Quote:As a kid in the 80's, I was a baseball fanatic. My interest started to wane in the late 90's when the Yankees were buying championships. I like that the sport is more competitive now. I am into the league now also more because my son is playing baseball and likes to watch the games.

 

Oh, I already know what my problem with it is.  I moved from down from Philly in 1991 and was a faithful follower of all pro sports.  I did a good job of keeping up with the Phillies and all Philadelphia sport teams for a good ten years.  However, one of the fun things about watching all of my home team’s games to me was the ‘water cooler talk’ at the office.  I just grew less and less interested with nobody to shoot the breeze with.  I’m sure it made my wife happy.  It probably cut my couch potato time by 75% without my sports viewing.

 

Coincidentally, the only thing that I follow religiously now is the NFL (go figure).  I find it hard to sit and watch anything else. 

 

I can still get into a good hockey game and have been over to see the Lightning a few times. 

 

I really don’t care for what the NBA had become when I first moved down here, and I really don’t care to find out if it has changed again.

 

And baseball, which was my number one love just started to slide to the wayside as well.  We’d go to a good 50 (or more) games a year.  Paid general admission prices and would just spy seats and sneak down to the boxes at around the 3^rd inning.  We had a great gameplan for it and it only failed a couple of times in the hundreds of games that I saw.  I was just naturally drawn to watching baseball.  I’m sure I could have played at least minor league ball (in my mind anyway), and I was actually at a couple of Phillies free-agent camps when they really sucked.  But, alas, I was more into being anti-establishment and didn’t want to devote the time.  Hey…it was early 70’s.

 

I guess the part about having no home team just made me slowly lose interest in all pro sports.  I'm going to see if I can get back into baseball again.  We'll see.

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