Sports Talk!! Part 2 - Picthers and Catchers Next Week!

Coming from here:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1068580/

Nice to realize, on an awful winter day like today, that baseball camps open in a week!

Just realized I should have made this the Olympics version. Oops!

It sounds like Lindsey Vonn has a very bad muscle contusion in one of her shins that may keep her from participating in the Olympics! I'm telling you, if I was a professional athlete I would never agree to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated. It's a curse, I tell you!!!

Wow - yes it seems to be!

Just noticed I misspelled 'pitchers'. Duh!

Do you have Wha's disease?

Am excited about the Olympics starting---hope LV can ski---she's been doing great lately.

Or you could have made it a Daytona 500 thread.

Is that a sport?? ^_^

Jen!

Vonn is a tough girl, she will ski - she looked pretty good in the swimsuit issue - evidently some euro coach claimed she was faster because she carried "extra weight" - he will be eating his words:)

Those euros are just jealous!

Victor, Yes I'm home. Took some time off. Didn't know kids would be home..

Uconn men looking sad so far.
Twenty minutes until the women dismantle somebody.

Well, the men had another valient loss.Tough call with 32 seconds left and a tied score.
Women up by 30.

What???


Go MARK MARTIN!!!!

Yes---that call was very questionable---Boeheim had a smirk on his face! I fell asleep watching the girls---that's because I was confident they'd win!

Yeah, the boys are too hurtin'
And the girls are too good

it is truck day tomorrow!!

What does that mean??

Truck Day might be mostly a Red Sox thing . . . but that's the day when the organization packs up all the equipment and starts the trip down to Florida. It's the first signal that Spring Training is on its glorious way.

Mets use mules.

I won't mention what the Yankees use.

Concorde.

Good Grief

Victor,
What are they going to do about pitching??

Bill, I think the Sox have improved. Yanks may have less. Your thoughts?

Mets? Nothing! The GM needs to go - asap.

Yep equipment truck goes today. Spring is on the way!

Dave time will tell - the loss of Matsui and Damon could be huge.
I think the sox have the best pitching (starting & relieving) in baseball, and if Dice-K comes back like the reports we hear about predict it will be even better. Bat's could be a problem, lots of questions with Ortiz, Beltre, Cameron, Ellsbury, Scutaro so we shall see.

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Thanks, Victor, for voicing what I've been stewing about! We could probably pitch better than what the Mets have for pitchers.

I think the Yankee pitching will be better than last year but their offense will suffer for the loss of Damon & Matsui. If the Sox pitch as they should, you have the best starters in baseball. I think theYanks have the better bullpen but that seems to be the most volatile part of any team. We lost a big part of our edge on hitting.
Whenever did theYankees, or any team for that matter, have outfield hitting be such an afterthought? It worked last year with maybe their worst outfield in my lifetime. This year is a downgrade from last. Thank God for the infield.

i think we have a similar outfield dave - unless less drew does not get injured - naaa that will never happen.

yanks have a better closer - the rest of the staff out there does not match the sox in my opinion.

How terrible about the guy dying at the Olympics!

I just read about that. It's tragic. How sad to lose your life over a sport, and so young. Seems there were complaints about the safety of this track before this death.

Off to watch the opening ceremonies. Everyone else?

Wow, these poor people dancing as the athletes come in are really peetering out!

And the guys all in white remind me of the eggmen in Magical Mystery Tour!

Gave up on it, clever but enough is enough. Like the parade of the athletes coming early.

I loved it. I don't usually watch the opening, but this time I'm glad I did. Evidently this was a shoestring budget for the opening ceremony. Only 40 million compared to Beijing's 400 million. KD Lang performing Leonard Cohen's Halalluah was exceptional. That gal can sing!!

I went to bedbefore the end of the ceremony. I think the designer was very wise not to compete with china & get it all down to managable proportions.

I just watch the sports---the rest to me is boring, & I fell asleep---never used to fall asleep on the sofa---getting old!

Yes, I got bored quickly and stopped. How awful to watch that accident. How can they leave exposed beams like that? They are making the wall higher now. Of course someone has to die first.

Got a little dragged out in places but on the whole I liked the effects. Very imaginative use of projections and they should always have the athletes come in at the start I think. Liked the kid on the wire flying over and making the prairie appear. Also liked the native peoples emphasis.