SPRING TRAINING T.V. SCHEDULE

[ajax]

Just found out that the first 5 angel exhibition games will not be on Fox sports west. WTF! Waited all winter long for some games and now it's delayed gratification. What's worse is I live in Vegas which means all west coast games are blacked out on MLB. Can't wait for "horsehide to meet hickory".

[Taylor]

I googled "horsehide to meet hickory," and this thread was the first thing to come up.

https://www.google.com/search?q=horsehide+to+meet+hickory&rlz=1CAACAO_enUS660US660&oq=horsehide+to+meet+hickory&aqs=chrome..69i57.3252j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[ajax]

I'm an old timer, and that's a very old expression.

[Blarg]

So you should have remembered a time when not a single spring training game was televised and if you go back far enough they weren't even on the radio. 

[Homebrewer]

Spring training games on TV are pretty bad...1 or 2 innings of regular players against a pitcher who will be working in a grocery store when the season starts.

Not being able to watch them is hardly worth getting upset over.

GOING to spring training hanging out where the players do, and buying your favorite player, or ex-player who is  hanging around in camp, a beer.... or consoling and entertaining the " Baseball Annies" that are left behind at curfew...that's what spring training is all about. 

[ajax]

Yeah, we used two tin cans and a string, and smoke signals to communicate.

[ajax]

20 minutes ago, Homebrewer said:

Spring training games on TV are pretty bad...1 or 2 innings of regular players against a pitcher who will be working in a grocery store when the season starts.

Not being able to watch them is hardly worth getting upset over.

GOING to spring training hanging out where the players do, and buying your favorite player, or ex-player who is  hanging around in camp, a beer.... or consoling and entertaining the " Baseball Annies" that are left behind at curfew...that's what spring training is all about. 

Au contraire, mon ami. Spring training is for looking at new additions to the squad, and reveling in the fact that your team doesn't have to win. That you don't have to feel bad after a loss. For me it is totally relaxing and enjoyable.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

3 hours ago, ajax said:

Waited all winter long for some games and now it's delayed gratification. What's worse is I live in Vegas which means all west coast games are blacked out on MLB. 

It's not just the games, either. Even the replays are blacked out.

[Homebrewer]

9 minutes ago, ajax said:

Au contraire, mon ami. Spring training is for looking at new additions to the squad, and reveling in the fact that your team doesn't have to win. That you don't have to feel bad after a loss. For me it is totally relaxing and enjoyable.

I'll agree there...but spring training TV, as a whole, is about as exciting as kissing your sister (depending on what part of the country you're from, of course)

[JoJo26]

Hickory beat the Horsehide outta South Bend to win STATE! Jimmy Chitwood was on fire!

 

[ajax]

19 minutes ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

It's not just the games, either. Even the replays are blacked out.

It's a crime. Makes no sense whatsoever.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

True that. We're almost five hours from the nearest MLB park by car, yet we are in five teams' blackout areas.

I'm hoping that the new commissioner fixes this when the current contract expires. If I had to create a system designed to kill interest in the game, it would work pretty much like MLB Extra Innings.

[Homebrewer]

But you have "slots o fun" and 99 cent shrimp cocktails..

[Jobu]

28 minutes ago, JoJo26 said:

Hickory beat the Horsehide outta South Bend to win STATE! Jimmy Chitwood was on fire!

 

Black guys must have been shorter back then. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

19 minutes ago, Homebrewer said:

But you have "slots o fun" and 99 cent shrimp cocktails..

Don't forget the card slappers on the Strip with "Girls free to your room".

[makepeac]

2 hours ago, Homebrewer said:

But you have "slots o fun" and 99 cent shrimp cocktails..

Don't Forget the Jolly Trolley!

[Chuck]

I like this @ajax guy.  You should post more! 

[Billy_Ball]

3 hours ago, Jobu said:

Black guys must have been shorter back then. 

Especially when Gene Hackman is your coach.

[WeatherWonk]

Black Converse High-tops! My God, I remember wearing those in Cee basketball in '68.

Now, the only people that buy those are Goth/Emo chicks.

[California Cajun]

19 hours ago, Blarg said:

So you should have remembered a time when not a single spring training game was televised and if you go back far enough they weren't even on the radio. 

I remember Channel 5 televising 2-3 from Palm Springs and 20-25 regular season games.  That's how far I go back.

[greginpsca]

On 2/19/2017 at 8:38 PM, Blarg said:

So you should have remembered a time when not a single spring training game was televised and if you go back far enough they weren't even on the radio. 

in 1961 the Angels televised springs training games. Only a couple of them. The very first Angels ST game was against the Cubs, when Leo Durocher managed the Cubs. In the 1st inning, Ted Kluszuski homered with Albie Pearson on base. This happened again in the 1st regular season game against Baltimore. 

I don't remember any spring since that the Angels have not televised at least one ST game.

[greginpsca]

I do remember the team only televising only 10 regular season games.

 

[California Cajun]

2 hours ago, greginpsca said:

in 1961 the Angels televised springs training games. Only a couple of them. The very first Angels ST game was against the Cubs, when Leo Durocher managed the Cubs. In the 1st inning, Ted Kluszuski homered with Albie Pearson on base. This happened again in the 1st regular season game against Baltimore. 

I don't remember any spring since that the Angels have not televised at least one ST game.

Leo didn't manage the Cubs until 1966.

[Angel Oracle]

On ‎2‎/‎19‎/‎2017 at 10:20 PM, Vegas Halo Fan said:

Don't forget the card slappers on the Strip with "Girls free to your room".

I always have fun with the card slappers.   Every time I walk by one of them, I do the card slap motion myself. 

[Angel Oracle]

21 hours ago, California Cajun said:

I remember Channel 5 televising 2-3 from Palm Springs and 20-25 regular season games.  That's how far I go back.

And the Palm Springs games featured the beer vendor loudly yelling "Ice Cold Beer, BUSCH!", where the tv audience could clearly hear him.