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I just found out I was being dragged out to watch the METS loose another game,Some customer invited us. Now I gotta pretend I like baseball and I really don't. I'm not being ungratefull but baseball is what I put on to get a good nights sleep. BET I'm goona catch hell for that one..
Now football that is a whole different ballgame! Nothing beats watching a 40 year old like FAVRE thowing a chop block. My father in law enticed me into marrying his daughter because he had JETS season tickets.
When we got back from our honeymoon I found out he gave them up. Haven't talked to him in 25 years. Thats football. Sometimes it bounces good sometimes it doesn't. Gotta go....... find a baseball cap.

If its a fun time you are after watching the METS get trashed again isn't one of them. I follow them and my word what a crappy season
Oh well, smile and have a beer or an ice cream, or take a book, wife? Dunno

Good luck.

Get drunk before you enter the stadium and drink sparingly while there, else you'll need a bank loan.

All my friends laugh at me for not watching any sports, but I've gotten this far in life without the need, so I guess I'll just continue.

When we do get together & there's a game on, I interrupt it with so many questions about the rules & the tactics until they simply can't watch anymore cuz they miss too much with me around...it's FUN to be annoying, sometimes!

to be completely honest I'm the same with your sports over here. There are just so many rules!

philbymon wrote:All my friends laugh at me for not watching any sports, but I've gotten this far in life without the need, so I guess I'll just continue.

When we do get together & there's a game on, I interrupt it with so many questions about the rules & the tactics until they simply can't watch anymore cuz they miss too much with me around...it's FUN to be annoying, sometimes!

Take a really good pair of binoculars.
You can look for boobs, or just watch the grass growing.

I'm a sports fanatic. I've wasted countless hours watching sports on television. I like all the major sports, especially hockey. I also played a lot of sports, nothing organized too much. I played a LOT of playground basketball in New Jersey. There was some SERIOUS basketball players. Some of those games were like WARS. When I was younger I was a street hockey fanatic. I never skated much, but I was a MANIAC in street hockey. I LOVED the physical part of it. Hitting, checking, point blank slap shots at hapless goalies, yeah and the occasional fisticuffs. I LOVED crunching people. Got crunched many times myself. I'm extremely competitive. I take sports and games seriously. I used to play shuffleboard at college and in bars. I could get on a board for HOURS and not be beaten. Now that I'm older I fish (I ALWAYS fished) and play disc golf. I played regular golf for many years until I discovered disc golf in the late 90's. I was actually a much better golfer than disc golfer. I used to shoot in the mid 70's to low 80's, not bad for a duffer.
Anyway I feel your pain if you're a Mets fan. It's hard to take a team collapsing like they did this year. But then look at the Royals. They are essentially a triple-A team. At one time they had an outfield composed of Jermaine Dye, Johnny Damon and Carlos Beltran. As soon as anybody on the Royals achieves any kind of notoriety they are gone the next season.

My brother and I played baseball one season.
He played left field.
I played left out.

I was on the golf course one day and a guy asked me what I shot.
I said, "Usually in the low seventies."
He said, "Wow, do you do that consecutively?"
I said, "Yep, every hole."

I've seen some amazing things on a golf course. My brother (God rest his soul) one day decided to play an entire round using nothing but his putter. I'm talking drives, fairway shots, EVERYTHING with a putter on a regulation golf course. He had this putter with a hole in the middle of it so that when he hit a drive it made this gigantic "BOING" sound. You could hear it all over the golf course. Every time he hit a drive people all over the course looked around with a look on their face like "what the hell was THAT?" I never laughed so hard in my life. He actually parred a very tough par 4 out of a sand trap using nothing but his putter. Another time I went to a public course with a friend of mine and the starter paired us up with two other guys we didn't know. They were about as good as we were. On a par 4 one of the other guys hit a weak drive into sparse trees on the left about 50 yards. He gets up and hits his second shot which hits a tree dead center and bounces over his head back toward the tee. He then hits his third shot directly across the fairway into sparse trees on the other side, still only about 50 yards off the tee. He then hits another tree dead center and it bounces clear back over his head and PAST the tee about ten yards that we just teed off. He's hitting his FIFTH SHOT AND HE'S BEHIND THE TEE, I KID YOU NOT. On another hole (same day) my friend takes a mighty swing off a tee and I think one molecule of the driver barely brushes the ball and it falls off the tee and rests against the tee. His drive literally went about 1 millimeter forward. You could take a million swings and never duplicate that! I used to regularly hit drives over 300 yards back in the 1970's when the equipment wasn't nearly as good as today. I didn't know where the ball was going but it wasn't going short. The absolute longest drive I ever hit was on a dogleg par 5 that went downhill about 150 yards and made a 90 degree turn to the left. The hole was about 550 yards. All along the left side of the fairway was a road (out of bounds of course). You teed off an elevated tee and if you were brave (or stupid) you could try and cross the dogleg. This one day when I was playing by myself I absolutely crushed a screaming line drive hook that cleared the dogleg and bounced off the road. I ended up with about 100 yard chip to the green. The next time I played the course with my father, who was a much better golfer than me, I showed him where I drove that hole and he told me I was full of sh*t. Too bad nobody else saw it...

You are all good at telling some great funny stories, I really appreciate them.
Yesterday , for me, was as much fun as a tonselechtomy without anesthesia.
Mind you, of, 30 METS games I have been to I have never seen them win.
Yesterday was no different.
However this was even more special because I realized my wifes total lack of understanding of BASEBALL. NO,NO, IT GETS EVEN BETTER.
Nothing like sitting with a bunch of REAL DIE HARD METS FANS, and the Chicago Cubs knock one out of the park. THATS ok except when your wife is clapping and screaming because it was a great hit for the other team. Maybe she just tries to be fair.
Anyway,one year, my son , joined a little league. For some reason the coach had to back out at the last minute.TEAM CANCELLED.
NO NO NO . Gwen took over as coach,KNOWING NOTHING about baseball.Homeplate was something you put food on.
Why do they give them 4 balls and only 3 strikes,thats not fair!
The guy stole second but I can see it, it is still there.
How many outs do we get????
C'mon ump let him have another swing, he's just a little guy.
All I can do is give her credit for trying,
the new stadium is real nice,and prices make rock concerts look inexpensive

Gonghead, you've been to 30 Mets games and they LOST every one? IS that hyperbole? Maybe YOU are the reason the Mets are so bad. You have to stay home and give them a chance to win, you're bad luck! I agree about the ticket prices to see a game. Imagine a BILLION dollars for a new stadium? Imagine players making 20 MILLION dollars a year? It's really hard for me to enjoy a game when I'm trying to figure out how much each player makes while they are rounding the bases or throwing a curve ball. Nobody is worth THAT much money to play a sport. It shows where our values are at. I know people are going to make the "what the economy will bear" argument. The problem is that our current economy IS NOT BEARING IT. There are more and more pro sports franchises in BIG financial trouble. It's conceivable the Yankees will someday play in an empty stadium and have all their games on pay-per-view. Nobody will be able to afford to go to a game. When I was about eleven years old I lived right outside of Boston and took a train right to Fenway Park to see a Red Sox game. The train ride was ten cents to Fenway. I sat in general admission in right field for fifty cents. I then took the train home for another ten cents. Without buying anything else at the game I literally could see a game for SEVENTY CENTS. On top of that I knew one of the ushers who used to sneak me in for FREE. I saw a bunch of Red Sox games for TWENTY CENTS. Man, I long for the good old days...Billion dollar stadium? ( )