Saturday October 11, 2003
Friday Five
It’s a little late, but what the heck. This week’s topic deals with sports.
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Sporty Nieke! 1. Do you watch sports? If so, which ones? Whenever one of the big GrandSlam Tennis Tournaments starts, I'll wait a few days before I start following the matches. The early rounds don't interest me all that......[read more]
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1. Mainly any that involves national teams playing, usually finals and that stuff. Lately, soccer, golf and athletism.
2. In soccer, Mexico and Brazil, and Ana Guevara in athletism. Tho, ask me next month and I may change.
3. Not really.
4. Yup, last time with Dad to a soccer game of our local team.
5. Not in any team, just like daily at school for fun.
hehe I played softball for two years from 8-9 yrs old. I stopped playing because I kept getting hit in the face. Needless to say we were an awful team!
2 | Posted by: Colleen on October 13, 2003 @ 5:31 AMOMG Colleen! I can see why you quit! OW!
I was a bitter little kid, and when they wouldn’t let me play the position I wanted, I decided to sabotage the team. Whenever the ball came my way, I’d sloooowly walk over to it, and then purposely throw it just short of the teammate I was throwing to. Actually, the bitterness was 2-fold, because I was also upset they changed the name of our team.
Now that I look back on it, those kids probably hated me. That time period was a little turbulent for me—it’s amazing my parents didn’t strangle me!
3 | Posted by: Jennifer
on October 13, 2003 @ 8:39 AM
1. Yes. Baseball almost all season, and especially during playoffs/world series, if only to see the painful defeat of the hated Yankees. However, all I got this year was the painful choking of my beloved Cubbies. Sometimes I watch soccer (especially if it’s women’s soccer!) but usually I like to play that instead of watch it. I’m on and off with football/basketball- just can’t get into them all the time.
2. Fave baseball teams: These days I enjoy watching good games over pledging allegiance to certain teams (even the Cubs). However, I’ve been to oodles of Padre/Angel/Dodger games, and I don’t mind the Giants or A’s either. Arizona’s pretty cool for a bunch of old guys. I guess the entire NL West works for me. I respect the skills of and/or like to watch many many different big league ball players- especially if they come through in crunch time or make spectacular plays- like I said, a good game is it for me.
3. I don’t hate golf or hockey or Nascar or anything like that- I simply don’t care about them, and in my opinion that’s actually worse, if you believe in the whole love/hate passionate response is opposite to any apathetic response.
4. Oops, answered this already. However, I’ve only ever been to pro baseball games. Lotsa high school football, but never college or pro. Saw a couple of UCSB basketball games and threw some tortillas on the court back in 1996 when ESPN was taping it!
5. Played soccer for 10 years and baseball for about 10 years too, from ages 6 to 16/17. My soccer career was cut short by simultaneous broken toe & collarbone in fall ‘92 at age 16 (not to mention not making the high school team 2 years in a row), and my baseball career died a slower death via a similar rejection by Dana Hills High (over a 3 year period this time). I did play on their winter ball team in early 1993 though.
