(Baseball) Things we didn't know about significant others...

[TimmyB]

A rather contentious issue has arisen in my otherwise happy marriage over the subject of check-swings.

My well-educated, yet misguided spouse believes that if the hitter so much as twitches the bat toward the ball... BAM! Strike!

I have attempted to reason with her, explaining that batters (even the best batters on the planet residing in MLB) have such a miniscule amount of time to actually decide whether or not to swing, and then, have to use their incredible hand/eye co-ordination to actually try to hit the thing once deciding to offer at it... that... well... sometimes one has to change one's mind.

She won't buy it. (Nor will she let it go when she sees... however many check swings occour in the average nine-inning game.)

Obviously, I did not know about this before I proposed. (And now, a child is involved.)

Anyone else out there discover their significant other was just so... so... wrong on a baseball subject? :D

[Skip]

Well, my wife thinks baseball is "just plain boring." How someone to whom I have committed the rest of my life can be right, but yet so so so so wrong, is beyond me.

[SmedIndy]

Skip - I'm with ya there....

[Max Power]

Checked swing is an oxymoron.
They're all swings.

[TimmyB]

Originally posted by Max Power
Checked swing is an oxymoron.
They're all swings.

Oh my...

[JamesI]

My wife finds the game boring too. She had fun when I took her to Camden Yards, but doens't care for the game.

[KCBOOMER]

Originally posted by TimmyB
A rather contentious issue has arisen in my otherwise happy marriage over the subject of check-swings.

Any man that wins an argument with his wife has only himself to blame.:broken:

[Skip]

Originally posted by JamesI
My wife finds the game boring too. She had fun when I took her to Camden Yards, but doens't care for the game. My wife probably enjoyed our game at Camden more than any other too. But she'd rather go to a brewpub or BBQ joint and hang out in the back corner booth. Bummer. :naughty:

[TimmyB]

Originally posted by KCBOOMER


Any man that wins an argument with his wife has only himself to blame.:broken:

Indeed.

The two most important words in any marriage: "Yes dear." ;)

[Skip]

Originally posted by TimmyB
The two most important words in any marriage: "Yes dear." ;) Shoot, I missed that class. I thought they were "cold beer." That explains so much ....

[SmedIndy]

Actually, if you let her pick the shows once in a while, and watch "Sex and the City" with her, she'll let you watch the Iron Chef, the Game Show Network, and VH-1 Classic without a problem.

[Skip]

Well, we dont get HBO so that wont work. Her fetish du jour is The West Wing. I just pray it isnt either a Rob Lowe or Martin Sheen thing.

... and Iron Chef is horrible. Not horrible-funny, just horrible.

[JamesI]

Originally posted by Skip
... and Iron Chef is horrible. Not horrible-funny, just horrible.

Iron Chef can be great. I love the pomp and circumstance, but then I like to cook weird things too.

I'm lucky, my wife and I watch the same shows mostly, other than baseball.

[hmrsf]

We have a good understanding in my house. Still, the one thing that make me flip out is when I hear...."it's only a game." I know that I have failed my mission in educating my family.....they don't get it.:(


For fanatics we need rules. These are mine and I try to comply.
1.)no baseball talk from 12-4am.
2.)no baseball talk from November-March
3.)no talk of upgrading tickets.
4.)family vactions are not to be dictated by the season schedule. (I plan the vacations.)


I try hard not violate the rules. :cool:

[Skip]

hm - you are my soulmate, even if you dont know it yet! :) How do you feel about long distance relationships?

[LeGrandOrange]

All these things make me think one thing, which I rarely turn into a positive: I'm so glad I'm single. :)

[hmrsf]

Originally posted by Skip
hm - you are my soulmate, even if you dont know it yet! :) How do you feel about long distance relationships?


Never work. You can't have too fanatics. Skip, you and I have the better end of the deal. Do you want to be the responsible one?

[TGwynn19]

Originally posted by hmrsf



Never work. You can't have too fanatics. Skip, you and I have the better end of the deal. Do you want to be the responsible one?

Yep, never work. When you type too and mean 'two' a relationship with Skip will never work!!:p

[hmrsf]

Originally posted by TGwynn19


Yep, never work. When you type too and mean 'two' a relationship with Skip will never work!!:p


great catch! me bad AGAIN.

[Craig S.]

Last week, my wife sat with me through 2 games in Montreal, and one each in Toronto and Detroit. Afterwards, she said that we have to go to more Reds games.

Everything is good.

[moose]

my girlfriend "doesn't mind" watching baseball with me on tv, although she admits there are other things she enjoys much more on the tube. but back when i got the yankees, she'd watch with me.

she enjoys going to games, though. she likes yankee stadium and loved going to camden with me, so long as we stood on line for boogs.

maybe i'll take her when she comes to philly. after all, is there anything more romantic than a night at the vet? :D

[SmedIndy]

Skip - I am saddened :( and disheartened :( .

First, Seinfeld.

Now, The Iron Chef.

I may have to reconisder some things. Maybe move on to Calvin Coolidge instead of Warren G. Harding.

[pwdennis]

My wife has absolutely no interest in any sport other than she will watch the gymnastics and ice skating during the Winter Olympics. She has never attended a sporting event with me (unless watching me play softball at the company picnic counts). She knows who Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Stan Musial are, but as far as she knows Carl Yastrzemski is Poland's Ambassador to Washington. After 27 years of marriage she has learned to accept that she is somewhat of a "baseball widow" for 7 months of the year, and I have learned not to bug her about sports

In the greater scheme of things, her lack of interest in sports is of no consequence.

[johnny]

I am ashamed to say it, but the girl I am dating told me she was a diehard Yankee fan and went to Stadium all the time when she lived in NYC...so I asked her what she thought about the Weaver trade, and all I got was a dumb, blank stare. Talk of Nick Johnson did the same...

I am learning that when most women around here proclaim to be a diehard fan, it just means they like to watch the Yanks in the WS.

I am dating a bandwagoner.
:(

[soxfan121]

I once dated a very nice girl from November to March, but when spring training rolled around, and she admitted to being a Yanqui fan, it was over. Finis.

Currently, I get in lots of trouble for scheduling my life around the game. My current girlfriend doesn't understand why we have to go to dinner at 5:30 and pay the check by 6:40, so that I can rush home for the first pitch. What I need is a girlfriend who can accept my obssession. Any takers? ;)

[WiredTiger]

My wife is not a huge baseball fan but she does follow the game a bit and like to go to Comerica to see the horrible Tigers.

She did surprise me by the other day by saying that the new guy Carlos Pena looked like he might be good but she didn't know if Weaver was worth him. My heart actually skipped a beat!

[Skip]

Originally posted by johnny
I am dating a bandwagoner.
:( As long as it's not Lyle Waggoner. :)

[qtlaw]

Originally posted by TimmyB


Indeed.

The two most important words in any marriage: "Yes dear." ;)

Where were you the first three years of my marraige (now 6 going on 7)? You would have saved me a great deal of negative capital which I could have saved for some more important things. I bow to thee of great wisdom. They should just write a huge 500 pg book of "How to make a marraige work" and just repeat that phrase on each page.

[Ytown Tribe fan]

Well, first off -- Karen is a Steelers fan and therefore ill in the head.

A ballgame has value to her so far as three criteria are met:

1) The restrooms are clean and uncrowded;

2) The game isn't too long;

3) I catch two foul balls and hand one to each of the boys.

(That actually happened to my dad at a Tribe game in the '70s)

As always, pitching is the key.

[pathogan]

not only enjoys baseball, she shows an interest when we go, and loves when her and I get the[rare] opportunity to go to a gamesans progeny. And she's learning to keep score...

[spitball]

I've got nothing really to add . My wife loves sports.
I have found that "Yes dear" is a cure all though. In the sense that she knows I'm mocking her . Which ends up with her laughing .
It's a miracle.

[NCFella19]

My wife would just indulge me by accompanying me to Jacobs Field when we lived in Cleveland. She was in it for the "people watching" more than the game itself. She just came along for the atmosphere, not the game.

BUT! Once we moved down to NC and started going to minor league games, she's become almost a full convert! She loves the between-inning shenanigans and contests that go on (her favorite being a huge oil rig that spouts water: one person pumps, one catches water in a bucket, and the team with the most water wins a case of motor oil.) She thinks of the players as "little kids", just a tad above little league. She's even asked to be taught how to keep score!!!!! :shockbig:

But to watch it on TV......we're still working on that one.

[NCFella19]

addendum:

She'll go to or watch ANY sort of football game though.

[qtlaw]

I just wanted to add on my wife's part, she is very understanding and will indulge me if its an important event (even with 2 little boys running around); 7th game D'Backs v. Yanks, 9th Inning Giants tied, Bonds coming up, Tiger on the Back 9 at Augusta, etc. She understands BB (she batted leadoff and CF for her high school team) but finds it dull. A real trooper though, game me the go ahead to name my son (either one) Willie Mays but I nixed it because what if he became a concert pianist? (Willie Mays appearing at Carnagie Hall, could not live with myself.)