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I've never been much of a hockey fan (although I really loved watching games where Gretzky or Roy were playing), so the strike really doesn't affect me. However, it's funny that you mention baseball. I lost all interest in baseball during the last strike. I used to be something of a rabid fan. I loved the Royals in the AL, and the Mets in the NL. I would wear my Mets # 17 jersey if I happened to be in St Louis, just to piss them off! I remember Strawberry before the drugs. Howard Johnson and Mookie Wilson, and Gary Carter! George Brett, Frank White, and Brett Saberhagen. Lou Pinella, Freddy Patek, and Cookie Rojas!

But that all changed with that last baseball strike. I have no doubt that there are a lot of (former) NHL fans that feel the same way.

Mark

But that all changed with that last baseball strike. I have no doubt that there are a lot of (former) NHL fans that feel the same way.

I used to live for baseball season. Despite the ineptness of the management of my Giants year-by-year, I would go to breezy, dumpy Candlestick Park just in case the G-men happened to win one when I was there -- after all, even the worst teams win about sixty games a year.

What nearly killed my love for baseball was the way that striking major leaguers boldly predicted that fans would come crawling back. I felt like I was being treated like a battered wife, slinking home to cook dinner for some profane A-shirted bum. When Selig dictated that the players flip third out fly balls to the fans, it was a small gesture, but I accepted it. I am still a baseball fan, but the owners and the players have damaged our relationship forever. It will never be the same.

I have noticed that hockey players have no such arrogance. That's keeping me hanging on.