I gave up on baseball during the strike-shortened season (’95 or so?). I did not intentionally walk away, but during the long layoff, I found I could do without it and moved on. I did not come back to it until 5 or 6 years ago. This year is shaping up to be the beginning of another period in which I lose interest in baseball (hell, pretty much all sports).
This year is shaping up to be the beginning of another period in which I lose interest in baseball (hell, pretty much all sports).
After the strike-shortened 1994 season I swore I would never support MLB again. I’ve done a good job over the years. I’ve attended a total of four MLB games since then — all of them in the last 15 years. Two of them were company events, and one of them was a group event in another city as part of a multi-day conference. My only moment of weakness (where I went out and paid for tickets out of my own pocket) came a few years ago when I was dating a girl who was a hard-core baseball fan. :-)
I think it was ‘94, and the cruel irony was that several players seemed on a path to beat 60 homers, including Matt Williams of the SF Giants. And, once they got their way, they ignored the striking umpires. Baseball died for me then.