Anchorhead is just a different kind of fan than I am. But that's ok. When the Phillies won the World Series, I celebrated for a month until I was fired(for reasons unrelated to baseball or any other sport). For people that live in the Philly area, winning a title is a big deal. We don't have 27 of them, and the Phillies winning one ended a 25 year drought of no Philly teams winning a title. Maybe I'm not as big a fan of the baseball itself as I am the Phillies. I don't know. I care about the game, but no so much that I get depressed the day after my team wins The World Series. As for not feeling the representation of the city, I totally disagree. I cheer for the hometown teams and no others. To me not cheering for the Philly teams would be like not cheering for the Americans in the Olympics. I truly can't stand the sports fans that live all their lives in the Philadelphia area and cheer for teams outside the area, I especially hate those that cheer for the cowboys. I call those people traitors. But of course, its all just in a jesting manner. I'd never call out of work just because my team lost . I might lord a win over someone, a little bit, but again its only in fun. Most of the time, I felt that fans of other teams were lording their wins over me more than me over them.
As for Ferris' concern over the fact that people think sports are more important that who our elected officials are and how laws are passed:
I agree I agree politics is more important. But sports is more fun. People need a diversion from the terrible things going on around us. Btw, I guarantee you that the there are people who can name ever alien race in the Star Trek and/or Star Wars universe but don't know how laws are passed either. Please also remember that there are those sports fans like to talk about politics and know how laws are passed. btw, I can't name every single player on the Phillies or the Eagles.
I'm not offended that you guys don't like sports, as long you don't interfere with my liking of sports or my talking about them in the forum. If you like sports and don't want to talk about them, just don't post in threads about sports. As for the hijacking of my thread, its no big deal. I just thought this subject was worthy of thread of its own.
As for the whole "when the team wins, we win" thing. I just don't how or why to describe it to you why it is that way, but it is. The team represents your city/school/country and if you have pride in your city/school/country, you want the team to win. Yeah I know its a bunch of professionals playing another bunch of professionals, but that doesn't matter to me. The team plays in my area, they called themselves PHILADELPHIA Phillies/Eagles. Those are the things that matter to me. Yes, I do use terms like we win. Figuratively speaking, the team belongs to fans. Yeah, Steinbrenner owns the Yankees and Lurie owns the Phillies. But the teams belong to the fans. When I an owner moves a team away a city, I call it theft. That is why they cheer on the teams, because it's their team playing out there. Without that believe, teams sports don't work.
Btw Anchorhead, I hate the Halladay deal. I was hoping they'd get Halladay and still keep Lee. Giving up a whole bunch of prospects and Lee for Halladay, I just don't get it.