K Hale wrote:I am in fact familiar with baseball. I was big into the Braves on TBS in the ‘90s, watched all their games, made my own score cards and taught myself to score games pitch by pitch, read a lot of baseball history books, saw the Dodgers and Angels play live, collected baseball cards etc. I am a terrible athlete but am familiar with pickle and stickball. I even understand the infield fly rule. And with all this, I still have NEVER heard of over the line! LOL!
Long story short: I hate the Braves! Well, really the early 90’s Braves.
I’m a lifelong Pirates fan, I won’t explain, going back to my childhood in the 70’s. They won the NL East three years in a row, 90-92, and in the last two were eliminated in gave 7 by the Braves. In 92 it was in the bottom of the 9th. Sid Bream was out and Francisco Cabrera is dead to me!
I was so happy the Twins beat them in 91 and the Jays beat them in 92.
Seriously though, if you didn’t play the game competitively, I can see how you might not know about some of these related games. I remember in high school playing one on one over the line with fungos with my teammates. We were stupid competitive! That’s not in anyway being disrespectful, but following a sport is different from competing in it. I follow several sports I’ve never participated in. I’m sure there’s a lot of inside stuff I don’t know about.
I played college basketball, and we had plenty of little games like that we’d play to compete with each other. Beyond horse, we used to play two-dribble one on one, UConn for points, around the horn threes, and other games. You could play them with just a few guys or even just two. Lots of them were drills, like UConn which was a rebounding drill, that we made competitive. I think the competitiveness just drives athletes to makeup all kinds of games like that. They probably seem a bit strange to others but they were about competing and improving skills. Occasionally l’ll talk to someone who played the same sport and we laugh at the dumb stuff we competed at.