If you are a sports team, you do not want me as a fan.

I mentioned in a post back in February that I collect the stubs to just about every event I attend, which means I can go back and look up the results of any games for which I still have the ticket.  The result — I know that the teams I wanted to win those games went 26-37-1 with me there.

Of course there are many variables that go into that result, and it certainly didn’t help that I back a baseball team that has had a few atrocious years.  But in 64 games, I’ve never been to more than three in a row in which my team won.  In a stretch starting with Capitals-Devils on February 27, 2002 and ending with Nationals-White Sox on June 19, 2010, I saw my teams lose 10 out of 11 games.

Beyond the nerdily interesting task of putting more of my life in an Excel spreadsheet, reading the recaps of games stretching back to 1993 was really fascinating.

Some interesting notes:

-Best pitching matchup: Greg Maddux and Mike Mussina at Camden Yards in 2000.

-Attended same games as Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

-Saw Orioles OF Larry Bigbie get traded during a game

-Went to a Nats game on the wrong day, got a free ticket and saw Roy Halladay pitch a CG 2-hitter to record his 21st win of the season.

-Watched Caps winger Alex Semin get in a fight.  The video of his effort shows why this is a momentous occasion.

-Witnessed a Chicago Bears punter — on a fake field goal — throw a 27-yard touchdown pass to linebacker Brian Urlacher to beat the Washington Redskins.

-This season I’ve been to three Nationals games — all extra-inning wins, including a 13-inning game that featured two runnings of the illustrious Presidents Race.  I saw that happen once last year, too.

We’ll see what happens next time.  Stay tuned.

[Note: I found some non-game-related items as well.  Covered in this post.]