It's not just you, don't take it personally.
It's just a bug bear of mine when people feel the need to "claim" a player when he "belongs" to us all.
Everyone has their favourites, I get that, I just feel some people go overboard with it, which either includes "claiming" a player or blindly defending them (like I think Ben does with Stanton, to be fair).
It's not a huge deal, it's just my view on it.