All the talk about the trade deadline got me thinking, who's the favorite MLB team of BBB? It only allows 10, so if I don't list your team add it in a post.
I'm 100% Atlanta Braves
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Atlanta Braves
Texas Rangers
Houston Astros
St. Louis Cardinals
Chicago Cubs
Florida Marlins
New York Mets
Boston Red Sox
New York Yankees
Other (list in post)
All the talk about the trade deadline got me thinking, who's the favorite MLB team of BBB? It only allows 10, so if I don't list your team add it in a post.
I'm 100% Atlanta Braves
Why so many Braves fans? I like them too, not my favorite though. Did many of you start watching them as kids through TBS?
That's probably the main reason for me. Atlanta, St Louis and Houston were the closest teams to me when I was a kid. I also liked Dale Murphy.Originally Posted by Bigdog13
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I really like him to. I still have almost every baseball card he ever had including 2 or 3 of his rookie cards. I think he was underrated.
Cubs
''Don't be a bad dagh..."
Same question. Was it WGN and day games that initially hooked you?
The first baseball game I ever went to was at Wrigley. My grandpa took me on the train to the Northside and we walked from the train station to Wrigley field. It was awesome.
I think that with the combination of them being good when I really started following baseball is it for me. I was 9 when they won the '95 world series and it was Chipper Jones' rookie season (my favorite player). I remember listening to the 1996 world series on the radio in my room because Mom and Dad wouldn't let me stay up and watch it on a school night. My hatred for the Yankees stems from 1996 and 1999.
1 - White Sox. I used to watch them on WSNS before they screwed up and moved to the failed SportsVision. They alienated a lot of people by doing this, opening the door for the Cubs. Harry Caray, exploding score board, disco demolition night, Bill Veeck. Cool stuff. '83 Sox, almost did it.
2 - Cubs. When the Sox went to cable, I had to start watching the Cubs. Dave Kingman in the early days. Then Ryno, "Bull" Durham, Harry Caray, etc. '84 Cubs, should have done it. Durham letting the ball go under his legs, two years before Bill Buckner in Boston. Ack!
We did that? I didn't realize we were such bad parents. We should have let you watch it on TV.
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Yep, terrible parents
I grew up loving the Braves and Mets. Yea, I now know that they are in the same Division, but I was a big Doc Gooden (go figure) and HoJo fan.
I loved the Braves Pitching Staff with Avery, Smoltz, Wholers, Glavine, etc. I wanted to be a pro golfer or a MLB pitcher when growing up.
No Detroit Tigers as an option in the poll?
Became a Braves fan in 1991 when they went worst to first and the heartbreaking loss to the Twins in Game 7...my love for them only grew with the additions of David Justice, Greg Maddux, Chipper and Andruw...
I'm still holding out hopes for another World Series appearance...but I'll settle for getting passed the 1st round
I saw the first game ever played in the Astrodome. I saw Mickey Mantle (who I share a birthday with, by the way) hit a homerun that day. The old Colt 45 stadium was not even torn down yet. It was in the parking lot of the Astrodome. I grew up listening to the play-by-play by Gene Elston on the radio. We went to somewhere between 8 to 15 games a year all the way through high school. I have seen at least one game live every year since then except when I was in law school.
Baseball ends each year when the Astros play their last game.
That's cool. I don't remember the exact date, but I went to a game maybe a month later. It was against the Cardinals, my favorite team at the time. We had seats on the first row on the field level just beyond the infield down the third base line and the Cardinals dugout.
I'll never forget walking up the ramp and then seeing the inside of the dome for the first time. I thought I had walked into the land of Oz or something. The Astros have always been my second or third favorite team.
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