[jingram058]

Originally Posted by gonefishin

Tell the truth Leon - you watched the game! I try to be positive so please don't be offended - but if your vintage collection of baseball cards is only thing that means something to you in baseball - I feel very sorry for you.

Please tell the forum what you do like about baseball - post war until now.

I stand with Leon on this. I know things change; I'm not totally senile. Yet. But the idiotic changes to baseball are totally STUPID to me. That and the idiotic amount of money involved in the business of baseball today. I believe the only way you would enjoy baseball today is if you had never seen the game the way it was presented BEFORE the colossal, incomprehensible amount of money made the changes of recent necessary. But hey, that's just the way I see it. Your opinion may differ.

EDIT - My vintage cards and memorabilia are a connection to my youth, and to a time when there were no constantly jabbering broadcasters on TV, and the commercials, if there were any, were simple, beer or something like that, and they were done from the press box by the broadcaster himself. There wasn't 5 minutes between each half inning, with the 3rd out, the hitting team immediately took the field. There were no designated hitters; the pitcher hit, which meant the manager had to manage. There were no 4 finger intentional walks. There were no ghost runners; no man on 2nd to start extra innings. The umpire had the last word, right or wrong. It was part of the game. No robot umpires. None of the stadiums had to be financed out of taxation. None of the stadiums had to have a corporate name. None of that stuff had to be, because no one made a trillion dollars. And if the owner did, so what? If he put the money back into the team and made the team a perennial winner, and your owner didn't, all you could do was cry.