The Washington Nationals are headed to the World Series for the first time in franchise history, after sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLCS Tuesday night.
The city is overjoyed at the prospect of hosting a World Series, which hasn’t happened in D.C. since 1933, and fans are coming out of the woodwork. It’s a great time to be a D.C. sports fan–as long as you don’t root for the Wizards or the Redskins, but there’s always someone waiting in the wings ready to dump all over someone else’s fun, and right now, it’s National Review writer Alexandra DeSanctis who tweeted out possibly the worst take about bandwagon fans.
“I’m sorry, but I just do not have respect for baseball fans who move to DC from other parts of the country and become Nationals fans,” she wrote.
Gate keeping of any kind is bad in sports fandom, but by DeSanctis’ logic, everyone in D.C. who wasn’t born and raised here should not be allowed to now cheer their home team? D.C. is a diverse city made up of transplants, and the metropolitan area includes large parts of suburban Maryland and Virginia. Again, by her logic, those people also aren’t good enough fans? The mind boggles.
The tweet upset a lot of people, including Eireann Dolan, the wife of Nationals’ closer Sean Doolittle, who was sufficiently cutting in her take down.
Bad takes never die in peace, and the ratio was on.
Anyway, enjoy what you want to enjoy, and jump on bandwagons fully and happily if and when it makes you happy.
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