I have friends still in denial about Da Gintz moving to San Francisco. Used to know an old feller who felt the same way about Da Bums moving to LA. Your true hardcore baseball fan, no matter what his political predilictions, makes a Goldwater conservative look like a flaming librul...
I had a number of relatives, Brooklyn Dodger fans, who went to their graves cursing O'Malley (if I remember the owner's name correctly).