You do realize that just because you buy a ticket doesn't mean you own the team.
I respect your opinion and right to do whatever you like.
But basing your happiness (or content with your team, since you said "I'll lighten up when..") on their place in the league is foolhardy, unnecessary and against the principals of this game.
I think it's an American problem.
We play the World Series with just our country.
The Super Bowl isn't so super since we are the only ones who play football. If there was relegation in this country and separate football leagues, which by all account they actually should, we might be able to build a culture of support instead of cities like Miami.
We seem to take an immense amount of pride in dismissing the sports we aren't good at and only playing the ones we claim are the greatest, because we can't stand to be bad at anything. That attitude is shown here as well.
We are all entitled to the best of everything, all the time, without exception. If it isn't "the best", then we reject it outright.
This is a country where we measure success by the amount of zero's at the end of our checks.
It sad that we only consider the worth of a person if he is a go-getter or aggressive with business. It's the same with this club, if we aren't first, we are nothing. If we aren't willing to treat players like trash and bench them the second they have a bad game, we aren't serious enough.
Now I don't like Nemac, but he deserves a run out. He is part of the club and deserves a chance, even if it's against my wishes, I will clap and cheer him on.
Just like me, I may be considered a flake for just loving a club in NYC that I can take a train to. I may be considered "not as serious" if I don't whistle and yell at the players for having a bad game. I mean shit, these are people, not FIFA pixels.
It's the same with this club. For some glory hunters, just being a part of it isn't good enough, just singing in the terraces, making new friends and laughing drunken, silly laughs over nothing and everything at once seems to be of too little substance for you, and people of your ilk.
I refuse to base, just as I do with people, the value of this club on what they can do for me.
And as long as you wear blue, I'll be happy to stand right next to you.
Just let me know before you start carping so I can put my headphones in.
P.S. - Had a few to drink, sorry for the long winded reply. Had a ton of fun tonight in the stands, especially holding my Sunday Church Third Rail Hymn Sheet
