Let's. Play. Ball!
Oct. 21st, 2025 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kathleen_daileyThe Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series!
When I was a teenager in Chicago, I was very gung-ho about the White Sox (as a South Sider, I'd been born into the faction), and I was pretty thrilled to score regular babysitting gigs for team members whose families lived in my apartment building during the season. I haven't been immersed in baseball as an adult, but I do think of the Jays as My Team.
In 1993--the last time the Jays made it this far--I was deeply involved with a filk group, and I remember watching the playoffs at the country home of one of the musicians during pre-studio rehearsals. The experience was wonderful, mostly because it was an enthusiastic group event: the producer, the musicians, and the musicians' spouses and friends all brought the same fannish energy to the series as they did to the F & SF fandoms that were their principal interest.
Fandom is fandom, I guess, and that feeling of solidarity and shared fervor crosses categories, pastimes, and hyperfixations.
When I was a teenager in Chicago, I was very gung-ho about the White Sox (as a South Sider, I'd been born into the faction), and I was pretty thrilled to score regular babysitting gigs for team members whose families lived in my apartment building during the season. I haven't been immersed in baseball as an adult, but I do think of the Jays as My Team.
In 1993--the last time the Jays made it this far--I was deeply involved with a filk group, and I remember watching the playoffs at the country home of one of the musicians during pre-studio rehearsals. The experience was wonderful, mostly because it was an enthusiastic group event: the producer, the musicians, and the musicians' spouses and friends all brought the same fannish energy to the series as they did to the F & SF fandoms that were their principal interest.
Fandom is fandom, I guess, and that feeling of solidarity and shared fervor crosses categories, pastimes, and hyperfixations.
