Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Thanks, John.

My wife is in Baltimore tonight, on business. I'm home alone (all kiddies having fledged), listening to the Braves and reading Rick Atkinson's The Redcoats are Coming. A good night, eh?

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y wife is in Baltimore tonight, on business. I'm home alone (all kiddies having fledged), listening to the Braves and reading Rick Atkinson's The Redcoats are Coming. A good night, eh?

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I love Braves baseball on the radio. I like the pace, the fact that I can be doing other things, and the insights and conversation of the broadcast team, who provide a lot of info about the players, about current trade talk, the minor leagues, baseball history, etc.

I wonder if baseball on the radio will become a dinosaur or extinct? Will podcasts or something else take over?

To me (and to me only, I'm not speaking for anybody else) baseball on television has lost a lot of the allure it once had. I hate the modern graphics - boxes showing the strike zone; CGA adds on green screens behind the plate; etc. And the pretty young girls and handsome young men seem to be there for looks as opposed to their knowledge of the sport. I'd rather have grizzled old men who grew up with the game telling me about the game.

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I love Braves baseball on the radio. I like the pace, the fact that I can be doing other things, and the insights and conversation of the broadcast team, who provide a lot of info about the players, about current trade talk, the minor leagues, baseball history, etc.

I wonder if baseball on the radio will become a dinosaur or extinct? Will podcasts or something else take over?

To me (and to me only, I'm not speaking for anybody else) baseball on television has lost a lot of the allure it once had. I hate the modern graphics - boxes showing the strike zone; CGA adds on green screens behind the plate; etc. And the pretty young girls and handsome young men seem to be there for looks as opposed to their knowledge of the sport. I'd rather have grizzled old men who grew up with the game telling me about the game.

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ORIGINAL: durnedwolf

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I love Braves baseball on the radio. I like the pace, the fact that I can be doing other things, and the insights and conversation of the broadcast team, who provide a lot of info about the players, about current trade talk, the minor leagues, baseball history, etc.

I wonder if baseball on the radio will become a dinosaur or extinct? Will podcasts or something else take over?

To me (and to me only, I'm not speaking for anybody else) baseball on television has lost a lot of the allure it once had. I hate the modern graphics - boxes showing the strike zone; CGA adds on green screens behind the plate; etc. And the pretty young girls and handsome young men seem to be there for looks as opposed to their knowledge of the sport. I'd rather have grizzled old men who grew up with the game telling me about the game.

You are the grizzled old man. Go to games, sit down with those young folk, and share with them the game you grew up with and the history of your team. Make some memories - not just for you but for that next generation.

I listen to my Cubs and Bears games (radio broadcast by way of the internet). I live in California and rarely have the opportunity to see one of my teams. On my bucket list when I retire: Wrigley field to see my Cubs play VS Milwaukee and Soldier Field to see a Bears VS Packers game.

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Canoerebel: What a crazy, fickle game this can be.

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ORIGINAL: durnedwolf

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I love Braves baseball on the radio. I like the pace, the fact that I can be doing other things, and the insights and conversation of the broadcast team, who provide a lot of info about the players, about current trade talk, the minor leagues, baseball history, etc.

I wonder if baseball on the radio will become a dinosaur or extinct? Will podcasts or something else take over?

To me (and to me only, I'm not speaking for anybody else) baseball on television has lost a lot of the allure it once had. I hate the modern graphics - boxes showing the strike zone; CGA adds on green screens behind the plate; etc. And the pretty young girls and handsome young men seem to be there for looks as opposed to their knowledge of the sport. I'd rather have grizzled old men who grew up with the game telling me about the game.

You are the grizzled old man. Go to games, sit down with those young folk, and share with them the game you grew up with and the history of your team. Make some memories - not just for you but for that next generation.

I listen to my Cubs and Bears games (radio broadcast by way of the internet). I live in California and rarely have the opportunity to see one of my teams. On my bucket list when I retire: Wrigley field to see my Cubs play VS Milwaukee and Soldier Field to see a Bears VS Packers game.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy
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BTW, I don't see any IJN subs in your area of the map, just one off Sorong. Withdrawal or issues with your detection of them?

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

One thing about baseball, it can bring the young and old together to talk about something that they both can enjoy.

And I do like eye-candy.

But the Bears?

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Shortly after finishing 7th Grade in June 1974, I turned on the television and found the Braves playing St. Louis. That was the beginning of my love affair with the Braves.

The love affair made sense, for in the '70s, there was no baseball in Florida. The closest team was Atlanta. They were carried on WKAT Radio, but only on weekends. Apparently they were occasionally on television down there, too (this was before the Superstation made them popular). I went to my first game in the summer of 1977 - Braves vs. Phillies, with Dick Ruthven starting for the Braves. The Braves got chewed up, in a high-scoring game.

During my University of Georgia years, I attended a handful of games. But I found I enjoyed them on television and radio more.

I've been to perhaps four games since 2000. It would suit me not to go again. There are so many other things I enjoy doing more, if that makes sense.

Similarly, my last UGA football game was in 1997. I took my then three-year-old son.

I'll only go to one more football game in my life: if UGA ever plays the University of Miami. My dad was a huge Hurricanes fan and played for the team in the '40s (after WWII). He didn't miss a home game from the late '60s until well into the '90s. I waited for the day that the two teams might meet on the field, thinking it would be fun for Dad and I to go. Only, UGA and Miami haven't met on the field since the 1970s! Georgia has played every other team imaginable in the southern half of the country - Virginia Tech, Virginia, North Carolina, Clemson, Florida State, Tulane, etc., but not Miami.

Sorry for excessive reminiscing here.

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Triage of the ships damaged during all that fighting will take a bit longer than I had hoped.