MLB Off-Topic

[dickey1331]

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I'm from Arlington so it's pretty much required to be a fan of the Rangers. My grandma was a big Rangers fan and that helped with my baseball fandom among with my dad even though he was a bigger Cowboys fan.

[Themayorofawsometown]

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I'm a Yankee fan because a family member was. Bandwagon for days

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[TripleCrown9]

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The 2003 ALCS was the first time I watched baseball on TV and I didn't want to cheer for the Yankees like everyone else at the time. And then after the season ended, I read more about the Sox and that was it.

[CMH]

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Born and raised in The Bronx.

Changed the channel to a Yankees game to immediately catch Mattingly hit a double off the wall.

Stuck with them since.

[DieHardYankee26]

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My dad is from NY, lifelong Yankee fan. When it was time to get me into the sport I was in Atlanta to see a relative and he took us to a Cubs Braves game. Went in knowing nothing about baseball, refused to leave my seat to go to the bathroom during the 7th inning stretch I was so hooked after a couple hours. Then the everyday watching kicked in when I went back home and it was just Yankees. I've always had a little love for the Cubs and the Braves though, especially as it was easy to watch their games on TBS and WGN.



Funny thing, had I been older at the time, I'd almost certainly have been a die hard Nats fan. It was right around the time when they moved to DC (their were even rumors of them possibly moving to Norfolk before they settled on DC at one point, which is very close to where I live).

[DieHardYankee26]

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Side note, Harold Reynolds was on MLB tonight just rambling about how somehow he thinks its the players who don't want to come up to the majors and that they want to save their service time in the minors. After about 2 and a half minutes of rambling, Pedro and Amsinger said nothing in reply and Amsinger just started going through a highlight

[TheMatrix31]

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My older brother was a Braves fan and coupled with him and TBS and 90s prominence and Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz and Chipper.....the rest is history.

And now that they're losing on purpose, it feels like ancient history.

[l3ulvl]

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Grew up rooting for all the local pro teams, so Detroit in everything. Fun story I know

[redsrule]

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I live 10 minutes from Cincinnati. Pretty easy choice especially with dad being a huge Reds fan who grew up with the Big Red Machine.


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[ProfessaPackMan]

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Grew up in the DMV and once the Nats moved to DC, I've been with them since, although it has taken awhile for my fandom with them to grow over the years.

But before them, I rooted for the O's since they were the only local team around here and the Braves since Pops was/is a Braves Fan.

[WaitTilNextYear]

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So new topic.

How/why did you start loving your favorite team?

Grew up in Chicagoland as a dual Cubs and White Sox fan. I even played for the White Sox as a little leaguer and we went undefeated (Mustang level). Huge fan of Carlton Fisk, Frank Thomas, Robin Ventura, Black Jack McDowell, Danny Pasqua, One Dog Lance Johnson, Little Hurt Craig Grebeck for the Sox as well as Ryne Sandberg, Mark Grace, Andre Dawson, Shawon Dunston, Paul Assenmacher, Mitch 'Wild Thing' Williams and Co.

I remember winning tix to a White Sox game through my school for perfect attendance and went with my Grandpa. We saw a battery of Rangers Era Kevin Brown and Ivan Rodriguez. It was a wild game that featured a triple play, a key 8th inning homer by Frank Thomas, and a walk-off grand slam by Robin Ventura off of....Goose Gossage. lol

I also had similar experiences watching Cubs games and especially watching afternoon Cubs games on WGN after school at a friend's house and learning about the game from Steve Stone's analysis alongside Harry Caray. At this time, Sandberg was (and is) easily my favorite player. We'd try to mimic their stances with mini-bats and playing "sock ball" inside and homerun derby whiffle ball outside in the summer. I could do a mean Hector Villanueva stance.

But at a certain age in Chicago, you learn that you shouldn't be a fan of both teams. Even so, I might've still been a fan of both were it not for the infamous White Flag Trade. That's the day my allegiance switched fully to the North Siders....

...going back to watching the Will the Thrill Giants beat our brains in the '89 playoffs, thinking Jerome Walton would be the next great CF...or later that Jeremi Gonzalez would be the next ace, watching a littany of "prospects" fail (Orie, Scott, Kieschnick, Harkey, Patterson, Pie to name a few), watching Doug Dascenzo play every position, seeing a plucky Rod Beck-led team fight into game 163 only to toss Kevin Tapani against Greg Maddux, listening to Kerry Wood's 20-K game on the radio at tennis practice, following a roided-up Sammy Sosa HR chase, going to a baseball game (Jon Lieber start) with my girlfriend at Wrigley on 9/10/01 and thinking how much different the next day would've been, watching Mark Prior's meteoric rise and fall (and buying my brother a Nomar Garciaparra Cubs jersey for his birthday at a game where Prior struck out 16 Reds and the Cubs still lost), living in Chicago during the '03 playoffs and wondering how to celebrate for winning it all only for the Bartman Game to intervene, watching unexpected juggernaut Lou Piniella teams turn into pumpkins in the playoffs, tolerating the early Theo years where picking up Alex Hinshaw was a major roster move....

Point is, I've been a Cubs fan for as long as I can remember and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

[Sportsforever]

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Mine started because we didn't have TV growing up and the only team I could get on the radio was the Braves. Spent many a night going to bed with my walkman listening to Skip and Pete. Once they started winning 1991 after getting their brains beat in that just sealed it...

[LowerWolf]

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My grandparents lived in Atlanta, and every summer when we'd visit them, my grandfather and I would go to Fulton County Stadium to catch a game.

I first got hooked on the 13-0 start to the 82 season. I was on spring break and we were visiting my grandparents then. The city was going pretty crazy over the Braves. And then, even from California, I could follow them on TBS after that.

Stuck with them even though they were largely awful after that 82 season until the miracle Braves of 91. Dale Murphy is still one of my all-time favorite Braves.

[slickdtc]

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Played with both the Mariners and Phillies (the local team)on WSB2k2, even chronicling it on the old SegaSports forums. Didn't feel right.

When I got MVP 2003, I made my pick to be the Cincinnati Reds and play a dynasty mode. Immediately connected with them and have been a fan ever since.

I grew up a hockey fan and got in to football pretty naturally as I grew up. But baseball is a sport I adopted. Kind of seeked it out on my own.

[RyanLaFalce]

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Born into a Yankees family and always wore #2 or #13 in little league on up


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