It's corny and over the top ("Rascoe and I, well, we laughed and cried ……") and at first one might be tempted to say "get a life," but then one realizes that he has also done similar things in his game and achieved similar satisfaction and enjoyment.
I don't know if I would write a short story about it, but I have signed some of "my boys" to minor league contracts at the end of their careers so that they have jobs until they choose to retire, despite having red rating numbers. As posters said on that thread, it's a tribute to the game itself if it makes you care about your teams and players in this manner.
It's also comforting to know that old threads don't die, they just fade away until somebody digs them up again.
