Born having to pull for the Braves and lost interest after Grandpa passed. I’d watch games occasionally and most of the playoffs thru the years but when my first son wanted to start playing T-ball it was downhill from there..... for every other hobby. I’m sure most feel this way, but was just naturally good, like weirdly good, from day one. We’d watch games more for seeing plays and learning positioning.
Now son number 2 comes along and is just as good. At 5yo last year seemingly all of a sudden started to like the Yankees. But not sort of like them just because they won the first game or 4 he watched, like super fan all of sudden. Within a couple of weeks he knew most of the starters numbers, relief pitchers numbers, most players first names, who was playing well, who was in a slump, who was injured and when they should be back. I think he may have been happier than most die hard lifetime fans when Cole was signed this winter. With that said he’s still just a fan of the game too and will watch any two teams, play any time, and over any other show/cartoon/movie
As for the recent scandal and finding out that they beat the Yankees in 2017 he was livid. Before that he was a fan of a couple Asstros players; Cole and Altuve, not Altuve anymore though. When I asked about Cole he said he was still OK because he was a pitcher and couldn’t hit the ball anyway! Hahaha truff! He also said “the championship should be taken cause they cheated, if my team had cheated they’d have told us we lost”
Money, fame, sportsTV analyst, MLB Board can’t twist the truth of a child. Knowing the pitches certainly changed the outcome, they are labeling fans as morons to try and pass that off as an explanation.
So.....now we have the MLB channel (blessing and curse) and when a game isn’t on there or anywhere else, it’s on to YouTube for highlight videos.
In conclusion, I’m a Yankees fan now and I never thought I would have put that in writing!!!
I guess we’ll see some of y’all in October!!
