Juan Soto is awesome.
Juan Soto is very young.
Juan Soto is about to go from very rich to unfathomably so. Buy an island house to buy an island.
Juan Soto was really bothered by the events of 2022. That's the truth because I can't otherwise explain how this guy hits .242 for a season. 275? Ok bad year. .242?
Anyway the Yankees and Dodgers in the World Series. It's the teams that spend the most in the biggest markets so it should draw eyeballs and media interest. Some people hate this. The biggest markets ALWAYS get the eyeballs and media interest. Not all teams have owners that want to (or very rarely "can") spend a ton of money. Take whatever view of it you want to.
Who do Nats fans root for (if they wish to root for anyone)? Probably depends on how you feel about Juan Soto post Nats and the Yankees. Clearly if you hate the Yankees and/or Soto you are probably rooting against them. If the Yankees aren't your least favorite team and you hold no grudges against Soto you probably are rooting at least for him, and thus tangentially for the Yankees.
If neither of these hold true, things get more wonky. You may hate the Dodgers a bit more with the Nats running into them in the playoffs a couple times. Although they did beat the Dodgers on the way to the title so how much can you hate a team you are 1-1 against? You may be a "root against any NL team" person or a "root FOR the NL" person. You may love Ohtani. (easy to do) or Aaron Judge (a bit less likely but he isn't really hateable just bland, but the guy is a physical phenomenon He's not a lumbering beast. He just a 6'2" guy scaled up by 15%). You could like someone else - probably Mookie, though Stanton is fun as just a "swing big hit ball hard" guy. Kershaw? OK, everyone has their kinks. You could hate the Dodgers for the go nowhere trade for Ruiz/Gray that sent off Max and Trea. You could be a former Orioles fan still harboring anti-Yankee sentiments*
If you don't want to follow the series that's fine too. Hell you might shut down after the Nats do.
Anyway this kid is excited. 15 years is a long time to wait.
*Though it's fun to think it's been 20 years now of Nationals. Anyone 25-30 or younger are very unlikely to be a "former O's fan" thing unless their parents did the "root for the Os in the AL, Nats in the NL" thing.
9 comments:
I will be rooting for Soto to play well and for the Yankees to suffer maximum pain and humiliation in a loss. The Dodgers being on the other side makes it hard--I cannot and will not root *for* the Dodgers. But there is no excuse for non-Yankees fans to root for the Yankees. The Yankees are evil and the world is a better place when evil is defeated.
America's Sweethearts? Everyone should root for them!
There are those of us who are fond of the players but hate the teams equally. I suppose that means I am rooting for good baseball, with indifference to the result.
I will be rooting for the Dodgers because they're my wife's second favorite team, and against the Yankees because I've disliked them since the years where they'd pay their starting infield more than half the AL teams would pay their rosters whereas every free agent the Expos had would be out the door before the sound of the final gun of game 162 would stop echoing. I will be rooting for Juan Soto to do well because I'll always root for pretty much anybody who gave me happy memories of my favorite team.
(I will also be rooting for Mike Rizzo to offer Soto something financially obscene in the offseason, and if it takes 15/$750M, then I will swallow very hard and hope he manages to age like Justin Turner.)
I will be rooting for the Dodgers. If Soto wins the World Series with the Yankees that takes away from the special and uniqueness of him winning his only WS with the nats and make our part of his career less relevant.
Where do I tick the box for love Soto, hate Yankees, don't much like the Dodgers, scream into the void....
I hate them both but I'm happy for you Harper!
Yeah this is literally the worst case scenario for me for a WS when looking at the teams that made the playoffs. Maybe Phillies-Yankees would be worse? I guess I'm rooting for the Dodgers, but I'll be doing so silently with my Giants fan wife in the house
I'm hoping the Yankees lose and Soto goes 1-for-25, and the Yankee fans boo him and he ends up hating New York and coming home in December.
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