I can't remember if I've talked about it or not, but I've been watching baseball this year.
I haven't watched sports in decades (although I vaguely keep up with the sports I enjoy) probably since I gave up cable, but I've never minded baseball, and know enough about it to enjoy it and to know some of the big (long time ago even) names and stories.
I remember the Toronto Blue Jays doing well when I was in high school and how great that was, but again, that was a solid chunk of years ago.
Jason invited me to watch the World Series last year which was between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees and he is a Dodgers fan, so I followed suit.
I got SUPER stressed watching the games we watched, but in the end the Dodgers won and I remembered how fun it can be to support a team who does well.
This year, Jason asked if I'd like to watch this season and then he very kindly shared his MLB subscription with me (am I allowed to type that?) so that I could watch an entire season. Which I have never done.
The Dodgers are the team I chose to follow in part because I got to like them and know them last year and because there are regional blackouts for game coverage and the Blue Jays games were blacked out on MLB all year. (And I don't have it in me to follow any other teams but I do also root for the Mariners seeing as Seattle is close enough to BC that I feel like they're cousins or something.)
Well, here we are in the "post season" and all of the teams I like have made it into the almost final stage of the playoffs!
The Blue Jays (Toronto) are playing the Mariners (Seattle) and I'm in such a strange place of wanting the Blue Jays to win but also being very happy if the Mariners win because they have never gone to the world series and wouldn't that be neat for them and all of their fans!?
The Dodgers have a challenge with the team they're up against and I'm nervous about that (I'm really attached to all the guys now!) but man oh man the amount of anxiety I have had watching some of these games is NOT OK and so I'm trying to find ways to watch while keeping my stress level know.
I know that that stress and excitement is part of the enjoyment for a lot of sports fans but I am trying not to get too far down that rabbit hole for my own well being. It's not fun for me when I'm super anxious watching a game.
I did have to purchase a month's worth of the other app that shows the post season in Canada, which means I can watch the Blue Jays games too which means for the first time in my life I sat down on Monday (holiday) and watched baseball starting at 2pm and then switched to another game before that game was over!
It also meant that at some point this weekend (I legit forget the day...Thursday? Friday?) I watched 15 innings of baseball! The game has 9 innings (unless it's tied and then it goes into "extra" innings and this game had FIFTEEN! ONE FIVE!!! HA!
Thankfully it wasn't a terribly late starting day (in my time zone at least) so I wasn't up too too late).
I did, however, have a dream about one of the players that night which I thought was hilarious. For the first time I can remember I watched so much sport that my brain dreamt about it. (Except the dream was the Mariners' big hitter "big dumper" - Cal Raleigh (their catcher) was hitting baseballs up onto mountains and then he and I would have to mountain bike down from wherever the baseball landed so I don't even know what that was about!)
But yeah, it's an intense time of year for baseball and I'm apparently choosing to be dealing with that this year!
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