Why I love Operation Sports

As you may have noticed, I provide a link to Operation Sports on this blog. I have been a member there for a long time and there is always good info on the site and in the forums. But it's like a community as well. For example, I give you the story of BluenGold, a guy who talked his wife into making a 442 mile round trip drive with him to pick up a copy of MLB 08: The Show three days before the actual release date. Now that may sound crazy to you, driving all that way for game just to get it 3 days early, but when it comes to sports gamers, we are completely irrational when a major game is nearing release. I myself wouldn't have made that trip, but I definitely understand why BluenGold would do that. Anyway, here's what happened:

They made the drive to a Wal Mart which was 221 miles from there house. His wife thought he was nuts, but she also thought it would be a fun road trip so she gamely went along. He got to the store, bought the game and at that point all was well. He stopped at a gas station to fill up for the trip home. As he pumped gas, his wife cleaned out the car and threw away trash that had accumulated during the trip. They drove back home and then they realized that along with the trash, she also threw out the game. Uh-oh. His wife wanted to drive back to get it, but he said it would be foolish, given what they had spent on gas already and that by the time they got there, the trash might have been taken. So BluenGold posted on the Operation Sports forum that the game was in the trashcan at this gas station and if anyone wanted to go there and get the game, they could keep it. He just didn't want it to be a total waste of money (and a great game).

A poster named JSKYWALKER1 read the message and said that he lived 20 miles from the gas station. He made the drive, looked in the trashcan and plucked the game right out of the garbage. He called BluenGold and told him that he had the game and that he would gladly give it to him if he wanted to drive back. So tomorrow at 5:00 A.M. BluenGold is driving down to pick it up. He'll get his game, his wife won't feel so awful and JSKYWALKER1 knows he did a very nice thing to help out a fellow gamer. JSKYWALKER1, you sir are a hero. And BluenGold, that's one hell of a wife you've got there.