The Goat Pen

I hate this time of year at TGP. Nobody likes baseball and every moron has a political opinion about issues that in the end their voice wont matter. Politics are for the rich people. Step aside and let it run it's course. Your opinion on a blog or a voting booth really doesn't matter.

I love baseball, and I detest modern day politics, especially the endless lies on negative television ads. If stupid people wouldn't give hard earned money to politicans we wouldn't be inandated with the despicable commericals.

I watch every Reds game, every one, start to finish, win or lose, in person or on TV. I was at the game today. What a thriller. One of the best I've ever seen.

I can't bear to follow baseball anymore until Evan Longoria gets back on the active roster.

Evan you dumbass, you've got to limit stunt-fucking your porn star girlfriend during the season so you don't get stuck on IR in the future, fool!

"I watch every Reds game, every one, start to finish, win or lose, in person or on TV."

Good god, I enjoy the occasional live baseball game (minor league), but that is absurd. You really watch 160 (or ever how many it is) games, from stat to finish, every year? I can't even begin to fathom that. The only thing I've ever pursued with even a fraction of that kind of dedication is drugs....

Hedge. You don't live in a MLB city but I'm guessing if UNC basketball played a 162 game schedule each year you'd be sharing Fifers opinion. Especially if you were as old as he is.

I go to 5 or 6 Carolina basketball games a year, max. Sometimes only 2 or 3. Hardly bother with the preseason cupcake games (when they're even on TV). I guess I do catch most games from Jan. 1 onward, but that's only about 20 or so games, including tournys. That's aplenty for me...

Also, basketball is fun to watch and only last 2 hours (including halftime), neither of which is true about baseball...

Baseball is better live than on TV no doubt. So is hockey. But I catch about 100+ Reds games myself either live or on TV. Its a cultural thing. It's how we grew up.

hedge wrote:"I watch every Reds game, every one, start to finish, win or lose, in person or on TV."

Good god, I enjoy the occasional live baseball game (minor league), but that is absurd. You really watch 160 (or ever how many it is) games, from stat to finish, every year? I can't even begin to fathom that. The only thing I've ever pursued with even a fraction of that kind of dedication is drugs....

I'm often doing other things, usually on the computer, while a game is on. On my golf evenings I might watch a few innings in the clubhouse, then listen on WLW on the way home. I'll miss a few games a year on my Civil War weekends, but I can record them and catch them later. When I was visiting my daughter in Europe I caught some games on MLB.com If we're losing badly I'll lose intrest in a game, but what so great about baseball is like Yogi said, " it ain't over till it's over" Yesterdays Reds Diamondback proved that.

Considering what else is on TV, stupid reality shows, and an endless lineup of talent shows, that my wife watches, Reds baseball tops them by a mile. If I'm at home and a Reds game is being played I'm watching. My company is a sponsor of Reds baseball and advertises big time. We have a booth that I work at all the business day games. The company also has several sets of season tickets which I'm often as not awarded and then I have partial season tickets myself. I'd rather be at GABP as anywhere. I also make one road game a year. I've seen the Reds play in Atlanta, Cleveland, New York, Chicago, Miami, St Louis, Detroit, and DC. This year Pittsburg on the 29th of September.

sad to say I'm desensitized to the shooting in Colorado

The important things:

What was the race of the shooter and the victims?

What was the race of the shooter and the victims? I just assumed it was a white guy. That's the standard FBI profile.

I'm not desensitized to it, but the news did make me reflect a little bit on the nature and location of these types of attacks. It's been probably 20 years since I can remember something like this happening in NYC or other large metropolis (the LIRR shooting, which was black guy shooting white people during the business commute). It seems like the middle of the country (if Western Pennsylvania can be seen as middle) has more of these incidents than anything; yet the big cities were supposed to be the scary dangerous places. I just don't know why places like NYC and Los Angeles don't see this type of crazy. Is it something done differently there? I really do not know.

I think you see that type of crazy in the big city and they more or less know how to deal with it.

A guy in rural colorado with a gun fetish doesn't stand out like a guy on euclid avenue.

Yeah, if you are crazy in mid-america you stand out and are ostracized, whereas in the city you blend in and are accepted...

I don't think that's what he was saying...and I don't think that is true.

Aurora is a big town, a suburb of Denver.

Yeah, Aurora is the 56th biggest city in the country. Not rural.

The city above it on the list is Honolulu and two spots below it is St. Louis.

so is anyone going to ask who brings a 4 month old to the midnight viewing of Dark Knight?

Nope. You can't...not right now.

Its Colorado - give me a break