|
10-15-2002, 01:14 AM
|
#16 |
|
NetShrine MVP
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: madison, WI
Posts: 152
 |
national league is an upgrade
the national league is a promotion, the baseball is much much better. getting moved to the national league was one of the best things that happended to the brew crew.
|
|
|
10-15-2002, 03:58 AM
|
#17 | |
|
NetShrine Vagabond
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Louisville
Posts: 7,866
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
10-15-2002, 09:13 AM
|
#18 |
|
All-NetShrine Team Member
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: New York State
Posts: 340
|
Welcome aboard lonelybrewerfan!
__________________
"Gazizza." |
|
|
|
10-15-2002, 09:24 AM
|
#19 |
|
Guest
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: washington dc
Posts: 2,625
|
I used to teach first grade if that counts for anything.
|
|
|
|
10-15-2002, 09:29 AM
|
#20 | |
|
NetShrine Vagabond
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Louisville
Posts: 7,866
|
Quote:
 |
|
|
|
|
10-15-2002, 09:52 AM
|
#21 | |
|
NetShrine All-Century Team
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Winter Springs, FL
Posts: 2,503
|
Re: national league is an upgrade
Quote:
How would you know ? The Brewers' glory days with Oglivie, Cooper, Yount, Molitor, Fingers and company all occurred while in the American League.
__________________
"I would submit that if the world survives for a million years, perhaps its finest hour may be that in the last half of the 20th century, when the power to blow up the world rested in the hands of a few men in two very unsophisticated and suspicious countries, we didn't do it, and one American, Richard Nixon, moved the cold war away from permanent confrontation toward victory. How could any wrong that he did compare with that?" - John Sears |
|
|
|
|
10-15-2002, 09:58 AM
|
#22 | |
|
NetShrine All-Century Team
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Winter Springs, FL
Posts: 2,503
|
Quote:
They do play by the rules of the game. The rules are whatever the league says they are. Moreover, American League umpires have called a more by the book strike zone than in the NL (this was even more true before AL umps switched to the inside chest protector). Rules change in all sports to reflect changing conditions - I suppose,Smed, you would favor a return to two-way football ?
__________________
"I would submit that if the world survives for a million years, perhaps its finest hour may be that in the last half of the 20th century, when the power to blow up the world rested in the hands of a few men in two very unsophisticated and suspicious countries, we didn't do it, and one American, Richard Nixon, moved the cold war away from permanent confrontation toward victory. How could any wrong that he did compare with that?" - John Sears |
|
|
|
|
10-15-2002, 10:46 AM
|
#23 |
|
NS Omnipresent Brasilian
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Crazy George's playground
Posts: 10,903
 |
lbf - glad to have you aboard.
here's a recent addition to the NetShrine family who's currently getting a Sports Management MBA.... http://www.netshrine.com/vbulletin2/...&threadid=6734
__________________
Gustavo  NDF ModeratorThose who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin |
|
|
|
10-15-2002, 01:38 PM
|
#24 | |
|
NetShrine's Historian
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Zionsville, IN
Posts: 10,569
|
Quote:
Actually - yes I would prefer the limiting of specialty substitutions in football, but that's beside the point. |
|
|
|
|
10-15-2002, 01:39 PM
|
#25 | |
|
NetShrine's Historian
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Zionsville, IN
Posts: 10,569
|
Re: Re: national league is an upgrade
Quote:
I think the Brewers have a better rivalry prospects with the Cards, Cubs and Reds than they did in the AL, since they were shunted to the East and not with Minnesota and the Sox. |
|
|
|
|
10-15-2002, 02:40 PM
|
#26 |
|
Posts: n/a
|
They WERE in the AL Central before they quit on us, Smed.
So, let me get his straight.... Lonely Brewers Fan is a University of Wisconsin student, a Badger through and through, who prefers National League Baseball? My goodness, your favorite AL team is probably the Tigers... and you probably hate astroturf too! The Horror! Kidding, of course.. welcome to the Board! |
|
10-15-2002, 10:28 PM
|
#27 | |
|
NetShrine's Historian
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Zionsville, IN
Posts: 10,569
|
Quote:
For about 10 seconds, they were! Milwaukee's always been an NL town thanks to the Braves having a farm team there, then actually moving there. Same reason KC is an AL town, and always will be. |
|
|
|
|
10-16-2002, 09:38 AM
|
#28 |
|
Posts: n/a
|
That's actually an interesting question, does a city maintain its loyalties that long? I mean, the Brewers were solid AL Citizens for 30 years until they took the easy road, and became an NL team.
Seriously... is the Braves history so strong, so legendary, so much that the city never really took to the Brewers as an AL team? I tend to think it's that with the exception of a few years in the 80's, they sucked rocks, and any change is a good one. Had the Indians moved to the NL in 92, I think we would have adopted the change as a teriffic one, because in 93, we started getting better. Baseball is so nauseatingly homogonized now, with the filth they call interleague play, that I think very few people have any "League allegiance" anymore. As I think about it... lots of people on here seem to have that allegiance though. Smed seems a hard-core NL fan, and I think the AL shouldn't even concern itself with that mom-and-pop organization. |
|
10-16-2002, 10:18 AM
|
#29 | |
|
NetShrine All-Century Team
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Winter Springs, FL
Posts: 2,503
|
Quote:
I am and always will be an American Leaguer Curiously enough, in football, before the AFL-NFL merger I was basically an AFL fan and still tend to favor AFC teams vs NFC teams unless a victory by the NFC team works to the advantage of the Patriots or Dolphins And I was somewhat of an American Basketball Association fan Just coincidence, I suppose
__________________
"I would submit that if the world survives for a million years, perhaps its finest hour may be that in the last half of the 20th century, when the power to blow up the world rested in the hands of a few men in two very unsophisticated and suspicious countries, we didn't do it, and one American, Richard Nixon, moved the cold war away from permanent confrontation toward victory. How could any wrong that he did compare with that?" - John Sears |
|
|
|
|
10-16-2002, 12:46 PM
|
#30 | |
|
NetShrine's Historian
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Zionsville, IN
Posts: 10,569
|
Quote:
Long live the ABA - the red, white and blue ball rocks! I think most of us became fans when the leagues were separate, and the All-Star game was more of a game, you definitely had a league allegiance. And the parents of the early Brewers fans were definitely NL fans. Back then, those things were passed along. This is one reason why I dislike interleague play. Having healthy league rivalries is good for the game - it breeds interest in the World Series even if two lesser known teams are playing. |
|
|
|
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
| Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
| Display Modes | Rate This Thread |
|
|
Linear Mode
