Hot Stove Thread

aka eraser said:

Me, I'm still mourning the shockingly early exit of Steinbrenner's overpaid prima donnas.

Not.

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You're lucky you put that smilie in there. I was going to be forced to hunt you down and smack you in the face with a trout if you were serious about mourning the Yankee's downfall.

Go Tigers!!

As a Ranger fan, I love watching the evil empire go down in flames. Which ex-Ranger to root for: A-Rod or Pudge Rodriguez? Hah! No contest. (Notice I'm pretending not to notice Kenny Rogers glaring at me from the Tiger corner!)

I wouldn't mind a Mets/Tigers WS.

Where the rich go to get richer

How about the ex-everybody roster, that is almost the entire lineup. Chaps my ***
Go Cards
Sam

Man, it sucks not having baseball to watch. At least now we get some of the playoff games... a day or two later. They just remind me how great baseball is. (There's a team I could play for in my neighbourhood, but I didn't get it together in time. Idjit.)

Beloved ... Dodgers ... swept ...

Hockey. No question. American football a close second. Curling third.

Hey, are the Mets still in? I've been busy coming to terms with the outcome of Sunday's Nascar race (as per comments on "Nascar Thread").

No Subway series this year, eh?

I'm with jst's first two choices, in that order, only curling would rank far more distantly, somewhere behind netting butterflies as a spectator sport.

Frank said:

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GO YANKEES! (er-in 2007... with Torre... please?)

The curling thing -- that was a joke. I was engrossed during the Olympics, however, especially the American women's team from Minnesota. Go us!

jst5150 said:

The curling thing -- that was a joke.

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Of course I knew it was a joke, as was my butterfly reference. I have to remember to use more of these in my comments.

Torre is staying. . . good thing too. There is a mutual respect between the classy folks of the Sox and Yanks, and Torre is one of those characters that the Red Sox Nation indeed does respect.

A-Rod on the other hand. . ummm. . . not so much.


Daisuke Matsuzaka, hot Japanese import coming to America for the 2007 season. Hope the Sox land him. With the free agent pool so thin in pitchers this year, this could be the make or break signing for the would-be contenders next year.

Football is number one followed by NASCAR for me. Then comes baseball. Then hockey. And during the Olympics? I'll watch anything during the Olympics. My life screeches to a halt.

I can't avoid NASCAR where I live. . . I just try to hide the remote to the best of my abilities on Sunday so as to keep football on. . . or baseball playoffs.

Auto racing is sooo much better in person. It's something that you have to experience to really "get." The best part is the start of the race. When the green flag falls and all 43 cars drop the hammer at the same time....wow. You can feel the sound. I've got tickets for the November race at TMS. It's like any sport though. The more you understand the players and the strategies involved the more fun it is.

And I do love the Olympics. There's nothing better. I especially love the obscure sports with atheletes who toil in obscurity for one shot at glory. It's pure sport.

Soccer Mom said:

I especially love the obscure sports with atheletes who toil in obscurity for one shot at glory. It's pure sport.

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Phew. For a second there, I thought you were going to bring up curling.

WerenCole said:

Torre is staying. . . good thing too. There is a mutual respect between the classy folks of the Sox and Yanks, and Torre is one of those characters that the Red Sox Nation indeed does respect.

A-Rod on the other hand. . ummm. . . not so much.

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Mate, what's the local Red Sox Nation view on Johnny Damon? Me, I figure a guy's got a right to make a deal for himself, and I haven't heard him bag his old team. On the other hand, I don't mind seeing that it hasn't gotten him back to the WS this year.

Top of the 6th, Tigers 5, Oakland zip. Life's good. Except I do miss curling.

The tigers are looking good. Taking a game from Zito is big. Kenny Rogers has always owned Oakland.