'Fan Cave' Duo Ready for End to Baseball's Regular Season

Sept. 28, 2011— -- Mike O'Hara and Ryan Wagner are entering baseball's record book -- not for anything they have done on the field, but what they have done off it.

From the first cry of "Batter Up!" March 31, the two men have seen every Major League Baseball game on television this year. When the regular season ends sometime tonight, so will their streak -- 2,429 games played, 2,429 games watched.

After so much baseball, they could be forgiven for counting down the innings to the bitter end. But they sound wistful their baseball marathon is near the finish line.

"It's not laying brick; every day is something new. You look back and you actually say, 'Wow, that went fast,'" O'Hara told ABC News. "It's a good feeling to know that we finished it."

Watching Baseball During Irene

Through rain delays and extra innings, the rise of the Philadelphia Phillies and the collapse of the Boston Red Sox, three no-hitters and Derek Jeter's 3,000th career hit, they have seen it all. Even Tropical Storm Irene could not force them to turn away.

"There were still games being played in the Midwest," O'Hara said. "Honestly, it was hard to know there was a storm outside."

O'Hara and Wagner are crazy baseball fans, but they are not crazy: They were paid to do this, selected from nearly 10,000 applicants.

Their six months of baseball watching has been part publicity stunt, part reality show, all of it dreamed up by MLB.

They did it from a gigantic storefront in lower Manhattan transformed into a "Fan Cave" with pool and air hockey tables, a DJ booth, a tattoo parlor, performing space for musicians, baseball memorabilia and, of course, televisions, lots of televisions, including a wall of large-screen TVs -- "the Cave Monster" -- that allowed them to watch as many as 15 games at the same time.

The cavemen have been writing about their experiences on Twitter, Facebook and MLB.com and turning a parade of visits by ballplayers and celebrities into videos that were posted online.

The goal: to give baseball some buzz and appeal to a generation glued to computer screens as much as television screens.