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Dodgers fans crossed the line by a mile on Sunday.
Fan habits entirely interrupted Dodgers-Padres Game 2 on Sunday. Fans chose it was OKAY to toss things at outfielder Jurickson Profar after he robbed Mookie Betts (and Dodgers fans!) of a homer.
Profar trolled fans a bit after making this amazing catch over their outstretched hands. They even attempted to knock the ball out of his glove. Through all of that, he still captured it.
Yeah, I’d giant them, too. I believe most individuals would! That’s sports!
You get to strut your things a bit when you pull off something extraordinary like that. Those are the guidelines. And, when you’re on the other side, you’ve got to take it on the chin. It is what it is.
Dodgers fans puton’t appear to comprehend that last part. Someone chose Profar’s tease was a license to be a jerk. They tossed a baseball at him from the stands into the outfield, entirely stopping the videogame to settle the scenario. Other fans then threw water bottles at Fernando Tatis, who’d likewise been jawing with fans throughout the videogame.
But garbage talk doesn’t provide anybody a license to be a doofus.
Look, I get it. Everyone comprehends that being teased isn’t enjoyable, particularly when your group is getting blasted like the Dodgers on Sunday.
Fandom is a traumatic experience. For most of us, it’s a course filled with frustration and discouragement. Only one group wins a champion in any offered year in any offered sport. So, yeah, your season is mostlikely going to end in suffering. Even minute to minute, things can get challenging. Randomness takesplace in sports. Eventually, your group will mess up or do something dumb. You’ll have to offer with it. You will duetothefactthat that’s what fandom is.
Despite whatever, we put our hearts and souls into the groups we love. They wear’t understand us. They wear’t actually care about us. But, still, we love them and keep caring them no matter how much they dissatisfy us. We program up. And, beyond that, we pay top dollar for tickets when we go to videogames.
So, when fans are at videogames and in their seats, a bit of garbage talk is great, within limits. Tell the challenger they stink! Talk garbage to the star gamer on the other group if you’re close enough to do it. As long as you’re not being troublesome, it’s all excellent.
Dodgers fans picked to be troublesome. This habits is untenable and disgraceful, and it has no location in the sports we love.
If your feelings are so unmanageable that you can’t aid however be physically violent when things aren’t going your method, you mostlikely shouldn’t participatein videogames.
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Bronny x Bron
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In some brighter news, we got our veryfirst peek at LeBron James and Bronny James on the court together throughout the Lakers’ preseason getaway versus the Suns.
There were so lotsof firsts packaged into this little minute. It’s both the veryfirst time Bronny and LeBron have formally played together and the veryfirst time a father-son duo has played together in an NBA videogame.
LeBron James. Bronny James.
The father-son duo share the court for the veryfirst time together! 👏 pic.twitter.com/93hC7k64gK
— NBA (@NBA) October 7, 2024
That’s a unique minute — one that we’ve been waiting for for years. Now that it’s lastly occurred, it’s breathtaking.
On the backend, the discussions about LeBron James pulling strings to get Bronny to the Lak