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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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1 May 2001 - 11:43 pm
Good evening, faithful readers.
Over the past few hours I have a received a number of email messages from my good friend Jonathan Polk asking for my help in resolving a difficult quandary that he has found himself in. In addition to advice from me, he had hoped that the highly intelligent readers of -273 would also offer some advice. So with that explanation, let me explain the situation:
For many, many years Jon was a die-hard fan of the New York Yankees baseball team. Recently, because of the Yankees continuing dominance of Major League Baseball, he switched his allegiance from the Yankees to the Chicago Cubs (the arch-rivals of my favorite Cardinals and conveniently close to his college). Now, Jon's problem stems from the fact that his former favorite player, Deion Sanders (if Jon weren't my good friend I would make a disparaging remark about Deion being his favorite player here, but he is my friend, so I will restrain myself), has returned from retirement to play for the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds and the Cubs are in the same division (NL Central). Is Jon allowed to have a favorite player who plays against his favorite team? Who does he root for when they play each other?
The situation is further complicated by the fact that Jon selected Derek Jeter as his favorite player after Deion retired. Is he required to drop Jeter in favor of his previous favorite player, or does Deion's retirement eliminate the requirement that he continue to root for him?
I think Jon should drop Deion like a sack full of 80s rock and stick with the Cubs and Derek Jeter. (Arguing that anyone should support the Cubs is one of the most difficult things I have ever had to do. I feel like I need to take a long shower to clean the filth off of me after recommending the Cubs. But how could I support Deion Sanders and his stupid bandanas?) If you have an opinion on this rather complicated issue, or just need some clarification because my summary of the situation was a bit lacking, please send Jon an email.
Posted by on 1 May 2001 at 11:43 PM
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