Why root for a professional ball club? The players come and go. They have no loyalty or longevity anymore.
The concept of "the Red Sox" doesn't really exist. It's just a bunch of guys who, this year, played most of their games in Massachusetts. Big whoop.
" Why root for a professional ball club? The players come and go. They have no loyalty or longevity anymore.
The concept of "the Red Sox" doesn't really exist. It's just a bunch of guys who, this year, played most of their games in Massachusetts. Big whoop."
Exactly. The teams are too fluid. Back in the day teams would stick together largely intact for years and you could really learn to love them. Like the old Lakers-Celtics rivarly. It really is hard to have a good rivarly with as much turnover as their is today. Kinda hard to cheer for a star player when you know there is a 50% chance that he is gone next year, and a guy from a rival club that you've been trained to hate for a decade is going to take his spot. In college they may graduate, but at least your rock won't be on a rival squad and you won't have to be rooting for some punk kid from your rival.