Baseball withdrawals

The fact Zeke didn't start this thread is the upset of the year.

 

I really don't care for baseball, though I prefer it over football. I guess. Maybe. I do like covering baseball, but there's no way you'll find me watching a baseball game unless I have to. Too long, too boring.

 

Don't miss it - although the MLB Network is great with the old games - but I do miss the NBA when it ends. I won't start a thread in June, though, as my pain would be met with mockery, or, more likely and worse, apathy.

 

I just think it's funny that Shoeless Joe started a thread about baseball withdrawals.

 

Back when I was a kid and a teen, I used to get baseball withdrawals that would only be calmed by watching baseball movies during the winter.

Now, with classic games being televised, I don't feel the withdrawals as much. I still always feel a little sad around the end of September and October, though. I chalk it up to reading 'Boys of Summer' and remembering that Roger Kahn's father died right after the World Series, and how it seems the years go by really fast now.

 

Some Kelloggs cereals are giving away DVDs. I just got Eight Men Out a couple weeks ago and before that Hoosiers. Still have both on VHS, but figured it was a pretty good deal - buy a few boxes of frosted mini wheats and get a DVD. i think most boxes have 2 coins on them and you need 5 for a DVD. they also have Rocky II and Sandlot and 4 or 5 romantic comedies.

 

Right?

Someone told me the Caribbean Series is going to be on MLB Network and start soon.

Anyone?

 

Who's the favorite?

 

This is the same withdrawal I have after the end of the Stanley Cup Final.

And when I turn on a baseball game I think, "Thank God I'm rid of Pierre McGuire" and then I get Tim McCarver and Joe Morgan

At least hockey games are over in 2 1/2 hours.

 

Yes, but the next season starts three weeks later.

 

Jim Balsillie is going to try and move them to Winnipeg?

 

That would be a hundred different levels of awesome wrapped up in one glorious shit show.