Why no baseball avatars?

[Lauren2882]

Can anyone tell me why DU has avatars of football teams available but not of baseball teams?
The playoffs are here and I wanna support my team, man.

[aquaman]

1. I hate baseball

I tried to like it, just can't do it.

[kanrok]

2. I'm sorry to hear that

Baseball, after all, is possibly the world's most perfect sport. Can I get an "amen" here?

[Redneck Socialist]

3. amen brother!

Go Red Sox!

[scarlet_owl]

7. Double Amen!

Go Cards!

[arwalden]

15. Go O's...

... that would be ORIOLES.

[Lauren2882]

8. :)

AMEN!
... ok, I don't know about "world's most perfect sport," but it's damn cool and one of the things that makes me feel most patriotic.

[VOX]

14. Another amen!

Go Athletics!

:kick:

[Drifter]

19. go A's ...

Lets nip this ridiculous Cubs Vs Redsox speculation early.

They should start discussing this when both of these teams are in their respective championship series (and not a moment sooner).

I predict both the Cubs and the Redsox will be defeated handily in their first series. Lets face it, both teams sqeaked into the playoffs.

Lets get a grip here.

Cheers
Drifter

[mac56]

17. Tell it, brother!

AAAAAA-men.

[JackDragna]

11. Gee, I love people like you.

..who suffer from the "Metallica Syndrome," so named by me after the subject of its first occurence on the net. You jump into a conversation on the internet to tell us something we like sucks, just so you can give us all your godly, worldly opinion on matters. Thank you, o master of all that is worthwhile, for sharing with us your gilded judgment. Now, go take a long walk off a short pier.

[Kenneth ken]

4. 'cause they haven't got round to it yet prolly n/t

[sasquatch]

5. Because baseball isn't as much as a democrat sport as football is

If you think about it football has a salary cap so teams can't outspend each other; baseball doesn't. Football gives it's top draft picks and easiest schedule to it's worst performing teams; baseball doesn't. Vince Lombardi the man and legend they named the championship trophy after was a Kennedy Democrat; all baseball mangers and owners are Repugs. I think that's why they did it:think:

[Lauren2882]

6. hmmm....

I guess that's possible, but that explanation just sounds too... complex... to me. I just would be surprised if someone put that much thought into it.

[HuckleB]

9. Nope.

Baseball has a stronger union. MLB owners don't have as much power as their counterparts in the NFL. In many ways, MLB is much more Democratic than the NFL.

[sasquatch]

13. You're wrong

It isn't better because of it's stronger union. All that other stuff I listed is better then that if you ask me.

[HuckleB]

18. Whatever.

Baseball still has far more parity than football. Look at the won-loss percentages of the best and worst teams. Football is always incredibly far apart compared to baseball. Nevermind the reality that the NFL owners have a stranglehold on power, and nevermind the constant advertising and PR glitz, and announcer washovers of bad calls and bad behavior. Sorry, but the NFL is the ultimate example of the GOP gone awry.

[Elidor]

10. Because YOUR TEAM SUCKS!!!

:evilgrin:

I should just change my DU name to EvilGrin!

[evilgrin]

12. And so I have

Errr, except I forgot to capitalize the E and G, dammit!

[Red_Storm]

16. AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baseball in October...... one of lifes great joys .......

[MaineDem]

20. I've wondered this myself

And welcome to DU! :hi:

[pmbryant]

21. Good question. I just put in a formal request in the ATA forum.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=120&topic_id=4609

Thanks for bringing this up again. A few of us buried requests in an earlier thread about football avatars, but they seem to have gone unnoticed.

Go Cubs!

:bounce:

--Peter