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I think what makes a good show is obviously a rabid fan base.

I've been a sports fan forever.

I'm a huge sports fan.

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

I'm a big sports fan.

I am a huge sports fan.

I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.