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I used to have a problem with my father-in-law

Bret Sabermetric Mar 03 2006 07:51 AM

well, I used to have a lot of problems with him when I was married to his daughter, but one that belongs on the Baseball forum was the patronizing way he would ask me about the Mets all the time. I mean, this guy didn't follow baseball at all. Didn't know Al Kaline from El Cid, yet he would start conversations with me constantly "So how about those Mets?" or "Think the Mets will win this year?" and expect me to play cheerfullly his game of "chit-chat with the son-in-law," exactly like I didn't know he was putting in a few seconds of effort into pretending he gave two turds or knew or cared anything about something that was extremely important to me. If were nasty, I would have gone into a detailed rendering of various minor-league manuevers I thought the Mets might play in order to work out the involved DL problems I was anticipating with the back end of their rotation, but usually I just made that chit-chat for a little while. You ever have anyone who looked at you and saw a baseball fan whose good side they felt they could get on by engaging you in meaningless blather about the sport?

Yancy Street Gang Mar 03 2006 08:01 AM

My four-year-old daughter. But it doesn't offend me at all.

KC Mar 03 2006 08:08 AM

I don't know about getting on my good side, but I find it a little frustrating sometimes that I get thirty seconds of elevator time to give my opinion about the Mets to a few people (because they know I have season tickets or because I wear a Mets jacket sometime) knowing they really don't have the same baseball passion I do and twenty-five seconds into the conversation as our encounter is ending for the day I often get, "well Francessa says .... " Lets Go Yankees! *clap clap clapclapclap*

mlbaseballtalk Mar 03 2006 08:09 AM

My Mother actually gets annoyed when I give a breif "I don't want to talk about it" with a chuckle when that kind of person says something like "Boy how about those Mets" because then I'd have to get into an obsentiy spewed rant Actually alot of times I really don't want to get into a debate over an issue, i.e. one time my Grandfather said "Jerry Seinfeld, he wasn't too good now was he." and I just didn't want to say "Well his show IS the #1 show on TV right now"

OlerudOwned Mar 03 2006 03:53 PM

I know someone who said "Giambi is better than Delgado because Delgado is old".

Elster88 Mar 03 2006 04:05 PM

There are idiots in all walks of life.

mlbaseballtalk Mar 03 2006 05:14 PM

OlerudOwned wrote: I know someone who said "Giambi is better than Delgado because Delgado is old". Uh? Why because Delgado debuted about two years (well not really since Delgado debuted in a "last game of the year in 1993) before Giambi despite Giambi being slightly older (about a year and a half)? Actually both pretty much had their first full season in 1996!

Nymr83 Mar 03 2006 09:39 PM

Elster88 wrote: There are idiots in all walks of life. and most become yankee fans