Root,Root,Root for the away team...
Growing up in the great Los Angeles area and now living just outside it I have taken a lot of guff over the years for my choices in sports teams. I am huge Red Sox fan,I love the Celtics and have cried over the Packers. Let it be known,I root for the Kings and the Clippers and the Dodgers will always own a piece of my heart but at the end of the day I am rocking my Red Sox hat backwards with a Paul Pierce jersey faded from too many washes. Why do I follow these teams? Really,I don’t have a reason. I chose both Boston teams long ago while they were in the midst of crazy losing seasons. I chose them because I like the way there upper management promoted playing as a team over super stardom. I chose them because even though I have lived in and near L.A. at the end of the day it’s just a city and sports are something different and more in there own way. As a chubby kid playing basketball watching Larry Bird dominate a game with more smarts than skills inspired me. Watching Pedroia win a AL MVP at under six feet reminds me that hard work goes a long way. As much as I love L.A.,eating hot dogs at Pinks,nights on the beach while planes fly over my head by LAX and the break a mountain trip can give after a stressful week ultimately,L.A.,has shown me more of what I don’t want to be more than what I do want to be. It has shown me greed, drugs, gangs, fear and hate. Maybe I read to much Dostoyevsky but at the end of the day I don’t want millions of dollars, I just want my questions answered. I don’t want to be a lone gun but would rather be a part of team that will go all out for each other. Sports, just like music, fashion and food is all preference. If you root for the home team, awesome! If you don’t, awesome! If you don’t root at all....awesome! At the end of the day all that matters is whatever you do,do it with all you have.
Growing up in the great Los Angeles area and now living just outside it I have taken a lot of guff over the years for my choices in sports teams. I am huge Red Sox fan,I love the Celtics and have cried over the Packers. Let it be known,I root for the Kings and the Clippers and the Dodgers will always own a piece of my heart but at the end of the day I am rocking my Red Sox hat backwards with a Paul Pierce jersey faded from too many washes. Why do I follow these teams? Really,I don’t have a reason. I chose both Boston teams long ago while they were in the midst of crazy losing seasons. I chose them because I like the way there upper management promoted playing as a team over super stardom. I chose them because even though I have lived in and near L.A. at the end of the day it’s just a city and sports are something different and more in there own way. As a chubby kid playing basketball watching Larry Bird dominate a game with more smarts than skills inspired me. Watching Pedroia win a AL MVP at under six feet reminds me that hard work goes a long way. As much as I love L.A.,eating hot dogs at Pinks,nights on the beach while planes fly over my head by LAX and the break a mountain trip can give after a stressful week ultimately,L.A.,has shown me more of what I don’t want to be more than what I do want to be. It has shown me greed, drugs, gangs, fear and hate. Maybe I read to much Dostoyevsky but at the end of the day I don’t want millions of dollars, I just want my questions answered. I don’t want to be a lone gun but would rather be a part of team that will go all out for each other. Sports, just like music, fashion and food is all preference. If you root for the home team, awesome! If you don’t, awesome! If you don’t root at all....awesome! At the end of the day all that matters is whatever you do,do it with all you have. 
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