With Baseball season soon upon us, time again for us to predict "When will my team be eliminated"

[LynneSin]

Time to determine when your team will be stastically eliminated from the playoffs.

I think this might be a good year for the Cincinnati Reds and perhaps it'll be around 4th of July when they'll be statistically eliminated from the playoffs. That's almost a month more than last year (I had said Flag Day June 14th)

[LSK]

1. September 24

Go White Sox

[miss_american_pie]

2. I think they already were

At least PNC Park is pretty.

:hide:

[dropkickpa]

3. Isn't it just?

So sad. I LOVE baseball and we stink worse than a week-old kielbasa-and-kraut buffet.

[Bravo Zulu]

39. the Pirates will be eliminating all styrofoam cups at the ballpark this season.

Pirates to recycle, take other green measures at PNC Park
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
By Mark Belko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PNC Park will be a lot greener this summer.

The Pirates are launching an effort to become more environmentally friendly -- from the front office right down to the players' locker rooms.

A key component of the "Let's Go Bucs, Let's Go Green" program will be a "robust" recycling effort aimed at recapturing some 760,000 plastic bottles and aluminum cans used at PNC Park during the season. To assist fans, the team plans to place 180 recycling containers, including 90 silver bottle-shaped receptacles, at key locations throughout the ballpark. It also will establish a "green team" to sweep the stands after games to collect bottles or cans are left behind.
In addition, the Pirates will be eliminating all styrofoam cups at the ballpark this season. Concessionaires Aramark and Levy Restaurants will be using corn-based beverage cups and eliminating most non-biodegradable materials in utensils, plates, napkins and food carriers.

All paper used in the front office, including copy paper and team stationery, and in restrooms will be more environmentally friendly. The team also has installed motion sensors at 86 locations to conserve energy. It also is using energy-efficient bulbs as others are replaced or in new spaces that open in the park.
The team is planning an awareness campaign that includes public service announcements from Pirates players on PNC Park's giant video board as well as information on its Web site, during game broadcasts, and in its publications.
While the initiative likely will create some additional costs, Pirates President Frank Coonelly said it should end up saving the team money in the long run.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08071/864234-100.stm

[flvegan]

4. After they win the World Series. Again.

Flame on!

[azmouse]

5. My team will be in the playoffs again this year.

Go Dbacks!!

[ceile]

6. I will make no such prediction

The 'Stros have a way of bringing me to pure elation and then crushing me w/ a colossal "choke". Therefore, I will leave it to those w/ a stronger constitution to make a prediction.

[MrCoffee]

12. No other ball club can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory quite like our 'Stros

:cry:

[ceile]

14. Oh, so true.

Choke City is such an appropriate name.

[madinmaryland]

7. April 1st. This will be our 16 consecutive losing season!

[Beer Snob-50]

8. in all seriousness....

october! although if they play like they did this weekend we would be in trouble.

[Strawman]

9. They won't. Go Tigers!

[MrCoffee]

10. End of June

Go 'Stros!

[Recursion]

11. I'm a Nat's fan. Roughly one inning into the first game (nt)

[TZ]

13. Heh.

I'm a Nats fan too. Thats just about right...

[madinmaryland]

15. Does Snyder own that Nat's also?

:hide:

[TZ]

19. PFFT!

Wanna make a bet on who's team does better..Nats vs. Pirates? I have some Yoga pictures I could put on the line...:evilgrin:

[madinmaryland]

25. ..

Betting on something that is already bookmarked?

:hi:

[Recursion]

27. Is Angelos still worried his little birdies are going to get eaten?

:hide:

[madinmaryland]

31. No. He's getting 90% of the Nat's television renenue.

[Recursion]

32. Oh right, while DCites have to pay for the stadium

God, I hate former Mayor Williams sometimes...

[mtnester]

16. They are never eliminated until well after the all star break, which is their usual falling apart

mark

I pray for September

I would be happy if they were spoilers

I would be elated if they made the playoffs

Probably need drugs if they made the Series

Depends on Homer, Aaron Harang and Bronson Arroyo, and the health of everyone else except Griffey and the Donkey


We will go see them play, we will cheer, and wish, then go back home and look at the Big Red machine signed baseball we have under glass and make small noises of regret.

[Parche]

17. Does Delaware have a team?

:hi:

[LynneSin]

18. Does Parche have a flaming asshole

:hi:

[Parche]

20. huh?

noooooooo, i was being seriously......
we in Oregon dont have a baseball team, but we call the Seattle Mariners almost home team....

:hi: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[WildEyedLiberal]

21. Probably mid August

The Cardinals are going to suck hard this year. Thanks to the GM for making absolutely NO effort to preserve even a semblance of the playoff teams of just 2-3 years ago.

[TZ]

22. Curious about something LynneSin..

How did ya get to be a Reds fan? My dad lives in Cinci, so I've been to a bunch of games there and grew up being a fan of theirs..They are still my second favorite team outside of the Nats...

[LynneSin]

23. I've been a Reds fan since August 1974

My grandfather and I were watching a Phillies game on TV and for some reason the Reds took and the Phillies didn't

[madinmaryland]

28. A Reds fan? I've been a Pirates fan since the late 60's.

I went to see the Pirates and Reds in 1970 a month or so after Riverfront Stadium opened. (Pittsburgh won!)

[LynneSin]

29. I saw Pittsburgh lose game3 of the 1990 playoffs back in Cincinati

Paul O'Neil cut short Bobby Bonilla attempt to stretch a double into a triple

[madinmaryland]

30. I'm still mad about that!

:grr:

Getting rid of Bonilla was a good thing!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

24. I have two teams

Hometown (born and raised) is Detroit. I predict the Tigers get to the Series so I guess my guess is they are not eliminated.
My home now, suburb of Seattle, Everett. Mariners keep it interesting for us until September 12th....
:toast: Baseball!

[KitchenWitch]

26. I am going to be optimistic and say September 15th

The Twins are almost entirely a new team this season.

[siligut]

33. Baseball?!?!

Not until I have had 37 beers, a total of 102 assorted foodstuffs, give or take and laughed and shouted myself silly to infinity, woohoo I love baseball. That being said, October sounds about right. 2000 was a joy, but …

[Fox Mulder]

34. Minnesota Twins...September 28th.

[cloudbase]

35. Right after

"and the home of the brave."

Seriously, though, Astros out of it by mid August.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

36. Only after they've beaten ass. Ass as in everyone's.

Bosox for the win!

[Magrittes Pipe]

37. The Reds were eliminated on October 14, 2007.

The day they hired Dusty Baker to manage. :eyes:

The Brewers, on the other hand, have a real shot -- especially because (and I think we can all agree on this) THE CUBS SUCK!

[Gato Moteado]

38. i dunno....the cubs might surprise us this year

their offense looks tough. still have some pitching holes to fill but pretty much every team has pitching issues. they might be better this year than they were last year.

[GOPisEvil]

40. The Cardinals will be done by July 31.

This team ain't got it. Oh well, I still have 2006 to remember.