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Originally Posted by actionjackson
Haven't been around much in quite a while. Bru, when did you stop cheering for the Yankees, and who do you cheer for now? Or is it just a case of the Yankees being out, so you decided who your next preferred team was?
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Well, let me give you the skinny on this topic because I have talked about it too often, here and in other threads. I am aiming for what I call Pan-Sportsism; an appreciation for and a following of more than just local teams in just a few sports.
Reasons: Sure, it's partly based on how crappy New York teams have been in general in recent decades. But it was also the realization that parochial rooting was limiting my horizons. I wanted to step back and embrace more teams, more sports.
It may have been in this thread that I gave a golden example: In previous years, when the Yankees were out of it, I tuned out the postseason. That was an egregious mistake. Under those circumstances, I would have missed this spectacularly great World Series. Instead, I enjoyed the heck out of them, despite the ending.
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Originally Posted by actionjackson
Well, I'm still hurting from the loss. Yet, I'm also laughing at the amount of stuff that had to not go our way, and had to go their way, for us to lose by (literally) an inch. Credit to the Dodgers for taking advantage of our awful baserunning, but we could've won this series so many different times. Not as painful as 1987 for me, but still...Painful.
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This leads me to answering your second question: I root for whatever team grabs my fancy. In this Series, I rooted for the Mariners and the Brewers. When they fell by the wayside, I took up the Blue Jays.
And I ended up loving them for their effort against the monolithic L.A. Lodgers. What a scrappy team, what a gutty effort. As I said earlier, they have nothing to be ashamed of this season.
Part of this was rooting against the Lodgers and the way they bought this championship. At least the Jays made them work for it.
But I was also rooting for Toronto and Canada, for a reason that I cannot discuss here. God, did I want the Blue Jays to win, for that reason.