My entire family are Red Sox fans, and my immediate younger brother is a sports fanatic. I am not a sports fan at all, and in fact the whole thing is just kind of annoying. This blew the mind of my friend Glove Love, and we had several discussions about this while riding the train in Mexico. He avidly follows all his sports teams, and his rationale was, it would be great family bonding time watching sports, sports brings people together, etc.
Sports brings people together all right. Sports brings people together against other people. At least, in this neck of the world. (Glove Love lives quite far away from us. Maybe he just doesn't understand Massachusetts culture. Although, you'd think after we warned Enrique NOT to yell "I love the Yankees!" just to see what happened or he'd get lynched, he'd have gotten the picture.)
I have some quotes here from my dad: "Yeah, the Yankee fans won't be happy, but that just adds to the pleasure for everyone else..." (About the Cliff Lee signing with the Phillies.) On the same topic: "Therefore, the signing of Lee with the Phillies makes both Yankee and Mets fans miserable! Ah... It just doesn't get any better than this!" There is a corrosive dislike (I hate to say "hatred") against New York and New Yorkers here. I have multiple friends who live in New York, and they're great. Red Sox fanatics, especially my younger brother, don't seem to get this whole "It's just a game, don't vilify people" thing.
Any system that creates happiness or pleasure by bringing others misery is clearly flawed. Any system that creates this type of preposterous pointless prejudice is distressingly flawed. Period. No, scratch that. Exclamation mark!
Sports brings people together all right. Sports brings people together against other people. At least, in this neck of the world. (Glove Love lives quite far away from us. Maybe he just doesn't understand Massachusetts culture. Although, you'd think after we warned Enrique NOT to yell "I love the Yankees!" just to see what happened or he'd get lynched, he'd have gotten the picture.)
I have some quotes here from my dad: "Yeah, the Yankee fans won't be happy, but that just adds to the pleasure for everyone else..." (About the Cliff Lee signing with the Phillies.) On the same topic: "Therefore, the signing of Lee with the Phillies makes both Yankee and Mets fans miserable! Ah... It just doesn't get any better than this!" There is a corrosive dislike (I hate to say "hatred") against New York and New Yorkers here. I have multiple friends who live in New York, and they're great. Red Sox fanatics, especially my younger brother, don't seem to get this whole "It's just a game, don't vilify people" thing.
Any system that creates happiness or pleasure by bringing others misery is clearly flawed. Any system that creates this type of preposterous pointless prejudice is distressingly flawed. Period. No, scratch that. Exclamation mark!
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