JUST for DATING this guy sounds like a good one to me. Date him, enjoy the attention and the dinners etc. Heck my ex loved and loves baseball, constantly games live, on TV and he would record those to show endlessly. Now back to your friend. If he is good to you and you enjoy him and have fun, take a book to these games (I use to) and it'll be over before you know it. I never should have married this man, bad move. I ran out of books, LOL