There Is Still Only One National Pastime

I hope you are watching the World Series. Otherwise, you are a dirty communist.

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | October 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 PM |

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nivlem

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needs to be said.
Astros1111

So does this mean Obama isn’t watching the world series (being a dirty communist and all)? Oh wait, he must be watching since he said he’s cheering for the Phillies…I mean Rays…or was it the Phillies? I guess it depends on what state he’s in tonight! LOL!!
bs
2006_personoftheyear

I am studying for a midterm (ugh). On computer architecture (UGH). And I go to school in Philly, so I should be at a bar somewhere cheering ([scream of agony]).

bs

is of the night of the 7th game of the 1982 World Series. I was studying for a midterm in the student commons at Univ of MO. I peeked at the little portable TV that the gal working at the register was watching, so I was able to watch the Cardinals win Game 7 out of one eye while studying with the other. Columbia, MO went nuts that night, after the Cardinals won. I’ll never forget that night.

2006_personoftheyear

just playing…I did follow online, though it’s not quite the same.

ILLINOIS_CONSERV

People will come, Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway, not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door, innocent as children, longing for the past. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.
– Terrence Mann, from the film Field of Dreams

Plus how can you not get choked up when he asks his Dad to play catch?
ExtremePunditry

Two reasons, I like ice and we get to take it away from the Canadians. Eh I’m a chick I have a pass anyway.
ExtremePunditry

Two reasons, I like ice and we get to take it away from the Canadians. Eh I’m a chick I have a pass anyway.

Nick_Haynes

The beauty of being so young, and watching my Royals beat the cross-state Cardinals. Ahhh, it could bring a tear to a glass eye.

Oh, sorry…you were saying?

29Victor

Whenever I’m at a game I’m usually thinking about whether I should get nachos & soda or pizza and beer.

I love the game, but it’s one of the few things I’d rather watch on T.V. than in person.

kyle8

Sure baseball has a certain quaint, nostalgic appeal. I can download a database, cook a meal, eat it, do the laundry, and still see most of the action in an average game just by looking up whenever I hear the crowd.

Let’s face it, it’s a pretty boring sport by today’s standards. Sure it can be fun when the games really mean something, like during the playoffs, but 160 games in the season is just way too much.

Football, especially college football is the real sport of excitement, hard hitting action, and deep strategy.
Sharp_Right_Turn

If Obama gets elected, he will do everything in his power to make soccer (but will force Americans to call it “futbal’) as America’s pastime so that the rest of the world likes us again. Because God knows how much they loved us when Carter and Clinton were in the Oval Office.

Voting for Obama so that the rest of the world will like Americans again is like the NY Yankees deciding to not sign a big name player so that Red Sox fans will like them again.
ohiobeagle

Please, please, please let their be a game 6 so that Obamoron can delay its start with his 1/2 hour propaganda show.

NightTwister

If you can’t see it in person, that is. Even when I watch on TV, I try to find the audio from radio.

I still remember my mom would have the game on every day in the summer when I was home. My first recollection of the game was Bobby Bonds’ first game in the majors. He hit a grand slam in his first at-bat.

NightTwister

We’re getting to see history repeating itself. It’s the ’69 Amazing Mets all over again.

SIConservative

The Amazins played baseball. The D-Rays spent most of the year playing some other game that involves 10 players per team.

portlandon

They didn’t have Joe Biden comment on this because he would have said…”My dad & I used to watch Babe Ruth play ball on ESPN. He was a great player and my favorite game was when the Babe beat Mark McGuire’s home run record.”
Grim

Seriously, it is about as entertaining as watching paint dry.

Grim

NightTwister

we should interpret the Constitution based on the framers’ intent…

ILLINOIS_CONSERV

You don’t like baseball = a deep seated sympathy for communists. It is a proven fact, look it up! (tongue in cheek). Although, if you are a Cub fan, there might be a question regarding your IQ. (South side White Sox fan opinion).

ILLINOIS_CONSERV

The movie is a great escape. I love the monologue by James Earl Jones’ character that I quoted. Congratulations on your raising a wonderful daughter. I am sure you and your wife have been blessed.

Lammo

I want this series to only go five games so that The One will not hook all of those people who tune in to watch Game Six into his 1/2 hour propaganda manifesto.

P.S. – - being a Mariners fan I have to go with Philly this time for the sake of one of my all time favorite players, Jamie Moyer.