01-26-2021, 10:45 AM
Like BC, I soured on MLB after the steroids era. I was barely aware of the Giants World Series win in 2010! However, my son started playing T-ball at the age of 4 and was on a team called the L'il Angels. He quickly fell in love with the game and started watching MLB Network in the mornings in place of PBS Kids and Disney Junior. He watched as many MLB Angels games, live or recorded, as he could on TV.
When my son turned five my wife and I took him to Anaheim for an Angels versus Tigers game. Mike Trout led off the bottom of the first with a lead-off HR versus Justin Verlander. Trout ended the game by robbing Prince Fielder of a HR.
Thanks to my son I'm a reborn MLB fan. My family went to spring training in Arizona four years ago and had a blast. We have numerous posters of Mike Trout in our house and my son still dreams of being an MLB player.
So this is a long-winded way of saying that I agree with Phogge: there are still plenty of reasons to fall back in love with baseball.
When my son turned five my wife and I took him to Anaheim for an Angels versus Tigers game. Mike Trout led off the bottom of the first with a lead-off HR versus Justin Verlander. Trout ended the game by robbing Prince Fielder of a HR.
Thanks to my son I'm a reborn MLB fan. My family went to spring training in Arizona four years ago and had a blast. We have numerous posters of Mike Trout in our house and my son still dreams of being an MLB player.
So this is a long-winded way of saying that I agree with Phogge: there are still plenty of reasons to fall back in love with baseball.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)