David Brooks Raises a Baseball Dilemma:

I share David Brooks’s dilemma–what to do about the Washington Nationals (hat tip The Corner). Unlike any other sport, baseball is, and remains, a truly local game. The rhythm of the day-to-day summer game and the local social atmosphere and conversation that surrounds it tends to pull you toward following and supporting the local team. In this way, baseball strikes me as being very different from, say, football, which is more of a once-a-week event, where the enjoyment of the game is self-contained. Much of the appeal of baseball, I think, surrounds the ongoing conversations and commentary of the games from day-to-day, making it more of an ongoing local news story than a once a week event.

So while I’ve been a Braves fan for 20 years I can already feel the pull that Brooks describes.