Quote:
Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
I feel sorry for all the stadium support folks and the non-players. I don't care at all about the players problems.
|
+1. There's a big peripheral industry. But I don't want to use that as an excuse to justify the greed of the athletes and management. (Not saying that's what you're implying.)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
It would bother me for about 15 seconds.
Does anyone really care about pro team sports anymore beyond having a convenient ice-breaker to initiate conversations with strangers? I know I sure don't.
|
I think that, too. Particularly when you see the garbage that went on in downtown Vancouver after they lost the Cup. WTF?
But at the same time, you (a New Englander) should have been in Boston back in 2004 when the Sox came back to beat the Yankees and then take the World Series. Across all walks of life, people shared a common thread of cheering on the Sox. Even non-sports fans. An executive from Lexington could talk to a kid from Southie about it. I'd walk down the halls of the hospital when I was on call, every TV in every room would be turned on to the game, and even if that little old demented lady recovering from hip replacement didn't know who she was or where she was, she knew who was at-bat and what the count was. It was neat to see. You don't get that fanaticism in too-cool-to-care LA.