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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 08:47 PM
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Poll question: All right, baseball fans — it's the first interleague weekend of the season
Tell us your feelings about interleague play.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 08:50 PM
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1. A little of this, a little of that.
I like Cardinals - Royals, Angels - Dodgers, Giants - A's, Yankees - Mets, etc... But the other games are just games. They just serve to remind me how much the DH sucks (or more accurately, why having leagues with different rules sucks).
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 08:51 PM
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2. It only works for a few select series
Edited on Fri May-16-08 08:55 PM by KamaAina
Yankees-Mets, Giants-A's, Cubs-White Sox -- and, one would think, Dodgers-Angels. Even O's-Nats hasn't taken off, possibly owing to the vortex of suckitude centered between the two, somewhere around Laurel.

Let me guess: They're saving those for June, leaving us enthralled with random matchups like Royals-Pirates, Mariners-Astros, and the like. :eyes:

edit: caps, plus another bright spot, on the NL side at least, is that occasionally the Yankees or Red Sox will show up in an NL city, bringing the fawning media and sellout crowds along with them.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 08:51 PM
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3. Sucks elephant dick
I can't stand it. :mad:


:hide:
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 08:52 PM
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4. There may yet be hope for you
:toast:
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 08:53 PM
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6. We shall see.
:toast: :hi:
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 08:52 PM
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5. It's a fraud
Lets have the Cubs/White Sox and Yankees/Mets play every year and damn the schedule.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 08:54 PM
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7. It's brilliant!
It gives baseball fans something to be, um..."passionate" about. Good water cooler conversation, something to cause us to throw things that aren't baseballs about the room.
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reyd reid reed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 08:55 PM
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8. Some of the games might work out well...
if it'd stop raining. But personally, I don't like it. Not this weekend (although my Cubbies aren't playing interleague this time), not ANY weekend. I could maybe see a for-fun geographical rivalry interleague exhibition series -- either between Spring Training and Opening Day or during the All-Star break -- but other than that, keep it for the Series. That's where it belongs and that's the ONLY place it belongs.

But that's just my opinion. That and a coupla bucks *might* buy you a cuppa coffee.
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 09:30 PM
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9. I like the rilvary series, the Twins-Brewers games
But I will take a easy sweep over the Rockies anytime.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 09:53 PM
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10. Booooooo, interleague play.
Boooooooooooooooo....!

(THINK BLUE)
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:40 PM
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11. I'm going to watch the Angels play the Dodgers tomorrow...
Go Angels!!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:53 PM
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12. That's gonna be the Faux game
Wave to me. :hi:
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:59 PM
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13. I didn't see a choice for 'abomination' so I went with 'sucks'
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 11:35 PM
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14. I'm really a fan of it...
I never thought I would be. I remember when they proposed it and I thought "god damn, that is a stupid idea." It's good for the game and it's good for the casual fans. Baseball needs both desperately. Yeah, the hardcore fans (like Oeditpus Rex) hate it, but they also think pitchers should bat...as if there were anything less fun to watch than watching some guy who picks up a bat 50 times a year flail at 3 straight curveballs right in the middle of a rally. I'm for bringing the DH to the NL.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 11:51 PM
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16. I think pitchers should bat
because baseball has nine players per side, not 10, and because I'm not one to piss all over traditions that are more than 100 years old for the sake of scoring a couple more runs per game.
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 11:41 PM
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15. it's ok for novelty
As others have said, having the two local teams play is good. I saw the first Cubs/Sox game held at wrigley, and that was cool. They were really well matched, and instead of people being giant dicks, I think all the fans had a good time, in part, because it seemed more important than just another game - there was local pride at stake (which is why the Cubs won, as they should have).
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