doodledee

Look-out! Hardcore Twins fans are pissed!
They're pissed because the Twins are in the ALCS and all the casual fans - and I suppose even non-fans - are jumping on the bandwagon. The dome is full, the hankies are waving, and baseball beats murder as the lead story on the evening news. Go figure, people like a winner.
At the end of the day, I think it boils down to tickets. Tickets that are impossible to get and, once you get them, are too expensive to enjoy. Apparently the hardcore fans feel it's a birthright to get playoff tickets before the more casual fans. Today on the radio, one dude even went as far as to say that you should have to show ticket stubs from the games you've attended during the season to prove you're worthy of playoff tickets. He was serious.
This whole thing sounds vaguely familiar. Hmmm... Oh yeah, that's right, it's the same crap the evil pigs in Animal Farm were spewing:

...he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

What the Evil Pigs need to understand is that many of us casual fans were - and maybe even still are - disillusioned with the game of baseball. Even those of us who went to a few games didn't forget how, less than 10 months ago, contraction and labor problems were on the horizon and a whiny billionaire was [still] begging us to build him a stadium. Maybe we were finally getting sick of it all.
But now it's the post season. Things are different. It's about the game, not the business. It's about all the stuff it should be about, including the fans and the community as a whole.
So, Mr. Evil Pig, all I have to say to you and your Pig buddies is:
We're here, we cheer, get used to it.