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i love you
me, literally counting down until alison is in this plurk: ah yes there she is, that motherfucker
me, presented with an opportunity to make a terrible baseball joke: step aside, this is my song.
also reminder that in the fifties the reds changed their name, officially, to the redlegs, because they didn't want to seem too commie.
omg
here's the actual scene this is referencing:
'well that's sensible'
he's the realist in this partnership
Even our VP texts are about baseball.
HAHAHA
realtalk: everyone knows to have steve angst about the dodgers moving to los angeles, but no one makes him gripe about the designated hitter rule, which he would.
"what in sam hill is interleague play?"
I do not have his deep baseball knowledge so mostly I stand by him having an inherent hatred of the Yankees
mostly from internal bias bc my family were self-hating Mets fans
the (formerly new york) giants are the dodgers historic rivals
that I did know!
especially the way baseball used to work, with no interleague play and no playoffs, apart from the world series, the pennant races within the national league are more important than cross-league rivalries, which didn't have much space to exist.
never forget the natural emnity between the mariners and the padres
that said, the yankees are a cultural phenomenon and force of evil unto themselves— but the real era of yankees/dodgers rivalry was late 40s through the early 50s, before the team left in '58.
yeah I dont think of it as a rivalry thing so much as-- I imagine it from a perspective of being dumped into the 21st century for a few years where all the teams/rules have changed and people going 'so hey cap, you're from NY, yankees fan?' one too many times
he'd be a mets fan
he would.....
the mets are probably closer to the vibe the pre-47 dodgers had than the modern day la dodgers, the old school brooklyn dodgers were sort of a scrappy underdog team playing second fiddle to the other new york teams with more historical success
so that's really the steve rogers vibe
pretty much
the LA dodgers are really not that!!
yeah I never saw him following them much after mourning their loss