Edward “Ned” AbbottThere is a child at the #UnionCollege #Hockey game wearing a #SeattleKraken sweater and that’s setting up a kid for a lifetime of pain.
Annie in Progress@ewabbott Who is Union playing?
@LikeItOrLumpIt Saint Lawrence University. Clarkson tomorrow.
@ewabbott I know grads from both. Lived up there.
@LikeItOrLumpIt Beautiful country. I really like Potsdam as a city.
@ewabbott I used to. Until toilet guy ruined it. He has put "toilet gardens" all over town in protest of some ancient gripe.
Ian Plummer@ewabbott My dad indoctrinated me as an islanders fan at the age of 3. It’s been….. mostly pain…
@ewabbott Oh ive also been a Met fan all my life 😅 Blocked that out after the SD series…
@IMPlumm have you read “So Many Ways to Lose”?
@ewabbott I haven’t picked it up but I’ve seen it in stores. Is it good?
@IMPlumm it’s excellent. That, Joe Posnanski’s The Baseball 100, and Éric Nusbaum’s Stealing Home were the baseball books that were best appreciated by my friends over the last couple of years.
@ewabbott Guess I’ll have to pick it up then. I usually try to read a baseball related book in spring so perfect timing!
EVCinNYC@ewabbott @IMPlumm I grew up a Dodgers fan but living in NYC I wanted to pass on my love of the game and had him become a Mets fan - no way were we going to support the Yanks as was a NL purist and thought earning a pennant gave you character. It backfired in 2007 when the Mets went 5-12 to end September, blowing their 7-game lead and their trip to the playoffs. Sometimes trauma is too much when you’re nine years old…