As with last season's offering, anyone can use the app to listen live to games, as well as get a virtual idea of what's happening at the park with MLB's blow-by-blow Gameday updates. The app also offers scores and stats, as well as some in-game highlights and a video library that's searchable by both player and team. If you're the type of fan that can rattle off ground ball to fly ball ratios and stolen base percentages like Rain Man reciting phone numbers, then quite simply you will love this app. Claiming to offer the most detailed player statistics available on an iPhone app, FanGraphs will let you look back and analyze every major player in baseball history, as well as look forward with live win probability graphs based on game data for the season.
Favorite players can be tracked with full, live box scores that link through to past stats, every play can be analyzed to see how it impacts the game, and there's even up-to-date advanced fielding metrics via FanGraph's "Ultimate Zone Ratings. It could be argued that the stadium is as much a character in baseball as the opposing teams or the crowd.
A celebration of the nation's ballparks is offered in one neat little app — Ballpark Envi — spanning baseball's geography as well as its history from Shibe Park to the new Yankee Stadium. Browsable by team, or by American and National League, every current Major League baseball stadium is detailed with stadium pics and slide shows, seating charts super useful for booking tickets as well as the ability to see the park's location on a map.
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Whether you want to glimpse Dodger Stadium's wavy roofs on the outfield pavilions or the orange foul poles of the Mets' new Citi Field this app will give you an insider glimpse of America's amazing ballparks with all their quirks and characteristics. There are a dearth of 99 cent alternatives available in the App Store, but for looks and an intuitive interface the app works on an "interview" premise asking you for all the data it needs to build a complete picture of the game the iScore Baseball Scorekeeper is the champ.
As well as appealing to those hardcore fans that like to sit and score every game, this is also a good option for those new to baseball scorekeeping - you don't have to learn all the abbreviations and symbols and iScore offers a full set of tutorial videos to get you using the app like a pro. Working on the basis that being a fan is in fact misery the agony of defeat and all that jazz the apps make sure you are kept as absolutely up-to-date as possible with a comprehensive set of stats, opinions and news drawn from national and local papers, broadcast media and blogs.
I'm a Mets fan. Best move ever was marrying a sports fan. If you ever meet in the World Series, your relationship will crumble shortly thereafter, or it will last forever, having passed the greatest test. So it's a bit similar. I landed on the sit next to me while I ramble.
She's a good sport about it but she really doesn't like baseball at all. At least she's into football fairly heavily like me. This may be some solid advice from a Giants fan -- no though, I still don't forgive you for His reply was "Well, that sucks, also Porcello totally deserved the Cy Young this year" I didn't message him back: I don't think it matters if the person you're with likes baseball or not. But I think you should try and find someone that will at least try to learn about it or experience baseball with you since it's obviously very important to you.
Before I met my fiancee I don't think she knew a single thing about baseball. But we go to games and she asks me questions and takes a genuine interest in the sport and that's all I can ask. It brought me so much joy watching her get riled up during the Jays playoff runs the last couple of years. Of course it goes both ways, if you're with someone that doesn't know much about baseball, there's no point about telling them every advanced stat you know, unless you want to bore them to death.
I'm from Ontario, but was living in Alberta, and all my friends and dudes in the field just knew me as 'that chick who watched all the baseball'. I'm a male who doesn't go to that many games, but I have a hard time not talking baseball during the season. Luckily I've been single for 3 years, allowing me to watch about games a year!
When I lived in Michigan, I only knew a handful of people in general to talk baseball with, none female and none where I lived in Michigan. I think it's a bad region for that. Yeah, I used to go out with a guy who liked Basketball as much I liked baseball -- and we'd go to games together but neither was really into each others sports -- and while it was fun, we both kinda got sick of driving across the city to each others sports teams He lived closer to the Pistons and I live closer to the Tigers.
My wife is not a terribly dedicated baseball fan but is usually down for a game or two each season. She will NOT watch a regular season game on television, however. On the other hand, I am a bona fide baseball addict. But it works and we will be married 20 years in August. As you know, finding the right person is all about compromise and balance. While it would be awesome if my wife was more interested in baseball, it certainly wasn't a dealbreaker!
Hmmm, this sure is an interesting problem to have, considering that IIRC baseball is the sport with the highest percentage of male fans. Like someone else said, maybe check out a Tigers bar where everyone is actually going to be interested in the games? Sometimes watching a game at a bar is a better way to find dedicated fans than watching it at the actual stadium, since there's no corporate crowd at a bar.
If I were single now, every date would be at a ballgame, and if they can't keep up I'd auto-eliminate. My partner played softball and enjoys baseball, but doesn't know much about current MLB. For instance, she knows rules and strategy, but wouldn't know Mike Trout from Domonic Brown.
We go to a handful of games each season. She likes listening to the Mets' broadcasters on TV, but usually distracts herself with a series of jigsaw puzzles while I watch. I think the middleground is finding someone who is fanatical about a different thing altogether, so that they understand what it's like. I used to date an artist who didn't like baseball at all.
We went to a few games and she could not have been less interested in what happened on the field. But she liked critiquing uniforms, advertisements, comparing different stadiums, etc. So she always got something out of each game. I think the middle ground is finding someone who is fanatical about a different thing altogether, so that they understand what it's like. So basically so long as they're nerdy about something to a crazy extent it would be fine. If you're open to dating a guy who isn't particularly interested in sports, I'd recommend ones who are programmers or use a lot of math and stats for the day jobs or hobbies.
I ended up marrying a programmer who grew up thinking that baseball was about as much fun as watching paint dry thanks to his grandparents who would watch Cards games all the time but yell at him if he asked any questions about what was happening but once we had gone to a few games and had heard lots more on the radio he really started getting into the statistical aspect of it, and while it's still much more of an amusement than a serious passion for him, he gets why I'm into it in the same way that I get why he's into his own things.
I'd just look for a guy who has a few serious hobbies of his own -- maybe even mods a forum for his favorite MMORPG -- and loves numbers. And if he wants to spend some time drinking beer and chatting about non-baseball stuff during the game, there's nothing wrong with that, either. There's a learning curve, after all: My personality and demeanor seems to have helped weed out those who may not be able to take it. I am a massive database nerd who gets off on solving data structure and optimization problems. If anyone gets to know me despite that, discovering my crippling baseball addition makes me seem normal and well rounded.
Where it takes a second turn for the worse is when I make databases to manage games I run in Tigers' live game threads. A hockey fan can be converted, or will at least understand a high level of fandom and have the ability to attend a game and actually watch the game.
The majority of hockey fans do watch every game and are familiar with every player on their team - or every team in the league. People who claim to be baseball fans are a lot more likely to be casual fans as you describe. I think there's something to be said about finding someone who doesn't exactly share your greatest interests.
Personally, I dated one girl who was ever super into baseball, and I didn't find it to be that attractive of a trait - because when I wanted to tell her something I found out that was interesting about the sport, oftentimes I'd second guess myself and think "She already knows this, what's the point in telling her? There's pleasure to be found in dating people with different tastes than your own, and I think the most important thing you can focus on is finding someone you're really able to have open, honest, and interesting conversations with - regardless of the topic.
I find non-baseball nerds to be the best to have conversations about baseball with - when I'm out in the real world. Online, I love talking with y'all.
Either way, best of luck to you and I hope this thread helps you figure things out in some way or another. When i first started talking to my significant other, I sent her a picture of me at Wrigley with a little league team behind me. I was all "great, I'm at this game, and a bunch of kids are behind me.
When I met the lady who later became my wife, she had zero interest in baseball growing up in the Pittsburgh area during the doldrums of the Pirates probably didn't help. I, on the other hand, was a bit of a fanatic about the Red Sox.
I just told her so. And I told her "you don't have to care about baseball, that's fine. But I'm not going to stop. So all I can really ask is that you be okay with my caring about something that you don't care about. And she was, and over the years she started to care more and more, learning about the game basically through osmosis. When the Sox won it all in I had to go into the bedroom and wake her up to tell her; she mumbled something about that being nice and rolled over and went back to sleep.
By she was staying up and watching all the playoff games with me. The point is, you don't have to expect someone to be into baseball as much as you are.
If they like you , they'll grow to like - or at least tolerate - the stuff you like. You can't build a relationship on baseball alone, but you can build a relationship that has room in it for baseball. No reason to believe you won't! Hey, I had to go through a half dozen failed relationships before I hit one that worked out, so I understand the virtues of being positive. Ironically, the number of times I had to say "wait 'til next year" as a Red Sox fan in the '80s and '90s probably helped with that too But really, I've given up on ever dating anyone who truly loves baseball, so instead I focus on dating people who are sex-positive, among other things.
I've had success in getting girls interested when I take them to a game I convinced my wife that ten games a year were ten guaranteed dates where we could talk about anything she wanted as long she was willing to deal with crippling despair and the occasional outburst. We don't have the MLB. I listen to the radio guys a lot while I'm doing stuff around the house. Jim and Don are amazing and you should give them a go if you haven't yet. Maybe I just like old guys that tell bad jokes and baseball stories though I sell my girlfriend on the experience. It's not all about the game, it's about going with friends and family and spending time together.
I've had good luck with this approach before too. Baseball is beautiful in part because there are so many levels of enjoyment-- from tanning in the bleachers to stat porn to meeting some crusty old dude frowning and keeping score.
I guess if all else fails I can find a Giants fan. The mutual hate will probably make for some fun sexy times. Any of you single baseball women in NY? I have that problem with women.