Hey, I'm telling you... I embrace my rabid fanboisms...
Better than some people who sit on the sidelines and wait til the team is good - suddenly in the conference finals... and THEN suddenly come out as huge, longtime fans. Pshaw
Zan is now at where I was 6-7 years ago. Cheering for a shitty team that's suddenly coming to life because of a young studly power-forward. And you know what? You are going to have a shitload of fair-weather fans that you KNOW never cared about the Raptors until this year... Hockey Town! Hockey Town! Yeah! Oh shit, the leafs suck? Raptors are WINNING THE FUCKING DIVISION? Bleh, who cares? Just wait til they get to 2nd round in the playoffs because Bosh turns into a 30/12/5/3/1 guy and gets ANGRY. First round upset of the 6th place Heat? Holy shit! Second round goes to 7 games IN Toronto against Washington... good lord!
Leafs suck?
Exactly. Cowboys sucked for years and the Mavs have been THE dominant team (Stars, close 2nd) in town, but you NEVER hear about it. Even now, the fucking radio is STILL 2/3rds Cowboys talk, when the season is fucking over and the only thing to talk about is getting a new assistant special-teams trainer. WTF? Mavs are the top team in the league! Hello?
So yeah... I'll stay rabid because I was there when the Mavs were LUCKY to get their tenth win right before the all-star break - Malone AND Stockton were both sidelined, and we STILL only won by 3. Sigh...
Anyway, I love fans like myself. I LOVE to argue with an impassioned Spurs fan, who ALWAYS won the argument, and can STILL win it because even after we beat them, we STILL couldn't finish it. If Colangelo snags Rashard Lewis or some other big free agent next year... I expect the Raptors to tear through the East and Zan to talk shit all over his conference.
Although... The mavs will still beat them by one point

(zing!).