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Sunday, October 05, 2003
Baseball fever:
You wouldn't know it from reading this blog, but I'm a total baseball freak. I don't usually talk about it during the regular season because I find the postseason much more exciting and therefore don't watch many regular season games. So, since it is now the postseason, I have been watching pretty much every game. Well, not every game - I missed some of the Marlins-Giants games, but I've watched almost all of the AL games and a few of the Cubs-Braves games. So far, every team I've been rooting for has won, which is probably giving my neighbors quite a fright since I tend to shriek loudly when the team I'm rooting for wins. I just got to watch the Cubs beat the fuck out of the Braves, which was nice because a) I liked the Cubs 'cause they were the underdog and b) I fucking HATE the Braves. Tomahawk chop, indeed. There's only one more divisional series game left - Boston vs. Oakland, tomorrow night. Now, I'm a Yankee fan, but I am rooting for Boston in this series because it'll be nice to see that old Red Sox-Yankee rivalry in the ALCS.
One thing has been bugging me lately - people who give me shit for liking the Yankees because "it's not much of a challenge". You know what? I have been a fucking Yankee fan all my life. My whole family are Yankee fans, with the exception of my dad, who is a Dodgers fan (why? I couldn't tell you). Granted, I didn't get really into baseball until about 5 years ago, but even when I wasn't following it that closely I was still rooting for the Yankees. It's called team loyalty. You can go ahead and accuse me of being a mindless bandwagoneer all you want, but if I were just rooting for the Yankees when they won, I would've dropped them after they lost the World Series two years ago. Sure, maybe I would've overlooked that, because they were fucking robbed in the last inning because the pitcher with the lowest ERA in the league fucked up, but I certainly would've dropped them last year when they lost to a fucking Disney team. It's pretty fucking challenging to proclaim that you're a Yankee fan in the middle of a sea of red-shirted bandwagoneers in southern California, let me tell you.
Whew. Now that I've gotten that off my chest, I'm going to go watch the Simpsons. Worst. Episode. Evar.
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