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When I wrote Safire to ask whether he could imagine Hemingway, Faulkner, and O'Hara sitting in the grandstand at Yankee Stadium, hot dogs (with mustard) in hand, asking each other, “Whom are you rooting for?”
You can experience America’s favorite summer pastime by grabbing a hot dog and a beer and rooting for the Dodgers baseball team at Dodger Stadium, just north of Downtown in Chavez Ravine.
Losing his life savings to a menacingly fey Russian gangster (John Malkovich) in the first 10 minutes, Damon's Mike has you rooting for him not only to get payback from the weird Russki but to take what he can off anyone dumb enough to sit across a card table from him, accepting the rightness of the line "It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."
Judge Scott's Canutian position [EPISTOLAE XVII, 3] reminds me of William Safire several years ago cravenly caving in to some of his readers who lambasted him for having written, “Who are you rooting for?”
This was because many more genes were available for rooting with the plant than with the fungus.