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When you stop and think about it, the amount of time sports fans, myself included, talk about and watch their teams is incredible. We are elated when they win, and devasted when they lose. But it really doesn't make any sense. None of the players know who we are. None of them are from the city they're playing for with few exceptions. Most players will be traded or signed by another team during their tenure. And when they retire, the majority will choose to live somewhere other than the location of the team they last played for, unless they're offered a front-office job in some capacity.

Is Mats Sundin going to call you up to congratulate you on being a father? No way. And when we die, are the players going to stop by to pay their respects at our funeral because they know we were their #1 fan? Of course not.

But, we get caught up in the excitement regardless. And now Major League Baseball is offering fans the opportunity to show their support in the afterlife by having their remains placed in an official team urn. It doesn't surprise me it has come to this: I remember last year or the year before, a son honoured his mother's wishes and ran out onto the Philiadelphia Eagles' home turf during a game and threw her remains on the field. He was arrested, but has no regrets. She lived & died with her Eagles.

The first wave of MLB urns will be available starting in 2007. No price has been set, however for a lot of dead fans of their team, cost won't be an issue and many will be snapped up. It will be just a matter of time before the other sports leagues will follow suit, poor taste or not.