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ConnHuskBask said:
That's awesome. I'd love to play on the weekends, even if it was just as a sub once in a blue moon.

I played catcher growing up, which I feel like is either the least filled position in a men's league or the most easily filled.
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Where do you live?
 
Baseball, love to watch those Yanks, but last year I coached 7 and 8 year olds and watching them develop and improve provided the biggest charge of all.
 
Baseball, football, basketball, tennis, hockey growing up.

Golf entered the picture during the Tiger years and has supplanted tennis as my #4.
 
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College Basketball is definitely my number 1
When UConn is in the dredges I spend more time following golf. Those are my 1 & 2
 
WingU-Conn said:
We do?

Basketball, football, soccer, then baseball. There is no #1, just which one has most of my attention at the time (which is dependent on how well my favorite teams are playing).

Hockey doesn't even register, I've been to more Yard Goats games than Wolf Pack, and they've only been around for a year.
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Hey man, I was drunk and waxing nostalgic
 
WingU-Conn said:
Things can change quickly, we'll be back and better in 2022.
It's so far off I have no choice but to hope and wish.
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4 years is a pretty significant amount of time in my book.
We need to quickly identify talent right now that we think can help us in 4 years. It all starts with Pulisic, on down to Brooks, Yedlin. After that, maybe Miazga and Horvath will be first options?
But the squad needs to be filled out with guys who want to fight for the jersey, and realize that World Cup qualification isn't just handed to them. We need guys who have a ceiling of high level European soccer. Whatever the issues are, we somehow aren't finding these players in a country with over 300 million people.
And it is completely inexcusable.
 
1. Uconn: b-ball, football, hockey
2. Bruins- love watching hockey in general
3. Patriots
4. Yankees
5. Celtics
6. NCAA lax
 
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I fell in love with basketball when I attended UConn. Before that, I was a baseball guy. Now I am a basketball guy but it wouldn't have been so without UConn. My only regret from the last four years is that I didn't form an AAU team. I came really close a couple of times but the talent pool is thin here.
 
crazyUCfan23 said:
1. Uconn: b-ball, football, hockey
2. Bruins- love watching hockey in general
3. Patriots
4. Yankees
5. Celtics
6. NCAA lax
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How do you justify the Boston sports fandom and Yankee fandom?
 
Football - any game any time
basketball - college
Baseball - pros
Winter Olympics
Summer Olympics
Hockey - NHL playoffs
Soccer - World Cup
 
WingU-Conn said:
Hockey doesn't even register, I've been to more Yard Goats games than Wolf Pack, and they've only been around for a year.
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Have you checked out a UConn hockey game?

I highly suggest you do.

Way better atmosphere than Wolfpack games and it's UConn.
 
ct06111 said:
Have you checked out a UConn hockey game?

I highly suggest you do.

Way better atmosphere than Wolfpack games and it's UConn.
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I'll be there for BU friday night. I enjoy hockey live, it's a lot of fun, I was just poking fun at the assumption that "all of us skated on the local pond as kids", hopefully @Guapo knew I was just kidding. As far as sports go, I'll watch the other major sports first, then MMA, then maybe hockey. I'll catch some of the stanley cup finals, if I can and that's about it.

FWIW, I'm not an alum, just a UConn fan, so while I wish all of the teams well, I don't feel any emotional attachment to the school itself outside of the sports I'm interested in.
 
Guapo said:
How do you justify the Boston sports fandom and Yankee fandom?
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LOL it’s kind of complicated. Basically, my dad likes the Yankees and doesn’t really follow other sports.
 
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Is it hockey? We all have memories of playing on the frozen pondsnu in our hometowns.-Not all of us!

Football. UConn and Patriots. UConn mens basketball.

Ironically UConn mens basketball and the Pats lost some luster when they started winning titles and the bandwagon started filling up.

These days I hope to see the Mets win it all soon.
 
TRest said:
College basketball
College football
NFL

The past few years have been difficult, the older I get the fewer poops I give about sports. Baseball lost me during the strike and I find it unwatchable now on TV.
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I have to say - I totally agree. I used to be a rabid sports guy. Now, I mostly don't care. I love going to UCONN football, basketball, and hockey games because of my connection to CT and UCONN and I see a lot of friends and family. I support the Patriots and have season tickets, but mostly because I inherited them from my uncle. Maybe because I have a wife, kids, career, mortgage, minivan, etc, sucking up all of my worry space. Or maybe Netflix is so great that I have better entertainment.
 
Baseball! I caught the bug from my Dad. I played from 3rd grade through college (D3) and beyond until my rotator cuff said Stop! Here's a prized possession, letter to my Dad from famous Yankee scout Paul Krichell (he signed Lou Gherig). Dad was all set to be a Yankee except a little thing call World War II got in the way...he ended up in the Navy for two years right out of college. Then he went home and got a real job.

yankeeletter.jpg
 
crazyUCfan23 said:
LOL it’s kind of complicated. Basically, my dad likes the Yankees and doesn’t really follow other sports.
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Perfectly understandable.

In 1986, I lived halfway out to Montauk, worked for a company of Mets fans, with tickets occasionally available to employees, and the local cable system had stopped broadcasting WSBK Red Sox games for the many eastern Long Islanders who had New England roots & affection.

After deep bonding with co-workers while watching an extra innings NLCS pitching duel between Mets & Astros, I was all in for the Mets and announced this to family when we visited West Hartford the following weekend with my newly walking daughter. My normally inexpressive father offered a single side long glance, and I knew that I was previously committed to root for the Red Sox. So yes, Bill Buckner & game 7 got experienced as heartbreak (well not really, I expected something like this) instead of joy for the team I'd rooted for all season (and had liked well enough before then).
My co-workers couldn't understand. Perhaps you do.

PS - Nowadays, I'm pretty much down to the latter stages of major sports playoffs to see the best when they are trying their hardest.
I got curious enough on Friday to watch my first-recalled Olympics Opening Ceremony, and have seen no performances at all. I could offer a similar random story about US Open (either) or how I streamed a relay of the Mayweather fight, but mostly so much else in life captures my attention.

I'm here year round, and marvel that I care so much and spend so much time on a pretty unimpressive display of minor league sport. Again, the eggs.
 
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Bezzz said:
Baseball! I caught the bug from my Dad. I played from 3rd grade through college (D3) and beyond until my rotator cuff said Stop! Here's a prized possession, letter to my Dad from famous Yankee scout Paul Krichell (he signed Lou Gherig). Dad was all set to be a Yankee except a little thing call World War II got in the way...he ended up in the Navy for two years right out of college. Then he went home and got a real job.

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Very cool!!
 
1. Chicago Bears (since 84`) Hated football but as a 10 year old you see Jim McMahon with the headband, gloves and cools shades and it leaves an impression. I was hooked. Ironically i hated football as my brother always watched it on sundays when i wanted to watch cartoons.
2. New York Mets ((since 86`) My mother actually babysat former Padres catcher Benito Santiago.
3. Uconn MENS basketball (since 1990) That was simply a magical time just like the decade.
4. Boxing (Tito Trinidad my all time favorite fighter)Now i dont have a favorite i just love the sport. If not for all the corruption and horrible judging because of it this would problably be #1.
5. I think im a closet Knicks fan. Dont ask why but i just seem to watch them whenever their on tv.
 
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noeynox said:
Is it hockey? We all have memories of playing on the frozen pondsnu in our hometowns.-Not all of us!

Football. UConn and Patriots. UConn mens basketball.

Ironically UConn mens basketball and the Pats lost some luster when they started winning titles and the bandwagon started filling up.

These days I hope to see the Mets win it all soon.
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If Duda didn't make that awful throw home...or Murphy didn't let that ball go through his legs...

:(
 
I remember "saying" I was a Celtics fan first. Go figure, growing up in Central Massachusetts. Four straight years of birthday presents that included a Celtics T-shirt during the peak Big 3 years didn't hurt either (84-87, IIRC), but my first love was baseball, which started roughly in '84-'85 and solidified in 1986.

At recess in the spring we would play with a tree branch and tennis ball. At home, I remember my brother and his neighborhood friends spraypainting a home plate, batters boxes, a pitchers "mound" second base, and outfield distance markers on the rock wall at the end of our street. They used to play 3 on 3 (or 4 on 4) with pitcher's mound poison. 2 outs per 1/2 inning. We played with an aluminum bat and tennis ball and the games took on a suburban middle class Norman Rockwell-esque stereotype.

I remember liking the Redskins because of their colors from an early age, but really got caught up in football during the Patriots' run up to Super Bowl XX, and lastly hockey during the Bruins' Stanley Cup Finals run in 1988. I first took notice of UConn during the Dream Season, but college basketball was not televised much in Massachusetts until the Tournament. Seems like everyone was focused on the Celtics.

Soccer was always in the background and I really enjoyed playing it, but it was tough to get into as a spectator sport because of the lack of professional team/league.
 
My favorite teams are UConn, the Sox and Pats. But my favorite sport these days is soccer. It's the only sports where I will watch an entire game that doesn't involve one of my teams. It's the best product out there. It's done in two hours without commercial breaks. There's no tanking, it's free-flowing. Even games among cellar dwellers have a degree of intrigue. Great games every weekend, every day in fact during weeks like this.
 
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