Sean Fennessey

I can't watch games like this in person.

Like, I'm too tense.

I can't.

Well, now if I do it, I'm afraid of jinxing everything.

I mean, we've just never had this much good fortune.

They've now won 14 of 15 playoff games.

No, I know.

I mean, this is going to end up becoming, if they win, one of the most astonishing playoff runs in sports history.

So I can't risk.

I can't fuck with that.

I think I'll just do what I've done with every game, which is we'll all sit down together.

We'll fire it up.

If it's going poorly, we'll kind of shut it down a little bit.

I'll move to another room.

I got to just stick with what's worked.

And, you know, this is something that, like, this actually makes sports fandoms outside of your home city.

I'm not one of those people who roots for a team that isn't from my home city, but if you were a young person watching the Dallas Cowboys in the 90s, you could become a Cowboys fan forever if you lived in New York or Canada or Wyoming.

Yeah.

If you were a baseball fan, a young baseball fan in 2004 when the Red Sox beat the Yankees, you could become a Red Sox fan for life no matter where you lived.

There have been a lot of examples.