When the Los Angeles Dodgers are winning, I am a proud Dodger fan.
When the Los Angeles Dodgers are losing, I still am a proud Dodger fan.
When Dodger Stadium is filled with people, I am an extremely proud Dodger fan.
However, when Dodger fans take their “fan-ness” too far, I am not proud to be a Dodger fan.
It seems that every year, every time the San Francisco Giants play the Los Angeles Dodgers, I wake up the next day and hear/read about somebody getting stabbed, shot, or injured. I mean, last I checked, this is baseball right? This is a Dodger game, not a Los Angeles Raiders game at the Coliseum, right? I’m not so sure anymore and it’s sad, because baseball has long been “America’s Past Time Sport”, and although in recent years, it would appear that the NFL has taken that crown, baseball is the one sport that has remained true (despite the steroid era) and pure to how the inventors of the sport had intended it to be played – more so than any other sport. Baseball was the one sport you can take your young daughter/son to, where upon their first bite into a dodger dog, first spill of nacho cheese onto their jersey, and where their first bite into those salty dodger peanuts were nothing short of an infusion of dodger blue into their blood stream – almost intravenously at that.
Baseball at Dodger Stadium should be synonymous with family fun, not homicide and chaos.
Unfortunately though, as much as I love Dodger fans, I don’t love those who take it too far as you will read in the article below:
It’s gotten to the point now, where fans of the opposing team do not want to attend the games out of fear for their lives and their family’s lives as well. It’s too bad and it’s really sad that fans don’t understand that having this “gang-like” pride ultimately hurts the team they love and hold so near and dear to their hearts (see Chub Johnson who has the L.A. logo tatted on his leg). When fans of the opposing teams cannot attend the games, ticket sales suffer and when that happens, the team is unable to buy the players needed to help the Dodgers win another Championship. That is just one major way being so barbaric hurts the team I love so much. It makes me angry really.
So yes, the “Boys In Blue” got a great win to start the season last night. It was close, it was awesome, and Kershaw was amazing. But on a night where the loyal Dodger fans have reason to cheer and furthermore, on a night when the people of Los Angeles were given multiple reasons to cheer as the Los Angeles Lakers also won in great fashion – for me, unfortunately it was a night that two San Francisco Fans had the worst experience of their lives. As if it wasn’t bad enough their team lost, they also almost lost their lives and for what?
Pride?
Nah, true Dodger pride is winning and showing pride with dignity and class. It’s the people who do this that truly know what being a Dodger fan is all about, and it’s these people that make me proud to be a Dodger fan.
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