projection of the week

[oonh]

one on one social time with sane people (for merengue-filled and copper-tinged values of sane): good
waiting for Steve to call me / sms me: gaaaaaaaaah! He's so flaky his antibodies would reject a selsun blue iv.
being on shift now: aaaaaarrrrgh sports fans! (do you really have *that* much emotionally invested in this game and why?)

Comments

Sports fans

[voxel]

They really are. You could do psychological analyses, sociological studies, or whatever you want, but yes, they really do have that much emotionally invested in the game.

Why? There are numerous reasons, but a lot of it, I think has to do with some identification/association/attachment with the particular team. Explaining emotional attachments and why they occur is a difficult, and peril-fraught process which I will avoid doing.

Re: Sports fans

[tiurin]

It's the same emotional roller coaster which some people get from slasher flicks or soap operas.

[prgrmr]

Herd mentality

(...he writes, listen to the game on the tv in the background...)

[tla]

Well, I'm getting unduly caught up in the game, and I'm not a sports fan. I can only imagine how actual sports fans feel.

[moominmolly]

When the Tour de France was on, I had an emotional investment in how Tyler Hamilton was doing, and how Lance Armstrong and the USPS gang fared. I don't know why, I just did. Pride, attachment, identification, admiration, wish-fulfillment? Something like that.

There will always be something admirable about the athlete or team that comes out on top: it's easy to admire the achievement. But there's also something compelling about following a single player or team, since you get to follow their struggle and their rise to the top, rather than just their position there.

[oonh]

I agree, however, my cow orkers were acting liked deranged fanmonkeys (jumping up and down, screaming, etc.), and I was very put off by it. When I say 'sports fans' I mean 'sports fans bouncing about like deranged fanmonkeys'.

[tiurin]

And that's perhaps why Adam Hyzdu is my favorite baseball player.

And he's the only one I've ever called up on the phone.