Baseball

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When I started typing this entry, I had the Giants-Padres game on in the other room.

I'm not a Giants fan.

I'm not a Padres fan.

I don't live in San Francisco, or San Diego, or even in California.

I'm watching it just because it's baseball.

This provides an excuse for explaining how I decide which team to root for in any particular MLB game.

1. Seattle Mariners (my old hometown team)
   
2. Cleveland Indians (hr_macgirl's old hometown team)
   
3. Boston Red Sox (the local gang; remember, I moved here in 1986)
   
4. Tampa Bay Devil Rays (for Lou Piniella; besides, they could use the help)
   
5. team that isn't the Yankees, if the Yankees are involved
   
6. whichever team has more of my favorite players who used to be on one of the top 3
   
7. whichever team will help one of the top 3 in the standings by winning
   
8. team with the best player names (you gotta root for anyone stuck with the name "Milton Bradley", for example)

In this case, the presence of Omar Vizquel and Jeff Fassero meant I was rooting for the Giants, who sadly lost.

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Dodgers

Whoever is playing the Yankees

Whoever is playing the Giants (unless the Giants are playing the front runner in the Division, in which case I will be grateful for the frontrunner losing. If this means the Yankees should be playing the Giants, and the Giants are leading the Dodgers I will have to be grateful for a Pinstripe victory, but I won't be happy).

BoSox.

Cubs.

I ought to be more than passingly fond of the Indians. They were my hometown team, but that was before I knew baseball. They are sentimental favorites, because my grandmother loved them so (she saw the unassisted triple-play, back in what, 1921?).

After that, I'll watch anyone, for the love of the game.

TK