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 abitaamber rated 7 months ago - Best words ever about fandom:
From the page: "Nobody has ever summed up being a sports fan better than the New Yorker's Roger Angell in his piece "Agincourt and After," in this passage about Carlton Fisk's famous home run in the 1975 World Series:
It is foolish a...
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- Saiph rated 7 months ago
- I don't really follow basketball but this is an absolutely heartbreaking story...
- ipcgeek rated 8 months ago
- A big FU to dave stern and cash us clay bennett. A heartbreaking piece to read.
- rscrenshaw rated 8 months ago
- SAVE THE SONICS PLEASE STUMBLE THIS
- abitaamber rated 7 months ago
- Best words ever about fandom:
From the page: "Nobody has ever summed up being a sports fan better than the New Yorker's Roger Angell in his piece "Agincourt and After," in this passage about Carlton Fisk's famous home run in the 1975 World Series:
It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitive as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut (I know this look -- I know it by heart) is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring -- caring deeply and passionately, really caring -- which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives. And so it seems possible that we have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Naivete -- the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing and shouting with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball -- seems a small price to pay for such a gift."
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