Cheering for laundry

I was watching a Reds-Astros game last night, and the announcers kept reminding us of the Astros winning streak at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. It was at eleven games, going all the way back to 2007.

They also talk about how Houston’s Roy Oswalt is 23-1 lifetime against the Reds. But it doesn’t make any sense. The Reds in 2007 were a completely different bunch of guys, and Oswalt’s record goes back to a time when every single player, owner, manager and coach was different. It’s an outlying stat, nothing more.

Which reminds me of Jerry Seinfeld’s words:

Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to justify. Because the players are always changing, the team can move to another city, you’re actually rooting for the clothes when you get right down to it. You know what I mean, you are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city. Fans will be so in love with a player but if he goes to another team, they boo him. This is the same human being in a different shirt, they *hate* him now. Boo! Different shirt!! Boo.

I think he said somewhere else that we are in essence cheering for laundry.