The Cubs fan commited mortal sin. was: Re: Damn Yankees

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Iggy McSnurd" 
<coyoteschild at p...> wrote:
 
> 
> Iggy McSnurd
> 
> ps: What DID the guy do?  I don't follow baseball.  (At the risk of
> offending some, I personally get bored easily by it...  That's why 
I like
> football, and can tolerate basketball if I need to... More action.)

You are pardeoned for your blasphemy against baseball if you never 
played or were able to see it ina park.  Unlike American football, 
which is packaged for television, baseball is not conveyed well on 
tv.  There is so much going on, though-- much more than in footbball-
- that you cannot be bored.  The tv camera focuses only on pitcher, 
catcher and the play with the ball.

Anyway, that Cubs fan should have known better.  I remember at least 
half a dozen times-- once when I was at the park-- that fans shrank 
back in order to give their own team a play on the ball. The 
televsion commentators were trying to smooth things over when they 
said that any fan would have eyes only for the ball.  Nonsense! 
Fans focus on the play.  The story of this fan in't tragic; there is 
a baseball term tat describes it precisely: bus leagu.

Haggridd (Thank you, Pedro Martinez, for your ego. 
"Babe, Bucky, Bukner, Boone.  
Red Sox won't win Series soon.")