12-17-2008, 11:30 PM
<!--quoteo(post=5058:date=Dec 16 2008, 07:51 AM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Dec 16 2008, 07:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Side note. Buckner was my favorite player as a kid. In 1982, when he was close to getting his 200th hit, I had my mom tape every game so I wouldn't miss it when he got it. The game that it happened was against the Cards, and the Cubs were getting beat pretty soundly. He got the hit late in the game, and Harry got all jazzed about it.
Anyway, I kept that tape and watched it over, and over, and over, and over -- not just the 200th hit, but the whole game. I'm not sure why. But it got to the point where I memorized everything Harry and Steve said and would call the game along with them.
I was a weird kid.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
We all have those stories.
I would watch every game on WGN and keep score on my own makeshift scorecard, and would even make up brochures and tickets for big games. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]
Then I'd go outside with my plastic bat and imagine I was Sammy, Glenallen, Henry, Gracie or Ryno and swing at an imaginary ball over an imaginary fence. Trust me Butch, I was weird too.
Anyway, I kept that tape and watched it over, and over, and over, and over -- not just the 200th hit, but the whole game. I'm not sure why. But it got to the point where I memorized everything Harry and Steve said and would call the game along with them.
I was a weird kid.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
We all have those stories.
I would watch every game on WGN and keep score on my own makeshift scorecard, and would even make up brochures and tickets for big games. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]
Then I'd go outside with my plastic bat and imagine I was Sammy, Glenallen, Henry, Gracie or Ryno and swing at an imaginary ball over an imaginary fence. Trust me Butch, I was weird too.
I hate my pretentious sounding username too.