I used to love watching Jose Lima pitch back when he played for Houston in the Dome. The energy and emotion he brought every start was awesome. I like the dominant pitchers like Pedro, Randy Johnson, Maddux, etc. Those days when you come to the ball park or turn on the TV and you know you'll get to see pitching at its best. I'm not a big fan of those 12-10 final scores, pitcher's duel are more exciting, to me anyway. My favorite everyday players are Ichiro and Vlad Guerrero, and Ken Griffey, Jr. when hes playing.
The Rocket - When Pedro, or anyone else for that matter, has 6 Cy Young awards, let me know. You know a guy loves pitching when he gives all of his kids names that start with K. Vlad - 3 outs and a walkoff homerun against Curt Schilling, on 5 freakin' pitches. Bernie Williams - Dude gets no pub, but he is very solid and one of my favorite players. Alfonso Soriano - It would be really cool to see him be the first member of the 50-50 club.
The Chicken Dude...Charlie Kerfield or something like that when I was a wee lad use to walk around like a chicken for the Stros.
6. The Minnesota Twins dominating their division to make the playoffs one year after fear of being contracted. 5. Really athletic baseball players like Torii Hunter, Ricky Henderson, Alfonso Soriano, etc. These guys just make the game more excting by stealing bases, making diving grabs, robbing batters of homeruns, etc... 4. The Relievers jogging out of the bullpen whenever a brawl looks like it's going to start. Dont' ask me why, it just cracks me up. Maybe it's because they jog out so half-assed like they have no choice. 3. As far as plays go, there's nothing better than plays at homeplate. 2. Killer B's 1. The continuing dream of baseball coming to DC. (I'm talking to you Expos!)
Randy Johson's mullet USED to be my favorite thing in baseball until he cut it off. Now, I'd have to say my favorite thing in all of baseball is when a player whiffs at a high fastball, or the "high cheese". I especially love it when Billy Wagner throws it... My most <b>UN</b>favorite moment in baseball is that annoying "PING" sound so often heard in college baseball. It just seems so wrong...so....hi-tech...
I like the walk off home run and the inside the park home run. I also like a good knuckle ball, which you just don't see anymore.
- outfielders that hit the cutoff man - batters who can hit behind the runner - Bagwell running the bases, best instincts I've ever seen - players that don't do pirhouettes, or bat-flips, or bunny hops or whatever the hell else they do after hitting home runs (Gibson & Drysdale, where are you?) - seeing an outfielder gun a guy down at the plate - catchers who block the plate - pitchers who work fast; and batters who just get in the box & hit (sorry bbs Nomar, but I've seen rain delays shorter than mlb Nomar's at bats...he's almost as bad as Sergio Garcia on a putting green) - watching the game being played on green grass under a blue sky in Houston (at least for 1/3 of the season) - seeing Maddux, Glavine, Cox, freakshow-meth-head-rocking-boy Mazzone & the rest of the sniveling candyasses from ATL get all apoplectic when the ump doesn't give them 4-5" off the plate - hearing Chip Carray (worst announcer in MLB) say "we've got some great prospects to help out the Cubbies next year"...in May - having Jim D. doing 'Stros games instead of Bill Worrell (2nd worst announcer in MLB) - the Curse of the Bambino - whatever Curse is on the Cubbies
5'8'', 160 pound John Cangelosi spearing 6'8'' 235 pound Jeff Juden to the ground and punching him a few times before he was dragged off by his teamates. Good Astros brawl.
This is kinda random: I used to love to watch Bob Knepper pitch for the Astros. When he was on he was just mesmerizing. He'd start his slow curve ball out somewhere near the first-base dugout and then have it break back just enough to catch the outside corner.
