• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    That’s exactly right.

    It’s a different feeling watching a team compete to be the best in their league and watching a team compete to be the best in the world.

    When MLB was shutdown early on in the pandemic, Taiwan was able to get their league going before MLB started up again. So I watched that. But when MLB startup up again, I stopped watching the Taiwan league baseball. It doesn’t mean I hate the Taiwan league, it’s just that MLB is a higher level of play, that’s the league “my team” plays in, that’s the league my team’s rivals play in. There’s an ongoing story of your team that you’re tuning in to see. They’re competing to be the best in the world by going up against the best in the world. Everything else is just a curiosity.