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[mikeyank]

By the way, as much as I love my Duke Blue Devils, the New York Yankees will be #1 in my heart. Yankees baseball is with me basically every day from April through September, and usually longer as the Yankees make the post season most every year.

Here are a few of my boys that I sure hope to see back on the field very soon, Aaron Judge, Gerrit Cole and Jonathan Loaisiga.

 

[kgmets]

By the way, as much as I love my Duke Blue Devils, the New York Yankees will be #1 in my heart. Yankees baseball is with me basically every day from April through September, and usually longer as the Yankees make the post season most every year.

Here are a few of my boys that I sure hope to see back on the field very soon, Aaron Judge, Gerrit Cole and Jonathan Loaisiga.


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Unfortunately, the way the collective bargaining agreement negotiations are going, it may be long while! At least we have another up to six weeks enjoying Duke!

 

[mikeyank]

Unfortunately, the way the collective bargaining agreement negotiations are going, it may be long while! At least we have another up to six weeks enjoying Duke!

You may be right, but hopefully, “cooler heads will prevail”, as they say. It is millionaire players and billionaire owners fighting over how to slice the pie. It is the loyal fans who suffer as well as spring training towns who rely on once a year for tourists to come to their towns in Florida and Arizona and the vendors and ushers and grounds crew workers.

It is said that baseball is as American as apple pie. I’d sure like a slice of each thank you.

 

[kgmets]

You may be right, but hopefully, “cooler heads will prevail”, as they say. It is millionaire players and billionaire owners fighting over how to slice the pie. It is the loyal fans who suffer as well as spring training towns who rely on once a year for tourists to come to their towns in Florida and Arizona and the vendors and ushers and grounds crew workers.

It is said that baseball is as American as apple pie. I’d sure like a slice of each thank you.

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I have to completely agree with you on that!

 

[br6205]

It is said that baseball is as American as apple pie. I’d sure like a slice of each thank you.

It is also American to want more & more & more!

 

[mikeyank]

Saturday night against Florida State, Joey Baker, (on right in pic below with Wendell Moore Jr.), had his most impactful game of the season hitting four three pointers as Duke pulled away late in the first half. Joey reclassified and left high school a year early to come to play for Duke. Now four years later at age 21 he is a senior. He didn’t turn out to be the player I had hoped he would be all another JJ Redick, but he seems like a really nice kid and I wish him the best after college but selfishly for me, I wish him well as he closes out his Duke career over hopefully the next month and beyond into New Orleans and The Final Four in early April.

 

[mikeyank]

Typically this time of year, my sports attention is divided between the end of Duke’s regular season and their post-season prospects along with the beginning of spring training and my Yankees prospects for the upcoming season. However the first week of spring training has been cancelled and the start of the regular season is in jeopardy as there appears to be little progress between the owners and the players association. This next week will be critical in hopes of opening day happening as scheduled on March 31st.

 

[mikeyank]

Derek Jeter

Maybe because I saw him play his entire career from his first at bat until his last, I don’t appreciate just how great Derek Jeter was. But he is #1 by a lot in hits over some of the greatest players in baseball history.

 

[br6205]

It must be kept in mind when the player played. Because of such things as food, supplements and even physical structures played in and bats used. They all play a role and have changed over time. This is not to take away the greatness of his achievement but to put into a bigger context and is appropriate for all sports. I am just throwing this out as a thought.

 

[kgmets]

Duke had a nice win Wednesday night as well!

 

[kgmets]

Typically this time of year, my sports attention is divided between the end of Duke’s regular season and their post-season prospects along with the beginning of spring training and my Yankees prospects for the upcoming season. However the first week of spring training has been cancelled and the start of the regular season is in jeopardy as there appears to be little progress between the owners and the players association. This next week will be critical in hopes of opening day happening as scheduled on March 31st.

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I am pessimistic as the owners make a tiny concession and the players counter with equally tiny movement. Whenever the players want to discuss the major issues, the owners counter "oh its much too early to even discuss that as we must leave that for the very end!" That does not bode well for an early settlement! Then the owners start whining that the season will not start on time, ignoring the fact that the players are NOT striking, but rather they are locked out, and all the owners have to do to start the season on time is to stop locking the players out and start spring training!

 

[mikeyank]

Duke had a nice win Wednesday night as well!

An excellent win indeed kg. And Duke’s depth was shown as sixth man, Jeremy Roach came up huge as did sensational Freshmen AJ Griffin during crunch time. Three regular season games left including Coach K’s final home game on March 5 against hated rival North Carolina. And then the postseason. With no baseball on the immediate horizon, Go Duke!

 

[br6205]

Happy for you both, any good news is a great distraction from what has been happening elsewhere.

 

[mikeyank]

Happy for you both, any good news is a great distraction from what has been happening elsewhere.

Sports like porn are pleasures that are distractions from “real life”.

 

[br6205]

Sports like porn are pleasures that are distractions from “real life”.

I beg to differ. Sports & porn are part of real life just ask the many who have lived and died because of their life choices.

 

[mikeyank]

I beg to differ. Sports & porn are part of real life just ask the many who have lived and died because of their life choices.

Huh? I will exclude sports for the moment, but porn? Who lives and dies over porn?

 

[br6205]

Huh? I will exclude sports for the moment, but porn? Who lives and dies over porn?

In the times of AIDS how many porn players died from the disease and how many then and now over the stigma associated in some circles to what players do through suicides or even murder? The work we choice is part of life, just as another example those race car drivers who die in race related accidents.

It just occurred to me my cancer was entirely job related . Our jobs are part of our life, so for the players in it is it not the same and are they notexposed to the same dangers as we are?

 

[mikeyank]

In the times of AIDS how many porn players died from the disease and how many then and now over the stigma associated in some circles to what players do through suicides or even murder? The work we choice is part of life, just as another example those race car drivers who die in race related accidents.

It just occurred to me my cancer was entirely job related . Our jobs are part of our life, so for the players in it is it not the same and are they notexposed to the same dangers as we are?

What you say is true. However I still separate first responders, police, fire fighters, EMT workers, nurses and the like from athletes and porn performers.

The former are people whose professions are noble and a necessity for public health and safety. While a professional athlete or a porn actor may take risks as well, that is purely for entertainment dollars. I put professional athletes and porn actors in the same category as actors, singers, dancers and musicians. The latter category all have a talent that people are willing to pay for to enjoy, and the performers go into their professions to make money in their chosen fields. There are risks and rewards with all aspects of life.

In my lifetime I have admired and received great enjoyment from performers such as Mickey Mantle, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Paul Newman, Kip Noll and Jake Spencer. They are all entertainers who give me pleasure, albeit in different ways.

 

[mikeyank]

By the way, I really enjoy discussions and debates like this one on the forum. Quite frankly the forum has been really boring to me in recent times. I enjoy verbal engagement with my fellow forumites.

 

[br6205]

By the way, I really enjoy discussions and debates like this one on the forum. Quite frankly the forum has been really boring to me in recent times. I enjoy verbal engagement with my fellow forumites.

I do as well. I am not arguing about what you said about first responders. But everyone must earn some kind of living & while first responders are essential we can't all be first responders. And then consider essential work done by scientist & teachers.