Reply #41: You know, I really don't thing there's any place for that in baseball. [View All]

College football is another matter. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I have been caught up in football games like that. :blush:

Part of it is surely the rivalry factor - I'm sure Yankees-Red Sox or Giants-Dodgers games when they really count get more intense like that - but I don't think there's any excuse for poor sportsmanship in baseball. I'm not sure why I feel this way mostly about baseball and not other sports. I got to see a great World Series game, with my home team, in their home stadium. What's NOT to love about that?

Maybe it's not our year. Maybe we just ran out of steam. We still won the NL Pennant, and that's nothing to scoff at. For a full month we were almost unbeatable. Our team played better than I have ever seen them play, and it was just magical.

It might be a different case in different cities, especially if your a fan of the visiting team. Some people are just jerks and they can't be good winners. There's just no excuse for that. If your team won, don't dance around like an idiot and gloat and berate people. Take it like a good sport and congratulate the other team for playing as well as they could.