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Originally Posted by Qwertyy
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Yeah, that was a big shocker. I'm a huge baseball fan, and the Marlins are one of my teams--I grew up in Miami/South Florida. I saw Fernandez in person a number of times--I live in New York now and I'm also a Mets fan (I actually became a Mets fan all the way back in the 1980s when I was living in Miami--we had no local major league team yet, I couldn't watch the Indians very often (I was born and lived the first part of my life in Cleveland--they're my #3 baseball team), and in the 80s, we had WOR on cable TV and they were the Mets channel back then), plus I visit South Florida often because my parents, sisters and their families, etc. all still live there, so I saw Fernandez pitch at Marlins Park a few times, too.