Lakers are HOTT

The Lakers have been awesome! Kobe got his MVP trophy yesterday. I really wish I were there. I don't understand why the frickin Busses have to jack up the tickets so that it's impossible for a working class man or woman to go to a Lakers game. You got to be filthy rich to regularly go to Lakers games. It sucks.

But anyways, I want to say, I am a proud Lakers fan. It's such an experience. So many people in it together. It is a Religion, except it's an inclusive Religion. I guess that's the kind of experience religious people have. Except the theistic one is entirely intellectually wrong. Lakers is pure, essential entertainment. Being a Lakers fan is about routing for the hometeam. The Clippers are not the hometeam. That's my zeal speaking. That's what fanaticism is about--sticking by your team, ecstatic at victory, morose at defeat. It's such a feeling.

When Kobe won his award, all his fans probably got goosebumps. And if you didn't you are not emotionally-involved enough to call yourself a fan. You are still a bandwagon. Also, Something about bandwagon. I hate bandwagon with a passion. Don't watch and don't care just because they're winning. Stick with your frickin team thick and thin, you flip-flop. I admit, sometimes I stop watching games when there's no possible way for the team to win. But I've followed the Lakers between 2004-2007 when they were a subpar team. I kept up with them, I made sure that I saw games when I could, and I made sure I knew when they were playing, and the scores, and who excelled. You are a fan when the team consumes you. When the team becomes a part of you. You are an extension of the team, and vice versa.

There is emotion, energy, and commitment involved in being a fan. And that, is what, you fat pig, need to learn.