The Enemy
Adam and I went to a Sports Management Conference at school on Saturday which was really cool. I'm not a huge sports fanatic, but I learned a whole lot about salary caps, expansion teams, fan management, etc. They even had Bill James the baseball stats guy on one of our panels. He was very funny by the way. The following is a reconstructed conversation about the free LA Dodger's flashlights we received:
plasticann: These flashlights are pretty cool.
Adam: We can't keep those.
plasticann: Why not?
Adam: The Dodgers are the enemy.
plasticann: The enemy? That's pretty strong, they're not evil like the Yankees who can't be bothered to wear their names on their uniforms.
Adam: The Dodgers aren't evil, but it's a rivalry.
plasticann: Why don't you like the Dodgers?
Adam: Because [the royal we] we're [San Francisco] Giants fans.
plasticann: [resigned] alright, I'll mail these flashlights to my friend Wayne who loves the Dodgers.
Now, Wayne would call the Giants the enemy and once said that Adam seemed like a nice enough fellow despite being a Giants fan. As for me, I guess I'm now a Giants fan by marriage.
5 comments:
and also a red sox fan, right? RIGHT???
You can be both a sox fan and a giants fan because they are in different leagues and you'll only potentially have a conflict of interest if there's interleague play or in the world series :)
No worries I'm totally a Red Sox fan as is Adam. The only time Adam would root against the Red Sox would be if they were playing the Giants in interleague play or the world series. As for me, I think I'd always root for the Red Sox over the Giants. Boston's my home and I've never lived in SF so loyalties imposed my marriage can only go so far.
phew!
That's how marriage works. When my sister got married she not only took her husband's last name, she took his (world champion) football team as well. I was aghast, but I've learned acceptance.
PS- I am the Red Sox-loving Wayne, not the Dodgers-loving Wayne.
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