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or wherever you listen to podcasts. I went to a game with my dad and my brother and it was miserable and awful and we're all frustrated and mad.

Eric Simons, high school math teacher in Northern California.

Typical sports fan in some ways.

He fell in love with his favorite teams as a little kid.

After his dad took him to some games, now he's all grown up, but still going to games.

I'm riding home, I'm taking Bart back across from Berkeley into the city on a Saturday night.

And I'm sitting there and I have like a headache from wearing a dumb hat that has like

a constricted my head for too long and I've been standing in the sun and

I had like a miserable dinner and there's all these people around me riding Bart in

for like a nice night they're dressed up they're going to bars They're going to nice restaurants.

But in one way Eric was not typical.

He was starting to ask questions that most sports fans never do.

And I'm just looking at myself and I'm crammed in the corner just feeling like shit like what the fuck is wrong with me?

Sorry, I don't know if I can swear. Yes, you can't oh we do. We do. Yes. What is wrong with me? Why am I sitting here in the corner of a bar train sweat stained and smelling

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