Second Favorite Team [Archive]

ElHalo

02-05-2005, 01:18 PM

I follow the Red Sox more than any other (non-Yankee) team, and I like most of the guys on that team (with the notable exceptions of Schilling and Ortiz). I watched a lot of Tigers baseball growing up, so I have a soft spot for them. But I'd probably have to say St. Louis. My favorite teams of all time were the Gashouse Gang Cards of the 30's, who featured my favorite all time player (Pepper Martin) and my favorite all time pitcher (Dizzy Dean). I loved Vince Coleman and the Herzog Cards of the 80's, and though I for some reason can't stand Scot Rolen, I like the current team (would like them more if Ankiel pitched there). So I go with St. Louis.

Mattingly

02-05-2005, 02:26 PM

Baltimore.

Hey Hank, where's Washington?He must've used Montreal instead. I wonder how Ontarioguy feels about this.

Me, it's between the BoSox and the Metsies.

Ontarioguy

02-05-2005, 02:33 PM

I wonder how Ontarioguy feels about this.

I thought I was ready to move on to the Chisox but it just doesn't feel right. There are other factors aswell, such as my stubborn pride. I refuse to pay $$ to MLB to earn the rights to online audiocasts.

I can either quit on MLB, or jump on the Yankee bandwagon, since I get a local station just across the border in upstate NY and I get WCBS clearly at night.

I'm really lost right now, I like baseball too much to just ditch it but I'm not sure I can adopt.

I had been frequenting this sight much less lately, but it's getting warmer and in recent days I've been posting more. I'm starting to miss baseball. Baseball has a pretty tight grip on me and the idea of listening to Yankees baseball on a daily basis isn't as repulsive as it once seemed.

It's tough no matter what happens...

Yankeebiscuitfan

02-05-2005, 03:17 PM

Next to the Yankees I have had three other favorite teams.

The Expos
The Braves
The Mariners

In the early nineties I admired the Braves because they build a team out of their own farm system. Other teams can take that as an example.

I have always had a soft spot for the Expos and Mariners.

csh19792001

02-05-2005, 03:27 PM

You can tell by almost everyone's moniker, avatar, or sig line who their favorite team is but who is your second favorite MLB team you root for? I know many don't have a second favorite but if you had to choose who would you follow?

Great idea for a thread!!

I'd have to go with the Cardinals- they've got the tradition (1882-present), the integrity (many of their stars evinced it, as have their loyal fans), and the success (20 pennants, 9 World Championships)- not too shabby for a non NY, midwest/relatively small city franchise. I also am a big fan of Pujols, Rolen, Edmonds and company, in addition to the Cardinal historical heroes.

west coast orange and black

02-05-2005, 04:56 PM

the orioles.

i was taught to appreciate the defense end of it: robinsons, blefary, blair, johnson, aparicio, belanger, buford, et al.

it was only later did i realize that the orange and black thing would be running thread in my life.

Mattingly

02-05-2005, 05:19 PM

I thought I was ready to move on to the Chisox but it just doesn't feel right. There are other factors aswell, such as my stubborn pride. I refuse to pay $$ to MLB to earn the rights to online audiocasts.

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I'm really lost right now, I like baseball too much to just ditch it but I'm not sure I can adopt.

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It's tough no matter what happens...You and your fellow Montrealers (is that right?) may consider just becoming baseball fans. You could also visit thte Brooklyn Dodger forum, asking how forumers there felt about baseball when their team left. It would be interesting seeing how they'd followed it, despite seeing their familes' and friends' beloved palace/castle of many years being torn away right their very eyes. :eek: :ughh

While I've never experienced this and can't personally relate, I'd be devastated if the Yankees ever moved, and can at least try my best as a baseball fan to relate to you guys, as I've tried doing here under CE and in the past under BBF's Expos forum. I can only try.

Yeah, it can be tough. There's the NY Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston/Milwaukee Braves forums for teams which have ceased to exist. You may try asking how they've felt.

If you'd like, I could also post something here, asking for fans of other teams how they'd felt about the loss and how they followed baseball. Or either of us could do so in the individual team forums.

Au Revoir, Les Expos: 1969-2004: RIP :(

Bluesteve32

02-05-2005, 05:58 PM

I was looking for anyone playing the A's, Mariners, Rangers and Dodgers. ;)

Aa3rt

02-05-2005, 06:36 PM

After the departure of the Senators, I could NEVER bring myself to follow the hated Orioles.

I started following both the Red Sox and White Sox from afar. Now that the Red Sox have won a World Series, I'll be following the White Sox more intently.

Aegis

02-05-2005, 07:04 PM

My favorite teams are the Braves and Red Sox. After that, it's the Phillies, Orioles, and Tigers. I'll probably be focused on the latter three the most at the start of the season.

Clockwork

02-05-2005, 09:20 PM

Since the Phillies usually spend most of the time making me mad, I root for the Orioles because there not that far away and I hate the Yanks and the Sox, and I usually root for the success of the Expos/Nationals despite them being in the Phils' division. I'd like to go down to RFK this year to see a Nats game.

antihipster

02-05-2005, 10:18 PM

I bleed red, as I am a Cardinals fan all the way. No second fave here.

bigtime39

02-06-2005, 07:30 AM

bigtime39

02-06-2005, 07:33 AM

Behind the Orioles, I'm always rooting for whatever team is playing the Yankee$...I'll now have to transition from feeling sympathy for the vagabond Expos to at least some positive feelings for the Nationals.

rudy

02-06-2005, 08:54 AM

It was always the Expos. And now that they are gone, I have to get a new NL team. I think I'll make it the Cubs, only because I have been rooting for them to make it to the World Series for years, if only just to experience it (like I rooted for the Red Sox for the past number of years when the Jays were eliminated from contention, although now that they've won it, I could care less for them)

Yankee Pride

02-06-2005, 10:11 AM

Obviously Yanks are my best , but this year with El Duque and Contreras on the White Sox , I'll have to say Chicago as my 2nd favorite. I love cuban baseball!!

Ontarioguy

02-06-2005, 12:18 PM

You and your fellow Montrealers (is that right?) may consider just becoming baseball fans. You could also visit thte Brooklyn Dodger forum, asking how forumers there felt about baseball when their team left. It would be interesting seeing how they'd followed it, despite seeing their familes' and friends' beloved palace/castle of many years being torn away right their very eyes. :eek: :ughh

While I've never experienced this and can't personally relate, I'd be devastated if the Yankees ever moved, and can at least try my best as a baseball fan to relate to you guys, as I've tried doing here under CE and in the past under BBF's Expos forum. I can only try.

Yeah, it can be tough. There's the NY Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston/Milwaukee Braves forums for teams which have ceased to exist. You may try asking how they've felt.

If you'd like, I could also post something here, asking for fans of other teams how they'd felt about the loss and how they followed baseball. Or either of us could do so in the individual team forums.

Au Revoir, Les Expos: 1969-2004: RIP :(

Thanks for the concern Mattingly. I remember a while back, Jackie42 told us things really won't get any better, there will be days where you just get depressed again. That's been happening to me every now and then during the winter months.

From what I can tell, most of the BRK. fans have casually adopted the Mets. Not out of true love for the Mets, but just to follow a team in particular and MLB with it. I think that may be what happens with me and the Yankees.

By the way Mattingly, 'Montrealers' is correct. Trivia: Montrealers in french is 'Montréalais'

BalsaWoodKeyBoard

02-06-2005, 02:23 PM

I think that like most Chicago natives, although we may blow a lot of hot air about the rivalry, I'd be pretty happy to see the White Sox win too. I really hold nothing serious against them...except during a 3 day period two times a year.... ;)

Donnybrook @ Second base

02-07-2005, 09:33 AM

I like the D Rays, I kinda feel bad for them, and they have a cool hat. :dance

strosfan

02-07-2005, 11:01 AM

What? no Houston fans??? We have such nice guys on our team.

strosfan

02-07-2005, 11:04 AM

Ok - so what about the best "looking" team? Definitely gotta be Stros.

VTSoxFan

02-07-2005, 11:26 AM

Back in the days of the big ugly satellite dishes, I could get CBC but not NESN, so I fell into the habit of rooting for the Blue Jays in their glory years in the early '90s. I rooted for them when they weren't playing the Sox, and the same holds true today.

Other AL teams I have a soft spot for: The Royals, Detroit, and in a way the Rays, because I hope they become an established and respected team. In the NL I like the Pirates (Bill Mazeroski for President!) and the Cubs, and always hold a place in my heart for Montreal, and sadly wonder What Might Have Been.

Captain Cold Nose

02-07-2005, 11:36 AM

The Pirates are the team I follow closest after my hometown teams. Always have been.

KHenry14

02-07-2005, 12:13 PM

Growing up I became a Giants fan, and then when the A's moved in, actually closer to where I lived, I went to a lot of their games. Fortunately, they happend to be pretty darn good at the time, so I was lucky to go to 3 straight WS because of them. Plus, I used to take my bride to be to A's games when we first starting going out, because she's a diehard Dodger fan and ther was no way she was going to go to Candlestick!! So the A's were a nice compromise. you can say that in a way we have a mixed marriage!

But the Giants have always come first for me, despite the greater success of their across the bay rival.

KH14

trosmok

02-07-2005, 12:15 PM

Always liked the Orioles since Boog, Brooks, Frank Robinson, and expecially Earl Weaver. I'm no fan of the station to station, wait on the three run homer style of ball that he advocated, but it suited his team at the time, and who am I to argue with success. Now that Sammy is with Baltimore, I have extra incentive to follow the orange birds, particularly after acquiring Javy last year. Problem is with coverage, exactly two Orioles games were broadcast here last season, and Javy was taking the day off for one of them, so I'm hoping for a little more exposure in '05. The Red Sox were my second team until last season; sort of that kindred spirit thing among Cubs fans, but all that has changed. I get a charge out of the Boston idiots, and I still like the sound of "World Champion Boston Red Sox," but I don't like any team repeating, so they've moved down my list. My AAA IndyIndians are now affiliated with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and I remember how the "We are Family" gang was so good, and so loose, and just looked like they were playing for the love of the game. Clemente is still a legendary figure in my books; second only to Jackie Robinson, and was the first Latin ballplayer inducted into Cooperstown. I like NL ball much better than the junior league, and that abominable DH bastardization of the rules is only worthwhile as a distinction between the two, but I still had to vote for Angelos team as my #2 after my beloved losers. Maybe they'll meet in October sooner than anyone would guess. Great thread, BTW, made me stretch these little grey cells a bit, and sort out head from heart in order to reply.

Brannu

02-07-2005, 08:40 PM

Damn them Indians anyway. I grew up in Northeastern Ohio ... rooting for The Cleveland Indians when they were completely horrible. But .. they were so horrible that in my early baseball years ... looking for definition, understanding and a GOOD team to root for...

The Cardinals ... '82. That plugged me in forever. Although they haven't won since ... they've still been fun to watch. Whatever happened to Whitey ball? That DEFINITELY won't be the case this year.

The Indians are looking to return to the days of old. Let's see how long it will take all that young talent to mature on other ball clubs.

RuthMayBond

02-08-2005, 08:12 AM

Damn them Indians anyway. I grew up in Northeastern Ohio ... rooting for The Cleveland Indians when they were completely horrible. But .. they were so horrible that in my early baseball years ... looking for definition, understanding and a GOOD team to root for...

The Indians are looking to return to the days of old. Let's see how long it will take all that young talent to mature on other ball clubs.I probably lived near you at some point. Back then, my second team was the Reds. Actually, the Tribe was horrible in '03. They may be making strides (with Millwood, and the young guys maturing).

Brannu

02-08-2005, 05:15 PM

I probably lived near you at some point. Back then, my second team was the Reds. Actually, the Tribe was horrible in '03. They may be making strides (with Millwood, and the young guys maturing).

I always liked The Reds ... but ... they never really grabbed me. Maybe it was Marge Schott. Dunno.

The Tribe is offensive to fans who love the team. I don't think I have completely healed from how they abused us by trading all of our favorite players and coaches (Hargrove was great in those days). Vizquel to The Giants closed the lid on that bunch of great players.

I guess you can only get so close so many times until you have to start over with a new plan. But, I don't trust Shapiro ... and I'm not liking what he has been doing thus far.

Millwood? Maybe the no-hitter went to his head. Maybe Hafner, Martinez and Boone can give him some needed run support. THey have some good young starters ... but, the bullpen doesn't seem to be so strong. My guess is that they end up over .500 but ... only by about 10 games or so.

Brannu

02-08-2005, 05:17 PM

[QUOTE=RuthMayBond]I probably lived near you at some point. QUOTE]

Ravenna, OH.

Lived there for 28 years of my existence.

RuthMayBond

02-09-2005, 09:43 AM

[QUOTE=RuthMayBond]I probably lived near you at some point. QUOTE]

Ravenna, OH.

Lived there for 28 years of my existence.Holy cow, I go to church there. Lived in Akron for 26 years.

RuthMayBond

02-09-2005, 09:46 AM

But, I don't trust Shapiro ... and I'm not liking what he has been doing thus far.

Millwood? Maybe the no-hitter went to his head. Maybe Hafner, Martinez and Boone can give him some needed run support. THey have some good young starters ... but, the bullpen doesn't seem to be so strong. My guess is that they end up over .500 but ... only by about 10 games or so.Maybe you mean 86-76 but if you mean ten wins more than 81 (so 91-71), compare that with 68-94 in 2003.

Brannu

02-10-2005, 04:53 PM

[QUOTE=Brannu]Holy cow, I go to church there. Lived in Akron for 26 years.

I gradauted from UofA in '99. Yeah ... we're neighbors .. it's good to know I have some hometown associates on here.

Yes ... I'm thinking around 86-76 ... if the bullpen can stay strong. I don't think they will have much issue in scoring runs ... but, the pitching has got to be strong. C.C. needs to work out those kinks ... cool the temper tantrums ... and lose another 20 pounds. :) They've got some good young arms .. hopefully next week they start developing them even more.

shoeless_joe

02-10-2005, 05:15 PM

As much as I am a Yankee fan, I'd have to say the Mets since my wife is a Met fan.

Baltimore7

02-10-2005, 05:28 PM

Well it was always the Expos, but now they're gone, so where to turn. I'm not knocking the Nats being there, but I haven't been able to grow an attachment for them, so where does that leave me for a 2nd favorite? Well, certainly in the NL (that's the nice thing about Baseball is a quick ability to pick an essentially non-competing franchise as an alternate rooter!). I'd have to say the Reds. I like rooting for underdogs at times, and the Reds would fit this well. Good long tradition, and let me not forget they "gave" us Frank Robinson, propelling the O's to the next level in '66. I certainly would not have been a fan of ol' Marge, but heaven rest her hopefully atoned soul.

As to the Expos fans that are looking for a team to root for, why not the O's? After all, Petey was the main deterrent to the move of the franchise in the first place. And besides, he loves taking any evidence of the "Baltimore" identity away from the club, leaving them to be anyone's O's to adopt as their own! :laugh

E.Banks#14

02-10-2005, 09:56 PM

I think I know why the Cardinals and the White Sox are the favorite second favorite teams so far, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO REAL FANS!!! But seriously, why them? I said the BoSox because, as a Cubs fan, they are the only other team who I can relate to. (This year is it for the Cubs, they just took the names off their home jerseys, just like da BoSox. So now we gonna win the WS just like the BoSox)

RuthMayBond

02-11-2005, 07:32 AM

[QUOTE=RuthMayBond]

I gradauted from UofA in '99. Yeah ... we're neighbors .. it's good to know I have some hometown associates on here.I graduated from UofA in, uh, BEFORE '99 :laugh And it's funny about the girl I married, her maiden name was Brannon, I think about that when I see your handle, Brannu

Catfish27

02-12-2005, 07:39 PM

The Oakland A's are #1 while the New York Yankees are #2. Catfish Hunter, my boyhood hero, spent the first 10 years of his career with the A's before moving on to New York where he played the last 5.

Even before then, however, I had a great admiration for the Yankee history. It probably started when I saw "The Pride of the Yankees" (http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6303597874.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) starring Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig when I was a boy. How ironic is it that the same disease that took Gehrig would claim Catfish? :(

I have to say that I do not care for the competitive imbalance as it now exists. Wealthy teams like the Yankees can load up on high-priced free agents every offseason while the A's have to trade away star players before their contracts expire or see them leave for free agency with nothing in return but an amateur draft pick. That issue definitely needs to be fixed.

Hammerin Hank

02-13-2005, 02:49 AM

Hammerin Hank

08-28-2006, 10:01 AM

bump......

Bukanier

08-28-2006, 10:48 AM

The poll is closed, but my second favorite team is the Oakland Athletics.

Jose Reyes

08-28-2006, 11:04 AM

Orioles. I can't root for another NL team, and the closest AL team is the Yankees, can't root for them either. The Orioles are probably the next closest, and I've been to a few Oriole games before so they're my second favorite team.

Erik Bedard

08-28-2006, 11:04 AM

I flip-flop between the Red Sox and Orioles.

AznInvasion

08-28-2006, 11:13 AM

Red Sox would be my 2nd fav after my beloved Braves. They probably my favorite AL team but I do like the Tigers a lot as well.

MyDogSparty

08-28-2006, 11:29 AM

I love the state of Colorado, therefore I'd probably become a Rockies fan.

Neilios

08-28-2006, 05:27 PM

1. The obvious
2. Cubs
3. Red Sox
4. 2003 was a painful year. :ughh

Centreville82

08-28-2006, 07:11 PM

Cards fan first, Yankees 2nd. I'm a 96er. I became a fan of theirs because I absolutely hated the Braves back then and loved the way they played. They never gave up if they were down by 5 or 6 runs. My father's a Yankee fan. Not only that, Mariano Rivera and Roberto Kelly are from Panama. My mother is from there.

CanadianKid

08-28-2006, 07:17 PM

1. Toronto Blue Jays
2. Washington Nationals/ Cleveland Indians

Hammerin Hank

08-28-2006, 09:16 PM

Why is this poll closed anyway? Is there a way we can open it back up?

DownUnderDodger

08-29-2006, 02:10 AM

Yeh, I didn't get to vote either. I will say that my #2 team is Boston Red Sox, mainly because I had a great time in Boston on my one and only visit.

Imapotato

08-29-2006, 04:19 AM

No way

Philly do or die presently

Historically though

I loved the 1905-1920 Tigers

George Mullin, Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford, Donie Bush, Davy Jones, Bobby Veach, Harry Heilman

If only they had pitching

Mattingly

08-29-2006, 06:16 AM

Yanks are obviously my guys.

Mets are 2nd on my list (though the Mets fans in NJ that I know may think otherwise when we playfully rag on each other). :D

BoSox are #3. They could be #2, but they compete against us, and I can't root too much for a team when their losing makes me smile. Still, many of their current and past players are outstanding.
Why is this poll closed anyway? Is there a way we can open it back up?
I've extended it another year, so it'll close 730 days after 2/2005, rather than 365 days afterwards. Can someone who hasn't voted here please post to see if they can now vote? If you've voted, as I have, it doesn't show any difference.

Red Sox Rule

08-29-2006, 06:26 AM

I've just voted and i think it worked. My second fav team are the Pittsburgh Pirates

Hammerin Hank

08-29-2006, 09:33 AM

I don't think my vote counts anymore because my second favorite team has become my favorite team. So subtract a vote for the White Sox and add one to the Athletics I guess.:p

Erik Bedard

08-29-2006, 09:37 AM

1. Orioles
T1. Red Sox
3. Brewers

I don't have a 2nd favorite team.

IronMike

08-29-2006, 09:47 AM

Well the Brewers and Nats are tied for my #1 team, so I just put Brewers.

Hammerin Hank

08-29-2006, 09:48 AM

1. Orioles
T1. Red Sox
3. Brewers

I don't have a 2nd favorite team.

What about the Yankees?

PhilWings24

08-29-2006, 10:20 AM

it seems like i've mentioned thiss offhand in alot of my posts lol...but i'm a diehard red sox fan, but i live right outside of philadelphia, and the only intelligent baseball fans at my school are phillies fans.

so i tend to start rooting for them about as much as i root against the teams the red sox are trailing once it gets late in the year...i never give them any attention in april or anything, but i'd like to see playoff baseball come back to this silly ole town.

there are five teams i actually root for, there are lots that i like but only 4 that i like enough to buy a jersey of or something
1 red sox
2 phillies
3 athletics
4 twins
5 astros

EvanAparra

08-29-2006, 12:12 PM

What about the Yankees?

Bedard lost a bet, i believe.

My second favorite team was the Mets before i went to Shea, and that turned me away from them.... Its probably the Dodgers now, all Nomar now.... But the dodgers dont hold a candle to the Sox in my life.

Erik Bedard

08-29-2006, 01:34 PM

What about the Yankees?

I hate them. I hate them with a passion that burns like, well, something that burns. I hate them almost as much as I hate losing bets.

RuthMayBond

08-29-2006, 01:38 PM

I hate them with a passion that burns like, well, something that burns.My daughter watches Spongebob. THAT would be a great line for Patrick :laugh

Mariano_Rivera

08-29-2006, 02:50 PM

1) New York Yankees

ENORMOUS GAP
2) Whoever beats the Boston Red Sox

3) Oakland A's

MetsFan11368

08-29-2006, 03:26 PM

If the Mets one day decided to pack up and leave for Saskatchewan, 5 minutes after they were on the plane on their way there I'd be rooting for the Yankees, the other hometown team. The switchover would be totally seamless. :)

Wasp

08-29-2006, 03:53 PM

I've always been a big Atlanta Braves fan. To bad their season looks to be coming to a close without a spot in the playoffs. :(

hubkittel

08-29-2006, 09:19 PM

i voted for the braves. they've kind of been my default setting over the years if the cards weren't on tv or were getting blown out or were between innings-i could always flip over to wtbs and the braves would be on. the worst thing was when the cards would play the braves and my number of baseball viewing options would be cut in half. plus, they played pretty good baseball for the last 15 years.