With the Minnesota Wild’s current hot streak, we’ve seen the usual parade of scolds. \u00a0The quote usually runs something like “Yeah, now that the Wild are hot, we see the bandwagon fans coming out”.<\/p>\n
Now, let’s be clear; I don’t really care about hockey. \u00a0It’s just not my game. \u00a0I doubt I’ll watch any Wild games, even if they go to the Stanley Cup, which they won’t [1]<\/p>\n
Main point? \u00a0Of course I’m a “bandwagon fan”<\/em>. \u00a0You think I have time to waste on losers? \u00a0What the hell is the point of spending precious time slogging along behind a team that is only going to turn the whole thing into a collossal waste of time, money and effort?<\/p>\n Except for the Bears, of course.<\/p>\n [1] Which I say not because I genuinely doubt their ability to make it downtown, but because while I don’t know much about hockey, I do know that Berg’s Fourth Law of Media\/Sports Inversion (“A Minnesota sports team may be a contender until the moment the local media actually believes they will be contenders. At that moment \u2013 be it spring training, late November in the NFL season, or week 72 of the NHL playoffs \u2013 the season will fall irredeemably apart”) applies to all Minnesota sports teams equally.<\/p>\n I’m doing it for you.<\/p>\n You’re welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the Minnesota Wild’s current hot streak, we’ve seen the usual parade of scolds. \u00a0The quote usually runs something like “Yeah, now that the Wild are hot, we see the bandwagon fans coming out”. Now, let’s be clear; I don’t really care about hockey. \u00a0It’s just not my game. \u00a0I doubt I’ll watch any Wild […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52976,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52975\/revisions\/52976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}