(OT) How old are you?

[Patchmk88]

Man I’m a young guy compared to you all. Love you old souls though!

[donaldorc]

I am 74 and consider myself to be above average tech-wise, although I am not as savvy with all the new baseball statistics that have emerged and pontificated on on this site. However, I have followed the Phillies since my dad took me and my brother to Connie Mack stadium on August 13, 1957. Final score: Pirates 6 Phillies 0
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/box-scores/boxscore.php?boxid=195708130PHI. I was nine years old.

[Lucky_Beagle]

58 and retiring from my full time teaching job in June! I am sure I will continue to work part time at my side business and may even look for other part time work to help occupy time and make up for income loss

[phillychuck]

The membership of this board has aged since it was created. I'd expect the median is in the upper 50s now. A lot of our younger posters left in the "Schism" many years ago and are now at the third incarnation of the other board, but they are probably median age 40+ now.

People in their 20s and low 30s don't seem to have any interest in message boards now (b/c social media? Does Twitter or instagram fill that need?).

I'm older than Julio, but not very much...about a month.

[rkeden]

Today is my birthday--Born 4/1/41. 82 today. And Kingery's 2nd home run in 2 games is a gift! My first heroes were Eddie Joost, Sam Chapman, Del Ennis and Robin Roberts!

[zambonir]

People in their 20s and low 30s don't seem to have any interest in message boards now (b/c social media? Does Twitter or instagram fill that need?).

For sure. Or TikTok. That's also how they watch the games (i.e. not in full, or on TV, or even MLB.TV, must clips and highlights along the way). And I belong to a couple of Facebook groups for bands that are basically the same as this experience (except not as good, logistically or ethically).

I wasn't here for the schism but I am still one of the very few left (especially when it comes to active posting) on the old Listserv. A few of you (julio, schillingfan I believe) I certainly knew from there.

[HopeSpringsEternal]

How old am I? Old enough to know better.

[bkox]

People in their 20s and low 30s don't seem to have any interest in message boards now (b/c social media? Does Twitter or instagram fill that need?).

r/phillies on reddit has 86K members

[bkeich]

Because ours is a heavily moderated site (what I like about it, not complaining) I think we scare away the WIP crowd of trash talking, oh the world is collapsing, cut Soto today because he had one bad game crowd. That tends to be a younger crowd (obviously a generalization).
Just what I see, we cater to a calmer, more "experienced" fan base.

[andyb]

One has to think that message boards in general skew a bit older as younger people have migrated more towards social media (and groups created within those social media platforms). A post in a private group with messages serves as their message board.

I think I am in the solid middle of this board age-wise, dreading dropping into the next group (60) next week.

[gmwannabe]

Hope you had a Happy birthday RK. I am still a young boy (at heart). but I can still remember the excitement I had, when my dad sent me a letter along with a sports section. I was at a two week summer camp, when I was 10 ( in '64) and Dad wrote in his letter, maybe he should start thinking about World Series tickets. We all know that he didn't purchase them.
gm

[allentown]

Still a wondrous season.

[Austinfan]

'64 you mean. Another sign of advanced age, the memory goes!

[zambonir]

lol yes I just noticed that after GM's post. But hey how can I forget something I never remembered to begin with!

[VoteForKalas]

About to turn 53 next month, I guess I'm on the youngish side of our board population. Having posted here since the beginning, I continue to be amazed at the quality of discussion, the maturity of the people and how fun it is to have a community where we can talk baseball, but also other sports, including the oldest one of them all, politics.

[Sabin]

Realize it is anonymous, but figured if others want to connect person to age.

56

Would really like to retire, but just not able. My health is pretty bad (Cancer survivor x 6, Heart Attavk 5 years ago, Diabetic from all the chemo). We have people on this board in worse health I know from comments over the years, but boy do I feel old.

I admire your ability to keep up the good phight with your chin up, bkeich.

[RTaylor]

I'm 66, and two years retired! YAY! My first experience of baseball was Connie Mack Stadium and Richie Allen, Jim Bunning, Chris Short, Johnny Callison and company in the mid 1960s.

[flyers19rw]

1. Broke in with the decline of the Whiz Kids. Was lucky enough to see Whitey in his prime; #36 on the mound and games in Connie Mack Stadium. Maybe not the “good” old days but ones that were interesting.

[Wiscphan]

I am 74...lifelong resident of Wisconsin...started rooting for the Phillies in 1957 due to my older brother who liked the Phillies because of the success of the 1950 'whiz' kids. Don't post a lot, but like following this forum.

[ER222]

I’m 52. Born and raised in the Chicago area. I have an older cousin who loves Pete Rose, and despite being a Cubs fan, I loved Pete Rose too. Then I saw Mike Schmidt mash a couple home runs at Wrigley Field, and decided I was going to like the team Mike Schmidt and Pete Rose played on.