The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

Begged my mother to drive to Toronto to go to a Blue Jays game when we visited Niagara Falls for a few days in the summer of 1986 but, when she saw how far it was, she wasn’t having it. Best I could get was listening to the game on the radio in the hotel.

 

A few of my stadium visits:
Wrigley Field in L.A. Saw a couple of minor-league games there. Tried to go to an expansion Angels game vs. the Mantle-Maris Yankees in 1961, but it was sold out.
L.A. Coliseum. Koufax 18 K game, Campanella tribute game.
All the NL stadiums that were used in the early 1980s -- Candlestick (horrible, horrible place), San Diego, Olympic Stadium Montreal, Riverfront, Three Rivers, Atlanta Fulton County, Shea Stadium, Philly, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Astrodome, plus Yankee Stadium ('81 World Series), Cleveland Municipal Stadium ('81 All-Star Game), Oakland.
There are probably a few more.

 

Of the ones torn down, I went to many games at the Busch II oven. That’s all I gots.

 

Places I've been that are gone: Candlestick, Riverfront, Tiger Stadium, Shea, Three Rivers, Cleveland Muni and Comiskey. Not sure how the Big O fits in pending expansion.

 

Went to a Cardinals game in 2002 when I was in town for a Poynter workshop. If they were going to keep one cookie cutter, that should have been it.

 

Too hot. At least “the new one” has some airflow.

The humidity is ever-present.

 

Have Nationals-Pirates on as background noise and the Nats' TV crew is treating Patrick Corbin like he's Bill Mumy in The Twilight Zone. It's good! It's good Patrick pitched into the sixth and won't get the win and didn't get his dick shot off!

 

Dante's 7th circle?

 

One of these teams is in first place!

 

Hope I'm wrong here but this one feels like the big one. He's not a talkative sort but he always talked after his abbreviated starts in New York. There's only so many near-misses he can have throwing that hard before the elbow finally snaps again (he's more than 10 years out from his first TJ surgery so he's just as likely to suffer the injury as anyone else).

 

Has "forearm tightness" ever not been anything other than welp, see ya in 18 months?