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Give the 7 Year Old from 1982 a 50″ Plasma TV

Flashback to 1982… I’m 7 years old living in Milwaukee and my favorite baseball team is in the World Series.  Can the Brewers pull it off?  My dad gets 2 tickets to one of the home games and I’m so excited.  But wait… he’s taking my mom??!  She doesn’t even like sports!   This is a crushing defeat before the series has even begun.  

Instead, I get to watch only parts of the games on TV before having to go to bed early because I’ve got school in the morning. This sucks!  So I sneak out into the hallway just out of sight and listen to the game.  The Brewers have a 3-2 series lead!  So stoked!  But then the Cardinals come back and win the World Series 4 games to 3.  What is this miserable pain in my gut?  Why won’t this go away?

Flash-forward to 2011.  The Brewers win the Central pennant and clinch the #2 seed and home field advantage at least in the first round of the playoffs.  Even if they make it to the World Series, there’s no way I could afford tickets to a game much less a flight and hotel on top of that.  I’m married now so I understand why my dad took my mom.  Maybe this time I can watch the playoffs on a 50″ plasma TV.  What would the 7year old me listening to the game while my parents thought I was asleep think of such a sight?  Maybe the Brewers can win it all this year…

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