Playoff time brings a host of obnoxious things we don’t like.  Pink hat chicks. Bandwagon fans, who hop on board the playoff train and conveniently hop off when the Twins/Rockies get swept/lose best player to free agency/develop a curse.

But we’ve noticed a new kind of fan we hate, and it’s the We’re Gonna Lose guy.  First hit of the game?  It’s over.  First touchdown by the opposing offense? Done.  This is the guy who turns off games his favorite teams are losing because he “just can’t stand to watch.”  He’s the kind of guy whose perfect world involves all his teams winning every games by scores of 59-0. In baseball.   (Coincidentally, these are often Pats fans.)  This is the guy who loves LA teams, but when both make it to the playoffs, thinks that it’s actually just worse because they’ll both get swept and it’ll suck double.

These are the people who are so busy rooting against that they forget to root for.  And we think that takes all the joy out of sports.  Rooting for a team because you hate the other team is all very well (newly minted Angels fans, unite!), but when that’s all you do, when you forget to root for your team because you just think they’re going to lose? That takes the fun out of everything.

True fans are there for the fun, for the joy, for the surprises, and even the heartbreaks are part of the magic.  If you’ve lost that, why are you watching?  (Oh right.  You’re not.  You missed the comeback because you were busy lamenting losses that haven’t happened yet.)

For these fans, actually, we’re just sorry.  Hey guys? You missed the point.