Well I am Atlanta Braves Fan, I grew up watching Dale Murphy Play and wore number 3 in ever sport I played in. I can't stand the yankee's I could maybe if Steinbrenner sold the team or pass away.
I was hoping Todd Hoping Todd would latch onto a team longterm and have some consistent playing time and success. Hoped the Sox were it. But I'm a Braves fan too....grew up with Murph, Hubbard and Claudell myself. Still Braves fan but they are about to dismantle our club. I hate Ted Turner but wish he still owned the team now. Hope Todd does good with Dusty Baker and the Cubbies though.
I loved Dale Murphy when I was little even though I didn't know much about baseball other than me liking him. I was only like 3-4 during his MVP years but I've heard a tape of me getting asked who my favorite baseball player is and I said "Merrpphhy." On the Todd Walker signing, I can't belive that he couldn't get more than $1.75 for one year after the postseason that he had. I think his defense might have a little to do with it. I guess this just shows what a salary slowdown baseball is in, mostly due to ARod signing for $252 mil.
My roommare was a huge Murphy fan. He has every Dale Murphy baseball card ever. Something like 4500 or so. I have every Walker card except for his 1992 LSU card. I have 2700 different Walker cards, including a gem mint rookie.
Even before I moved to Boston, I was a Sox fan--Loved Jim Rice, Mike Greenwell, Mo Vaughn and Wade Boggs and even Clemens before he sold his soul to the Devil (Steinbrenner). My other favorite teams were Atlanta (Dale Murphy), Houston (Jose Cruz and Nolan Ryan then Biggio, Louis Gonzalez and Bagwell) and the Cubbies (Andre Dawson, Shawn Dunston, Ryan Sandberg, Mark Grace, Jerome Walton and Harry Carrey). Now, the Sox are my unrivaled favorite (I have season tickets for next season!!!) and the other aboved mentioned teams all fit in my "2nd favorite" category.
At least we have a wagon. I jumped on that bandwagon in 1958 (I was 9). You young whippersnappers don't realize that the Yanks had their "Dinardo/Hallman/Tepper years" in the 70s, 80s and early 90s.
