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The game definitely has it's problems but in my eyes it's still the best game out there .... there is no strategy in Pro Basketball, Pro Football has come a hell of a long way.... but IMO nothing can compare to the stories that can unfold during the 3-4 hours of a baseball game .... I have been a Red Sox fan since 1975 ..... I grew up in Indiana ..... when I was a child I was a Reds fan because my dad was ... I even went to the Reds- Braves game on April 6th, 1974 .... it was the last game of Aaron's road trip and he had tied the record the day before ... tickets to the game were my b-day present, he didn't hit a homerun that day but he played .... alot of stars today would of sat out .... anyways he hit the home run two days later on my b-day and my dad got me out of bed to see the replay .... The following year I was 7 y/o when my dad let me stay up to watch every game of my first world series, and I rooted for the Reds up until game six ... when Fisk was waving that ball fair my whole world changed and I have been a Red Sox fan ever since ...... I've been a Colts fan since they moved to Indy in 1984 ... I've been a Pacers fan since I was in the womb ..... considering a can remember watching Darnell Hillman dunk in front of a sell out crowd of 3700 during the ABA dadys, it pre-dates my Red Sox fandom .... I'm loyal to my teams (note a total of zero world championships and three appearances in my 35 years of exsistence) but nothing inspires my craze like the Red Sox ........ For years the Rocket was my guy, I was everything Roger, I still rolled with him in Toronto, but then he put on pinstripes ... anyways I can go on forever about the evil empire .... but what I really wanted to relate was about my son, he is 13 now and two years ago when the D-backs and the Yanks played in the series we watched every game, it was the first World Series he had watched, he lived with his mother until he was 10 and now I have custody ... he's a little sports freak and really was only about football ( starting 7th grade QB, did okay passing the ball but had two 60 yd TD runs, it was all I could do to keep off the field and jumping on top of the pile), now he's slowly coming around to college basketball and since he watched that Series he's been into baseball .... he doesn't really play OOTP only because of the lack of graphics but he loves all the sports games on PS2, we love Madden and Ncaa series and I think our favorite part is naming all the college players .... oh well what was this thread about???? I just hope one day he looks back on his first World Series as fondly as I do, only because it was the first one we watched with our dads
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