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Reading one of your feedbacks from wayyyy back, it sounded so familiar. Did someone share my life? Duhhhh, it was me, using different initials (as I've had to do now to protect my anonymity). What a lunkhead!:) My roommates and I knew tons of baseball players back in the day (pitchers, mostly) which started very innocently when we were in our late teens. Some of those players went on to become award-winning types, but not when we knew them. We saw soooo much and yeah, it'd make a swell book but need a ghostwriter. It was a life I wouldn't trade for anything...even though now, I'm a suburban matron which is infinitely more boring.
--kn
10/27

Having recently been interviewed for a baseball book, as a former groupie with my ex-roommates (noooo, we were more like kid sisters to the players than groupies, but still...been to spring training a couple of times, and other stuff) -- I thought your article was soooo interesting. I'm a grandma now but there was always one player who I never forgot. And actually, I *borrowed* him from his first wife and nearly did so from wife #2, but it was only lunch...after not having seen each other for 37 years! So, those predatory feelings die hard:)
--kn
10/27

Also--here.... http://itsasecretsohush.blogspot.com/
--fl2
10/20

ON THE DL ADDRESS== http://otdlforum.proboards70.com/index.cgi :-)
--FL
10/20

I'm a little late to the party and just read this article. I thought it was hysterical. I've been to Mets ST (I am NOT a groupie), but alot of what is written is true. By the way, where do I find that ON THE D.L. blog?
--KH
10/20

Oh gals, don't be jealous of all the wonderful girls @ On The DL. They aren't ruining anything for you; it's more likely you just aren't worth a players time.
--MBG
10/15

Can we define groupie, please? A woman who understands the sport of baseball is a fan. A woman who understands the sport of baseball and wants to bang a ball player is a groupie. So is a woman who knows nothing about baseball but wants to bop a player.
--ASP
10/14

TB has to stop giving media interviews. She's ruining it for the rest of us.
--sag
10/14

Those stupid jerks at onthedl have ruined it for all of us women who want to meet ball players - either for dating or just for an encounter. They've made a lot of these guys, um, unsociable. It was so much better 5 years ago - even 3 years ago. That stupid blog has been running for 2 years now - and its stupid board - so the guys are getting harder and harder to mee.
--JLN
10/14

Being a young 20-something year old who has been around baseball and players for quite sometime, I'd say she about nailed it on the head. As an outsider looking in, she sees young girls dressing for Florida weather and being flirtatious. Girls may not want to be called groupies, but face it, that's what it looks like. I have been called a groupie in the past and that's fine, whatever, I know what I have done, or should I say who. I have developed friendships with many players over the years and I have also seen that these boys are not as tame as some would believe. If girls don't want a bad wrap, then they should really take off pulicly posted pictures on the internet of themselves getting quite close to the MLB player with clap! Oh and a morning after shot of him sleeping! There was no good reason for this article. Who cares what people are doing behind closed doors? Athletes as a whole have the unfaithful stereotype. Maybe not all, but if you are an athlete, you will be looked at as scum like all the rest. It's a stereotype and we'll believe anything.
--MF
10/13

haha. all of this is quite funny. i am one of those 16 (18 yrs old to be exact) yr. old marlins "groupies".we know the olive skinned girl as well, and she is not a groupie. neither are we. so we think the players are attractive, yeah who doesn't. but we actually know this game. we aren't fans because we want to sleep with the players, we are fans because we love baseball and we love the fish. -don't take your anxiety out on the author of this article, she was just trying to find a story in all of this. it's just spring training.
--lh
09/11

My friends & I weren't groupies, waaaaay back when. Not in the true sense anyway. Just liked athletes, particularly baseball players and, for my part, a fondness for pitchers. And this may be way off subject, but I remember the time my friends and I emptied our meager savings accounts and flew to spring training, uninvited of course. We (or I) didn't care if their wife/kid was there at the time (actually happened but no sex that time)...nothing stopped us from our slightly nutty ways. Even now, shamefully, I still have a bit of an impetuous side; remember, those old ballplayers still make public appearances:) I have dozens of stories about dozens of athletes; still looking for the right forum. Hey, *I* think it should be a movie but I could be wrong:)
--lk
08/03

That is funny "Hitting Slump". Groupies are the ones mad at this blog but the Hitting part is what the player got and then came the quitting it part. The players hit it and quit it. Leaving the girls in a Slump. Groupies get over it cause chances are you don't even realize your one. And, Trust me it's not because we're jealous because we actually think it's funny. P.S. This is from an actual model.. not an Aspiring one.
--JD
07/22

This was the best, yet you failed to mention how groupies love breaking up or trying to break-up marriages. They seem to think that Minor Leaguers are not married, yet several Latin players are married. For instance, mine. Should the player be at a party or lend his phone to a teammate it could cause problems. Because, not all teammates are loyal and will give out your number to their girlfriends friends or try to set them up on a double date knowing their married. It's a sick little world but Augusta, GA is big time groupie area, in fact most of the groupies work at the stadium.
--IM
07/22

Now while T S said you could be sued for slander and libel and all that, she was right. She is studying law, and that's what she knows. As someone who doesn't study law, I don't care, so I'm going to go ahead and say you are bitter because you caught the clap from a Major League player, let's say Juan Encarnacion, just for the sake of libel or slander or both. You are mad that these girls have staked it out better than you. Groupies don't want a relief pitcher, so they are STD free, so while still getting the free tickets to games, they still get to enjoy peeing without feeling that burning sensation. Now another fact that I am going to make up about you is that you are overweight now because you are depressed because your lady parts are tainted. It is a very sobering experience when you realize one of your body parts will never be the same. So good luck with the clap whore. I'll be back with more made up facts later. Sincerely, The People's Champ PS Teal Cowboy Hat girl pretty much owned you through intelligence. She should probably have her own blog, it would actually be relevant.
--P C
05/10

Can an attractive 20-something-year-old no longer be considered a true baseball fan? Just because she is actually a decent looking fan wearing team colors and rushes over to congratulate a friend on a job well done after he comes in from pitching does not mean she is thinking "You will be mine, terrible Marlins relief pitcher. Oh, yes, you will be mine." In your pathetic hunt for groupies that brought you down to Florida you seem to have struck out because you have just mislabeled on of the Florida Marlins biggest fans as some sex-driven groupie--which is the farthest thing from reality. So now, attractive, young women cannot go to games and cheer on their home team without the worry of being labeled a baseball Annie? So now, in South Florida, where there is already such a small fan base as it is, we have to have some out-of-towner passing judgment on some of our best fans? Like TS said, maybe you should schedule an interview with this "olive skinned turquoise cowgirl" before pasting her picture across the internet with some slanderous caption. Maybe there are some girls, like your cute 16-year old blondes, who make it their aspiration to date a player, but not all young attractive women at the ballpark are out there to do that; some of us actually follow the game and cheer on a team we grew up with when everyone else seems to forget that baseball even exists in south Florida. Do a little more research before you decide to post a slanderous article defaming true fans. Just because you could not get what you wanted from Port ST. Lucie, doesn't mean you have to come down to Jupiter and start taking pictures of some of the best fans of the "pitiful Florida Marlins" just to try and add to your ill-researched article on baseball groupies. A little more thoughtfulness on your part would be nice; maybe you should do a little bit more research before mislabeling some of the best baseball fans in south Florida.
--mt
05/10

I just wanted to let you know that the teal cowgirl did NOT strike out with that 'terrible' relief pitcher, Randy Messenger. She's also about as far from a groupie as you can get. She's been a FAN (notice I don't say bandwagoner OR groupie) since the MLB granted an expansion team to South Florida in '93. Your article leaves you vulnerable to be sued for libel through colloquium or invasion of privacy through false light. I suggest you find a way to interview this 'turquoise' cowgirl personally. Your words and descriptions are beyond defamatory and you should consider revision or retraction. If interviewing a pair of sixteen year olds whose sole ambition is to date a baseball player, and not interview a 22 year old first year law student who plans on being an agent (in case you didn't catch that- I'm describing the 'olive skin' cowgirl), then you are a waste of First Amendment rights. Thank you for your time. P.S. She happens to be very good friends with the crappy relief pitcher and she's NEVER picked up an issue of Cosmo in her life. Thanks again!
--T S
05/10

The real reasons for the current slump? The guys now have too much too lose (especially financially) and most of today's groupies are in it for financial gain, not to enjoy the players. Just another reflection on the sad values of today's society.
--OUT
04/18

God, you sound boring. I'm so sick of the idea that cool kids hate games, sports, or exercise just 'cause they got picked last in PE. That reactionary attitude is my least favorite thing about nerve readers...
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04/17

If I wanted to read about sex and baseball players (or sports in general for that matter) I could buy playboy. I come to nerve because we are supposed to be the smart kids who would rather read and talk about ideas than hit balls around or be athletes. Is nerve trying to become People Magazine, or Teen People?
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04/10

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