Lunch Thread Wednesday

I think I would convert and try my luck with Allah, Buddha, or floaty Hindu thingy.

NO DEAL!

The only way you would get front row seats to the World Series game is if you died and went to heaven. So I choose 2009 so I can see it while I am alive.

Is how many of us would sell our souls to the devil for 15 straight championships?

Oh wait, it was with the Devil, and apparently, it was at least 25 years, not 15 years.

Strangely, I recently just WON a trip to Europe. Crazy shit. The catch? I can only go in October?

So if the Halos make the playoffs and make a serious run at it, I wont even be around this year to see it.

What do I do?

Go to Europe…duh.

The mothership is coming to pick me up in 2012.

if a title is won and you were not there to see it…do you have any connection to it?

my dad died in november 01 and me and my mom were losing the house in october we were actually moving things into storage while I was watching the world series. When they won it was like a cold glass of water in hell lol.

While I’ve been an Angels fan all my life (I’m just 19 by the way), I wasn’t a big baseball fan until 2005. So while I rooted for the Angels in ‘02, I didn’t catch all of the games during that magical run. Only a couple here and there. So while I have the DVD and all, I don’t feel as if I was apart of that run. It wasn’t really a moment I relished in. I never felt I could necessarily connect to it.

When I compare my feelings to the of the Lakers’ titles in ‘00, ’01, ’02, and ’09, I feel very different. I feel as if I was far more engaged with those title runs. To be watching each and every second, makes a huge difference. You feel connected to the team and their success. You don’t feel that way if you just have the team DVD.

I missed most of the playoffs in 2002 because I had a night job and had to listen to the entire World Series on Radio. Somehow it seemed a bit more magical because it was old-fashioned.

if only because…… it turns that life as a grown up is pretty expensive and i could do with a good few years to save up for the first class plane tickets, hotel booking etc that i’d obviously need to make ‘the whole package’ really magical!

This is assuming that this scenario leaves the Angels as perennial contenders, but they just don’t win a WS. I’m still relatively young, and in 2002 I wasn’t as big of a fan as I am now. It’d feel better for me if I was able to see most of the games, follow them more closely, know more of the players and the various moves around the majors that would help me see a bigger picture.

Although I do want to see a 2009 WS win because it would complete my dream year. Steelers, Penguins, and Lakers so far, just need Angels to finish it off for me.

I love these hypotheticals :)

Anyways, 2024 is my choice. I’ll be 44 and I assume have a couple kids by then, and I could share it with them, which is a special treat no doubt.

I can’t help but feel that I would be incredibly bored watching a season of baseball in which the outcome was already determined.

I’d just tell God to get his priorities in order.

I tell my wife and she has me committed. So I’ll take 2024, maybe I’ll be out by then.