Being a baseball fan means accepting that there’s no sense in arguing with people who tell you that the game is, and I’ll quote, “fucking boring,” because the game is indeed fucking boring for people who don’t care about it. And it means dealing with all the corninesses and compromises and disappointments that come with caring about professional sports—giving money to the craven Boston cream donuts that own teams, entrusting a chunk of your emotional well-being to a gang of jocks you’ll never meet and probably wouldn’t like—all the usual stuff. Which means that being a baseball fan, especially during the World Series, requires cropping out all the branded sentimentality and backwards-looking dumbassery and noise and enjoying what’s left. If you find baseball fucking boring, then you will find the World Series extremely fucking boring. But, edited properly, this World Series has been pretty great.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the World Series - By David J. Roth
