Am I a nerd or am I cool based on the following project ...

A weird personal game attendance stat: I've only been to one NBA game (Chicago-Washington in the early '90s) and one NHL game (Chicago-Boston about the same time), but I've been to one MISL game (Chicago Sting vs. Montreal Manic), one USFL game (Chicago Blitz vs. Birmingham Stallions) and one XFL game (Orlando Rage vs. somebody I can't remember).

 

Bubs, you and I may be the only people on the planet documenting such detailed lists of our MLB attendance. But I thought I'd share a little of mine, since I just finished it tonight.

As a Braves fan, I'm most interested to see how five specific players did in the games I've attended, especially since more than 50 of the 82 games I've been able to document involved the Tomahawks. Luckily, I've kept a perfect record of the games I've attended since 1995 -- through ticket stubs, programs and/or notes -- and am only missing a few from 1987-93 that, alas, are lost to history.

Sad to say that my all-time favorite pitcher has completely shit a brick in the games I've seen him start:

Glavine, Tom: 6-11, 5.82 ERA, 17 GS (94.1 IP, 119 H, 67 R, 61 ER, 42 BB, 54 K, 14 HR)
* did get to see him pick up wins No. 234, 252 and 284 (the latter two with the fucken Mets, but oh well.)

Maddux, Greg: 4-3, 3.07 ERA, 10 GS (73.1 IP, 67 H, 30 R, 25 ER, 9 BB, 49 K, 8 HR)

Smoltz, John: 1-3, 2.83 ERA, 7 SV, 13 G, 4 GS (41.1 IP, 38 H, 14 R, 13 ER, 10 BB, 45 K, 4 HR)
* highlight was 4/10/05, when his 15 Ks were upstaged by Pedro's 2-hitter

And, of course, I also had to find out how the Jones Boys did at the plate when I was in the stands.

Jones, Chipper: .329 avg., 158 AB, 26 R, 52 H, 25 RBI, 31 BB, 38 K, 7 2B, 0 3B, 11 HR, 2 SB
* 45 games (includes playoffs)

Chipper's overall numbers are pretty amazing -- extrapolated over a whole season, that's about 38 HRs and 95 RBI -- but even more spectacular is the stretch from 1995-99, when he hit .439, 7 HR, 17 RBI in the 17 games I was at.

Jones, Andruw: .293 avg., 157 AB, 28 R, 46 H, 28 RBI, 22 BB, 29 K, 8 2B, 2 3B, 10 HR, 6 SB
* 44 games (includes playoffs)

 

Well, Bubbler, if it become overwhelming, commission buck-dub. He knows all that is baseball

 

Cool, but in a nerdy way.


I can tell you the first game I was at in each sport, but dont remember the year.
Baseball: 1969 Senators at Tigers (Frank Howard hit a foul ball off my dad's hands, he didnt finish with it and I didn't forgive him for months)
1970 -- Bears at Lions in "coaches corner" of Tiger Stadium
1970-ish -- Bulls at Pistons at Cobo Arena
1969 -- Montreal at Wings at Olympia (Section 10, row 4, seats 1-2-3-4. Just inside the visiting team's blueline..."

 

Bubbler:

How many games are we talking about for you? For me, it's in the hundreds, and I have little recollection about most of them. First one, yeah, I could nail that one down pretty easily. First postseason game, ditto. First WS game, too. But the others, there's just no way for me to remember them all.

 

I'm probably between 100 and 125, counting games I've covered.

 

Outing alert: The Big Ragu is Billy Crystal!

 

I was doing something like this a little while ago Bubbler. I should check my stats.

 

Not until your month as moderator is done. By then, you might do it yourself and none of us would get charged...

 

Here's my first game:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN197508190.shtml

Cards edge the Big Red Machine. I remember the game as being kind of dull, and now I know why.