I've been playing sim baseball since
Ethan Allen's "All Star Baseball" when I was probably like 6. From there, I migrated to the Strat-o-Matic tabletop game, SI's Computer Baseball on my C-64, the original version of APBA for DOS, FPS Baseball (94-98) and then I finally found OOTP.
My wife thinks it's silly, but doesn't really give me a hard time about it any more...although she will occasionally ask me how my "little imaginary men" are doing.