I have always gotten a lot of grief from family and friends for my devotion to the hapless Baltimore Orioles.
My father and I once sat down and made a rough estimate of the games we either attended in person, watched on TV or listened to on the radio and we guessed about 120 games a year. But we counted partial games in that total, not just games we watched for all nine innings.
Phillies fan Bob Bogart makes me and my dad look like fair-weather fans. He has kept score for every Phillies game since Aug. 8, 1986. That's right, he doesn't just catch the last four or five innings, he painstakingly records every out.
He's so adamant about watching the Phils that he would only visit his wife's family, who live in Chicago, when the Phils were playing the Cubs or Brewers. Now, with the internet he can safely travel any time however. Here's the whole article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-sp.philsfan22oct22,0,6659662.story?page=1
Enjoy Game 1 tonight.
-Steve
