Official Orioles and Nationals Thread 2012

not a loyal dog that's fo sho

So what does that make Colts fans? Not real fans?

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?

Edit: young = old.

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?

Valid question. I was a Braves fan because i started playing and enjoying baseball in the early 90's. I live in Northern Virginia and had never been to Baltimore and didnt know anyone that lived in Baltimore. So i felt like i could just pick a team. However, being a home town fan in all the other sports, when the Nationals came back to D.C. i broke ties with the Braves, threw away all of the Atlanta apparel. And started watching and attending Nationals games.

I guess a baseball sports fan, i felt homeless until they came back.

So what does that make Colts fans? Not real fans?

Nope. In fact, Washington Redskins fans aren't real fans, since they weren't fans of the Redskins when they were in Boston. We're all posers. The only people that can really claim themselves as Redskins fans are fans of the team when it was still in Boston.

Nope. In fact, Washington Redskins fans aren't real fans, since they weren't fans of the Redskins when they were in Boston. We're all posers. The only people that can really claim themselves as Redskins fans are fans of the team when it was still in Boston.

Yeah. Also, NE fans should really support the Redskins.

Posers.

Nope. In fact, Washington Redskins fans aren't real fans, since they weren't fans of the Redskins when they were in Boston. We're all posers. The only people that can really claim themselves as Redskins fans are fans of the team when it was still in Boston.

If you read my story a few post back, I almost qualify to be a Skins fan!

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?


They make no money on ticket sales! With the senior discounts and kids under 3 getting in free.

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.

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.

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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.

i grew up in maryland as a fan of the redskins and the orioles. when the ravens came to baltimore i didn't switch. when the nationals came to dc i didn't switch. that's really all i'm trying to say, i'm sorry if i ruffled any feathers