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GTKY: Baseball!
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Hey sportsfans, let's talk about baseball!
National League or American League?
Who's your team, and why (is it your hometown team, your grandpa's favorite, etc)?
Who is your current favorite player?
Who is your all-time favorite player?
What is your favorite baseball-related memory?
BONUS: Share a GIF from your favorite baseball movie!
National League or American League?
Who's your team, and why (is it your hometown team, your grandpa's favorite, etc)?
Who is your current favorite player?
Who is your all-time favorite player?
What is your favorite baseball-related memory?
BONUS: Share a GIF from your favorite baseball movie!
Re: GTKY: Baseball!
NL (and what is up with pitchers not hitting in the AL - seriously? DHs?)
Who's your team, and why (is it your hometown team, your grandpa's favorite, etc)?
Brewers - hometown team #mkenative
Who is your current favorite player?
Eric Thames - but to be fair I haven't been keeping up recently because we don't have cable.
Who is your all-time favorite player?
While he was only on the team briefly - CC Sabathia. He basically got us to the playoffs in 2008.
On the 2011 team - Nyjer Morgan.
What is your favorite baseball-related memory?
Watching the Brewers win the NLDS in 2011.
BONUS: Share a GIF from your favorite baseball movie!
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National League or American League?
American League. Love me some AL East!
Who's your team, and why (is it your hometown team, your grandpa's favorite, etc)?
BRONX BOMBERS, born and raised! I get a lot of crap for being a Yankees fan where I live currently, especially since my city has a MLB team. But you're definitely allowed to be a Yankees fan if you're from NY!
Who is your current favorite player?
Didi Gregorius. Derek Jeter is a tough act to follow, but Didi is a great short stop and a solid hitter. Plus, he's super cute, he speaks four languages, and he's been knighted. I'd love to just have a conversation with him!
Who is your all-time favorite player?
This is a toss-up for me. I tell people Don Mattingly. Everyone loves Don Mattingly, except for that Blue Jays fan I ran into at a ballpark one time. He's just wrong.
But the real answer is Darryl Strawberry. At the time I didn't understand the whole drug abuse thing, and I really liked that his last name was Strawberry.
For the record, this is also one of my favorite Simpsons episodes.
What is your favorite baseball-related memory?
My dad took me to my first MLB game when I was in high school. Sitting in front of us was this adorable family, I specifically remember the dad and his twin sons. They couldn't have been older than 4. Anyway, at some point during the game, a batter hit a foul ball. I shit you not, the ball was going to hit my dad directly on the nose, and he was not reacting quickly enough. But then, the dad from the row in front of us came walking down the stairs carrying a tray full of nachos, and barehands the ball maybe a foot from my dad's face, and doesn't drop a thing!
BONUS: Share a GIF from your favorite baseball movie!
ETA: I wasn't done talking!
National League or American League?
American!
Who's your team, and why (is it your hometown team, your grandpa's favorite, etc)?
Boston Red Sox. They're my hometown team and I was raised by parents who are both from the city (I have always lived in the 'burbs). I've loved the team and the game from birth, basically. My dad would take me to Fenway as a little kid and we'd sit there with a scorebook and he'd teach me how to score the old-fashioned way. (That sounds dirty but you know what I mean
Who is your current favorite player?
Andrew Benintendi. He's such a bro.
Who is your all-time favorite player?
Nomar Garciaparra.
What is your favorite baseball-related memory?
In 2004 (the year the Sox finally won the World Series) I was living in Japan. I'll never forget my dad emailing me the moment they won game 7 of the ALCS, beating the Yankees and going to the series. I was in the middle of teaching a class, but I saw his message flash on my phone. The second class was over, I ran to my apartment, called a travel agent, and booked a flight home for the next day. I had a friend pick me up at the airport and drive me to my parent's house, and they had no idea I was coming. They both freaked out and I got to watch the Sox win it all with them. Even now it makes my heart so happy to think of that moment.
BONUS: Share a GIF from your favorite baseball movie!
Crap I'm not smart enough to mobile gif, but it would for sure be something from Field of Dreams.
@kmalls - I really want to go to Fenway soon. I want to watch a game at every park, but the top of my list is Fenway. My dad tells me not to bother, but I think he's biased.
Who's your team, and why (is it your hometown team, your grandpa's favorite, etc)? Milwaukee Brewers (FX this is our year!!)
Who is your current favorite player? Nolan Arenado. He's not a Brewer but he is easiest the best 3rd baseman in the league. And doesn't hurt that's he's gooooorgeous.
Who is your all-time favorite player? This is an impossible question and I refuse to answer it.
What is your favorite baseball-related memory? My wedding. Instead of a reception, we took our guests to a game where my team played his team. I caught a foul ball in my wedding dress. It was the SHIT.
BONUS: Share a GIF from your favorite baseball movie!
@msmeeseeks That story is AWESOME. Definitely would make the ESPN reel these days.
@kmalls MH and I are on a mission to make it to a Fenway game either this season or next, just to see the ballpark. It's up there at the top of my list. Your story makes my heart happy. I miss Big Papi and maybe cried a little bit when he left.
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National League or American League? National League
Who's your team, and why (is it your hometown team, your grandpa's favorite, etc)?
Los Angeles Dodgers. I grew up in and still live in a suburb of LA. I grew up going to games and my grandfather had season tickets for almost 50 years until he gave them up about 5 years ago.
Who is your current favorite player? Clayton Kershaw. His talent is insane and he just seems like an all around good guy.
Who is your all-time favorite player? This is hard.... it was Mike Piazza until a few years ago when my brother met him in person and he was a total ass. Can I say Vin Scully? I know he's not a player but he's so much a part of Dodger baseball. I miss hearing his voice calling the games.
What is your favorite baseball-related memory? right before my grandpa gave up his tickets, my grandma called me and offered me three of his four tickets as long as I picked up my grandpa and took him to the game with us. We did and my grandpa sat there and listened to Vin Scully call the game on his transistor radio because "it's not a Dodger game unless Vin calls it."
My less sentimental one is going to Phillipe's on Opening Day, going to the game, and watching Clayton Kershaw pitch a complete game shutout AND hit a homerun, which was the only run scored that day.
BONUS: Share a GIF from your favorite baseball movie!
@looeeze you have the coolest wedding ever!
Both. I was raised AL but married into a Phillies family, so I secondarily root for the Phillies when it doesn't matter
Who's your team, and why (is it your hometown team, your grandpa's favorite, etc)?
New York Yankees! Because my father is a Yankee fan, and his father before him, and his father before him when all the Italian immigrants became Yankee fans.
Who is your current favorite player?
Don't have one now because the Yankees are NEVER on TV where I live now, but I'm excited to get to know this new team.
Who is your all-time favorite player?
Jorge Posada
What is your favorite baseball-related memory?
Easy - when my Yankee-hating husband (boyfriend at the time) took me to a Yankee playoff game in Detroit and proposed. I said I always wanted to get proposed to on the big screen at a baseball game, so of course he waited for the playoffs... A close second is when DH and I went to a Cleveland Indians game with my parents (they were playing the Yankees) and the sun was shining directly in our eyes. Unfortunately for DH, the only hats we had were Yankee hats and he had to wear one. There is one blurry, obscured photo I can use against him one day.
NY Yankees fan! I'm from NY so you fall for them young and hard! I am suuuuuuper lucky because my FIL owns 4 seats 10 rows behind home plate at Yankee Stadium. He usually gives them to clients, but we can always go if we want. And we got to go to Jeters last game and retirement ceremony which was amaaaaaazing!
@kiwi2628 Jeter's last game was a great one, too! I'm super jealous. I'm not a Yankee fan (all y'all coast teams have too much money and hog all the press) but I do love Jeter. I also cried at Mariana's last game.
@wisewitch222 the Phillies do have the weirdest mascot so you've got that going for them.
Either, I just like baseball lol
Who's your team, and why (is it your hometown team, your grandpa's favorite, etc)?
Milwaukee Brewers! (Although I like the Marlin's simply for their uniforms)
Who is your current favorite player?
Don't have a favorite at the moment
Who is your all-time favorite player?
No really "favorite" but I really like Jonathan Lucroy! I was so mad when the Brewers traded him away
What is your favorite baseball-related memory?
We do this often, but anytime DH & I listen to a Brewer's game on the radio when we're camping and Uecker calling the game!
BONUS: Share a GIF from your favorite baseball movie!
Not my favorite, but recently watched Trouble with the Curve and really enjoyed it!
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LO arrived 11/9/2018! We have a baby!
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Me: 33 | DH: 41
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NL, all the way baby!
Who's your team, and why (is it your hometown team, your grandpa's favorite, etc)?
Milwaukee Brewers - born an Illinois but grew up in Wisconsin, growing up here really changed me, and my husband is a big fan! #thisismycrew #fearthebeer
Who is your current favorite player?
Jonathan Lucroy - wish he was still with the crew! LOOOOOOUUUU!!
Who is your all-time favorite player?
Craig Counsel, no joke, he's amazing, and for the age that he is extremely good looking!
What is your favorite baseball-related memory?
My first time going to Miller Park! I will never forget how in awe I was of the stadium and the atmosphere. I felt like I was in a different world!
DD: 07/19/18
EDD: 06/22/22
@KariAnn323 - A League of Their Own is just so good. It probably earns a spot on my list of all-time favorite movies!
@mileswithmyles - Aww, going to that game with your grandpa! I get what he means about needing to hear Vin Scully (a legend!) call it. I've gotten so used to hearing Michael Kay when I watch Yankees games that I think it's weird when I watch a game and no one yells "SEE YA" after a home run.
@wisewitch222 - YASSSS JORGE POSADA
@kiwi2628 - Holy crap, those seats sound AMAZING! It's so true, the state of NY is full of rabid baseball fans, you just can't help falling for the Yankees! Have you ever gone to a game at Citi Field? Last season I went to a game there because the Yanks were on the road, and I rolled up in a Yankees hat. It was the weirdest thing, it was like the Mets fans were happy to see me and welcomed me with open arms! Several people offered to buy me a new hat, hahaha. When I have a Yankees hat at the ballpark in my current city, no one cares because the home team is crap. The whole Citi Field experience kind of helped me understand why there are Mets fans!
@lurvleybunchococonuts - You sound like me... I can come up with a reason to cheer for just about any team. I can also get behind the Marlins because of my new-found crush on Giancarlo Stanton. And of course Don Mattingly!
@ajsanders-2 - We have so many Brewers fans here! There is nothing like going to that first MLB game, for sure.
So last night I started watching the Yankees-Sox in the 9th inning, thinking I would catch the end of the game and then run out to the grocery store. So basically I didn't get to the store until 10:30pm because 16 INNINGS. SIXTEEN! INNINGS! And a double header today? I'm exhausted thinking about it, and all I did was sit on the couch and eat pretzels while those guys were doing the work!
@mileswithmyles - First of all, I had to google Frank McCourt because I legit thought you were telling me the author of Angela's Ashes owned the Dodgers.
I did love Tommy Lasorda, so I guess I like a some hot-heads.
DD: 07/19/18
EDD: 06/22/22