Is your significant other into baseball?

[Dalkowski110]

And if so, does he or she root for the same team you do? My parents grew up a New York Giants fan (Dad, and he went over to the Mets in 1962) and a Detroit Tigers fan (Mom), so there never really was a conflict of interest there. Before they met, my Dad's favorite AL team was the Cleveland Indians (and he has no idea why...), then the Toronto Blue Jays (Again, he has no idea why...). That's why I've always rooted for the Mets and Tigers, although when I was four, I decided the Mets were easier to follow since they were always on TV, and you'd have to watch a Yankees game to get the Tigers. And that didn't happen often. But I still follow the Tigers as much as possible.

Flash forward from when I'm four to today, when I'm 19 in a couple days. I have a girlfriend, a year my junior, who was also a Mets fan...I thought. We did almost break up in September due to nothing having to do with baseball, but we've since reconciled. But I'm boring you...so anyway, I never used a rally cap (this may seem unrelated, but it isn't), but instead a somewhat worn but still very nice 1962 Mets cap my Dad bought at the Polo Grounds in mid-June. He gave it to me when I turned 18, and I always wear it when the Mets are playing. So what do I find in place of "the Cap" when I go to get it to watch the Mets vs. Dodgers game today? Nothing! The Cap was safely residing in my display case, hidden behind an old McMillan Baseball Encyclopedia. I collected caps about five or six years ago, and I ordered 'em from this great company called Cooperstown Caps (please let them still be in existence), so I guess I was asking for it when my g/f was wearing my 1968 repro LA Dodgers cap and cheering not really for the lineup (who I doubt she could name, even Nomar, or Kenny Lofton...she knows the Mets lineup), but for Hong Chi Kuo (did the same when Chin-Feng Chen had his brief Major League career).

You see, my g/f is a native of Taiwan, and roots for all the Taiwanese players over anyone else. Including my Amazin's! And my Tigers (she was not only cheering when Wang was shutting them out, but wearing a jersey). Now, I can understand wanting the guy to win, but in the playoffs? I'd love to see an Afrikaner (we've had Germans, Irishmen, Hungarians, and Poles) Major Leaguer, but if he was facing the Mets or Tigers in a critical situation, I'd be rooting against him! I s'pose not counting the Taiwanese players no matter who they are, she roots for the Mets. Also roots AGAINST the Japanese players, no matter who they are. At least she's into baseball. How about you fellow forumites' significant others? Do they root for anyone? And if so, is it an opposing team?

EDITED twice for two spelling errors...

[runningshoes]

Not at all, but she'll sit through nine innings 'cause she likes to see me cry once in awhile. :D

[Zito75]

She's not into baseball much, and she totally rips on me and thinks I am wasting time coming to this site. ;)

[Astro]

Not at all, but she'll sit through nine innings 'cause she likes to see me cry once in awhile. :D
Didnt know you were a Cubs fan

[EvanAparra]

Didnt know you were a Cubs fan
:laugh ... I swear the Cubs jokes never get old.

Mine hated baseball when we first started dating, but it has been over a year now, and she owns an Ortiz jersey (her new favorite player), and a Pedro shirt. And she hates Derek Jeter and the yankees:clapping , I think i've got a keeper here.

[PopTop]

Mine loves baseball, but only if the Astros are one of the teams playing or our godson is on the field in a Little League game.

[bailiff]

My wife didn't used to like baseball. She is good for about 10 games a year. Here in Texas, she won't go to games when it's over 100 degrees at gametime. My wife likes to go to get autographs as well.

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

Not at all, but she'll sit through nine innings 'cause she likes to see me cry once in awhile. :D

She must have seen you cry a lot this season... :laugh

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

The wife likes baseball, but isn't into it like I am. The athmosphere in the stadium is what she likes most.

[maximum jack]

My wife absoulutely loves baseball. Before we met, she had just discovered the game and was hooked on going to the Knoxville Smokies' games-- when they were still in town. She's great with names, teams, strategies, etc., but I can't for the life of me get her to understand the difference between a tag-out and a force-out. I've tried to explain it on numerous occasions to no avail. What am I doing wrong?

[KCGHOST]

Mine doesn't care for sports at all but she tolerates my excessive behavior.

[sandlot]

My wife's also Chinese. Her boyfriend before we met was a British soccer nut and she's really happy that I can enjoy a sport without feeling obliged to get legless with my mates. She's also a Japanese food nut and thinks Matsui is okay; no anti-Japanese stuff at all. Being very practical, as Hong Kong women usually are, when I told her that there was a pitcher from Taiwan on the Yanks, she just said: "That's nice. Is he any good?" I took her to Yankee Stadium on our (abbreviated) honeymoon -- so you can see right there that she's a pretty good sport. It was also my first time inside the stadium (sunny day, Yanks won, Sheff homered). She figured out the basics quickly, asked some insightful questions, ate about 50 bucks worth of hotdogs and ice cream, then went to one of stores outside and bought NY warmup jerseys for both of us. We were wearing them later on a drive up to Boston, and when I got to the last exit and asked for directions to Malden, the guy at the toll booth says, "I like your shirts." I figure right there that we're about to be given directions to Provincetown or Pawtucket, but he can see what I'm thinking and says, "Don't worry, pal -- I'm a Yankee fan, too. Sometimes it gets really lonely here." Had to feel for him. Fast forward to the playoffs, and I'm sneaking up at 4 a.m. in our Bangkok hotel room to watch the playoffs, with no sound, during what's supposed to be our "real" honeymoon. So, I tiptoe back to bed at 6, and she opens one eye just a little and says, "Well?" I say, "My team lost. They were creamed. This is terrible." She gives me a little hug. "Next year," she says. "Now get some sleep." That really took a lot of the sting out of 20 scoreless innings. Thought to myself, I hope every guy on the team has the same reception waiting at home.

[candy curveball cummings]

My girlfriend told me that if I ask her to marry her, she'd rather have season tickets to the M's than a ring. I was like "Will you marry me?" Then she slapped me for not having the tickets. She said they had to be diamond club, right behind home plate. I think a ring would be cheaper. :D

[Neilios]

What a great topic!

My wife doesn't have her heart in it like I do, but she's enjoyed rooting for the Tigers with me. I think she has a secret crush on Brandon Inge. That's fine with me if she doesn't mind that we watch every game instead of her shows! :)

[sandlot]

My girlfriend told me that if I ask her to marry her, she'd rather have season tickets to the M's than a ring. I was like "Will you marry me?" Then she slapped me for not having the tickets. She said they had to be diamond club, right behind home plate. I think a ring would be cheaper. :D:D :D :D Sounds like a keeper! Good luck!

[hudsonharden]

my significant other is baseball.

[Goooooo]

No. She's watching desperate housewives while I watch the cards vs mets.

[KenFougere]

As much as I love it . . . she despises it.

[dmbfan]

When my wife and I first met, she never watched baseball and thought it was boring. My father and I brought her to her first game at Shea Stadium when the Mets played the Marlins in their inagural season. From that time forward, we went to many games together and I taught her about the game. Now, 14 years later, she will sit and watch an entire game with me, talk strategy, go to the Hall of Fame with me, and talk about taking vacations in order to visit different stadiums. Definately a keeper.:D

[Erik Bedard]

My girlfriend doesn't like baseball. She just doesn't get it. :confused:

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I do, however, have a friend who is a girl and loves baseball. She loves the Orioles almost as much as I do. Not a girlfriend, just a friend.

[Cubsfan97]

My gf dont even know what its called whn you swing and miss. I asked her and she said "Foul Ball". I think I got a major headache from that one. Shes willing to learn though, so i gotta get some baseball games for her to watch and explain everything.

This doesnt have to do with a special girl in my life just my social worker, she claims shes a baseball fan, but when I mentioned Ernie Banks and Ron Santo she had no clue as to who they were.

[GiambiJuice]

True Story:

I was watching a Yankee game with my girlfriend. The yankees were down by two runs in the bottom of 9th with two out and nobody on base. I was explaining to her that the Yankees chances of winning were very slim...

Then she said "I can't believe they're not going for a two-point conversion!" I smacked my forehead in disbelief (she didn't appreciate that gesture). I asked her if she was just pulling my leg. She said no.

[Old Sweater]

My Ex didn't like a thing about baseball. And they say opposites attract, baloney.

[kearns643]

My wife says to me the other day….”Bill, I don’t mind you talking baseball so much, but at least you could do is to go to church more often” “But, honey, why, I have my own religion already!!!!!!

And I was trying to explain that to Father Mathieu last Sunday. “You know Father, that my wife thinks I talk about baseball too much. Did you know that God was a big baseball fan himself” I was explaining. “First off, he talks about “Homer” in the Old Testament!!!!!! He say “O.K.” I explain further that even in the first verse of the Bible: Genesis 1:1 it reads “In the beginning God created……….Father says “I, know that passage very well, so” “Well read it again Father, it says “In the "big inning" God created……Unfortunately I have had to go to confession everyday this week…Oh bother

[RMan10]

It depends if it's on tv she won't want to watch the game with me but whenever we go to a game when the Red Sox come in to town to the Rogers Centre which is the only time I get to see the Red Sox play other than on TV she will go with me to a game no problem. Of course she cheers for the Jays but I think she does it to get under my skin. She won't sit in front of the tv though with me which is an issue cause I only get to see the Sox on tv a few times a year since I live in Toronto. I'm thinking of investing in MLB.TV next year or maybe getting Direct TV so I can get NESN and see all the games.

[DoubleX]

Heh, interesting thread.

My significant other grew up in a Mets household, but she wasn't very passionate at all about it. So I made a deal with her - I'd be a NJ Devils fan if she'd be a Yankees fan. She's pretty hardcore into the Devils. I think I've done a good job of bringing her over to the Yankees and she's pretty into them. She enjoys going to games, she gets decked on in Yankees gear, she knows their numbers and walk up music (something I don't know at all), and most importantly, she listens to me go on and on about the team. :)

[Gee Walker]

I was born and remain a Tiger fan, but lived in the Toronto area for 33 years before moving back to Tiger country on the Canadian side. My wife and I got married in 1977, so she starting liking baseball with the original Blue Jays. These teams, of course, developed a serious rivalry in the 80's. First the Tigers, then the Jays, and then the Tigers again won pennants during that time.

The 1987 pennant race was merciless on us. I was ribbed daily as the Tigers seemed to be headed for collapse late in the season. But the final pennant weekend... as the Tigers swept the Jays, my wife got more and more upset. She went out for a long walk alone on the final day of the season, and cried, as the Tigers beat the Jays 1-0.

Since then we've seen a couple of World Series champs in Toronto, a long decline of the Tigers finally turned around, and we still argue about baseball. It wasn't until this year that my wife "forgave" the Tigers for "taking it away from us" in 1987...

[yanks0714]

My future wife didn't know a thing about baseball when I met her. But since we've been married now for 33+ years she has since become a Yankee fan... just like me.
I think I'll keep her. :)