Official Orioles and Nationals Thread 2012

[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.