Is anyone else counting the days until baseball starts? I'm so ready to watch the Cardinals!

SnowAngel

Yes, yes I am and I WILL go to a Cardinals game this year! Lol. I did apply for grad school in Chicago, and I'm thinking going to a game at Wrigley as a Cards fan might be...interesting, to say the least

Is anyone else counting the days until baseball starts? I'm so ready to watch the Cardinals!

SnowAngel

Yes, yes I am and I WILL go to a Cardinals game this year! Lol. I did apply for grad school in Chicago, and I'm thinking going to a game at Wrigley as a Cards fan might be...interesting, to say the least

Haha, funny you should mention it. I'm going to a Cubs/Cardinals game on April 24th. Should be fun. I've only been to two baseball games before and they were both home team/minor team, so two big teams will be nice!

Is anyone else counting the days until baseball starts? I'm so ready to watch the Cardinals!

SnowAngel

Yes, yes I am and I WILL go to a Cardinals game this year! Lol. I did apply for grad school in Chicago, and I'm thinking going to a game at Wrigley as a Cards fan might be...interesting, to say the least

Haha, funny you should mention it. I'm going to a Cubs/Cardinals game on April 24th. Should be fun. I've only been to two baseball games before and they were both home team/minor team, so two big teams will be nice!

Ahh!! So unfair!! Lol I bet it will be a blast, especially a rivalry game! They are in St. Louis in April as well, but it is Busch's opening weekend so there is no way I can afford tickets

DawnTreader07 and Gymfan15, I'm so jealous! I have never been to a Cardinals game. We were going to go to one last year, but it never worked out for us to be able to go. And now, we are moving farther away, so we definitely won't going to one this year.

I guess I'll just have to watch them on TV. Just one more week!

SnowAngel

I've been to one DU (Denver University) hockey game, two Sun Bowls (college football), one Colorado Avalanche game, two Colorado Rockies games, one UTEP (UT El Paso) football games, and a couple others I can't place off the top of my head.

Now here is the kicker. Only the Colorado Avalanche game that I have attended live did not end in a win for the team I was rooting for and that was a tie. In every single live game I have attended at the college or professional level, the team I rooted for either won or tied. Of course I haven't been to a huge number of games, but I'm sure I'd be desired to be in the stands for many more if that streak remains intact.

Did anyone watch the Cardinals beat the Marlins yesterday? I only saw the first three innnings and part of the eighth. We had family visiting and sadly they aren't Cardinals fans. But what I did see was great! Kyle Lohse pitched really well. And the offense did very well. My little brother was very excited to see David Freese batting.

SnowAngel

The Cardinals are off to a good start this year at 7-3 and 2.5 games ahead of Houston. Today's game was great! Matt Carpenter was amazing! He was 4-4, had a home run and 5 RBIs. And Yadie hit his third home run of the year today! Yes, definitely a great game.

SnowAngel

What's happened to this thread? No posts in over two months!

Interleague play ended on Sunday with the Cardinals sweeping the Royals. Which made me very happy as a Cardinals fan, but disappointed as a Royals fan.

Last night the Cardinals beat the Marlins 5-2 and Yadi hit his 12th homer of the season. And tonight the Cards go for the sweep. Go Cards!

SnowAngel

Well I guess I'd better post... I've really been putting off writing about baseball recently. Used to do it quite a bit.

My team, the Astros, are doing... poorly. But at 32-43, it could be worse I suppose. Lucas Harrell, one of my favorite new Astros, pitched a complete game shutout last night in a win over the Padres. There's a lot of season left, and baseball is a very crazy game, so who knows how things will look in October. Go Stros!

^ I know how you feel. My team, the Brewers, aren't doing quite as bad as they could be, and who knows how this will all work out...

I miss Prince Feilder.

In other news, the NBA draft is tonight! Anothny Davis is the surefire no. 1 pick, after that it starts to get muddy. I'm hoping the Bucks can grab a Tyler Zeller at number 14.

The All-Star game is on Tuesday in Kansas City, MO and the Cardinals have 6 players who are All Stars this year: Carlos Beltran, Rafael Furcal, Yadier Molina, Lance Lynn, David Freese, and Matt Holliday. Yadier Molina was replaced by Matt Holliday today because "Molina was put on the Major League bereavement list on Friday and has been placed on the family medical emergency list after a death in his family".

I'm super excited about David Freese winning the Final Vote! My brother and I both voted for him a bunch. He definitely deserves it.

We are all excited about Carlos Beltran being in the Home Run Derby on Monday. I hope he wins! My brother really wanted to see it, but his college class is that night, so he will miss it. But I will be watching it with my siblings and probably Dad.

SnowAngel

The All-Star game is on Tuesday in Kansas City, MO and the Cardinals have 6 players who are All Stars this year: Carlos Beltran, Rafael Furcal, Yadier Molina, Lance Lynn, David Freese, and Matt Holliday.

Wow...6 from the Cards, 1 from the Astros (Jose Altuve). He certainly deserves it. Hope he actually gets a chance to play...

The NL All Stars certainly dominated that game, securing home field advantage for the NL team in the World Series.

I'm dusting this off to mention the fan catch of the season. Normally fans are willing to drop everything to catch a foul ball, but a fan at a Toronto Blue Jays game managed to catch the ball despite having his hands full - he didn't even spill any of the food he was carrying.

My local MLB team (the Twins) are still in the American Central cellar but are making their move to change that. The other night they won 19-7 (which looks more like an NFL score ).

Even if they start winning, I'm going to wait a while before going to a game. It's been so hot lately - temps still in the 90s for night games - and I'm a polar bear, after all.

Well after all the hype and anooying ESPN coverage, Dwight Howard has been traded to the L.A. Lakers! I'm just really glad that this whole ordeal is over with, so that ESPN can go back to over hype-ing Jets camp

The deal invovled four teams, at least six players and three first round draft picks. Luckily my Bucks weren't caught up in any of this, were any of your teams?

Well it's high time I posted in this thread... so much has been going on in the sports world recently. I'm not going to cover it all here, but I'll briefly go over what's going on in my areas of sports expertise (MLB, NHL, NFL). Starting with the most painful one (for me), Major League Baseball.

As I've mentioned before, the Houston Astros are my team. And as anyone who has been following any MLB team will know, the 'Stros season officially reeked . Finishing the season with a league-worst (and worst in franchise history) record of 55 wins and 107 losses, one almost had to be relieved that the regular season ended last Wednesday . There were bright spots during the season however. José Altuve, the rookie second baseman for the Astros, had a very impressive season. He was their lone representative at the All-Star game, and performed well in the field as well as at the plate. As some may know, the Astros are being forced to move to the American League next season in order to even out the number of teams in each league. While many fans are not happy about the move (myself included), it was unavoidable, and we'll learn to like the AL I'm sure. We'll also have new uniforms, new mascot, new broadcast team, and new manager next season, and I'm already looking forward to it. Playoffs are going on now of course, but I'm really not paying much attention. Except I am hoping that the Texas Rangers drop out soon... I sort of consider them the imposter team from Texas .

On to the NHL. Really not much to say here... there's a lockout going on right now, and I honestly don't know if the end will be coming anytime soon. My team, the Phoenix Coyotes, had a fairly decent playoff run last season, and I think they can make another good run this year, if the season ever gets going .

Football time! I'm really not into football as much as the other two sports I've covered, but growing up in the New Orleans area made me a Saints fan . They just got their first win last night, and Drew Brees set a record by throwing a TD pass for the 47th straight game. Their record now sits at 1-4... not the way they wanted to start off the season, but I guess it could be worse considering all the troubles they had before the season started. Both the Texans and Falcons remain undefeated so far this season, we'll have to see how long that'll last. Knowing the Texans, I'd say not very long in their case .

So that finishes my overdue sports rant. If anyone reads even half of this, they are a bigger sports geek than I . So what are your teams up to now, patrons of NarniaWeb?