Why Baseball Makes Me Want to Slap Myself in the Face
- March 31st, 2008 5:19 pm
Well, baseball has begun for many teams today including the team for which my husband cheers, the Cincinnati Reds. I’m not a huge sports fan. The only time I really enjoy a game of any sort is if I am actually there. For some reason, I cannot do the pseudo-spectator thing and watch them on television.
My husband is an avid sports fan. He always has been. I knew this from day one. So it’s not as if I expect his love for sports to transform into something more fantastic (like a an obsession with giving me massages). But sometimes, I do wish he could cut down his enthusiasm for random statistics and methods of putting some ball somewhere in order for someone to feel victorious.
I know what you’re probably thinking something along the lines of, “why don’t you just walk into the other room and watch television?? HUH, LADY? calm down! It’s not the end of the world.”
But, I will tell you why it is the end of the world in this household. My husband happens to enjoy my company. very simple, I know, but true. If I am not in the room with him while he participates in this pseudo-spectatorism, he will call me into the room every few minutes to watch plays that I not only wish not to see, but refuse to understand.
Example:
” COME WATCH THIS! *giant pause*What’s-his-face just did a random-sports-move! It was so awesome! Watch the replay! Only two other people in the history of whatever-sport-is-on-TV have ever done that before! It’s amazing!! *more pausing* DID YOU SEE THAT? DID YOU SEE IT?”
I’m all “YEAH! IT WAS AWESOME! *insert giant, double eye roll and smile*”
I love my husband. I love his sometimes child-like enthusiasm for grown men tossing and chasing balls around. But sometimes, it drives me a little batty.
And so with the love clarification set in stone, the baseball induced nervous breakdown I undergo every year carries out in this order:
April: It’s new again, and I just sort of nod my head and smile. I have somehow managed to forget the major interference it plays in my life for nearly half of the year due to the comatose-like break it takes from September to March.
May: Sick of it. Give me the damn remote. If I could shoot lasers out of my eyeballs, I’d destroy all baseballs.
June: Summer is here, and we might go watch a few games which will be nice, because YAY to drinking beers at the baseball field while watching a game. Meanwhile, at the home front, still pissed off it’s taking over my tv.
July: IRATE. GET THIS SHIT OFF MY TV. PRONTO! I DON’T CARE WHO HIT WHAT OR CAUGHT WHAT! Zippity freakin’ doo-dah!
August: thoughts are much too x-rated for this blog.
September: As if. ( I realize quoting the movie Clueless is not mature. It ranks right up there with using wikipedia as a source of information, but baseball brings out the worst in me.)
Now, since all of my favorite shows start coming on again this month, let us hope that my husband’s love for the Reds does not attempt to interfere with them. Which it probably won’t, since we love all of the same shows. Thanks to tivo, there is now some compromise about what is playing on our television, because if I have to miss my favorite shows for this bullshit, I become a little angry. (I’m sure if my husband had a blog, he would write an entry today about Grey’s Anatomy interfering with Reds games. More power to him.)
All I know is that if House, Grey’s Anatomy, ER, or the Office is interrupted by a “COME WATCH THIS” for me to run into the living room to watch some grown-ass man slide into a white diamond like that it’s glorified, I will scream.
March 31st, 2008 @ 5:27 pm
I feel ya. Ass Burger Boy does that to me with World of Warcraft. I have zero interest or clue, and he always does it while I am typing. Or on the phone. *sound of brain exploding* I just can’t pretend anymore.
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March 31st, 2008 @ 5:32 pm
You just rehashed college football season for me. Yeah. I feel your pain.
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March 31st, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
I loathe people who think that just because *they* are interested in something, *I* should be interested in it too. Mom, are you reading this?
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March 31st, 2008 @ 7:21 pm
It’s like you’re reading my mind. My hubby loves EVERY sport. Even Curling. I’m not kidding. Thank God for TiVo and that blessed skip button. It makes games a little more tolerable because I can skip through all the time outs, random meaningless commentary, and other non-essentials. Who am I kidding? It’s all a giant non-essential in my book!
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March 31st, 2008 @ 7:25 pm
dude, I love baseball! I could watch a game every day. Maybe you all need to make a compromise. He won’t annoy you with sports and you won’t annoy him with your shows. Maybe he could invite a friend over to watch the games with?
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March 31st, 2008 @ 7:52 pm
UhOH (to quote my toddler)
september worries me.
it isnt mature?!
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March 31st, 2008 @ 8:49 pm
SO grateful my husband is not a sports nut, of any kind. it’s REALLY cool to finally be in a relationship where I get control of the remote.
i know, try not to be too jealous ladies, he also cooks and cleans…yep you can hate me now…brag brag brag…lol.
hopefully you will survive baseball season. maybe you can cure him by making him “COME LOOK” everything something happens on one of YOUR shows. try it…
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March 31st, 2008 @ 8:51 pm
HA! I totally get this as my husband is a Reds fan as well. Luckily I am not subjected to watching most games with him but I do have to hear every day whether or not they won, and who they are playing, and who is in 1st place, blah, blah.
And Clueless is the perfect way to describe it. I get it.
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March 31st, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
Once again, I count myself fortunate that my husband is an athlete who doesn’t care much for sports-watching. We don’t even do the Thanksgiving football thing. We spend the whole day in the kitchen.
I come from countries where the choice obsession is football. The kind you play with your feet. Fine, “soccer”, if you must. My great-grandmother was in the living room one day while her son-in-law swore at the players on TV. Her solution? “Oh, those poor boys, running all over that field after a little ball. If they’d just give them one each, they wouldn’t have to work so hard.”
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March 31st, 2008 @ 9:08 pm
I think quoting Clueless might be a step above Wikipedia…I will go look that up on Wikipedia.
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March 31st, 2008 @ 9:49 pm
So glad my hubs isn’t a baseball fan… soccer is his sport, and those games are only on at night, late, and I can get on the computer without him bugging me.
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March 31st, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
Sports aren’t a problem in our house but video games can be. Thad and I used to play them together but I lack the patience and time now.
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March 31st, 2008 @ 10:46 pm
baseball and watching grass grow…the same damn thing!!
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April 1st, 2008 @ 12:23 am
My hubby enjoys my company and sharing useless info with me too. But his sports of choice are college football and……WRESTLING.
Help me.
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April 1st, 2008 @ 7:16 am
Yeah, I’m not a sports person whatsoever either! I do root for the Reds if they happen to be on and I do enjoy actually going to the games, but that’s about it. I live in Cincinnati, is your husband from Cincy? Is that why he likes the Reds???
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April 1st, 2008 @ 9:09 am
WEll, I am not a sports fan either, so I can feel your pain. I would not be happy having to watch baseball for 4 months – NOPE!!
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April 1st, 2008 @ 10:32 am
I live with 4 boys all who played baseball- 2 of whom played select ball which is traveling tournament ball. We don’t have movie channels on our tv but we sure have MLB extra innings which gives us 80 ball games a week. LOL After 15 years of going thru this- I have learned about the game and now know what they’re talking about when it’s going on. And baseball where we live is YEAR round. We get about 6 weeks off in the winter from mid-november till January and then about 2 weeks off in the summer around the end of July. Wanna come live in TX? Doesn’t your 6 months from opening day till world series sound better now?
LOL
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April 1st, 2008 @ 10:50 am
Great post! My husband is not a sports fan so I don’t have to worry about him camped out on the couch…but he does camp out in front of his computer writing music! I get the “listen to this!” constantly!
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April 1st, 2008 @ 11:23 am
I do the BIG smile, double eye when it is needed.. I’m lucky that my boyfriend and I both love baseball.. He’s not in to any other sports that he just HAS to watch on TV….
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April 1st, 2008 @ 11:46 am
I don’t like baseball either.
Have you tried turning the tables? Yelling for him to come watch this during Grey or HOuse? ha!
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April 1st, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
Ditto, girl. My boyfriend is bleeding Dodger blue all over my sheets.
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April 1st, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
I think that baseball is extended periods of boredom with an occasional nanosecond of excitement. I can do without it. It is so sweet that your husband likes to have your company and it sweet that you try to tolerate the sport.
My husband is not much into sports but he has one passion which is afforded him by SPEED channel. Formula One racing…luckily for both of us…he got me hooked on it as well.
My only suggestion is that you consider TIVO. He can record the games and watch when you are out and you can record shows that you like and watch when he is out.
It also lets you forward through the commercials making the actual game shorter.
Keep your head up.
O.
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April 1st, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
I love baseball (go Tigers!), but Grey’s, House, & ER come first in this household. My husband is a football nut & thankfully, only calls me into the room if its a play I might actually be thrilled about.
Good luck!
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April 1st, 2008 @ 5:57 pm
I just wanted to say I really enjoy your site. I found it while clicking through links. I will definetely be back!
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April 1st, 2008 @ 6:20 pm
Better he’s watching it there than down the pub with his friends.
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April 1st, 2008 @ 7:25 pm
Just catching up on all my blogs today. Looks like I missed some fun things with your questions and your stolen panties. Man, that’s weird!
I have to say I’m with your hubs on this one. I am a die hard Astros fan and never miss a game on tv. Thank God for TiVo is all I have to say!
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April 1st, 2008 @ 10:02 pm
I’m with Amy (who happens to cheer the same team I do) & I will watch games every chance I get, so I have to go with your hubby. But, I love most sports – hence my blog name…
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April 1st, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
oh Amanda, I am a baseball, hockey, basketball,football widow. ESPN is always on, one or five of our T.V.’s.
I am dragged hundred’s of games a year.
I majored in kinesiology and sports medicine, I now hate most sports.
I feel your pain.
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April 2nd, 2008 @ 2:18 am
I have to tell you, I thought of you this morning. When I left work, I called DH as always, and he proceeded to give me a detailed description of the wrestling show he watched last night.
DETAILED.
I nearly threw the phone out of the window!
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April 2nd, 2008 @ 7:52 am
The bad thing about my husband and sports (besides being a fanatic), is I have no idea who to cheer for. He plays fantasy baseball and wants to watch individual players. It doesn’t matter what team they are on. By july, I’ll probably be committed.
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April 3rd, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
Ok, so I’m feeling really dumb now because I love Clueless and quote it regularly AND I <3 wikipedia.
Shit.
I’m dumb.
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April 4th, 2008 @ 10:48 am
Try having a fan of hockey. That season lasts from October to April and then it’s playoff time. I get soooooo sick of the sound of a puck being slapped around the ice.
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August 13th, 2008 @ 1:57 pm
Watching can be fun as long as you have the right beverages handy. Just drink up! After about 30 minutes you will love baseball!
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