan Gattis has Braves fans excited this year – and the Bravos still be booming.

So then, the other day I had a wave of nostalgia wash over me as I remembered the first Little-League Louisville Slugger I ever owned was embossed with this fellow’s siggy:

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And I thought San Fran’s Hunter Pence was intense last year.

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It took a real man to guard the plate when Ty Cobb was bent on stealing home.

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Hats off to one of the greats:

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Are women allowed in baseball teams or do they have women-only separate league as in other sports?

Women do not play on MLB teams







...because "There's no crying in baseball!!"

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Are women allowed in baseball teams or do they have women-only separate league as in other sports?

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I'm sure there is no prohibition against women playing professional baseball in the U.S. major leagues—if only because it has never been an issue; As yet there have been no viable female prospects.

I think that before this so-called issue becomes an appropriate issue there must be women that qualify and are rejected.

As far as I know there's no rule barring women from professional baseball, but so far it's still an exclusive man-zone.

One of the things that appeals to a lot of people about baseball is that professional baseball players seem like regular guys. They're not freakishly big like professional football players (NFL-style football, not soccer). So anybody can play baseball. I mean, we played it as kids. It's a kid's game. Am I right?

Well, Major League Baseball players aren't regular guys. They just give off that illusion. Last season I got to go to a Giants game in San Francisco. In fact I posted a cell-phone picture from the stands on this thread (2 pages back). In that ball park there's a free viewing area at field level behind right fielder. You can see it on the photo I posted. You just walk along behind the stadium, by the San Francisco Bay, and there's a standing-room-only area where you can watch the game and the only thing between you and the players is a chain-link fence. So I watched the first couple of innings from there, waiting for the scalpers to drop their prices. At one point the right fielder (Pence) was playing deep, which put him pretty close to us, and I remember thinking - man, that's a big dude. Then the ball came his way and he took off after it and I remember thinking - man, that dude's fast.

At any rate, I'm not saying women aren't capable of making it in the Majors. I'm just saying it hasn't happened yet. (At least I don't think it has.)

That said, there's a pretty cool story about minor-league pitching phenom, Alta Weiss. She played on a men's semi-pro team around about the same time Ty Cobb was playing for Detroit. Ken Burns covered her story in his PBS series - Baseball.

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It's really tough to steal second in a dress.

Giants are SLAYING the Royals tonight.

Doh, I know. I'm pulling for KC, they've been bad for a long time.

I don't really have a horse in this race, but I found myself pulling for the Giants last night. I've been to a few of their games in San Fran so I've become familiar with the team a little bit. I guess I've never followed the Royals so I don't really know their personalities all that well.

Pence was freakin' intense last night. Oh, okay, he's always intense. I think he's the new "Johnny Hustle." Also game three was brilliant for "small-ball" fans.

Whoops!
Sorry Pete. I meant "Charlie Hustle."

Ah well, Johnny Reb, Billy Yank, Charlie Hustle, Intense Pence, they're all hustling MoFos.

"Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting."

-Yogi Berra

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So long, Yog'

*sigh* my Tigers...

Well, in my new environ's I'm finding it difficult to root for the Seahawks, but the Mariners...now there's a team that sucks so bad that I think I can really get behind them.