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    As a Buffalo fan - who is your MLB & NBA team? Help needed

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    Growing up in WNY there’s no other option - I’m a Bills and a Sabres fan. 
     

    As an 8 year old I became a bills fan in 1999 and a sabres fan a few years later. I casually watched baseball when there was nothing else on. Every now and then it would be a Yankees game because of the YES network. Around that same time I found myself watching Lakers games during intermissions of the Stanley cup playoff games because they were a very talented team and always making championship runs 


    Fast forward to 2010. I met this Yankees fan from the Albany area who is a drop dead gorgeous 10. In 2014 I marry her and move east to the Albany area. Now that I’ve lived here for almost a decade I have come to despise the downstate fans with a passion. 
     

    As far as the NBA, the last game I watched was when Lebron won the championship with the Cavaliers. It has become too political since then so I’ve lost interest. Now that Lebron is a Laker it just rubs me the wrong way. Jordan will always be the greatest. 

     

    I have the sudden urge to become more of a baseball fan this summer and I’m not sure why. My heart says to follow the Blue Jays because of their geographical location to Buffalo and because Josh Allen went and did a batting practice with them which I thought was cool. That really rooted some interest for me. I get the sense that they’re almost like a defacto team for Buffalo fans. My fathers family is from Canada and as a casual baseball fan I really enjoyed the Bautista Bat Flip as well. 
     

    Here is my dilemma, I would like to root for the Blue Jays, however, my Yankees fan wife said she would not be happy if I became a fan of any other team besides the Yankees. I don’t think I can bring myself to root for the Yankees because I find their fans (and my inlaws) so fairweather. The team has also become pretty flat and stale in my opinion.

     

    Here is where it gets tricky. She is as loyal as they come when it comes to being a fan of her sports teams. She hated football until I took her to a Bills game in 2022 and now she is a bigger fan of the Bills than I am. I finally converted her to the follow the football team that I love. If I go against the baseball team that she roots for so loyally, that will be a dagger in her heart. 
     

    What do I do? 

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