"At the Dodger games, I would root for the other team, whoever it was," he said.
"Definitely I would root for Mexico," he said.
I never thought I would root against the United States, but I did.
But I'd root for the Celtics even if they got together to torch the Boston Public Library.
Personally, I'd root for Inglorious Basterds and the great work of Robert Richardson.
If it was man-made and carried carcinogens, the EPA would root it out.
President Khatami has denied that Iran is involved in terrorism and has vowed that if any evidence is developed to suggest a link between the Government and terrorist acts, he would root it out.
He was wearing a Turkey T-shirt, but said that if Germany wins, he would root for it in the final.
And on Friday, Vladimir Putin's spokesman said that he (the spokesman, not Putin) did not think that "Leviathan" was anti-Russian, and that he would root for it to win the Oscar.
And on Friday, Vladimir Putin's spokesman said that he (the spokesman, not Putin) did not think that "Leviathan" was anti-Russian, and that he would root for it to win the Oscar.
In fact, he had already experienced such betrayal when he took my older sister to a Harvard-Yale game, with nine-year-old Medora deciding that she liked the color blue better, and thus that it was Yale that she would root for rather than for his own Crimson alma mater.
