SLC is ready for a big league club of its own, the Tribune columnist writes.
Hesitation is the word that nails down my initial feeling about a Major League Baseball franchise coming to Salt Lake City, and about howling at the moon over it, too. It’s not because I don’t believe Utah would be a fantastic place for that to happen, rather on account of the fact that, after living here for going on four decades now, SLC is my adopted hometown.
And I’ve never wanted to be a homer. Call me anything else — an idiot, a dope, a goofball, a fool — and many of you have — but … no, not a homer.
Although it’s become both a bane and normalized in modern media in so many forms and forums to root for the favored home team, that’s what amateurs do. I’d rather be an idiot. It’d be objectionable and unthinkable, like a political columnist or commentator rooting for a particular politician or party. Oops, so that’s a bad example these days.
