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<blockquote data-quote="DallasFanForever" data-source="post: 269084" data-attributes="member: 13221">Thank you [USER=2]@Ome[/USER] for the nice introduction!! I do appreciate it!! Taking the spotlight for a week was something I wrestled with quite honestly for I do consider myself a very shy person. People in my personal life would tell you that the spotlight is something I usually don’t seek, but though I haven’t been here very long I do like it here enough and feel comfortable enough to do this. To answer ur question, if I were to take part in Mastermind my category would be sports,&nbsp; specifically baseball. I am an admitted baseball junkie; so much so that in 1982 at the age of 7, along with my cousin I turned our front lawn in Upstate, New York into a baseball field. It started as just a thought but the next thing I know we’re putting down the bases and making&nbsp; a pitcher’s mound and putting up signs with the dimensions all over the place. So before Kevin Costner was hearing voices to plow his corn field and build a stadium in Field of Dreams, we were actually doing it seven years earlier. But what I learned at that early age was there’s a big difference between Upstate, New York and Hollywood. The voices told Kevin Costner “If you build it, he will come.” Well, we built it and no one came. No one at all, not a soul. So like two idiots my cousin and I were outside on my front lawn playing baseball by ourselves. And when he went back to Florida when the summer was over I stayed out there well into the fall playing baseball by myself like a bigger idiot.&nbsp; So that’s where my passion for the game comes from.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DallasFanForever, post: 269084, member: 13221"] Thank you [USER=2]@Ome[/USER] for the nice introduction!! I do appreciate it!! Taking the spotlight for a week was something I wrestled with quite honestly for I do consider myself a very shy person. People in my personal life would tell you that the spotlight is something I usually don’t seek, but though I haven’t been here very long I do like it here enough and feel comfortable enough to do this. To answer ur question, if I were to take part in Mastermind my category would be sports, specifically baseball. I am an admitted baseball junkie; so much so that in 1982 at the age of 7, along with my cousin I turned our front lawn in Upstate, New York into a baseball field. It started as just a thought but the next thing I know we’re putting down the bases and making a pitcher’s mound and putting up signs with the dimensions all over the place. So before Kevin Costner was hearing voices to plow his corn field and build a stadium in Field of Dreams, we were actually doing it seven years earlier. But what I learned at that early age was there’s a big difference between Upstate, New York and Hollywood. The voices told Kevin Costner “If you build it, he will come.” Well, we built it and no one came. No one at all, not a soul. So like two idiots my cousin and I were outside on my front lawn playing baseball by ourselves. And when he went back to Florida when the summer was over I stayed out there well into the fall playing baseball by myself like a bigger idiot. So that’s where my passion for the game comes from. [/QUOTE]

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