GiantsFan2010
06-24-2010, 04:02 AM
Good morning everyone (roughly 2:39am here).
It seems rather odd for someone to be up and posting a thread here, especially one being new such as I am. However, I could not possible wait any longer and opted to introduce myself to all of you lovely folks.
Though I like to keep things short, I think a little longer this time around would paint a better picture for fellow members and Giants lovers, (hopefully!).
Well, to begin with I am not a native son from the soil I am residing in. In actuality I was born in a far away place and then moved to Germany when still a baby. Baseball was a strange and exotic game for me while growing up in Germany. My first real contact with baseball occurred when I entered my freshman year at high school, having been only in the states for a good week.
I fondly recall how I used to watch several games on TBS, Fox and ESPN during my first years in my new adopted home. Though I understood little, which must have been contributed by the fact my English skills were abyssal. Additionally, baseball seemed like an odd sport compared to soccer (Fussball). I was not much into baseball as I would consider myself being now. But out of all US sports (North American sports) baseball appealed the most to me. It seemed to calm me down alot and make me think deeply.
Fast forward to the post season of 2009. I stopped paying attention to baseball for a few years, ever since I entered college and focused my entire attention to my studies. As I had my buddy over (who happens to be a huge Dodgers fan), we watched a game together. From the moment the first pitch was thrown I was hooked into the sport. I finally began to understand why I was so charmed by the game. Baseball ceased to be a game of randomness and began to be much more about strategies, tactics and counts.
As I figured out that in baseball most actions are calculated and precisely timed, I fell in love with the game.
I really did not have a team, really did not support a team. One element was obvious to me however from the very beginning. I could not stand the Dodgers. Being from around L.A. it would seem heretic, but I just could never find myself rooting for this L.A. team. Whatever the reason, and I am not trying to flame things up here, I feel this great disconnect to that team.
I feel a small connection to the Cubs, as I find their tale and story to be historic and part of the baseball canon itself. But, being quite away, I noticed that what I feel for the Cubs is more an attraction and respect, than ardent love.
As I watched a Giants game a few weeks ago on the MLB Network I found myself mysteriously rooting for the Giants quite unlike any other team I watched on TV. I would swear at the TV if the ump made a call I found to be disadvantageous for the Giants, worry when the Giants would be down and cheer whole heartily when the Giants scored, or made a wonderful play. As I was watching the game I remembered how back in 02 I was the only kid in my English class, next to the teacher herself, that hoped the Giants to win the series against the Angels.
It was quite fantastic and I felt an emotion which I have not experienced for a very long time. I felt love.
I do not know much of the Giants history (though I have been researching like a mad person all there is to know, which is infinite in itself) and try to research each and every player. I am still a newbie to baseball and would be embarrassed to call myself a hardcore lover of baseball by any stretch or means. But I have developed a healthy obsession with the game and a bond to the Giants. Heck, this post should be palpable proof of this (now it being 2:56am).
I even bought myself yesterday an authentic Giants cap by New Era to show my love for this team (in a city 30 minutes away from L.A.). I am rather reticent and furtive about entities I enjoy and love, but some strange force convinced me to do otherwise. I am not sure what will happen, but I am glad I have stumbled across this fantastic Giants fan forum. :)
It seems rather odd for someone to be up and posting a thread here, especially one being new such as I am. However, I could not possible wait any longer and opted to introduce myself to all of you lovely folks.
Though I like to keep things short, I think a little longer this time around would paint a better picture for fellow members and Giants lovers, (hopefully!).
Well, to begin with I am not a native son from the soil I am residing in. In actuality I was born in a far away place and then moved to Germany when still a baby. Baseball was a strange and exotic game for me while growing up in Germany. My first real contact with baseball occurred when I entered my freshman year at high school, having been only in the states for a good week.
I fondly recall how I used to watch several games on TBS, Fox and ESPN during my first years in my new adopted home. Though I understood little, which must have been contributed by the fact my English skills were abyssal. Additionally, baseball seemed like an odd sport compared to soccer (Fussball). I was not much into baseball as I would consider myself being now. But out of all US sports (North American sports) baseball appealed the most to me. It seemed to calm me down alot and make me think deeply.
Fast forward to the post season of 2009. I stopped paying attention to baseball for a few years, ever since I entered college and focused my entire attention to my studies. As I had my buddy over (who happens to be a huge Dodgers fan), we watched a game together. From the moment the first pitch was thrown I was hooked into the sport. I finally began to understand why I was so charmed by the game. Baseball ceased to be a game of randomness and began to be much more about strategies, tactics and counts.
As I figured out that in baseball most actions are calculated and precisely timed, I fell in love with the game.
I really did not have a team, really did not support a team. One element was obvious to me however from the very beginning. I could not stand the Dodgers. Being from around L.A. it would seem heretic, but I just could never find myself rooting for this L.A. team. Whatever the reason, and I am not trying to flame things up here, I feel this great disconnect to that team.
I feel a small connection to the Cubs, as I find their tale and story to be historic and part of the baseball canon itself. But, being quite away, I noticed that what I feel for the Cubs is more an attraction and respect, than ardent love.
As I watched a Giants game a few weeks ago on the MLB Network I found myself mysteriously rooting for the Giants quite unlike any other team I watched on TV. I would swear at the TV if the ump made a call I found to be disadvantageous for the Giants, worry when the Giants would be down and cheer whole heartily when the Giants scored, or made a wonderful play. As I was watching the game I remembered how back in 02 I was the only kid in my English class, next to the teacher herself, that hoped the Giants to win the series against the Angels.
It was quite fantastic and I felt an emotion which I have not experienced for a very long time. I felt love.
I do not know much of the Giants history (though I have been researching like a mad person all there is to know, which is infinite in itself) and try to research each and every player. I am still a newbie to baseball and would be embarrassed to call myself a hardcore lover of baseball by any stretch or means. But I have developed a healthy obsession with the game and a bond to the Giants. Heck, this post should be palpable proof of this (now it being 2:56am).
I even bought myself yesterday an authentic Giants cap by New Era to show my love for this team (in a city 30 minutes away from L.A.). I am rather reticent and furtive about entities I enjoy and love, but some strange force convinced me to do otherwise. I am not sure what will happen, but I am glad I have stumbled across this fantastic Giants fan forum. :)