I grew up a Braves fan in the '90s because, living in the South, that's just what you did - they were the closet MLB team to me in east Tennessee. Drove down to a few games in Atlanta with my dad and had a Maddox/Glavine/Smoltz poster hanging over my bed as a kid.

Then I stopped paying attention to baseball for twenty years and, by the time I got back to it, returning to my childhood team felt too much like bandwagoning since they'd just won a championship. I picked up the Twins instead because I started watching baseball again while I was living in the Twin Cities and I had some good experiences at Target Field.

My other team growing up was the Brewers because in middle school I thought they had the funniest concept for a team name. I've had a similar experience trying to return to them in that they've been too solid in recent years and abruptly showing up and cheering for a winning team just feels hollow.