It's Back - The 2010 Baseball Season starts next week
Time to pick a team and sit back and enjoy 161+ games.
St Louis Cardinals for me as ever
American League
Team W L PCT GB
LA Angels 20 4 .833 -
Kansas City 14 9 .609 5.5
NY Yankees 15 10 .600 5.5
Texas 15 10 .600 5.5
Minnesota 13 10 .565 6.5
Boston 14 11 .560 6.5
Tampa Bay 12 10 .545 7.0
Seattle 13 12 .520 7.5
Chi White Sox 12 14 .462 9.0
Oakland 12 15 .444 9.5
Toronto 9 12 .429 9.5
Detroit 9 13 .409 10.0
Cleveland 9 14 .391 10.5
Baltimore 9 15 .375 11.0
National League
Team W L PCT GB
Atlanta 16 7 .696 -
St. Louis 16 7 .696 -
Milwaukee 13 9 .591 2.5
Pittsburgh 14 10 .583 2.5
Chi Cubs 16 12 .571 2.5
San Fran 15 14 .517 4.0
Washington 11 12 .478 5.0
LA Dodgers 12 14 .462 5.5
Philadelphia 10 12 .455 5.5
Cincinnati 11 14 .440 6.0
NY Mets 10 13 .435 6.0
Colorado 10 14 .417 6.5
Florida 9 13 .409 6.5
Arizona 8 16 .333 8.5
Houston 7 16 .304 9.0
San Diego 5 17 .227 10.5
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D'oh !
Off to San Francisco next month so was thinking of giving this strange game a try.
slightly different rules around relief pitchers but other wise none really.
They were once completely separate leagues but then merged.
The Champs of each play each other in the World Series in October.
Worth going just for the experience of watching American sport. Summer night drinking beer and eating a dog.
Korea is a long way to go just for Baseball isn't it!?! :0)
Gotta be done SE10. Get yourself down to watch the mighty Giants, you will love it. Try the garlic fries, SF is famous for them. Trolly busses stop about two blocks from the stadium, which has one of the most impressive views in Baseball - overlooking the bay.
Come on the Whales Vagina's...
Had some great visits to Fenway and love a sing along to The Standells - Dirty Water.
Main difference is that AL teams have a Designated Hitter who bats instead of the pitcher and doesn't field (normally a large slugger therefore). The fun of National League games is that the pitcher has to bat but a lot of tactical substitutions are often made in later innings by the managers as they change pitchers but also may simultaneously substitute certain fielding positions and thereby change the pitchers slot in the batting order (normally numer 9) so as to keep them away from the plate.
Purists tend to regard the NL as the better form of the game. AL generally has the wealthier franchises.
Go Cardies!
The Man Utd of baseball? Get away with yer...
SF Giants are at Home to the San Diego Padres the day before we fly back so might see if the mrs is up for that!
So they hit the ball and run round the pitch right??
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Always been my team, since i saw them play
As with adam, it's Oakland for me and has been for ten years or so and for pretty much the same reasons, 'Athletics'. The green, white and gold in the kit helped as well!! :-)
is NASN the only place for it on our tv's then?
Cubbies in the NL
My two favourite places in America are Fenway Park and Wrigley Field. Absolutely love it.
I have favourite team for each division as it happens, so there's interest for me in each league, (The others are Tigers, Athletics, Mets and Dodgers) but it always comes down to these two in the end. If they played each other in the World Series, I genuinely don't know who I would support.