Baseball has Started....................

[MINGOTOY]

When I watch baseball, I have to do something else. I can't sit there for a whole game just watching. I am usually doing Ebay or reading this board and I will look up when something interesting is happening. I also like to tape shows on my VCR (yes, I know, I'm a dinosaur) and I will watch both items at the same time, switching back and forth. I fast-forward the commercials on the tape .

So people that don't watch it cause it's boring, get a book and read it and look up only during the action. Or fold some laundry, dust your cars, etc, etc. I'm sure that you can find an activity to do while you watch.


maribell


p.s. TiVo... Does anyone know if I can watch a show recorded on tivo, pause it, and switch to live tv , watch live tv for a few minutes and then switch back to tivo without losing my place? This is what is holding me up from switching to tivo. (Email me because I don't want to hijack this thread..)

[Redline Whiteline]

baseball.........yawn

[Tom Bourgeois]

All this love for Pujols and the Cards is great, but the games are too long. Bob Gibson could pitch a double header or even three games in the time it takes the Yanks and Red Sox to play today. I heard their latest series averaged 3 hours and 45 mintes or so per game---TB---PS---Ooops, I thought I was posting to the already existing baseball thread. If someone can move this over there, then by all means, do so. Thanks.

[1Perry]

Until then........When you have 5 pitching changes, the game is going to be long. Baseball complains about the lengths but what are they going to do about it?


Yes, in the "old" days, 20 complete games for a pitcher wasn't out of the ordinary. Now a guy get $15 million to go 5 innings every 5th or 6th day.

[Tom Bourgeois]

Not sure what baseball will do but the umps are already doing something about it by refusing to call time outs for Jeter and others in the series I mentioned above. Better scratch that itch, Derek, here comes another!---TB

[1Perry]

Yeah well, that's going to cut 5 minutes.


Also.....the best games to attend are the ones not on national television. I always hate everyone standing around waiting for the last commercial to end so they can resume.