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Originally Posted by Eugene Church
Only did 2 teams today... watched a couple of games... Yanks-Blue Jays... and Dodgers and Rockies.
I plan to watch one game a day and try to get to know as many teams as possible that way... reading about them in the paper and watching the game highlights is not really the way to do it... at least as far as I am concerned... shows like Quick Pitch just show a lot of homers, a lot of strikeouts and the top plays of the day... I want to get to know the players better.
Wish I had a MLB team in my hometown that I could watch on a daily basis at the ballpark.
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I am playing Fantasy Baseball this year for the first time in about 10 years, which I hope reacquaints me with players better. When I was younger, I would know every position player for every team. These days, I am just too busy to keep up with a 162-game season, so I tend to concentrate on my two favorite teams only and know only the stars of other teams. Also, I don't enjoy playing the MLB in OOTP. I am basically fictional only.
I grew up in the NOLA area, so of course we never had an MLB team, though we came close to getting the A's before and maybe the Royals, too, when they were threatening to leave. My favorite local baseball team has been attending games at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge for the LSU Tigers.
I also grew up watching a lot of TBS and WGN and WWOR, so I watched a lot of Braves and Cubs and Mets when I was younger. Every summer, I would also take a trip to Houston for AstroWorld and the Astrodome for Astros baseball. From all of that, my main allegiances were to the Braves and Astros. Since I got to watch the Cubs and Mets a lot, too, I was well aware of NL baseball and still feel more of a pull to the NL teams just because I had full access to them when I was younger. The AL was for Sunday national broadcasts only.