Effectively_wild's Blog - Operation Sports

Saturday, September 10, 2022

Posted on September 10, 2022 at 08:51 AM.

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I'll begin Part III with a digression...and that is a brief story of how I became an Os fan.
It's a conundrum that fans of a sport that is not native to their country have...and that conundrum is who to support in whatever given sport it is, if you have no pre-existing loyalty to a particular city, state or even part of the country.
This is the exact situation that I faced.
Who do I support?
Well the answer was quite straight forward in my case.
Before I was ... Read More

Thursday, September 8, 2022

MLB 2K10 - a love letter...Part II

Posted on September 8, 2022 at 06:16 AM.

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I don't know if you're a believer in love at first sight. It's a strange phenomenon, an extremely personal and private experience for those individuals fortunate enough to experience it unequivocally.
Whether you believe in it or not is for you to know but what I can tell you is that on that day in May 2010, I fell in love at first sight.

As I mentioned in Part I, I was heavily into US sports from a young age (not to the mention football/soccer - a prerequisite for a boy in ... Read More

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

MLB 2K10 - a love letter, a decade in the writing

Posted on September 7, 2022 at 11:01 AM.

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Part I.
I'd like to take you back in time. May 2010.
At the time I was in my twenties. I was sitting in my living room having my hair cut and I turned on the TV as I usually did so that I didn't have to engage in too much mindless small talk with my hairdresser. We would usually watch a game or watch the sports news. That way we could both pass the time and my social awkwardness could stay repressed and hidden in amongst whatever small sport tradegy and triumph was playing out in ... Read More