Fine, I guess I'm Blue Jays fan

Author Elisha Dacey

I spent the weekend doing all sorts of sports-watching.

My mother flew in from B.C. like she does every fall, ostensibly to do her holiday shopping for Manitoba relatives. However, it always seems to coincide with as many Winnipeg Jets and Blue Bombers home games as possible. This past weekend, there just happened to be two Jets and one Bombers game, and so there just happened to be my sports-watching-loving mother.

I generally reap the benefits of my mother’s sports obsession by being invited to games, and so I jump on the bandwagons hard when she’s here. Not that I don’t love our local teams—I’m a former Blue Bombers season ticket holder and y’all have seen me wax poetic about bleeding blue and gold—but I prefer to watch things in person rather than on TV.

So that’s why it was unusual to see me watching two Blue Jays games this weekend as well.

I have nothing against baseball. I used to play. Playing baseball is FUN. Watching it in a stadium or park is exciting. Watching it on TV, however, is not. It’s as boring to me as figuring out the math behind all the statistics the colour commentators jabber about.

But OK, the Jays are in the World Series since the first time Jurassic Park hit the big screen. (That’s 1993, for you GenX folks, and yes, that movie is 32 years old.) And since I love a good cultural phenomenon (6-7!) I tuned in.

Can confirm: Still boring to watch remotely on TV, despite the stakes. But I’m firmly on the bandwagon… and will jump off when it’s done. Why? It’s not engaging enough.

This whole bandwagon thing got me thinking about a report we released late last week. It shows that remote workers at non-profits love being remote. But they also are more likely to quit their jobs.

Why? It’s a bandwagon-engagement thing, just like being a Jays fan in Winnipeg. Read the reasons why, and find out what you can do about it.

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  • Elisha Dacey is a seasoned journalist with more than two decades of experience in the field. She has worked in various newsrooms across Canada, ranging from small-town papers to major outlets like CBC Manitoba and Global News. Dacey began her journalism career in Manitoba and has held roles such as managing editor, senior producer and digital online journalist. Notably, she launched Metro Winnipeg, the city’s only free daily newspaper, which quickly became the second most-read paper in Winnipeg.

    Elisha Dacey is the Managing Editor for Future of Good.

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