Sports Are For Crying Because Your Friend Got Traded Away
Photo: Gene J. Puskar (AP) Professional sports are a job, but in many ways very much unlike other jobs. Your teammates are more than co-workers; you work together, but you also socialize together, travel together, practically (and sometimes literally) live together. For half of the season you’re on the road together, sharing every meal and nearly every minute in and out of the “office.” Even for the other half of the season, especially in hockey, “home” is half a world away from where you’re actually from, so your teammates are the only constants. Except, they’re often not very constant....
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