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		<title>Los Angeles, sports fans don&#039;t mix</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Ward</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2009 MLB Playoffs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the Phillies and Dodgers started the 2009 NLCS, tension was in the air. The Philadelphia Daily News&#8216; Stu Bykofsky reported that the series was a gang war between the Bloods and Crips. After witnessing the Dodgers fans behavior the first two games of the series, Philly fans are laughing at the people who patronize [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Before the Phillies and Dodgers started the 2009 NLCS, tension was in the air. <a title="Byko" href="http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/phillies/20091015_Stu_Bykofsky__NLCS__It_s_the_Bloods_vs__the_Crips.html" target="_blank"><em>The Philadelphia Daily News</em>&#8216; Stu Bykofsky reported that the series was a gang war between the Bloods and Crips</a>.</p>
<p>After witnessing the Dodgers fans behavior the first two games of the series, Philly fans are laughing at the people who patronize the Dodgers.</p>
<p>Los Angeles and the phrase &#8220;sports fans&#8221; create a huge oxymoron. They just don&#8217;t go together.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 410px"><img title="Dodgers fans" src="http://www.feelingdodgerblue.com/img/Dodger%20Stadium.jpg" alt="Dodgers fans proved they are frauds during the first two games of the NLCS." width="400" height="300" />
<p class="wp-caption-text">Dodgers fans proved they are frauds during the first two games of the NLCS.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Fan&#8221; is short for &#8220;fanatic.&#8221; Based on what the Dodgers &#8220;fans&#8221; showed the nation during the first two games of the 2009 NLCS, they didn&#8217;t dismiss the stereotype that they arrive in the third inning and leave shortly after the seventh-inning stretch.</p>
<p>In Game 1 with their team trailing by just two runs in the ninth inning, Dodgers fans had vacated the high priced seats behind home plate. You saw the batter, catcher, umpire and a bunch of empty seats on TBS as Brad Lidge closed the game.</p>
<p>With Kemp, Manny and others on the Dodgers, a two-run lead was not insurmountable. Yet, the Dodgers &#8220;faithful&#8221; decided to beat the traffic. They apparently had to rush to make sure they were seen at the A-list parties for that night.</p>
<p>You would never find that in a city like Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Denver, or any other real sports town.</p>
<p>Leaving when your team is getting blown out during he regular season? Maybe. (In the interest of full disclosure, <em>Your Daily Philadelphian</em> was once known as &#8220;three quarters&#8221; for leaving a Monday Night Football game after the third quarter because the Eagles were getting spanked.)</p>
<p>But, leave during a close playoff game? Never.</p>
<p>Then, with their team trailing by one run in the seventh inning, the dopes sitting in the outfield decide to do &#8220;The Wave,&#8221; the single dumbest thing in the history of professional sports fan behavior.</p>
<p>They did &#8216;The Wave&#8221; during a playoff game. Did it late in a close playoff game. A playoff game that could very well have saved their team&#8217;s season.</p>
<p>All the Dodgers dorks were missing was a beach ball to hit around. Then, everything would have been complete.</p>
<p>I guess there really was a reason NLCS tickets that are going for $200-plus in Philly sold for $50 or less in LA. The fans don&#8217;t have the passion or intuitive knowledge about being a true sports fans that Philadelphians possess within their souls at childbirth.</p>
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