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Why I Don’t Watch Baseball Anymore
I watch basketball, football, and heck, even sometimes I’ll watch soccer with my friends.
There is just one sport I refuse to watch to this day: baseball. It’s not that I think it’s boring or that I’m philosophically opposed to the sport at all. When I was a kid, I was pretty obsessed with baseball. It was my main sport besides I started running and I started playing little league with my friends.
I wasn’t very good at baseball, but I started to religiously follow the Mets. In most other sports, I was a Philadelphia sports fan. As a kid, I love Allen Iverson and even worshipped him, so I became a devout 76ers and Eagles fan.
But in baseball, I loved the Mets. I went to see the Mets play once my dad got tickets to Shea Stadium at a discount. I remember that my favorite players were Jose Reyes, Carlos Beltran, and David Wright. We had famous and legendary pitchers in Pedro Martinez and Tom Glavine, and the season had many milestones, including Martinez’s 3,000th strikeout and Glavine’s 300th win.
We also had an ace of a closing pitcher in Billy Wagner, who to this day, has thrown the fastest pitch I’ve ever known.
