too much football - where is the baseball?

Patience.  It's coming.  The MLB playoffs can't start quick enough, and by my count we are about 17 regular season games away from the games that really count.  Fans like myself have kind of temporarily tuned out baseball for the start of college football, pro football and the end of the tennis and golf seasons.  This has everything to do with the performance of my MLB team (significantly less than inspiring) and just the way it works on the sports calendar.   Actually, I love this time of year with the confluence of the US Open tennis, MLB baseball playoff races and NFL season openers.  All of that will be forgotten once the MLB playoffs start on Oct 3 even if my team is no where close to making the playoffs.

PS...I'm curious to see how good the Orioles and Braves really are as they are leading the pack with 90+ wins right now.

@fenwaysouth posted:

Patience.  It's coming.  The MLB playoffs can't start quick enough, and by my count we are about 17 regular season games away from the games that really count.  Fans like myself have kind of temporarily tuned out baseball for the start of college football, pro football and the end of the tennis and golf seasons.  This has everything to do with the performance of my MLB team (significantly less than inspiring) and just the way it works on the sports calendar.   Actually, I love this time of year with the confluence of the US Open tennis, MLB baseball playoff races and NFL season openers.  All of that will be forgotten once the MLB playoffs start on Oct 3 even if my team is no where close to making the playoffs.

PS...I'm curious to see how good the Orioles and Braves really are as they are leading the pack with 90+ wins right now.

I’ve been recording the games, checking in to see when Rafaela and Abreu are up and rewinding to their last at bat. Last night Rafaela hit his first homer on the first pitch of the game. He said he guessed fastball and made decent contact. I’ll say. He hit the ball of the light tower and the ball deflected to Landsdowne Street.

The Rodgers news is big because it happened in his first game with the Jets.  If they had been 3-5 when this happened it wouldn't be nearly as big of news.  The Angels were long out of contention by the time Ohtani got hurt.  Before that he was in the news at least every other day for either his pitching or hitting performance.  Keep in mind that by this point, well over half the MLB teams are just playing out their seasons with no possibility of playoffs.  Fans in those cities have jumped on the football bandwagon....either NFL or college.   Baseball coverage will pick up once the playoffs start if the fans have a team playing......but here in Ohio, if the Reds and Indians both miss the playoffs we won't even know the playoffs have started.  It will be Buckeyes, Browns & Burrow getting all the media and TV attention.

MLB Channel is your best bet if you want to keep up on the game.

"A baseball story from Down Under"

December 2010, we organized 4 teams, coaches and parents from America to travel to Australia to play the '18 and under and '16 and under State Teams.

One family from Florida included a former MLB player, his wife and 2 sons. In Adelaide, South Australia, I convinced the former MLB player to conduct a hitting clinic to the Australians and our players. Our coaches were pro scouts and for one hour their complete attention was on the speaker, including his 12 year old son.

The young man I observed listen intently. His name was "Bo Bichette". His father Dante, is the Colorado Rockies Hitting Coach.

"We are never too old or too young to learn"

Bob