There's often a deeper meaning and reason behind this within the team itself. In my experience in college baseball, we called it "picking each other up." That congratulatory energy was more a celebration of the collective perseverance than anything. We had a saying we lived by: "Get the next one." This meant that, because baseball is a game of failure, our mindset was always to wipe the slate clean and give our best attitude and effort on the next play. Learn from the mistake so as not to repeat it and move on. So, the biggest congratulatory displays were not celebrating someone with repeated success; it's when someone has been struggling and breaks out of that slump.
This is sort of an adjacent thought to your main point, but it's where my mind went when reading this. Thanks for sharing!
There's often a deeper meaning and reason behind this within the team itself. In my experience in college baseball, we called it "picking each other up." That congratulatory energy was more a celebration of the collective perseverance than anything. We had a saying we lived by: "Get the next one." This meant that, because baseball is a game of failure, our mindset was always to wipe the slate clean and give our best attitude and effort on the next play. Learn from the mistake so as not to repeat it and move on. So, the biggest congratulatory displays were not celebrating someone with repeated success; it's when someone has been struggling and breaks out of that slump.
This is sort of an adjacent thought to your main point, but it's where my mind went when reading this. Thanks for sharing!
Very true.
The more meaningful time to be a fan of someone else is while they aren’t performing at their best.
Your Fanness can be universally motivating and inspirational.