Official Orioles and Nationals Thread 2012

[SmootSmack]

As an Expos fan growing up, and a DC area native...I'm well within my rights to root for the Nationals

[los panda]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

As an Expos fan growing up, and a DC area native...I'm well within my rights to root for the Nationals

if you grew up following dc baseball, you are innocent

[TheMalcolmConnection]

I'm still into both teams and root for both to do well and will continue to do so until Baltimore area fans act like there's some intense rivalry between the two.

I really used to root for the Ravens too until many of their fans turned into total pricks.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

I'm still into both teams and root for both to do well and will continue to do so until Baltimore area fans act like there's some intense rivalry between the two.

I really used to root for the Ravens too until many of their fans turned into total pricks.

They were always pricks. They're all on that Ray Lewis ish. They're all super hardcore about their fandom. And its not like Redskins hardcore, it's just flat out assholeishness.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by DynamiteRave

They were always pricks. They're all on that Ray Lewis ish. They're all super hardcore about their fandom. And its not like Redskins hardcore, it's just flat out assholeishness.

I actually like the Ravens the team; their fans make me want to invite Cowboy fans over for drinks.

Plus as soon as the Ravens slip and the Skins exceed out comes all their old gear. Of late I have been getting lots of "beeps" about my licenses plate (MD Skins one) and folks yelling "go RGIII" and positive stuff. I live in the heart of Ravens country and it is like they are just back pocketing the Skins in case we blow up with RGIII.

[hooskins]

Originally Posted by los panda

if you grew up following dc baseball, you are innocent

Hah and what if they didn't exist when i was growing up? Alot of DC sports fans support all teams here. So when the Nats came in, we support.

[hooskins]

Originally Posted by los panda

not a loyal dog that's fo sho

So what does that make Colts fans? Not real fans?

[mooby]

Originally Posted by hooskins

So what does that make Colts fans? Not real fans?

Nope. In fact, Washington Redskins fans aren't real fans, since they weren't fans of the Redskins when they were in Boston. We're all posers. The only people that can really claim themselves as Redskins fans are fans of the team when it was still in Boston.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by mooby

Nope. In fact, Washington Redskins fans aren't real fans, since they weren't fans of the Redskins when they were in Boston. We're all posers. The only people that can really claim themselves as Redskins fans are fans of the team when it was still in Boston.

If you read my story a few post back, I almost qualify to be a Skins fan!

[FRPLG]

I'm terribly confused. I'd venture a guess that literally 99% of this board's membership isn't young enough to have ever been able to "follow DC baseball" since there wasn't any. So I still don't understand who exactly is allowed to be a Nationals fan. People old enough to remember the Senators and kids born after the Nats came to town?

Edit: young = old.

[Monksdown]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

I'm terribly confused. I'd venture a guess that literally 99% of this board's membership isn't young enough to have ever been able to "follow DC baseball" since there wasn't any. So I still don't understand who exactly is allowed to be a Nationals fan. People old enough to remember the Senators and kids born after the Nats came to town?

Valid question. I was a Braves fan because i started playing and enjoying baseball in the early 90's. I live in Northern Virginia and had never been to Baltimore and didnt know anyone that lived in Baltimore. So i felt like i could just pick a team. However, being a home town fan in all the other sports, when the Nationals came back to D.C. i broke ties with the Braves, threw away all of the Atlanta apparel. And started watching and attending Nationals games.

I guess a baseball sports fan, i felt homeless until they came back.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

I'm terribly confused. I'd venture a guess that literally 99% of this board's membership isn't young enough to have ever been able to "follow DC baseball" since there wasn't any. So I still don't understand who exactly is allowed to be a Nationals fan. People old enough to remember the Senators and kids born after the Nats came to town?

They make no money on ticket sales! With the senior discounts and kids under 3 getting in free.

[hooskins]

Originally Posted by mooby

Nope. In fact, Washington Redskins fans aren't real fans, since they weren't fans of the Redskins when they were in Boston. We're all posers. The only people that can really claim themselves as Redskins fans are fans of the team when it was still in Boston.

Yeah. Also, NE fans should really support the Redskins.

Posers.

[hooskins]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

I'm terribly confused. I'd venture a guess that literally 99% of this board's membership isn't young enough to have ever been able to "follow DC baseball" since there wasn't any. So I still don't understand who exactly is allowed to be a Nationals fan. People old enough to remember the Senators and kids born after the Nats came to town?

Basically old farts and those that come after our generation dies out. But wait, what if I were an O's fan living in DC...can I raise I raise my kid as a Os fan or do I have an obligation to make him support the Nats? What would make him a better and more "correct" fan? Or does a family have to be indifferent to the Os and baseball for the child to be an acceptable Nats fan? Would the child now be a poser mudblood, supporting a sport his family has no right to? When can the lineage rightly begin?

Do tell. I couldnt watch my child go through the message board struggles I have faced. I just couldn't.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by hooskins

Basically old farts and those that come after our generation dies out. But wait, what if I were an O's fan living in DC...can I raise I raise my kid as a Os fan or do I have an obligation to make him support the Nats? What would make him a better and more "correct" fan? Or does a family have to be indifferent to the Os and baseball for the child to be an acceptable Nats fan? Would the child now be a poser mudblood, supporting a sport his family has no right to? When can the lineage rightly begin?

Do tell. I couldnt watch child go through the message board struggles I have faced. I just couldn't.

You are screwed. Just by existing in your own right the way the chips fell meant you and your family are doomed to a life of never being allowed to truely root for one team. Seeing as how real Baltimorians won't accept you into their fanbase because of your DC residency, the tr00 Nats fans will never accept the child into their fanbase because his lineage wasn't of a tr00 Nats fan.

@mredskins: <buzzer noise> NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Unless you were born before 1937 and were a fan of the Boston Braves/Redskins, you are not a tr00 fan of the Redskins.