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Is there anything your favorite team could do that would make you throw in the towel and root for another team?

Outside of a Chicago team moving to Wisconsin or Indiana, I'm going to die with my fandom.

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Sox are killing my fandom slowly and making me less interested in what used to be my favorite sport. Moving to Nashville would finish the job.

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This Ends in Antioch wrote:
Sox are killing my fandom slowly and making me less interested in what used to be my favorite sport. Moving to Nashville would finish the job.


I hate myself for agreeing with you

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Nas wrote:
Is there anything your favorite team could do that would make you throw in the towel and root for another team?

Outside of a Chicago team moving to Wisconsin or Indiana, I'm going to die with my fandom.

I wouldn't ever give up on a team. I'd give up on the sport though. That's basically what I did with baseball until 2005 and even then I don't really care much.

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The Sox have killed any joy I find in baseball season.

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This Ends in Antioch wrote:
Sox are killing my fandom slowly and making me less interested in what used to be my favorite sport. Moving to Nashville would finish the job.


I hate myself for agreeing with you

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The Sox have killed any joy I find in baseball season.

Agree x 3. The Sox are killing what used to be a large part of my life.

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Post super bowl...I'll watch hockey with no expectations. At least the PBA is on. Besides that, I'll probably not watch anything sports wise until training camp.

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This Ends in Antioch wrote:
Sox are killing my fandom slowly and making me less interested in what used to be my favorite sport. Moving to Nashville would finish the job.

There's a large part of me that wishes they would move. I deserve better.

And baseball in general is not compelling. You can only hope for a team like the Rangers every year but I don't see how.


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Thomas-Sox-WorldSeries wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
This Ends in Antioch wrote:
Sox are killing my fandom slowly and making me less interested in what used to be my favorite sport. Moving to Nashville would finish the job.


I hate myself for agreeing with you

sjboyd0137 wrote:
The Sox have killed any joy I find in baseball season.

Agree x 3. The Sox are killing what used to be a large part of my life.



That's how I feel too. I went to ONE game last season. I can't remember the last time, other than the COVID year, that I went to less than 20.

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baseball is very easy to cut out of my life. There really is only one month when it is the exclusive sport and that month is usually packed with activities. I can go to games just to enjoy a day/night in the park with nice weather.

I don't know what to do with my Sox fandom. I don't expect Cease or Robert to be on this team by the end of the year. Then, I'll be sitting there like some chooch cub fan, wishing on prospects.

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Baseball was my first love. As kids begin to age, it became tough for me to follow daily. Hopefully, I will get a chance to fall in love with it again later in life. Comiskey is still the best experience for a family. Watching a game in person is also better than watching it on television. I wouldn't have said that 20 years ago.

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Nas wrote:
Is there anything your favorite team could do that would make you throw in the towel and root for another team?

Outside of a Chicago team moving to Wisconsin or Indiana, I'm going to die with my fandom.


For me, it comes down to ownership. I can’t root for the Bears until the McCaskeys sell (or at least until Virginia croaks and then we see what happens).

I assume Sox and Bulls fans feel the same…get rid of Reinsdorf and it’s a whole new feeling.

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Nas wrote:
Is there anything your favorite team could do that would make you throw in the towel and root for another team?

Outside of a Chicago team moving to Wisconsin or Indiana, I'm going to die with my fandom.


For me, it comes down to ownership. I can’t root for the Bears until the McCaskeys sell (or at least until Virginia croaks and then we see what happens).

I assume Sox and Bulls fans feel the same…get rid of Reinsdorf and it’s a whole new feeling.


Reinsdorf has a proper management structure for the bulls (VP. ops managing a GM) but it just appears both guys are sleeping on the job. It's like they made their discount version of a big three then took a three year vacation.

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 Post subject: Re: Your Sports Fandom?
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Bulls and the new NBA have killed my fandom for the entire sport.

NFL going fully into streaming and pay to view would kill my fandom for the NFL as well.


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I go to a handful of Sox games every year. I realize it isn't going to make or break Jerry, but I've already accepted that I might not go to a game this year. Usually do a couple bobble head games with my kids, but I can buy the ones my kids want off ebay from some guy that bought 10 upper deck tickets and no concessions, and still save money compared to parking/tickets/concessions that I would have spent.


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bills fan, they talked about moving to toronto. I'd of no longer been a bills fan.


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Any involvement of Taylor Swift in the proceedings

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Juiced wrote:
Bulls and the new NBA have killed my fandom for the entire sport.

NFL going fully into streaming and pay to view would kill my fandom for the NFL as well.


It's not an issue if they do it like the NBA. But they would have to eliminate the blackout stations.

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Baseball was my first love. As kids begin to age, it became tough for me to follow daily. Hopefully, I will get a chance to fall in love with it again later in life. Comiskey is still the best experience for a family. Watching a game in person is also better than watching it on television. I wouldn't have said that 20 years ago.


Baseball fandom occupied a ton of time in grade school watching Cubs in the afternoon, Sox in the evenings, sorting baseball cards, pouring through box scores, and of course, trying to mimic the batting stances of Sox/Cubs players.

There are very few people that can watch a baseball game and talk strategy and pitch selection, most of the younger people only know the spin rate and launch angle game, so you have a much less sophisticated fandom, that with the annoying bandwagon jumping nature of today's Cub fandom has made the game dull and uninteresting, so have tons of time in the summer to keep up with the Bears off season.


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When I lived out west I tried to adopt the local favorites, or at least who had the local territory for broadcast rights. The Rockies were on KWGN and ever present but I had zero interest so it was a non starter. The Broncos won two Superbowls while I was out there and I still just couldn't get into it. Seemed cheap to adopt a fandom. Maybe if we had stayed out there for a dozen or so years, or never moved back at and my kids became fans I could have but I don't think so. Hard to replace that childhood fandom with something new. It is just not the same for me.

Give up the sport? Yeah, or at least invest almost zero time or thought in it.


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