Things I Won't Miss About Spring Training

[Fman99]

Here, I'll start.

1. Games that are not in HD, or at least not replayed in the evenings in HD.

[metirish]

2. Kevin Burkhardt's terrible pbp .

[G-Fafif]

3. The next-afternoon rerunning of meaningless Spring Training games while perfectly good new meaningless Spring Training games are taking place.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

4) Teams wearing their batting practice jerseys and those awful caps during games. (But the Mets get credit for wearing their real uniforms.)

[Benjamin Grimm]

I just realized, now that spring training is almost over, I've been paying very little attention. And I still don't feel any tingle of anticipation about the season getting started.

Am I losing interest? I don't think so, but I guess I'll find out over the next few months.

[Guest Edgy DC]

5) "Everybody's now in camp except Barney Del Gato and Pedro Amarillo who are both dealing with visa problems."

Maybe this belongs in the another thread, but shouldn't the team (or the league!) have an office working through the offseason to make certain the players' visas are in place? I mean, 85% of the foreign players are coming from two countries, and they're all, I assume, getting the same kind of visa, so a lot of the filing is going to be all the same.

[MFS62]

The different way the ball sounds coming off the bat when you hear it on radio or tv.
This has nothing to do with smaller parks; the mic being closer to the action.
The ball just has a different sound, like an exasperated sigh, waiting for the real games to start.

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

="metsguyinmichigan":35y9p2pg]4) Teams wearing their batting practice jerseys and those awful caps during games. (But the Mets get credit for wearing their real uniforms.)[/quote:35y9p2pg] Especially the ones with the different coloring on the armpit panels-- they look like digital pitstains.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 26 2009 09:02 AM

="metsguyinmichigan":1f4tptwo]4) Teams wearing their batting practice jerseys and those awful caps during games. (But the Mets get credit for wearing their real uniforms.)[/quote:1f4tptwo] Do you think it gets any better during the regular season? It seems to me that half of the regulation uniforms out there look like BP jerseys, beginning with the Mets hideous black tops. metirish Mar 26 2009 09:21 AM Whoever in the booth telling us that it gets "cold" down here during the night...having a right old laugh they are. G-Fafif Mar 26 2009 09:30 AM I miss Al Lang. It was always sunny in St. Pete, or at least the televised version (I once went to a game that was rained out there). It always seems overcast and windy in St. Lucie, even though that's a meteorological unlikelihood. The games feel like a commodity now, stick 'em on as background noise. The games from St. Pete on Channel 9 always felt like a treat, like you really were opening a crate of oranges from Florida. They always talked about the high sky in Florida. You really got that sense at/from Al Lang. The Mets were part of a web of teams in the area: the Cards, the Jays, the Phils, the Pirates, the Reds and the White Sox within close driving distance (or walking distance where the Cardinals were concerned) and the Tigers, Red Sox and Royals not far off. Now they seem stranded in the middle of nowhere. There's more baseball talk and baseball media and baseball opportunities in the offseason now which is a plus, but I think it's diluted from how Spring Training used to hit us. Also, the WBC didn't help this year. John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 26 2009 09:42 AM How excrutatingly long and boring it is. SteveJRogers Mar 26 2009 10:06 AM 6. The constant use of scrubs that aren't anywhere on anyone's actual roster sheets, usually with no names on their backs as well. There is a reason why broadcasters comment about their scorecards during long regular season games with tons of substitions look like "spring training scorecards." Edgy DC Mar 26 2009 10:24 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 26 2009 05:32 PM 7. Fans whinging about fringe major leaguers being given a look. You know why they picked up Nieve? Fernando Tatis, that's why. And then, when they start in with "The Yankees get Sabathia ad we get fuckin' Nieve?" that's when I start shooting. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 26 2009 11:28 AM Whaaaaaaa! I hate seeing promising prospects and other potential midseason callups I wouldn't ordinarily have the option of seeing without traveling to Binghamton or Buffalo! Nymr83 Mar 26 2009 02:31 PM things i wont miss about spring training: 1. a lack of fantasy baseball to check in on every 5 minutes 2. arod stories, with the inevitable jeter ass-kiss thrown in (ok, those will still be there in the regular season, but i wont be reading them as much.) SteveJRogers Mar 26 2009 04:50 PM ="Edgy DC"]7. Fans whinging about fringe major leaguers being given a look. You know why they picked up Nieve? Fernando Tatis, that's why. And then, then they start in with "The Yankees get Sabathia ad we get fuckin' Nieve?" that's when I start shooting. You know I was just pointing out a negative of keeping score or trying to follow the game in ST and not being a whiny twat right? Edgy DC Mar 26 2009 05:34 PM Well, I wasn't really addressing you. I figure you were referencing the filler from the minor league camp and not drifters like Nieve and Dessens. TheOldMole Mar 26 2009 07:10 PM I love spring training. Rockin' Doc Mar 26 2009 07:20 PM I love spring. Fman99 Mar 26 2009 08:35 PM ="Nymr83":nq2ax0xe]things i wont miss about spring training: 1. a lack of fantasy baseball to check in on every 5 minutes[/quote:nq2ax0xe] Amen to that. I have like 5 teams just racing their engines.

[batmagadanleadoff]

="metsguyinmichigan":1f4tptwo]4) Teams wearing their batting practice jerseys and those awful caps during games. (But the Mets get credit for wearing their real uniforms.)[/quote:1f4tptwo] Do you think it gets any better during the regular season? It seems to me that half of the regulation uniforms out there look like BP jerseys, beginning with the Mets hideous black tops.

metirish Mar 26 2009 09:21 AM

Whoever in the booth telling us that it gets "cold" down here during the night...having a right old laugh they are.

G-Fafif Mar 26 2009 09:30 AM

I miss Al Lang. It was always sunny in St. Pete, or at least the televised version (I once went to a game that was rained out there). It always seems overcast and windy in St. Lucie, even though that's a meteorological unlikelihood. The games feel like a commodity now, stick 'em on as background noise. The games from St. Pete on Channel 9 always felt like a treat, like you really were opening a crate of oranges from Florida. They always talked about the high sky in Florida. You really got that sense at/from Al Lang. The Mets were part of a web of teams in the area: the Cards, the Jays, the Phils, the Pirates, the Reds and the White Sox within close driving distance (or walking distance where the Cardinals were concerned) and the Tigers, Red Sox and Royals not far off. Now they seem stranded in the middle of nowhere. There's more baseball talk and baseball media and baseball opportunities in the offseason now which is a plus, but I think it's diluted from how Spring Training used to hit us. Also, the WBC didn't help this year.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 26 2009 09:42 AM

How excrutatingly long and boring it is.

SteveJRogers Mar 26 2009 10:06 AM

6. The constant use of scrubs that aren't anywhere on anyone's actual roster sheets, usually with no names on their backs as well. There is a reason why broadcasters comment about their scorecards during long regular season games with tons of substitions look like "spring training scorecards."

Edgy DC Mar 26 2009 10:24 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 26 2009 05:32 PM

7. Fans whinging about fringe major leaguers being given a look. You know why they picked up Nieve? Fernando Tatis, that's why. And then, when they start in with "The Yankees get Sabathia ad we get fuckin' Nieve?" that's when I start shooting.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 26 2009 11:28 AM

Whaaaaaaa! I hate seeing promising prospects and other potential midseason callups I wouldn't ordinarily have the option of seeing without traveling to Binghamton or Buffalo!

Nymr83 Mar 26 2009 02:31 PM

things i wont miss about spring training: 1. a lack of fantasy baseball to check in on every 5 minutes 2. arod stories, with the inevitable jeter ass-kiss thrown in (ok, those will still be there in the regular season, but i wont be reading them as much.)

SteveJRogers Mar 26 2009 04:50 PM

="Edgy DC"]7. Fans whinging about fringe major leaguers being given a look. You know why they picked up Nieve? Fernando Tatis, that's why. And then, then they start in with "The Yankees get Sabathia ad we get fuckin' Nieve?" that's when I start shooting. You know I was just pointing out a negative of keeping score or trying to follow the game in ST and not being a whiny twat right?

Edgy DC Mar 26 2009 05:34 PM

Well, I wasn't really addressing you. I figure you were referencing the filler from the minor league camp and not drifters like Nieve and Dessens.

TheOldMole Mar 26 2009 07:10 PM

I love spring training.

Rockin' Doc Mar 26 2009 07:20 PM

I love spring.

Fman99 Mar 26 2009 08:35 PM

="Nymr83":nq2ax0xe]things i wont miss about spring training: 1. a lack of fantasy baseball to check in on every 5 minutes[/quote:nq2ax0xe] Amen to that. I have like 5 teams just racing their engines.

[metirish]

Whoever in the booth telling us that it gets "cold" down here during the night...having a right old laugh they are.

[G-Fafif]

I miss Al Lang. It was always sunny in St. Pete, or at least the televised version (I once went to a game that was rained out there). It always seems overcast and windy in St. Lucie, even though that's a meteorological unlikelihood. The games feel like a commodity now, stick 'em on as background noise. The games from St. Pete on Channel 9 always felt like a treat, like you really were opening a crate of oranges from Florida. They always talked about the high sky in Florida. You really got that sense at/from Al Lang. The Mets were part of a web of teams in the area: the Cards, the Jays, the Phils, the Pirates, the Reds and the White Sox within close driving distance (or walking distance where the Cardinals were concerned) and the Tigers, Red Sox and Royals not far off. Now they seem stranded in the middle of nowhere.

There's more baseball talk and baseball media and baseball opportunities in the offseason now which is a plus, but I think it's diluted from how Spring Training used to hit us. Also, the WBC didn't help this year.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

How excrutatingly long and boring it is.

[stevejrogers]

6. The constant use of scrubs that aren't anywhere on anyone's actual roster sheets, usually with no names on their backs as well. There is a reason why broadcasters comment about their scorecards during long regular season games with tons of substitions look like "spring training scorecards."

[Guest Edgy DC]

7. Fans whinging about fringe major leaguers being given a look.

You know why they picked up Nieve? Fernando Tatis, that's why.

And then, when they start in with "The Yankees get Sabathia ad we get fuckin' Nieve?" that's when I start shooting.

Edited March 26, 2009 by Guest

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Whaaaaaaa! I hate seeing promising prospects and other potential midseason callups I wouldn't ordinarily have the option of seeing without traveling to Binghamton or Buffalo!

[nymr83]

things i wont miss about spring training:
1. a lack of fantasy baseball to check in on every 5 minutes
2. arod stories, with the inevitable jeter ass-kiss thrown in (ok, those will still be there in the regular season, but i wont be reading them as much.)

[stevejrogers]

="Edgy DC"]7. Fans whinging about fringe major leaguers being given a look. You know why they picked up Nieve? Fernando Tatis, that's why. And then, then they start in with "The Yankees get Sabathia ad we get fuckin' Nieve?" that's when I start shooting.

You know I was just pointing out a negative of keeping score or trying to follow the game in ST and not being a whiny twat right?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, I wasn't really addressing you. I figure you were referencing the filler from the minor league camp and not drifters like Nieve and Dessens.

[Theoldmole]

I love spring training.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I love spring.

[Fman99]

="Nymr83":nq2ax0xe]things i wont miss about spring training: 1. a lack of fantasy baseball to check in on every 5 minutes[/quote:nq2ax0xe] Amen to that. I have like 5 teams just racing their engines.