Several years ago my brother became sick of watching the Brewers team we
watched and loved as boys get destroyed year after year due to the economics of
baseball. It's not much fun to watch your team always lose, nor is it much fun
to watch bad baseball. It's also hard to have any connection to a team when
every few years they lose all their best players to teams that can afford to pay
them more. As a result, he decided to suddenly become a Yankees fan in 2004 when
the Yankees signed Alex Rodriguez. He decided if he wants to watch good baseball
and enjoy watching a team that cannot be the Brewers, he might as well go with
the best. He now has Yankee baseball garb, and watches the games
religiously.
He sent me this article about his favorite team because this season may be
the first time in 15 years the Yankees will not have the highest payroll in
baseball (that will likely be the Dodgers after their insane spending spree).
He wanted me to know that despite the Dodgers spending there is only one Evil Empire. I thought my co-blogger who is a lawyer might get a kick out of this.
I took a different route than my brother, and just stopped paying attention to baseball.
I like that you've taken "damn Yankees" to the next level.
ReplyDeleteI guess Mac's decision makes rational sense, but it also strangely revolting. I prefer your decision to stop following baseball altogether. That was what I did. Then, since I was living in the Twin Cities, I started following the Twins who are a very likeable franchise. But now that I'm in Chicago and the Twins have tailed off, I've kind of stopped following baseball again.