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This thread should be a light hearted debate about, "What do you think it really takes for a baseball fan to bleed the sport?"

Are the following conditions required,
1) Played the game before?
2) Have a favorite team?
3) Know all the historical significant stats?
4) Know all the minuscule stats?
5) Know the main rules?
6) Know the minuscule rules?
7) Passion for the game because of what it is?

The last one applys to me. I would say I bleed baseball, because I love the game for itself! Not because of a player or a team or the statistics that can be generated from a game, but for the game.

I can sit and watch a 15-0 blowout in the bottom of the ninth with 2 outs because I love to watch the game!

The pitcher winds up and delivers the ball, the batter steps toward the pitch and swings, the ball travels to the outfield in which the left fielder eyes the ball, he positions himself under it, and the ball slams into the glove, batter out, game over.

Seems like a run of the mill play, but to me, this is baseball at its finest!I don't care what team or player is playing or what statistic is produced, or that a player just made a spectacular catch or just hit a bomb of a homerun to win the game. I just love the game for what it is, baseball.

Merriam-Webster online dictionary describes baseball as "a game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players each on a large field having four bases that mark the course a runner must take to score".

for me:
1 yes
2 yes
3 yes, mostly
4 kind of
5 yes
6 yes, mostly
7 yes, mostly

i live for diving catches and backhanded flips to the second baseman to turn two.

1. Yes
2. Yes, The Cincinnati Reds.
3. Mostly
4. Sort of, I couldn't tell you Jay Bruce's average but i know his tendencies.
5. YES
6. Some of these can be confusing.
7. Heck Yeah.

I love when a pticher winds up, releases the ball and it has so much break that the batter just trys to make contact. I love the junk balls.

I also love when players do unexpected things, Such as Prince Fielder Inside the park HR. Or pitchers diving to make plays.

Are the following conditions required,
1) Kinda
2) Yes, two both Soxs
3) Yes....most
4) Same as 3
5) YES
6) YES
7) Deff....

BTW little known fact, the only ball to hit Wrigley field's scoreboard was a golf ball.....it was hit by Sam Snead...

It was also struck by lightning this year.

Yes to them all.

NERD!
just kidding.