I like minor league games, too -- I grew up with the Omaha Royals and the College World Series. But I think Major League teams have more consistency than you're giving them credit for. Torii Hunter has been with the Twins several seasons. Koskie, Radke, Jones, Mientkiewitz (did I get that spelling right?)...sure, they got rid of My Boy Pierzinski, and we can't chant "Ed-die, Ed-die" for Guardado any more, but those guys have been there awhile, and the minor league teams are even more transient. There's time in the baseball season to know the players a bit, to have little cheers for them, to have reasons to like them. There's time for them to become "my team," and I watch less baseball than timprov by a long shot.
When they get traded, it gives me a reason to be happy to see an opposing team. "Oh, look, it's the Nice Ugly Man! Go, Nice Ugly Man!" "Hey, they're playing the Little Jackass! Wooooo, Little Jackass!" I'm not a serious baseball fan, so a lot of the names are just names to me. But the ones who used to be on "my team" are more fun to watch, to cheer on even if I want them to lose.
Also, I believe that every team should have a round guy like Matt LeCroix (spelling again?), because it's just so darn fun to watch Dom DeLuise run the bases in a big league park.
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Date: 2004-07-17 01:26 am (UTC)When they get traded, it gives me a reason to be happy to see an opposing team. "Oh, look, it's the Nice Ugly Man! Go, Nice Ugly Man!" "Hey, they're playing the Little Jackass! Wooooo, Little Jackass!" I'm not a serious baseball fan, so a lot of the names are just names to me. But the ones who used to be on "my team" are more fun to watch, to cheer on even if I want them to lose.
Also, I believe that every team should have a round guy like Matt LeCroix (spelling again?), because it's just so darn fun to watch Dom DeLuise run the bases in a big league park.