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I became a baseball fan during the Pirates' 1990-1992 stretch of NLCS losses. 1992 broke my heart (I was in third grade at the time), and ever since then, I have had a seething hatred for the Atlanta Braves. But even still, I will not root for the Mets or the Expos or the Phillies or the Marlins (in the rare instances that they have a shot at beating out the Braves) when they are playing against the Pirates. I root for my Buccos first.
On a related note, even when the Pirates are hopelessly out of the division race (this usually only takes a week or two into the year), I continue to root against the Pirates' division foes, except for when they play Atlanta, although I have found myself slower to make that committment lately, as the Pirates just keep hanging on the fringe (8-10 games back, just one 5 or 6 game winning streak away from being right back in it). Also, I hate the Yankees as much as the next guy, but when the Braves and Yankees played in the World Series, I was a Yankees fan.
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