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Listening to the Clemson Baseball Game Audios Brought Back Sweet Memories
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Feb 19, 2025, 11:42 AM
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This past weekend, I considered purchasing the FloCollege Sports app. But ultimately I decided just to listen to the audio broadcast. Unless I were driving a car, it had been years since I had only listened to a game. Doing so brought back a lot of special memories.
Listening to the Clemson baseball games reminded me of being a kid on the back porch with my parents. My Dad always grew a big vegetable garden. When I was a young kid, I used to complain about picking beans, shucking corn, etc. As I grew older, I learned to appreciate it. I have special memories of listening to the Atlanta Braves games on the radio in summer evenings with my parents as we shelled beans, peas, etc. As we sat in the screened-in back porch cheering on the Braves there was a specialness to it even then. Looking back, I see how priceless those memories have become. I am still blessed to have both parents, although their health is far from ideal now.
With every MLB and major college baseball game now aired/streamed live, I'm not sure if anyone else has those types of memories. Listening to the audio broadcasts of Clemson’s baseball games – with no video – brought back special memories for me!
Go Tigers!!
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Oculus Spirit [40211]
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Reminds me of listening to Jim Phillips call Clemson games
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Feb 19, 2025, 12:08 PM
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with family. Football, basketball, and baseball, in the 70s, 80s, and 90s back when most games weren't televised, radio was the only option besides actually attending.
Jim Phillips had some iconic calls, like when Treadwell made those last second field goals in back-to-back years vs UGA in '87 and '88 - "The kick is up, the kick is gooooood!". Stacey Driver as "the Richochet Rabbit". ...". The Rodney Williams years - "Rodney sets them down in the I, takes out..."
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Re: Reminds me of listening to Jim Phillips call Clemson games
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Feb 19, 2025, 12:11 PM
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He'd sometimes get so excited it would take about 10 seconds to finally get what happened. LOL But, you knew it was good.
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Sounds almost exactly like my childhood, hated working in the garden then
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Feb 19, 2025, 1:07 PM
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but treasure those memories now. Dad thought he had to feed our whole neighborhood and would send us to the neighbors with tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, etc. They were also big canners.
Listening to the Tigers was just a part of growing up, whether it was while gardening, fishing, or just hanging at the house.
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Such Priceless Memories!!
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Feb 19, 2025, 1:23 PM
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Thanks, Tigermaniac! Your experiences do sound like mine from the "garden" days as a kid!
My Dad also fed our entire neighborhood. He has always had a good heart. And he always enjoyed sharing the vegetables with everyone.
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Great post!
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Feb 19, 2025, 1:45 PM
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I remember sitting under my grandparent's pecan tree in their backyard, shelling peas, snapping beans, cracking pecans, learning to use a slingshot, swimming in a kiddie pool, and drinking water straight out of the hose pipe attached to spigot on a standpipe in the middle of the backyard.
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Re: Listening to the Clemson Baseball Game Audios Brought Back Sweet Memories
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Feb 19, 2025, 2:03 PM
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Excellent post as are most. Seems a lot of us had those very similar experiences. Our garden was a tad over a half acre. Didn't grow corn but everything else. Even though both parents are long gone, I still enjoy the trip down the ole memories lane.
To this day, I still listen to the baseball games more than I stream. Good times, good stuff. Thanks for the reminder that there's still more that binds us than divides us. 🧡💜🙏
CBProf®
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My Dad, who was certainly not a patron of the arts, once told me...
A good radio game announcer paints the action on the canvas. I get to visualize and interpret as he paints.
A TV game crew starts with a set of completed paintings, sticks them in my face, and tells me what I'm seeing and feeling.
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