Dubuque -- who, by the way, also writes for SB Nation's Lookout Landing --
penned an outstanding essay about being a sports fan, generally. It's also about
being a fan of the Seattle Mariners, specifically. But I think he speaks for
most of us, just as Nick Hornby speaks for most of us in Fever Pitch. Here's
Dubuque:Baseball is not a democracy. The teams and players we root for are not
ours. We’re not rooting for laundry, as Jerry Seinfeld once joked, but for a
sort of brand loyalty once reserved for Ford and Chevrolet, a...
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