Sports And How They Affect Us.

I had the chance to get a New York Met shirt with the number 41 and Seaver on the back. It was a very rare chance to visit New York and to see a baseball game where I could just enjoy the play without caring who was winning. This is a new stadium and does have all of the newest bells and whistles. None of those matters, all that we really go to a game to see is the play on the field. People can root for one of the teams and generally if you are for the visiting team you may get a negative reaction from the home team fans, but it is all in good fun. Especially if the home team wins. In my case the Mets lost and the home fans seemed to take it in stride.
Living in Los Angeles, you seem to build a wall that protects you from your home team self-destructing at the end of the season. It seems that we always have an optimistic view of the sports world at the beginning of the season and come back to reality some time during the season. Hopefully, it will not be on the last day of the season. You finally think that you can have a happy feeling and then they do something that will trip them up and you need to hear that worn out saying that never will make anyone feel better. “Wait until next year.”
We all have a team that we want to support in some sport. Many people actually take the time to have a favorite in every sport. It seems that if you have the time to watch a pro team in every sport then you may have too much time in your life.
A part of my life was made easier when the pro football teams abandoned Los Angeles. Now we may get a team and I will need to reevaluate my position on football. Of course if it goes at the speed that it seems to be moving, I will not need to make such a decision for many years.
So I will enjoy my shirt and maybe some time I will have the opportunity to talk to Tom Seaver again so that I can let him know how much I have enjoyed following his career and those things that he has done since his retirement from playing.