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Should Your Team Losing Affect Your Mood THIS Much?

The Bert Show

The Bert Show

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Should your team losing affect your mood THIS much? Bert wants to talk the psychology behind rooting for your favorite team!

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0:00.0

It's the Bert Show.

0:02.4

If I was forced to go back to college and actually finish and get my degree at San Diego State,

0:08.1

and they asked me, you got to write a thesis in order for you to get that diploma,

0:12.5

I think I know what it would be on.

0:14.2

It would be on how sports can change your mood and why.

0:20.8

Like, where does that come from, right? And this is all going to sort of

0:24.6

include the Taylor Swift thing last night. But I was so excited this morning. I came in here, right? And

0:30.5

I grew up in San Diego. And when you grow up in San Diego, you are groomed to hate everything, Los Angeles, right?

0:37.5

I hate the Los Angeles Dodgers like they had an affair with my mother.

0:43.2

I hate them so I hate everything about I hate everything Los Angeles, right?

0:49.0

So as a Padres fan, we're a small little, little itty, small market team, right?

0:54.3

And the Dodgers, they just spend all this cash on all their players, right?

0:58.7

And they get the best players.

1:00.4

And the Padres down south, my team, little, little, little bity guys, barely even have a chance ever to beat them.

1:05.9

And this morning, the Padres are in first place in the National League West, one game over the Dodgers, and it changed my mood this morning. Like I woke up, kind of stressed, and then I saw that, I'm like, we're one game on top of the Dodgers right now. It's fantastic. You actually walked in here with a little additional pep in your step. I did. I even said, hey, I know you guys have been waiting about for this. So I just want to let you know because you were distracted last

1:30.8

night with Taylor. Padres are in first place. And it was met with this. It was not.

1:37.1

Silence. It was not. It was not. It was not. That would silence. We both said we are very happy

1:42.5

for you and your team. And it seems like you are very happy about this, therefore we will be happy for you.

1:49.4

Here's the thing, though, forget about Padres and Dodgers and stuff, even though I hate that.

1:52.5

I'm more like, there are sometimes where I feel like I would rather the Dodgers lose than the Padres win.

1:59.4

Like anybody beat the Dodgers.

2:01.7

Even if my team doesn't win a championship, I just don't want it to be the Dodgers.

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