tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700188048314290923.post3906044923585043899..comments2023-11-03T05:14:50.416-05:00Comments on Geaux Tuscaloosa: A Letter To the BandwagonRichard Pittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10954274832253925197noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700188048314290923.post-27393433995069728042008-05-21T09:11:00.000-05:002008-05-21T09:11:00.000-05:00Well, uberschuck already has a name to describe hi...Well, uberschuck already has a name to describe him: Asshole. <BR/><BR/>Actually, you're an LSU partisan. I'd watch tiddlywinks if they wore LSU jerseys while doing it. So I know how you feel. The softball team lost last weekend in the tourney, and I felt bad about it for all of ten seconds. <BR/><BR/>As for the Rays, go right ahead. Rooting against the Yankees is always permissable in all of its many forms. Hell, i adopted the Diamondbacks last year as my Emergency NL Backup Team given the O's 10th straight losing season. I'm not a diehard, but it gives me a reason to watch the NL.Poseurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01235812995025612676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700188048314290923.post-40981917689054257922008-05-21T08:59:00.000-05:002008-05-21T08:59:00.000-05:00As Poseur once charicatured me as "baseball hater"...As Poseur once charicatured me as "baseball hater" on a blog, I wonder if there is a term for the antithesis of bandwagon fan. Considering that baseball is a phony excuse for a sport whose main features are crotch adjustments, spitting, chewing gum or tobacco, standing in place for most of the game, and that the only reason the players work up a sweat is because they wear long pants in summer, I could certainly love a world without baseball. Yet I pay attention to LSU baseball simply because it is LSU. I even went to two games as a student just so no one would ever question my LSU fanhood. I don't watch a game unless a championship in in play, but I check the standings routinely, good year or bad, to monitor the glory of LSU-ness. <BR/><BR/>I don't think "die hard fan" is accurate, in as much as losing at baseball affects me for all of thirty nanoseconds, and I'd just assume shorten the season to 2 weeks anyway. Can Poseur conjure up some name for fans like me, who want the baseball team to win for the sake of LSU, yet think baseball is something fit for the 4th or 5th circle of Hell?uberschuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18267733484322154250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700188048314290923.post-22429426289156496792008-05-21T08:25:00.000-05:002008-05-21T08:25:00.000-05:00I think the term you're looking for is "fair-weath...I think the term you're looking for is "fair-weather fan" rather than "bandwagon". I would consider myself to be an LSU baseball fair-weather fan. I went to my first game this year on Friday of the last home series. And I started to watch them on TV during the winning streak. <BR/><BR/>LSU baseball "fan" is the worst. Have you ever heard "Donnie" on local call-in radio shows? Sometimes he alone has kept me away from Alex Box. Then I sat near him for one game and he was SO annoying. And he left early.<BR/><BR/>With LSU football and basketball I am a fan for the duration. <BR/><BR/>-DanielAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6700188048314290923.post-82826130032407393222008-05-21T06:06:00.000-05:002008-05-21T06:06:00.000-05:00Thanks. Yeah, it's not like I'm suddenly pretendi...Thanks. Yeah, it's not like I'm suddenly pretending to be an LSU fan, but would you lose respect for me if I tell you that I'm thinking of becoming a Tampa Bay Devil Rays fan? Up until now, I've felt forced to root for the Red Sox because they were the best challengers to the hated Yankees. But now, with the Rays coming on strong, I have a non-Red Sox alternative to the Yankees.<BR/><BR/>You see, I can't stand frontrunner fans, which I think are the subset of bandwagoneers we can all agree to find distasteful. I think when we criticize bandwagoneers, we're really criticizing frontrunners. <BR/><BR/>I see what you're saying about the winning streak not coming against the best, but in baseball these sorts of things just don't happen to bad teams. It may take a little luck to win 16 in a row, but it also takes a lot of skill. I am glad to see this team finally having success.Richard Pittmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10954274832253925197noreply@blogger.com