Amaroq
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Joined: 8/3/2005 From: San Diego, California Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: DonBraswell The story on the APBA board is that APBA is still trying to get the rights from the Miller Bros. The Millers quit after all of the MLB player law suits. I don't buy stadiums, I made my own. Listening to Ernie takes me back to an eleven year old with the radio under the pillow trying to get the fading signal of a White Sox game out of Chicago. It was hard to be a Yankee and White Sox fan living in Alabama. Don Heh. At age 12, maybe '85 or '86, I was flipping through the radio looking for 'something good' one evening. I picked up a Red Sox game, coming in crystal clear, which struck me as being the 'game of the week' or some such. Only a couple innings into it did I start figuring out that felt like a local broadcast. Surely rebroadcast somewhere closer to home, I figured. About the 7th inning it started fading towards static, and I remember frantically playing with it trying to tune it perfectly. No dice - I was just losing it! Finally, I settled on what I thought was the 'best' setting for it, and forced myself not to touch it again. I had to really concentrate to listen through the static for the ninth inning, which the Sox won in dramatic fashion if I recall, Wade Boggs coming through with a two-out double in the ninth to drive the Fenway Park crowd wild.. I made sure not to touch the dial when I turned it off, but the next morning, there was nothing but static at that point on the dial. Freak atmospheric conditions, I figure now - but from then on I was a closet Red Sox fan - despite having always favored the pinstripes before that!
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