Educating Twitter: Lindor the Legend

Being a fan is fun.

Not when your team loses. Ask a 75-year old Guardians fan how much fun they’ve had over the years and you’d get probably get a blank stare as a response, maybe a tear or two.

But assuming your team wins every now and then, it’s fun to be a fan. You get to go to the ballpark in generally nice summer weather, watch a game your team has a reasonable chance to win, hang out with friends and family who are also fans, or even strike up conversations with complete strangers and bond over your shared love of your team.

Then there’s the antagonism you get to use against your least favorite team. That’s always fun, too, or it should be anyway. It can become mean-spirited, but that’s usually from the people who are mean-spirited by nature anyway. Most fans just throw barbs are the competition in a playful way, like this gem from someone who is obviously a fan of the Braves and not the Mets:

Ha ha ha ha ha! What good fun! Francisco Lindor hasn’t been an All-Star since joining the Mets, or won an MVP, or a World Series, or even been on a club that won the NL East. What a loser! What dumb fans to think he’s a “legend!"