@InUnfunky AL Team: Orioles (used to live a couple blocks from old Memorial Stadium during the Ripken bros years)
NL Team: Atlanta Braves (fandom passed down from every grandmother, step-grandmother, honorary grandmother in my life).
I despise the DH, hate the pitching clock, and refused to watch MLB for 25 years after the 1994 players strike. I’m back …
Oh shit
Hardcore...
My cards on the table --
FL boy. Played Little League in '77, '78. Liked the Reds cuz Morgan, Rose, Bench. No way in Hell I was gonna like the Braves (no offense) cuz my granddad, my step-grandad, my stepdad were all ATL fans. 😆 As a Spring Training kid I was brought up being fickle -- in the Tpa area I could see how many teams? and did.
No, I am not a (Devil) Rays fan and would never be a Fish fan.
Moving to the NE was advantageous in many ways. LOL
Why? Cuz the Spanks train in Tpa?
Your assumption is CORRECT!
Although I did watch/listen to Cone's perfect game. 🤓
My spring training mentality has mostly remained intact; there were Francona years that I leaned Sawx (and attended more than a few games at "Fenway South," AKA Camden Yahds -- I even took the tour!) but no since Cora. Back to a fence-sitter with "provisional" leanings...which this year (heh) happen to be LA and SD.
Right, @Mfieck 🤓 😆
@InUnfunky @Mfieck Yes, because of Spring training … and also some level of unexplainable insanity that makes perfectly reasonable people like that team. 😁
@InUnfunky @LKNWoman
Friars seem to be just below boiling...hot, but not quite there. Stay tuned tho'...
Whatchu mean, M? They took 2/4 from the Mets...
Okay, they're just behind the Dbags. Point conceded, but still...
@InUnfunky @LKNWoman @PussyFootingAround
Love to see this! They have the bench, but need a little luck.
@InUnfunky PS — I loved Johnny Bench and Pete Rose!
Also watched the Braves when Hubbard, Horner, Oberkfell, Griffey SR! and poor ol’ Dale Murphy could score 14 runs and still lose! LOL! They were woeful!
You are killing me.
What did you do with all of your time when you were NOT watching baseball?
Cuz during season IT'S ALL I WATCH.
I do not watch movies on TV.
I do not watch sitcoms.
I do not watch endless reruns of SVU or CI. 😆
During Trump I DID watch syndicated Modern Family, The Office (US), and The Nanny. No, really.
Anything to get my mind off of the abomination...
I cannot imagine NOT watching baseball for that length of time. But wow, kudos for real. 👍
@InUnfunky In 1991, I was on bedrest during a difficult pregnancy; the ALCS/NLCS & TwinkiesBraves World Series gave my husband & me our best distraction from our worries that Fall. So, in ‘94, I thought “What about people in our 1991 boat this year who need a distraction? What about [those aforementioned grandmothers] whose joy is watching the Braves?” I did watch non-MLB baseball, am a huge football/other sports fan.Still, probably the longest grudge I’ve ever held -really couldn’t get over it.
@InUnfunky Don’t tell Coach Dad Walz on me! 😂
@InUnfunky Ban me from Target Field (or Ft. Myers); just don’t ban me from Target (where I spend an $85 minimum even when I just go in for a birthday card).
@InUnfunky Gonna assume you’re not a Yankees fan (although I realize how wrong I could be), so we can still be friends. 😂 🤫