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SanDiegoSteve Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:18am

You are still the only person I have heard complain about it. Looks like it's you against the world. The 90+ bags of Diamond Dry did the trick just fine and the game was thoroughly enjoyable.

jimpiano Sat Oct 20, 2007 01:28am

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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
You are still the only person I have heard complain about it. Looks like it's you against the world. The 90+ bags of Diamond Dry did the trick just fine and the game was thoroughly enjoyable.

Sure , for you, who invested nothing.
But not for MLB who gained nothing.

jicecone Sat Oct 20, 2007 07:57am

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Originally Posted by jimpiano
Sure , for you, who invested nothing.
But not for MLB who gained nothing.

Five days later and your still carrying on about this,

GET A LIFE

jimpiano Sat Oct 20, 2007 08:58am

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Originally Posted by jicecone
Five days later and your still carrying on about this,

GET A LIFE


LOL

SAump Sat Oct 20, 2007 03:35pm

The Fat GUY Has Sung
 
The point of playing that baseball game in the rain is to demonstrate that light rain wasn't enough of a reason to call or delay this baseball game. The umpires were not concerned over bad visibility or other safety precautions. The managers were not complaining about the rain rate or field conditions. Most of the fans who watched prefer starting the game on time over delaying the game. The point of playing a baseball game in the rain is to satisfy the millions of baseball fans who may have bothered to watch the game being played in the rain. The players managed to play a very good ballgame in the rain. I would say the right decision was made to play the game in the rain.

Interested Ump Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:32am

Right on most points!

Arnold A. Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:17am

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Originally Posted by Interested Ump
Right on most points!

Who is "right", and on what "points" ?

SanDiegoSteve Sun Oct 21, 2007 06:47pm

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Originally Posted by Arnold A.
Who is "right", and on what "points" ?

SAUmp and on all the points he just made. IU always answers the last poster first.

UMP25 Tue Oct 23, 2007 08:38am

In spite of some like J.R.'s head being in the sand, Baseball's popularity seems to be growing.

fitump56 Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:21am

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Originally Posted by Arnold A.
Who is "right", and on what "points" ?

Far question, Arnold.

Interested Ump Tue Oct 30, 2007 01:44am

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Originally Posted by gordon30307
Easy explanation of why college football and the NFL have the highest ratings.

GAMBLING.

Super Bowl Sunday generates the most action of any sporting event.

It's also why Soccer will never make it. Over/Under 3.

I don't believe that success is that significantly hinged to gambling, I sure hope not. I coached soccer, to this day the game eludes my understanding. My teams were terrible, they had an awful coach who got the leftovers, we were doomed, doomed, I say. :p

Boring boob tube doesn't assist rankings either, Tim..

fitump56 Wed Oct 31, 2007 03:17pm

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Originally Posted by Homerwary
I agree with SD Steve (again... how irritating!), Publius' post goes to the salient points. Americans' attention spans, averaging the duration of a lit match, are not up to the task of appreciating baseball's subtleties.

Deeja vu :D , I came out of a meeting where a 35yo software professional making $10,000 a month for 120 hours :eek: argued for ten minutes that he had "read" 11 pages of text. Each page was only half full at best. He could not repeat a single line.

Read = viewed = glimpsed = flashed like a MTV video in three second sequences = software pros meaning of the word "read". We thought he was being an asshat but he really believed he "read" the pages.. Perfect for the matchlike attetntion you rightfuly claim.


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