Nevada Hoya
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Oct 30, 2019 0:05:54 GMT -5
Well, the Nats are not out of it yet. This series is remarkable for the fact that the home team has not won a game. Baseball has to be the sport where the home field gives the team the least advantage of all the major sports.
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DanMcQ
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Post by DanMcQ on Oct 30, 2019 2:07:33 GMT -5
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Nevada Hoya
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Oct 31, 2019 0:23:59 GMT -5
Well, the Nats have done it. Congratulations! I think this is the first WS in which the home team did not win a single game. I like to think that the Washington Nationals winning the WS also did it for the baseball franchises that made DC their home. The Washington Senators were playing when I was at Georgetown; even at least one player (Pete Rickert) on the team used to work out at Georgetown during the offseason.
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Oct 31, 2019 9:50:29 GMT -5
From the time of my youth, the horse and buggy years, I was a Chicago Cubs fan. I struggled over the years as the Cubs went from mediocre to really bad. I hung onto that allegiance even when Washington finally got a major league team. However, being a Washington area resident at the time, gradually I began to switch my allegiance to the Nationals, casting the Cubs aside. So what happens? Cubs win World Series in 2016. Now at last, I have a winner. Way to go Nats.
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hoya9797
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Post by hoya9797 on Oct 31, 2019 10:05:21 GMT -5
You were never a Cubs fan. Not if you did what you described.
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Elvado
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Post by Elvado on Oct 31, 2019 10:16:32 GMT -5
Next thing you know he will be a lifelong Yankee fan...
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njhoya78
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Post by njhoya78 on Oct 31, 2019 12:59:45 GMT -5
Let me defend EasyEd here.
I had been a lifelong New York Rangers fan until I arrived in Washington for my freshman year at Georgetown in 1974, which coincided with the first season of the expansion Capitals hockey team. I became a Caps fan, because there was something about being able to root for a team from its inception. Likewise, when the Colorado Rockies (nee Kansas City Scouts) relocated from Denver to the New Jersey Meadowlands and were rebranded as the New Jersey Devils in 1982, I jumped onto that rickety bandwagon. Yet my origins were as a Rangers fan. And EasyEd's origins as a Cubs fan, whose allegiances changed over the years, are not diminished or invalidated by his subsequent adoption of the Nationals.
Now if he becomes a Yankees fan, lifelong or otherwise, I withdraw the prior paragraph.
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Oct 31, 2019 13:07:20 GMT -5
Next thing you know he will be a lifelong Yankee fan... Never. Not Yankees or Cowboys. They are mortal enemies forever.
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