Who should you be rooting for if your team isn’t in October?

Los Angeles Dodgers

Do you know what the definition of “insane” is?

According to Albert Einstein, insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results. You can talk yourself into rooting for the Dodgers. I want to talk myself into rooting for the Dodgers. I want Clayton Kershaw to succeed in the worst way. I love Inverted Wayne Gretzky. Even though the Dodgers are a big market team and do things in a big market way, but only receive half the attention of the Yankees because East Coast Bias, there’s something to root for here.

But how often can you talk yourself into this team before the pain of losing again becomes too much?

Full disclosure, I’m rooting for the Dodgers. I’ve adopted them the same way I adopted the Washington Capitals in the Stanley Cup playoffs. There are parallels between the two teams. Most notably their inability to win the big one and the narrative that their top star isn’t a clutch performer. Alex Ovechkin and the Capitals finally broke through this past spring. The Dodgers will do the same.

Or I’m insane.

Other reasons to root for the Los Angeles Dodgers

You’re tired of hearing about the Los Angeles Lakers and want some other team to dominate the headlines for a couple of days.

You’re a LeBron James fan so you root for every team associated with the city he plays in.

West Coast Bias.

You’re that person who roots for the team who lost the championship game the year prior. These people exist. They typically don’t find much happiness in sports.