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    O sa fac niste propuneri,mai intai sa ne dezvoltam putin.

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    In sfarsit un forum mai acatari depsre baseball. Eu sunt un fan de vreo patru ani deja, urmaresc meciuri, pariez, tot tacamul.

    Despre sezonul asta ce sa spun. Surpinzator, imprevizibil, ca de obicei. Nici vorba sa-ti dai cu parerea despre play-off sau World Series.

    Imi plac LA Angels si, cu parere de rau pentru fanii Yankees, Jered Weaver o sa le cam inchida gura si bata astazi.

    Spor !

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    Bine ai venit pe forum Kaoutchouk!Sper sa ramai pe aici pentru a forma o comunitate de fani a acestui sport in Romania.Momentan am obtinut un sub-forum cu greu.Gasesti topicuri in care sa postezi.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaoutchouk View Post
    In sfarsit un forum mai acatari depsre baseball. Eu sunt un fan de vreo patru ani deja, urmaresc meciuri, pariez, tot tacamul.
    Welcome to the club

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaoutchouk View Post
    Imi plac LA Angels si, cu parere de rau pentru fanii Yankees, Jered Weaver o sa le cam inchida gura si bata astazi.
    Cu parere de rau, ingerii tai si-o vor lua in noaptea asta de la un rookie la al doilea meci al carierei in MLB... 2 games played, 2 wins. Suna bine, nu? Go Clippard!

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    o analiza fascinanta a dimensiunilor si semnificatiilor jocului de baseball:
    http://www.titansbaseballclub.org/Insider.htm
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    mie nu imi merge
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    Odd Ball

    Baseball's relationship with imagination is unrivalled by any other sport. An entire show devoted to baseball art made its way around the world. Baseball has inspired a wealth of fine sports writing, both journalistic and fictional, a great Broadway musical, and a steady stream of po****r films. Of all spectator sports, none has attracted the attention of intellectuals like baseball.

    Though Americans like to think of baseball as their national pastime, it has long been po****r well beyond the United States and Canada. Since the late 19th Century baseball has been a favorite sport throughout much of Latin America and Asia to the extent of having developed a passion for baseball rivaling that of the Americans.

    The attachment many feel for baseball is due in part to the game's unusual way with time and space. In several senses baseball is a distinctively odd field sport. There is hardly an even number associated with baseball: no quarters, no midfield, no halftime and (in its American incarnation) the games does not allow for tie scores. Even the apparent regularity of the diamond-shaped infield is divided into three bases plus home plate.

    While the bases are squares, home plate is pentagonal in shape. Rather than a halftime break, baseball provides its fans with a "seventh inning stretch". The normal team (exclusive of pinch hitters, pinch runners or designated hitters), comprises nine players. The game (unless there is a tie) is nine innings long. Its smaller rhythm units are also odd. Baseball's distinctive rhythm is a kind of waltz where "one-two-three" at bat means "you're out" while the same rhythm in running brings you back home. Asymmetries shape the game's time, its space and its fundamental rules of play.

    The key to the semiotic unity of baseball is the structural asymmetry by which a fixed beginning is poised against to an open and contingent end. This structural asymmetry is an important aspect of baseball's organization of time. Baseball is not so much a slow game as one that unfolds in alternating pulses. Long periods of inactivity are punctuated by sudden bursts of dramatic action. This-alternation permits spectators to withdraw into domestic pursuits (eating, scorekeeping, analyzing the game, or even sleeping), even as the game is being played. This alternation of attention probably contributes to the degree of mental (as opposed to kinesthetic) engagement fans have with the sport. And it makes unnecessary a halftime break from the game common in other field sports.

    The most frequently noted aspect of baseball time is that it is controlled by the contingency of events rather than by the clock. Baseball time is inning time. A game normally ends when the visiting team has played at least nine innings at bat, and when play has produced a difference in score between the teams. Baseball has several theoretically endless or open moments. A game that produces no asymmetry in score can go on without limit. A team can theoretically have an endless inning at bat, in which their opponents fail to produce the required three outs to retire the side. And the batter faces the possibility of an endless at bat, in which he keeps fouling off pitches, producing an interminable standoff between pitcher and batter.

    While these limitless moments are only theoretical possibilities in baseball, they affect how the sport is perceived. Baseball is repeatedly associated with the power to overcome time. W.P. Kinsella's book “Shoeless Joe” (and the hugely successful film adaptation Field of Dreams) celebrates the almost religious vision of baseball with its power to reunite estranged generations and eras through a mystical evocation of the recuperative power of the ball field.

    Baseball is a nostalgic game, with an ability to fold the past back into the present. Even the uniforms of baseball tend to produce nostalgia for clothing styles of times past. Baseball's capacity to bridge generations is an important reason behind the significance of fathers playing catch with their sons.

    Baseball is the only sport that fields organized teams throughout a person's entire life cycle. Baseball's ideal endless summer is a dimension not only of a particular season but also of one's life. It is the sole sports idiom that can encapsulate an entire biography. For reasons of symbolism as well as physiology, Old Timer's Day only makes sense in baseball.

    Baseball's open-ended frame is complemented by its insistent fixing on its beginnings. The asymmetry of baseball time is linked to the tension between open ends and closed beginnings. Within the game itself, the start of play is always ritually marked. The season begins with a ceremonial opening pitch that builds up to the umpire's call to "Play Ball!"

    The orchestration of space in baseball parallels closely its asymmetrical organization of time. The lopsidedness of baseball space is immediately apparent to anyone entering a ball field. Baseball plays itself out on a kind of wedge-shaped field. The ball field is defined by an inner zone (from which the game gets its "innings") that is precisely measured and identical in every field. At the apex of this infield is home plate, also called the dish. The three bases and home plate define a 90-foot square, while the pitcher's mound is exactly 60' 6" from home plate, the result of an early surveyor's error.

    By contrast with the precisely standardized infield, baseball's outfield is not governed by such fixed dimensions. Outfield distances are governed by minimum, but not maximum dimensions. From home plate to the outfield fence, as measured along the foul lines, a field must measure at least 250 feet (325 feet in professional fields). From home plate to the centerfield fence, on a line drawn through second base, the distance must measure at least 400 feet, although in many instances these are merely reference guidelines. As with time in baseball, there are no outer limits in the constitutive rules governing baseball space.

    These spatial asymmetries and contingencies mean that ball fields do not have a standard configuration like other playing fields do.

    This asymmetrical structure is also realized in baseball's alternation of home and away as both spatial and symbolic dimensions, the fundamental rhythm of the game itself, where teams alternate between being at home (at bat) and in the field. Runners or batters who are unsuccessful in moving themselves around the bases are called out.

    The most basic realization of baseball's asymmetrical form is the fact that in baseball a team never faces directly the opposing team. The game juxtaposes a field of coordinated players against individual players either at bat or running the bases. In fact, the team at bat is kept out of sight, in a so-called dug-out, so that only an individual player faces the fielding team.

    Each baseball player has two alternating personas: a defensive role (in the field), and an offensive one (at bat). The home area of play is the locus of individuated action, while the outer field is the focus of more socially coordinated play.

    The ideological foundations of this opposition are built into the terms used to speak about the game. Fielders are playing their positions, while batters and runners are what they do. One never plays batter: one bats or is up at the plate. Moreover the closer a fielder comes to playing at home, the more he is considered an offensive rather than a defensive role. Thus pitchers have an essential status like batters (one never plays pitcher), and catchers do not play home plate in the way that a fielder plays the outfield or plays third base.

    The key asymmetry underlying those of time and space in baseball is the opposing of individual action (at home) and social interaction (in the field). Baseball thus orchestrates a set of complex and problematical relations between communitarian values and those of individualism, engaging them in a kind of dialogue.

    Common metaphors derived from baseball use this ideological tension to characterize male dating strategies. Getting to first base and moving around the bases are common metaphors for male sexual adventurism, with success phrased as "going all the way” and failure understood as "striking out." It is revealing that these idioms are neither used when sex is a commercial venture ("That hooker was a good catch") nor when it is fully domesticated at home ("I went all the way with my wife last night"). Baseball metaphors appropriately structure sexual adventurism only when it involves moving through a social field with at least the possibility of bringing the catch back home.

    Baseball's fascination with statistics is probably linked to its romance with individuated action, and the democratic fondness for reducing qualitative distinctness to quantitative comparison. In this way, the quantification of baseball is equivalent to that of polls and market surveys by which everything can be reduced to common terms and compared.

    The basic action-structure of baseball differs from that of most field sports. Most have a common basic game plan. The aim is for one team to move across a field of defenders with the goal of placing an object (a ball or a puck) in their goal-space at the opposite end of the field.

    In baseball, by contrast, offensive strategy is to separate the ball and the player by as much territory as possible. In baseball it is the player who scores (by coming home) and not the ball. Even when a homerun is hit out of the park, the score is not made by the ball but by the player's making his way unimpeded around the bases and returning home again. Unlike other field sports, whenever the ball catches up with the runner in baseball, the runner is in danger of being out.

    The action of baseball can be conceived as a series of individuals who attempt to leave home, and make a circuit through a social field, marked by obstacles. It is not getting to the field itself that scores however but returning safely home. Baseball is a telling of a mythic journey of conquest, where a lone hero sets out on a perilous adventure, with the hope of returning home with newfound wealth, or wisdom.

    Baseball's associations with aspects of culture and character are deeply rooted in the game's forms. It is thus not surprising that the game should also mirror in its practices many of the characteristics of social life with respect to gender and race.

    Baseball, in its organized tension between social cooperation and heroic individuals, also reflects a deep ambivalence about the relation between rules and personal assertiveness. Though baseball's umpires control all play, and their decisions are never overruled, highly stylized conventions of arguing with the umpire by players and coaches are part of the game. Team members will even risk being ejected from the game to carry on the ultimately fruitless ritual of facing down the umpire. "Kill the umpire" is a classic baseball expression. From the earliest years of Little League play, baseball models for boys a tradition of questioning authority, even as they grudgingly learn that in baseball there is no alternative to acceding the umpire's rulings.

    This orchestration of time, space, and action in baseball defines the essence of baseball in all its oddities.
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    Un articol misto despre Bonds si A-Rod: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/colum...8&sportCat=mlb

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    Si fetele,ma rog,de ce nu pot juca ? Mie mi se pare foarte aiurea :| Imi place sportul si chiar mi-ar placea sa pot sa ma inscriu undeva si sa pot sa joc,dar nah...welcome to Bucharest! Pare-se ca inca se mai face discriminarea aia vesnica a femeilor...Pacat!

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    "nu exista echipe de fete" How funny! S-a facut vreun sondaj si s-a hotarat ca nu exista fete dornice de baseball? Va zic eu ca daca s-ar pune bazele unei echipe de fete, n-ar ramane locurile neocupate.

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    Cren, iubito, femeile nu joaca baseball, ci softball.
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    Ma rog Ideea e ca noi n-avem echipa de fete Si e frustrant :-<

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