With the wonderful close of the 2008 season



It is time to start looking ahead to next year.

How will your team improve.

What teams will make it back, who will come out of nowhere.

Lets spend the next year finding out.

Nicely done Mahoney. For once, I am happy to have a post after yours. Enjoy the year, it's all yours.

Thanks Todd.

Crap.. will it never end?

I could have started this thread last night, but I couldn't bring
myself to congratulate the Phillies after the abominable way
their fans treated Tampa Bay Rays fans the past three games.

Congrats! Your team was the best...

Bring on 2009

Yankees/Mets Subway Series

Red Sox finish last...

oh, am I dreaming still?

The Pirates will stay in the basement, I think they've come to like it there.......

I was too busy to watch or even listen.
What did the fans do?

Four months till pitchers and catchers!

But the Yankees can start buying people right away. Article in the Post today about how they have interest in Manny ... this will save me money as I will NOT support a team with A-Fraud AND Manny ... I hope it's just the Post being the Post.

Attention Mahoney: this is the team to beat in 2009!

Manny is the best right handed hitter in baseball. If he decides he wants to play...

This part makes him pathetic. I will not sit around and stomach this POS for 4 or more years. About the only move that would dishearten me more would be getting Bonds. Imagine that for a minute ... Bonds in left, Manny in right, A-Fraud at 3rd ... maybe they could sign Terrill Owens for center, and Pac-Man Jones to play 2nd and it would be perfect ... the most unlikeable (and weakest character) team in pro sports history.

Uh yeah ... this strategic move worked wonders when Beltran tried it last year.
I hope the muts sign/get Manny.

I don't see the Yankees signing Manny or Texeria. Signing Manny clogs up the LF/DH spot. Damon can not play CF anymore. Texeira will command a 6-7 year deal, I do believe Boras is his agent, and that would clog up ARod's eventual move to first.

I would let Giambi, Pettite and Mussina go and sign Sabathia, and Abreau.

Baseball 2010 season.

I'm going to like the Twins park, Beach, but they really, really should have domed the sucker.

We're in for some nice winter scenery in April and probably September/October with that new Minnesota stadium not having a retractable roof.

I still, rather routinely, hear people moaning about tax payers paying for the stadium as it is.

But, yes, I agree that the team's owners should have found the extra money, and contributed
a dome to the project. There are going to be rain-outs and snow-outs. The rain-out days in
this World Series kept me from following or caring much about the final results.

And the lovely garbage burning station on the north end, the sweet aroma of the sewer system in the warehouse district, and watching the bums from the homeless shelter sell their wares, will all increase the pleasure of going to the ballpark.

The weather won't be a problem if they schedule April correctly, but an evening World Series game in late October does have the possibility of suckage.

For the first time in the history of the Dome, I did not attend a Twins game last season.

I think next summer a road trip to Detroit, Chicago, and Minnesota is in order. Hit MLB game in each city, and a minor league game or two along the way.

That would be fun.

The Davenport Iowa River Bandits stadium is very cool on a summer night.
Scroll down here:
http://quadcities.riverbandits.milb.com ... p&sid=t565

Would you drive, fly or combo?

The son and I usually take the baseball road trip in late july or early august.
Milwaukee, Chicago, Davenport, Field of Dreams, then home.

It is about 7 hours from home to Detroit, so I suspect I would drive with my Dad, and a friend.

Maryland --> Detroit -->Chicago --> Milwaukee --> Minneapolis --> Cedar Rapids/Davenport -->Indianapolis --> Pittsburgh --> Maryland.

Take a week with my Dad, and it will be perfect. A total of 2400 miles in a week, is easy...