A Great Game

[>TC<]

I listened to the Twins broadcast on the radio tonight. Now I find myself sitting here thinking of how baseball, more than any other game, is so perfect for enjoying over the radio waves. It reminds me of how reading a book can create things in your mind that even seeing the event on a screen can't measure up to.

I still remember, sitting in the dark, late at night, when I was young, fiddling with radio dial, trying to tune in a game from the west coast or St. Louis. It would fade in and out and you had to keep making adjustments, but it was so neat to be able to hear the call of the game. All the guys on my baseball cards. Juan Marichal, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Sandy Koufax, you could picture every move they made, thanks to the radio.

I took the game with me to the batting cage tonight, along with my imagination. I didn't miss a play. I "saw" Radke pitch a great game. Koskie steals two bases, it was awesome!

Nothin could be finer .....

TC

[LesPaul]

so true TC, the other day we were listening to the Avs on the internet radio while working and we realized then that baseball is probably one of the best sports to listen to on the radio. where hockey is about big hits its hard to translate it to the waves but baseball, its like it was made for the waves. i used to only have a AM radio in my car in highschool so I always got to listen the the Rockies play (since they were on all the stations I could get) and I found it to be addicting.

[Durango53]

Ah yes what I have been saying my whole life is now echoed here.

Growing up outisde of a very small town in South Dakota (Ryan has been there) that was all we had was Twins baseball on the Radio. That is how I come to learn the game and watch the game. And that is the way I still love to watch the game. If I had a radio and a TV with a great game on the TV and a crappy game on the Radio I will watch the good game on the TV with no sound and have the bad game on the radio. I to grew up having the Twins talking me though the night back home in South Dakota. It was how I came to love baseball and then when I played it growing up and up until a few years ago I keep thinking of baseball on the radio. It is kind of how baseball should be I think....