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Swept Away by Baseball

This is getting moved over from the diaries, it is short and sweet. Thanks to Angelino Angel for this...

I have watched a lot of agonizing games this season. And sometimes I curse my boyfriend for initiating me to the sport. I used to hate baseball. Once, on a date to a Dodgers game, after I ate the prerequisite hotdog and had a beer (or two), I made the guy take me home out of utter boredom.

In 2002, I started seeing an avid (actually rabid) Angels baseball fan. I mean, this guy would have severe sports-related mood disorder over any loss or even with any bad play. But I got swept up in his intensity and euphoria. I became very invested emotionally in the team and their wins and losses. I learned who all of the players were and their numbers. I could tell from afar who a player was just by the general shape of his body.

Baseball took on an archetypal importance - most of the time, the players fail and are still considered heroic. If they hit the ball and get on base a third of the time, that is considered to be very successful, even though they fail the other two-thirds of the time at bat. They stand up, alone, and fail, most of the time in front of thousands of people. And then they are also part of a team - best of both worlds - the individual and the collective is both significant.

Being mostly shy and a chicken, this sport has an inspirational importance to me to keep stepping up to the plate and to keep on trying, to do ones best, after each win or loss.

And to still be faithful, even though the team may be sucking.

This Fan-Post is authored by an independent fan. Tell us what you think and how you feel.

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Nice
The last world series champion in California has "Anaheim" written next to their name.

by Anaheim of Anaheim on Jun 23, 2006 3:17 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Cool
it's good to actually hear someone admit they became an Angels fan in 2002. If you're still watching the team this season, then it's OK - you are shedding your frontrunner skin with every loss.

by Higz on Jun 23, 2006 9:56 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

wow
cool post. I remember being intensely motivated to appreciate my country's national pastime with that kind of intensity... for me it was seeing all those Scottish soccer hooligans fight, chant and puke... not to mention reading the headlines of certain team pubs stabbing another team's fan because he sat at their bar... or beating up kids with the wrong color. All so they could kick a pigbladder up and down a pitch in the hopes of scoring 1 measly point...

Surely, I says to myself, I can find similar enthusiam in a sport where guys swing heavy sticks.

Doesn't that just warm your heart?

My signature sucks.

by proletariat on Jun 23, 2006 11:23 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

oh yeah
and that was all within the same city... those are just two teams. Rangers and Celtics, I'm a Hibs fan myself, because I lived next to the stadium.
My signature sucks.

by proletariat on Jun 23, 2006 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

PRIDE OF EDINBURGH
http://www.hibernianfc.co.uk/

yeah, see they're not afraid to list localities in the club names for the sports over there... in fact they encourage identifying you team with your neighborhood. What a wacky concept!

My signature sucks.

by proletariat on Jun 23, 2006 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

YEA!! You posted it - you are awesome!!
told ya it was a cool post!! You've said everything I feel but in a much better way.

by ladybug on Jun 23, 2006 1:11 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Clearly
you need to dump your boyfriend for screwing your life up so much. :-)
Fire Mickey Hatcher. An entire generation of Angels offense depends upon it.

by scareduck on Jun 25, 2006 9:23 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

LMAO!!!!!
seriously, he does sound like he needs a bit of help.

by ladybug on Jun 25, 2006 9:28 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Why?
He sounds perfectly normal to me!

by rspencer on Jun 26, 2006 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

you know what they say

takes one to know one!! giggle giggle

by ladybug on Jun 26, 2006 1:34 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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