This is for my shame over Pete Rose

[likethebeer]

I was a big baseball fan as a kid (literally, it ended while I was premenses--I'm sitting there at age 11, watching a game in the stadium and my skin is crawling to the point where I had to pinch myself over and over to get rid of the pain and intensity running all over my body--I got my first period several months later, prolly--and baseball got sort of *branded* itself in my brain that day. Poor dad--for the loss of a baseball fan, not b/c one of his daughters sexually matured.)

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my shame

[regatomic.livejournal.com]

haha i should think it was your high intellect, to be a sports fan requires a bit of "dumbing down" in my view,...0.0

Re: my shame

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

But there were those games we used to go to as kids. And there's nothng like a pretzel outside of the Philly stadium.

Yeah, there was a change in me to the point where I believed games didn't much matter. I certainly felt that after my only live football game w/my dad. He does seem to concentrate on that stuff, and I can't see the "real life" enjoyment reason for it (as in "how can this interest match all the other things there are to talk about?:), but I try to go along as best I can. I can empathize w/his enjoyment, anyway.