Florida in a Nutshell?
April 1, 2011
FanGraphs’ own, the very kind Erik Hahmann, is tweeting from the Tampa Bay Rays’ season opener this Friday night at Tropicana Field, and has submitted the above for our consideration, documenting with expert brevity the life choices of an opinionated Rays fan.
As a Northern-born gentleman, I’m not qualified to comment with any sort of objectivity on the “culture” of this sunwashed state. So I concede the right of value judgments to our bespectacled readership.
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
ESPN’s sportsnation poll yesterday was “How many baseball games do you plan on attending this year?” The most common response was 1-2 followed by 0. On the map it was clear what linked the states for which 0 was most common: They didn’t host a major league team… or they were Florida.