Once again, I am perplexed about HATRED.

[bertha katzenengel]

And this time, it's over BASEBALL.

You all know I am a huge Angels' fan. I've loved baseball since I was tiny. I've rooted fervently against teams, but I don't understand hating a baseball team.

I also get disliking a team's fan base because of perceived or actual behavior (examples: irrational arrogance, or rioting after a big win/loss). But hating a group of fans?

Hatred?

It's baseball. It's just a game.

[MissMillie]

1. "It's just a game."

you're kidding, right?

:hide:

[bertha katzenengel]

2. LOL

Well, evidently not for a few DUers. That's what I don't get.

[bridgit]

38. Rollerball; Bartholomew: "The game was created to demonstrate...

..."the futility of individual effort."

of course i only feel that way because our giants were seen hearing metallica's 'exit life' a few too often :eyes:

[xmas74]

3. I don't hate any one team

but I'm not above making "friendly" riffs at the other team.

[bertha katzenengel]

4. Neither am I. There's a difference between bagging on another

team to get a pal's goat and outright hatred.

[xmas74]

5. I've never understood downright hatred either.

I heard it in the voice of a parent last night at a soccer game for five year olds. It's just pathetic.

[redqueen]

6. Awwwww

I wuv you. :hug:

I must confess, I find myself struggling with hatred more each day. *sigh*

[DS1]

7. I don't believe it's actual hatred like Hitler hatred, but just a severe

disliking.

There, I invoked Godwin's law, you may all stop posting in this thread now, since it's over.

[Misunderestimator]

8. I don't get hatred about a lot of stuff.

Baseball... meh.... I care so little for it that I couldn't care enough to hate it. :D

:hi:

[Taverner]

9. I have no beef with Angels fans

I just don't like any LA teams, being North of the Grapevine and all.

I'm sure you guys understand...

[bertha katzenengel]

11. Completely understood.

(...there's baseball north of the Grapevine?) ;)

BTW I've never seen any posts about hatred of the Halos. I'm referring mainly to posts about hatred of the team they beat last night.

[hfojvt]

14. The NY Yankees are the team of the overlords, of the oppressors

It is not about hating the Yankees, it is about hating the oppression, dynasties, royalty and ruling classes that they represent.

'We stand at Rossa's grave not in sadness, but in exultation of spirit... This is a place of peace sacred to the dead, where men should speak with all charity and all restraint; but I hold it a Christian thing... to hate evil, to hate untruth, to hate oppression, and hating them to strive to overthrow them... while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree, shall never be at peace.' Patrick Pearse 1915

Ding dong, the Yankees got beat.

:woohoo:

[bertha katzenengel]

15. If you're serious, all I can say to you is: it's just baseball.

If you're not: :rofl:

[qnr]

31. Bull. It's a game, period. No matter how much money they might

make, they lose just like any other team, regularly. If the other teams choke and can't defeat them in a pennant race or the World Series, that's their problem, not some indication that the Yankees have signed some deal with the devil.

[Taverner]

16. Ahhhh...I don't like the Yankees much either

Just because they win only by outspending everyone else.

Personally, I'm a Giants fan first, then an A's fan, then a Cubs fan. Under that, its a tie between the Red Sox and the Tigers.

Teams I don't like always include the Astros, Rangers and Yankees - and probably the Dodgers and Angels.

[ronnykmarshall]

30. Angelino for the SF Giants!

But don't get me started about the A's. :silly:

I am not, repeat NOT a Dodgers fans.

I may live in LA, but I ain't Dodger Blue.

[NorthernSpy]

10. I, on the other hand, am all about hatred...

But wasting it on some fool baseball team makes no sense, even to me.

;)

[imperialismispasse]

12. Its like the Yankees ask for it

Theyre just so hate able.

[no name no slogan]

13. Why do you hate America?

A little trash talking once in awhile is one thing, but outright hatred? Jeepers creepers people, life is too damn short!

[bertha katzenengel]

26. LOL

:hi: NNNS

[Texasgal]

17. Bertha...

I get the same crap all of the time because I am a fervent University of Texas longhorn fan.

There are so many people that post the shittiest, hateful things. I have learned to shrug it off... after all we are #2 in the AP poll. :)

[Orsino]

18. Substitute Republicans for Angels...

...and you've understood both faseball fandom and American politics, both at once.

[bertha katzenengel]

23. I don't get it.

Help? :blush:

Again: I have seen no one write "I hate the Angels." This isn't about my team. It's about hating any sports team.

So: ???

[ronnykmarshall]

32. Yeah I agree with you.

:wtf:

I was thinking about you when I saw the Angels advanced to the playoffs.

[bertha katzenengel]

39. Hi, Ronny

Your sig line makes me think of the movie "War Games."

"Is either of you a paleontologist? I desperately need a paleontologist!"

[nini]

19. I think it's easier to say " I hate the Yankees".. than

"The yankees are such sniveling, overpaid, arrogant, pompous, expect the world to bow down, assholes."

Does 'hate' really play into it? I doubt it. If it does then the person who holds the hate does have an problem to get that emotional over a baseball team.

I say I hate the Yankees, but I don't 'really' hate them. Just can't stand 'em.

[Gormy Cuss]

21. What nini said! n/t

[madinmaryland]

20. Hey Congrats on those Angels.

I just love seeing the Yankees lose!!!!!!! Not hatred, just love seeing Steinbrenner and all of the Yankee fans go down hard. I worked in NYC during the run of the late 90's and got real sick of the ticker tape parades every year (mainly because I took the lexington ave line downtown to the world financial center, and it screwed my commute up)

Think they can take the White Sox?

[bertha katzenengel]

24. Yes, I do think they can take the White Sox.

I surely hope so, anyway.

:bounce:

[madinmaryland]

33. They took game 1

even after flying all over the country.

[nickgutierrez]

22. .

:yourock:

[bertha katzenengel]

25. aw...

:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

27. Using the word "hate" in that context is intellectual laziness.

Instead of taking the time to explain that they are rooting for another team, or rooting against a team for a certain reason, the intellectually lazy just use the word hate.

[bertha katzenengel]

28. Hi!!

Go 'Stros! :bounce:

Okay, I'm gone now - my family's in town. :bounce:

[GOPisEvil]

29. 'Stros?!?!

:spank:

I'm a Cardinals fan!

Enjoy your family!

[bertha katzenengel]

35. but - but - but - but

My bad.

I like Houston 'cause they've never been to the WS, but I like the Cards because they have Eck & Edmonds. Former Angels.

:blush:

[GOPisEvil]

36. It's ok.

:hug:

My dad's hometown in East St. Louis. I've been a Cardinals fan since birth. Back when the Astros and Cardinals were in different divisions, I sort of cheered for the Astros. If they were playing anyone but the Cardinals, I'd be all for them winning.

I love Jim Edmonds. He might be my favorite ballplayer currently playing.

[Deja Q]

34. The players don't think it's just a game.

That's why folks like A-Hole... whoops, A-Rod, gets $250 million for hitting a ball with a stick and runs around in circles.

The fans are neanderthal animals too for inciting riots and violence because their team lost... or, worse, their team WON.

I mean, when I watch star trek and the federation beats the borg, I don't incite others to smash car windows and street lights, now do I? Ditto for when the Legion of Doom wins one over the Superfriends!

[WCGreen]

37. At Ohio State,I got all caught up in the Ohio State Michigan

thing...

And saw what it did to some folks...

I thought it rather silly....

I am a fan, short for fanatic cause I am short on fanaticism