Community Age

by Hot Lunch on Jan 30, 2008 9:10 PM EST

How old are you?

I think it would be interesting to know the age of the people of this community.

Poll

How old are you?

29 - 35

71 votes

36 - 45

47 votes

46 - 55

18 votes

56 - 65

4 votes

65 and older (i.e. I was thinking about prospects while you were still at your mother's teat)

4 votes

16 and Under

11 votes

18 - 21

54 votes

22 - 24

50 votes

25 - 28

61 votes

320 votes | Poll has closed

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by sagecoll on Jan 30, 2008 9:22 PM EST reply actions

Don't laugh out loud...

your mom was distracting me.

Lord that gets me off so much

by Hot Lunch on Jan 30, 2008 9:50 PM EST up reply actions

Wow

What is the probability of having an age that is not shown in the choice from 16 to 65? 17 for me too

by shakezula on Jan 30, 2008 9:47 PM EST reply actions

old enough...

to remember when Steve Carlton was the all-time K leader, lol

by smittybanton on Jan 30, 2008 11:33 PM EST reply actions

here's a fun related question

Let's really date ourselves! Do you remember the pitching matchup at your first trip to the ballpark?

For me it was Rick Rhoden against Mike Smithson, Yankees-Twins in the Bronx.

by whichthat on Jan 30, 2008 11:45 PM EST reply actions

I Can Beat That

Gaylord Perry vs Claude Osteen in Candlestick Park.

by DrBGiantsfan on Jan 31, 2008 12:02 AM EST up reply actions

My first baseball games were actually in the Puerto Rican winter league. I don't think anything could possibly surpass the experience and atmosphere in those parks, with bands in the stands, people dancing everywhere, the same obese fan game after game on top of the home team's dugout taking his shirt off and waving it in the air.... but I don't remember the matchups

My first fenway matchup was Frank Castillo vs someone on the Rays. ONly tickets I could get.

In fact, I only made it to fenway about 10 times in the 4 years I lived around Boston because of the price / how difficult they were to get. ANd of those 10 times, I think 9 were Frank Castillo or Tim Wakefield pitching. I wish I was kidding. Just brutal...

-1 and only member of the Jed Lowrie fan club!

by Jgaztambide on Jan 31, 2008 12:08 AM EST up reply actions

first game

You guys have me beat easily, but a fun question regardless.

Jack Morris vs. Jack McDowell, at the Metrodome during the 1991 season. Morris pitched a complete game shutout. I was five years old and it was bat day. I still have the bat.

by BenB on Jan 31, 2008 1:05 AM EST up reply actions

July 3 1976

Santo Alcala for my Reds versus Mike Cosgrove of the Astros. Neither lasted long.

Johnny Bench hit one out off Joe Niekro, just for me!

by BoydsOfSummer on Jan 31, 2008 3:03 AM EST up reply actions

First game attended

Was in 1987, Memorial Stadium. Royals/Os. I remember Bo Jackson striking out twice and thinking I was bad luck. It was lots of fun. Went to baseball Reference and tracked it down for fun:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL198707240.shtml

by killa on Jan 31, 2008 9:02 AM EST up reply actions

My First Game

Chicago White Sox v.s. Oakland A's @ Chicago ("The Cell" was new and not yet named The Cell).

Bo Jackson hit a HR for the only run of the game.

Highlight was sitting in the Rightfield Stands watching Jose Canseco, my favorite player.
I was around 13 or 14 if I had to guess.

by colinadam on Jan 31, 2008 9:44 AM EST up reply actions

I'm 31 but....

I didn't attend my first Major League game until 2003 after moving to Colorado. I was in southern NM for most of my life and had attended a few minors league games in El Paso growing up. Saw the likes of John Jaha and Dave Nilsson when they were in the Brewers minor league system. Almost went to see Fernando Valenzuela making a minor league start when he was making a comeback with the Angels AA team back then, but never went.

Anyways, my first Major League game was on April 25, 2003. Mark Prior against Nelson Cruz (Cubs beat the Rox 11-7). Prior was the reason I had picked that game and he didn't disappoint. His line from the game:

Pitching: 7IP 5H 2ER 1BB 7K
Hitting: 4AB 1R 2H 4RBI (Solo HR and bases loaded double)

What I remember most about the game was when Prior was stepping to the plate to lead off the 3rd inning, some teenager behind me yelled something like "You can get this guy out, it's only the pitcher!" So I turned around and told him not to be so sure, that Prior was a pretty good hitter and had some power. Prior sent the 7th pitch he saw over the RF-CF wall. The kid behind me started yelling "You called it, man! You called it!" That has been Prior's only Major League HR he hit.

So well... besides having Prior on my Sim Team since the inception of the league in 2003, this game also explains why I am such a huge Prior homer and hope he can make a comeback.

"My mom always taught me it's better to laugh at yourself than to laugh at others. She was so wrong. ;)" -Pedrophile

by Boxkutter on Jan 31, 2008 9:44 AM EST up reply actions

Whitey Ford

vs some Senator's pitcher. At wherever the Senators played in the early 60s. It's all kind of hazey as I was a young teenager and probably in a daze throughout the games (it was a double-header). As I recall, Mickey Mantle and Elston Howard were playing.

by Jihan1 on Jan 31, 2008 10:18 AM EST up reply actions

Awesome

you need to post more!

gogotabata: "I'm like the biggest Walden fan around here (adult division)..."

by siddfynch on Jan 31, 2008 11:38 AM EST up reply actions

July 26th 1985

Boston versus Seattle

Al Nipper versus Jim Beattie

actually went to box office at Fenway and got RF tickets 1 hour before the game. Those were the days. I actually saw Marty Barrett hit a HR. How many people can say that?

by dlpme77 on Jan 31, 2008 11:32 AM EST up reply actions

July 15, 2000

Jose Lima vs. Willie Blair

It's Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiima tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime!

Talkin' Sports

by BlackOps on Jan 31, 2008 11:50 AM EST up reply actions

First game

I was pretty old when I went to my first game. About to turn 29 now, but my first live game with the Rays vs. the Red Sox, the game where Pedro Martinez and Gerald Williams got into a brawl.

Vogt early, Vogt often.

by Brickhaus on Jan 31, 2008 12:04 PM EST up reply actions

i got you all beat

smoky joe wood vs walter johnson, sept 6 1912. wood was seriously bringing some heat, and won 1-0. man, that was some game.

by jpahk on Feb 1, 2008 11:15 AM EST up reply actions

All I really remember about my first game...

was watching Bo Jackson and Danny Tartabul become acrobats to avoid a collision in the outfield at the Metrodome, and watching Kirby Puckett fly from 1st to 3rd faster than any man I'd ever seen, and faster than any man with his build should naturally be able to do.

Man I miss Puck.

by DJSkillz on Jan 30, 2008 11:54 PM EST reply actions

interesting you say that about puckett

i think bo jackson was the fastest guy i ever saw play. he didn't look like rickey or crawford. he was a moose, but man, could he fly.

i don't remember who the opposing pitcher was for my first game, but it was milt pappas going for the cubs at wrigley. i also saw wilbur wood and steve stone pitch in old comiskey a few years later. that place was a death trap!

http://www.simdynasty.com/index.jsp?refer=mychiefs58

by huckleberry on Jan 31, 2008 2:22 AM EST up reply actions

im 16

haha ya man i can just imagine when im old all the baseball knowledge i will know

crazy...i dont wanna b old

Oakland A's 4 Life

by manny59 on Jan 31, 2008 4:54 AM EST reply actions

don't wanna be old?

you better start putting stem cells on your rice krispies now, then...

http://www.simdynasty.com/index.jsp?refer=mychiefs58

by huckleberry on Jan 31, 2008 10:17 AM EST up reply actions

9/18/1986

at Shea.

Rick Anderson vs. Greg Maddux. I don't remember much. I was 6.

by El Duq of Hurl on Jan 31, 2008 6:53 AM EST reply actions

I was in fifth grade

Rangers v Twins. I can't remember anything other than the fact that the Good Guys lost :(

by Rangers Farmhand on Jan 31, 2008 8:53 AM EST reply actions

Larry Christensen for the Phils, I think...

but I don't remember who we played or the other pitcher. I was around 8 (1978). General admission (the 700 level at the Vet) was $2.50 for adults and $.50 for kids under 12.

My dad gave me money to get three slices of pizza for him, my older brother and me. When I came back I dropped one of them on the steps leading up to our seats. As any selfishly innocent 8 year old would do, I assumed the dropped one was my dad's, gave one slice to my brother and sat down to eat the other. When I looked up at my dad's face to see his resignation, I then started to have an inkling of the things he sacrificed for us. Love you, dad!

by smittybanton on Jan 31, 2008 11:11 AM EST reply actions

First Game

Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. I was also in attendance the next night, but I was waaay too young to remember either.

by GuyinNY on Jan 31, 2008 5:36 PM EST reply actions

7/27/1986

Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Scott McGregor vs. Rich Dotson. Orioles scored nine runs in an inning highlighted by a grand slam off the bat of the immortal Jim Traber.

by dodgerdh on Jan 31, 2008 5:58 PM EST reply actions

A's in 95 i think

i cant remember who they were playing, i was 7 or so. The next game i saw was against the Angels in 97 when Ricky made his return to the concrete jungle (Oakland Coliseum) in an Angels uni this time. Its funny because he was insanely boo'd yet now the same fans are calling for a return of Ricky.

by tmt85 on Jan 31, 2008 7:18 PM EST reply actions