As we were walking from our car to the stadium, we passed by a bunch of stands selling "Yankees Suck" shirts. I said to my sister that it was silly that they were selling those shirts on a day when the Red Sox weren't even playing the Yankees.

Yeah, I don't think we do that. Maybe I just haven't noticed, but I don't think there are "Sox Sux" shirts for sale all the time up by the stadium.

In sorta-sports related news, it seems that some of the Washington fans are becoming less enthralled with the local football team. Finally.

After years and years of treating fans like crap, after years of being involved in a lawsuit over the team name (if the people you're supposedly honoring find it offensive, dude, it's offensive), after squeezing every dollar out of fans that they possibly can (and some you wouldn't think were possible), it's taken losing in the most humiliating ways possible for fans to get fed up.

Needless to say, I'm not a fan and got tired of the adulation about two years after moving here.

I'm equal opportunity, I'm pretty sickened by most professional sports organizations.

I'm equal opportunity, I'm pretty sickened by most professional sports organizations.

ND is me, except you can substitute "bored" for "sickened."

I am from Detroit. I've heard we *have* professional sports organizations, but I don't think that means what they think it means.

As a die-hard Marlins fan we're more stunned when we do well rather than expecting it.

Heh. I live in *Cincinnati.* 'Nuff said.

I am from Detroit. I've heard we *have* professional sports organizations, but I don't think that means what they think it means.

Well, I'm pretty sure they don't suffer from sore loserdom, given all the practice.

The first time I ever read the phrase "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory" was in the Detroit Free Press sports section. I'm pretty sure they were talking about the Lions.

And yet, when the Tigers had that run of not sucking a while back, I was all kinds of pleased for my team. 25 years gone and I'm still fond of them.

I'm equal opportunity, I'm pretty sickened by most professional sports organizations.

I don't understand loyalty to sports teams since there's so little continuity. The Yankees winning this year has nothing to do with the Yankees winning decades ago. And it's not like everyone on the team is even from New York. Unless they are, I don't know.

I don't understand loyalty to sports teams since there's so little continuity.

It's a nice illustration of the Doctrine of Anatta. The team is made up of different players than it was, different coaches, can be owned by different people, can move to a different city and change its name, but it is still, somehow, the same. Except when it is not, of course.

I once tried to explain the Buffy fandom to a rabid hockey fan I know. I said they're pretty much the same thing -- a group of people enjoying something, getting together, dressing weird, having fun. He was bewildered.

Some people juggle geese.