Are you suffering Baseball Withdrawl?

That's great--and pretty much sums it up. On the bright side--only about 13 more weeks until pitchers and catchers report!!!

When did the baseball season end??

Jupiter is still ahead

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Originally posted by TRhit:
When did the baseball season end??

My son has shut down for the winter.... It's over in our house...

You are lucky to still have something to look forward to so soon!

My boy was forced to take the winter off, broken wrist. He got it catching. low pitch hit the right or rather wrong spot. 2-3 months w/o surgery 3-5 months if he needs surgery. Thank God it is th catching hand he can still throw his young brother has to catch for him.

Is it baseball season yet........???? Please hurry and get here...

What do YOU think?! This is me just after my wife pulled me away from the HSBBW at 3 a.m.
It's not pretty..........

With all the MLB deals it seems like baseball season is still ongoing

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Are you suffering Baseball Withdrawl?

No, but wouldn't mind trying that some day!

Only 111 days until MLB opening day. Almost down to double digits.

Only 69 more days until the start of spring practice in VA.

We're 3 days past the beginning of practice for 2006!

It was so nice to be able to go out this past Saturday with about 25-30 players and begin getting the kinks out as we head toward February 1st. Out here, the high schools get them on Feb. 1, until then we can do what we want. AHH, the sound of a wood bat is so sweet!

Next workout is this Saturday at 1:30 and we'll think of y'all. The weather forecast is for SUN and high 50's. Sorry to rub it in

Just 4 more days 'til the start of practice/workouts for East Cobb Baseball '06. Once or twice a week for the next 6-7 weeks before high school ball starts. Indoor facilities come in handy this time of year. However, as much as we love baseball, we always look forward to the 1-2" semi-annual Atlanta snowfall to shut down the city and the schools for a couple of days!!

No snow on the ground here in sunny Florida! Getting ready for the Perfect Game Showcase in a few weeks! High School tryouts Jan 16 or so. Just enough time to hit the cages and shag some grounders with my Son before the High School coach gets him again!

By the way 06catcherdad...we're hitting the 70's regularly. Man it sure is cold, had to get my sweaters out!

I'm chomping at the bit.

My son had to shut down after his freshman year due to tendonitis in his pitching elbow.

He gets back for fall workouts and ends up with an MCL strain and missess the intrasquad world series.

I hope I can keep him from tripping on something during Christmas break.

jgrabe, I feel for you. We here in Northern CA are a bit hardier. I had a couple players show up in shorts last Saturday, though they will have BASEBALL PANTS on this week. We won't see the 70's until February, and by then we'll think its balmy.

Baseball withdrawl...the action of applying localized or regional linguistic distinction or peculiarities to all things baseball. ...could also be applied to Bubba's style of play. Oh...sorry...that would be baseball withdrool.

...not to be confused with Baseball withdrawal...the act taking one's ball and going home, or suffering the consequences of same.

Withdrawl sounds a lot more fun.

Let's hear some of the best baseball withdrawl phrases out there.

Okay, you Florida and California types are starting to get on my nerves with this warm weather talk. My car told me it was 15 degrees on the way to the office earlier this morning, and our batting cage has a white blanket under it.

If ya'll want us frozen folks to pay attention when the hurricanes and earthquakes hit, play nice!

Actually, I'm just envious. While Virginia is part of the South (an Alabama guy once told me "Ya'll folks up in Ver-gin-ya think ya'll discovered the South"), when my son opens his college season on February 11, it will be cold. Likely very cold. Write it down.

hokieone:

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Originally posted by hokieone:
My car told me it was 15 degrees on the way to the office earlier this morning,

Aren't these talking cars a nuisance? Every morning my ol' Chrysler asks "Did you brush your teeth this morning?" And of course each morning I have to put it in 'park', go back in the house, brush, and then come back out and deal with any other concerns she may have...I've even tried stashing a bottle of Scope under the seat...but n-o-o-o!...she's onto that.

Who programmed this car in the first place? My mother-in-law? No wonder my neighbor was so anxious to unload this one on me. It looked like such a good deal at the time.

Thank heavens she doesn't seem to mind Dwight Yoakam...otherwise I would be shaking so hard I wouldn't be able to drive anywhere...some folks need their 'java jolt' each morning...I need a 'dose of Dwight'!

3 degrees outside my kitchen window this morning

jgrabe:

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Originally posted by jgrabe:
By the way 06catcherdad...we're hitting the 70's regularly. Man it sure is cold, had to get my sweaters out!

Sweaters? You own, or have discreet legal control over, more than one...in North Central Florida? Sounds extravagant...that or it's really colder there than I am aware of...or perhaps this overabundance of sweaters is attributable to your sweet Aunt Helen in Dayton who sends you one each Christmas...even in North Central Florida that beats getting a tie each year.

I'm struggling to stay warm here myself. It was in the low 50's when I drove in this morning. I find myself just holding the coffee cup to warm up.

Hokie: I did my 5.2 years in Blacksburg, and though I've effectively shut a number of things away, never to be remembered again (like calculus), I vividly, and painfully, recall mornings like the one you're experiencing today. You have my sincerest sympathy, and an open invitation to come experience baseball in January the way it ought to be. ...blissfully warm. (...usually...)

Of course we own sweaters, plural....we get cold easily! You can always distinguish the locals from the tourists in Florida; if it dips below 70, the tourists are wearing shorts and the locals are wearing sweaters.

In the summer, the tourists are the ones with tans.....

Hokieone....when son was packing to go to college he was not packing his boots....(used for trips back to family in New Hampshire)...said he wouldn't need them in Virginia.....are ya'll telling us different?

Arizonred,

3 years ago, we had a 36 incher. Boots didn't help much.

Typically our snowfalls are of the 2" to 6" variety, but every few years we have a real doozy. This winter's problem is now followed by extended temperatures in the 20's which prevents the ice from melting. Usually it melts away in 2-3 days. In the Tidewater area, they only rarely have snow due to the coastal air flows.

I do have to sadly report that 3 years ago, the day befoe our high school began practice, we shovelled 12" of snow off of the mound and the batters' boxes, and the last remnants of a late season storm didn't disappear until a week or so before our opening game.

Today if I could find my car under the snow, I would be going home. What a mess!

Normally, I would also be suffering from withdrawal, but not this year. I am tired and grateful for the few weeks off. After chasing the three sons around numerous states from February to the end of July, brief break in August and then fall ball, and chasing the daughter all over playing middle school volleyball and club volleyball, time to put my feet up!

RZ


dont say that because it only means we will get it in a day ot two

Did you get my PM response?

TR,
I'm sure the low is headed your way with a blast of cold behind it.

I did get your reply, thanks.

RZ

Well, at least I cannot say you didnt get me anything for Christmas.

When baseball's bust, it's fun to study up on your animal facts:

Emus have double-plumed feathers, and they lay emerald/forest green eggs.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.

The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.

Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.

A group of geese on the ground is gaggle, a group of geese in the air is skein.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract it's claws.

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

Sorry, I missed this one -- it's most fascinating, and should serve as a warning to our more contentious posters:

Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

Krakatoa:

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A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Has this been seriously studied? Who did they ask?

Just 45 days to first game...

Krakatoa:

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Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.

Don't quote me on this one...but I've heard that...

Some baboons heave their heads so hard their butts fall off!

Judging from the one's I've seen at the zoo I'd suspect this is true.

You guys are worse then me! My wife can't believe that I can sit here and read this message board hours on end! Those animal facts were really quite interesting though and worthy of comitting to memory, at least as conversation starters...for non baseball fanatic of course...
Hey, did any of you see my question about SPARQ ratings I posted under the general topics?

Emus and kangaroos can't walk backward.

A duck's quack does echo... that's an "urban legend.

The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead.

A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.