“I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically.” – Nick Hornby, via Phillies Nation.
Let it be known that I’m not willing to invest time and emotion in all ridiculous systems, frameworks, and polities. But I am, gladly, a believer in baseball.
Go Phils.
Chris Cocca 
I explain my love of football in similar terms.