the way you "get to know" 26 players over 162 games
I am just coming to realize how significant this is. I love football and in a vacuum I will watch a non-Packer football game over a non-Brewer baseball game nine time out of ten. But I feel more connected to the Brewer players than any Packers. Maybe its the helmets, maybe it's the number of games, maybe because baseball players have more opportunities to be themselves during the game but my investment in the World Series run was at least partly because I felt more connected and really liked the guys playing on the team which lead to a much higher emotional investment in the outcome.