Sports – Heart of Loia `'.,°~

If you got to live inside a video game world, which one would you choose?

I love sports, and I sometimes have dreams at night where I’m on a baseball diamond, standing at the plate with a bat in my hand, facing a nasty big league pitcher. I take his best stuff, his laser two-seam fastball, his biting slider, his knee-buckling curve, and I go yard with them. Upper deck, baby! In my dreams, right? lol.

Truth is, when I was younger, baseball was everything to me. I was hoping to make it to the big leagues, or at least have an opportunity to try out or something, just like my grandfather had.

He had the chance to pitch for the Detroit Tigers, but WWII had other plans for him.

I used to be really wrapped up in an online video game called “MLB 9innings 2o26.” It’s really in-depth, and there are players from all around the world and different clubs you can join.

I had three teams at one point, and I was in three different clubs. One of those clubs I ran and managed. Each club has a WhatsApp group and Discord. Your team and club have rankings. One of my teams was ranked 601 in the world, and the other 1025. And my one club “2hi2hit” was one of the elites. We were top 50 in the world.

Guys are constantly buying, selling, and acquiring new teams. It takes a lot of skill, time, and knowledge of the game to build a great team. The top teams are worth thousands of dollars. There’s big money in it. Some of the top players are spending $25-$50K a year.

I had a budget of about $100 a month that I spent on the game, and all my spare time went into playing, managing the club, recruiting, putting together rosters, and giving advice to all my guys in the club.

You battle other clubs, there’s tournaments, and all kinds of other stuff. It’s a big deal.

The year before I started blogging, I got sick and was unable to keep up with my daily stuff on the game because of my health. So I gave control of my teams and my club to some of my friends, and they took over for me.

Then, after a while, I just realized that I was wasting my life on this game. I decided to stop playing and use that time to blog.

I could have sold my teams and made a few thousand bucks. But I decided to give them to the friends who had been running them for me while I was sick that year. I just felt it would have been a dick move for me to yank them out from under those guys and sell them after all the time and effort they had put into them.

I still talk to everyone on WhatsApp. We’re a close bunch of guys from all over the world. But most of my club members are in the US and Canada. I’ve known them all for about five years now. Many of them get together and meet up and do things, like going to real games of their favorite teams and stuff or just hang out.

It’s definitely more than a video game. Baseball is life for them. ⚾️

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Above images are some of my team and club logos. We designed and made our own.

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© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson. All rights reserved.

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The Field That Raised Me…

What are your favorite sports to watch and play?

Sports have always been a huge part of my life. They’ve been there for as long as I can remember. I come from a long line of athletes. My grandfather even had an opportunity to pitch for the Detroit Tigers, but he chose to serve in World War II instead. My father was a great athlete too, and he was also my coach growing up, teaching me the game—and a lot about life—along the way…

I love a lot of sports, but my two main ones are American football and baseball. I played Little League all through my childhood and into my teens. I didn’t just throw on a uniform and participate—I excelled. I was a star, haha. I’m normally pretty humble, but I want to be accurate here so you can feel what I’m putting down 😅 I was mainly a pitcher, but in between starts I played shortstop and left field, doing whatever my team needed… I also hit for power and average.

In little league.. I once made an insane diving catch in left field to win the game… the crowd went nuts… bum-rushed me and carried me off the field on their shoulders cheering haha…

Sports were where I learned who I was when things got hard…

I kept it going into junior high and high school, playing both baseball and football. On the football field I lined up at quarterback, wide receiver, and at cornerback on defense, and I excelled there too. The dream was always to try and go pro in baseball, but along the way I got pulled into the music scene and ended up chasing that route instead. Even then, I never really left sports behind. I kept playing, jumping into league softball over the years and staying connected to the game any way I could.

As far as watching sports, my heart stays close to home. I love the Atlanta Braves and Falcons, and when it comes to college football, I’m a huge Georgia fan—Go Dawgs! Major League Baseball, the NFL, and college football are my mainstays, but I also enjoy basketball and golf, both playing and watching. Sports have always been more than just games to me. I’m thankful I grew up the way I did, grateful for the chance to play, I miss them days…

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My first year in little league… im holding the bat wrong in this pic.. my hands are opposite how they should be lol

1 Corinthians 9:24–26 (NIV)

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize… Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever…

© 2026 Bryan Loia Hudson. All rights reserved.

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More Than Just a Video Game ⚾️