You can't be a fan of baseball if you can't accept the tragic times as part of what makes it all so danm engrossing. That's why you can't think of a Yankees fan as a true baseball fan;) The greatest clubs have no small amount of agony in their history - the Cubs, the Redsox, the Dodgers and (though I'm loath to admit it) the Giants. This impending dark age is only gonna make the sunlight that much sweeter.