Get Over It?

"The Dodgers, first of all, were less a symbol of Freedom and Justice and Noble Suffering than of New Yorkers’ irrepressible self-regard; it takes a special talent for victimhood to kindle suffering out of supporting the most profitable dynasty in baseball over a ten-year period. (Between 1947 and 1956, the Dodgers played the Yankees in the World Series six times; the true sufferers were every fan and team outside of New York.) Furthermore, baseball in its so-called Golden Era was not some kind of precapitalist folk art—it was well on its way toward the ad-saturated mercenary professionalism we all know and loathe today."

Sam Anderson in New York suggests that Brooklyn should now move beyond the loss of the Dodgers fifty years ago.