I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)

[UK Redsox]

Jeff Bagwell, Tim Raines and Ivan "Pudge'' Rodriguez were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on Wednesday, while Vladimir Guerrero and Trevor Hoffman fell just short of the 75 percent threshold required in voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Bagwell got 86.2 percent of the vote, and Raines got 86 percent. Rodriguez got 76 percent, receiving four more votes than the necessary 332 of 442.

Glad to see Raines make it at last but surprised that Hoffman missed out

[UK Redsox]

#34 to be retired

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2017/01/26/red-sox-retire-david-ortiz-number-june/IOKucRQvPtVgjMZxkkCGGL/story.html

[Jon Crofts]

I'm in NY end of Feb and my colleagues have rented a ball park for the evening as part of a team building project closedown celebration, we get coaching and then get to play a few innings of baseball.  Having driven past it many times and sat staring at it from the traffic jams that wind their way down from the Palisades of New Jersey into the Lincoln Tunnel, I get to strut my stuff and knock it out of the park at Weehawken Stadium on Friday 2nd March.

Having played softball at school and pretty good in the hand eye co-ordination department I'm looking forward to this.

[UK Redsox]

I'm in NY end of Feb and my colleagues have rented a ball park for the evening as part of a team building project closedown celebration, we get coaching and then get to play a few innings of baseball.  Having driven past it many times and sat staring at it from the traffic jams that wind their way down from the Palisades of New Jersey into the Lincoln Tunnel, I get to strut my stuff and knock it out of the park at Weehawken Stadium on Friday 2nd March.

Having played softball at school and pretty good in the hand eye co-ordination department I'm looking forward to this.

That sound good Jon

The closest that I've ever come to playing baseball was a couple of hours in the batting cages in Cooperstown and throwing a ball around in a sporting goods store in Chicago. We were asked to leave the store

I played a bit of softball in the early nineties but nothing really competitive.

[Jon Crofts]

I'm in NY end of Feb and my colleagues have rented a ball park for the evening as part of a team building project closedown celebration, we get coaching and then get to play a few innings of baseball.  Having driven past it many times and sat staring at it from the traffic jams that wind their way down from the Palisades of New Jersey into the Lincoln Tunnel, I get to strut my stuff and knock it out of the park at Weehawken Stadium on Friday 2nd March.

Having played softball at school and pretty good in the hand eye co-ordination department I'm looking forward to this.

That sound good Jon

The closest that I've ever come to playing baseball was a couple of hours in the batting cages in Cooperstown and throwing a ball around in a sporting goods store in Chicago. We were asked to leave the store

I played a bit of softball in the early nineties but nothing really competitive.

I'm in the US 10 or more times a year and I keep promising myself a session in the batting cages and every time I go I manage to forget about it or not find a nearby cage setup. I will do this!

[UK Redsox]

How did the baseball go Jon ?

[KRS]

My first baseball game in a few weeks...the World Baseball Classic Final in Los Angeles!

Could anyone give me a quick run down of the rules that can be easily explained to the lady I'll be going with?!

Disclaimer: we both know nothing about baseball so the rules would be useful for me too!

[PeterWithesShin]

Does this help? http://www.baseball-rules.com/basicbb.htm

[PeterWithesShin]

The other thing i'd recommend is watch a few full games before you go. MLBtv has games and there's loads on youtube.

[UK Redsox]

My first baseball game in a few weeks...the World Baseball Classic Final in Los Angeles!

Could anyone give me a quick run down of the rules that can be easily explained to the lady I'll be going with?!

Disclaimer: we both know nothing about baseball so the rules would be useful for me too!

My best advice would be for you to pay to fly me over and sit with you during the game

[Villa Lew]

My first baseball game in a few weeks...the World Baseball Classic Final in Los Angeles!

Could anyone give me a quick run down of the rules that can be easily explained to the lady I'll be going with?!

Disclaimer: we both know nothing about baseball so the rules would be useful for me too!

It's just like a game of rounders.

[UK Redsox]

Relief in the short-term at least for the Red Sox David Price although I'm concerned that this might be a sign a more problems down the road

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18821913/david-price-boston-red-sox-relieved-avoid-elbow-surgery-says-no-table-return-date

[Jon Crofts]

How did the baseball go Jon ?

What a laugh. I did pretty well and managed to keep the majority in play.  Fastballs I can deal with, I was getting the hang of a curve ball but the slow pitches I was hopeless, about a 5% hit rate.

[UK Redsox]

Israel and The Netherlands both beat Korea in the WBC

https://www.worldbaseballclassic.com/bracket

[UK Redsox]

The team of vaguely Israeli players beat the team of vaguely Dutch players to go unbeaten in their group.

However, both teams qualify for the next round

Play in the USA & Mexico groups starts today