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Appling
07-30-2006, 03:21 PM
Each of us no doubt has a favorite team, the team we cheer on in hope of a World Championship. Perhaps it is the team closest to your home. Perhaps it is a sentimental favorite from your younger days.
But do you have a "second choice"? if the "A-team" (your personal favorite) can't win it all, who would pull for next?
Would you like to see another team from the same division win it, if team A can't do it this year?
Or would you prefer to have the World Series won by some team in the same league but a different division?
Or perhaps, if not team A, you would rather see some team from the other league?
Maybe none on those -- perhaps just pure geography -- the team next-closest to your home, regardless of league?
Who is your "second choice"?
Da Penguin
07-30-2006, 03:28 PM
I'm a die-hard Rangers fan but if they don't make it I'm goin for the mets cuz those r my two favorite teams
SamtheBravesFan
07-30-2006, 03:31 PM
Due to personal preference, I never root for two teams in the same league or conference. I root for the Braves and Rangers.
Da Penguin
07-30-2006, 03:32 PM
really,I like the braves too but the mets...I like just a little more
Elvis
07-30-2006, 03:34 PM
I am coming out of the closet. I root for the Yankees. The only exception being on the rare ocasion when they play the Dodgers. My Daddy was a big Yankee fan all his life and I got a special feeling when he took me to Yankee Stadium when I was a kid. I still hate the DH and root against the A.L. and consider myself a N.L. fan and a Dodger fan far above anything else though, but I still like the pinstripers..
Wade8813
07-30-2006, 03:46 PM
I like the Mariners first, and the Braves. I feel better rooting against a team that aren't the M's rivals. Also, I think if I were in some other country, and thus didn't have a local team, I'd probably choose the Braves.
Williamsburg2599
07-30-2006, 04:59 PM
Braves too, because they used to be a Boston team a while back. I wish they would come back, but thats not gonna happen.:(
Sluggerrr
07-30-2006, 06:01 PM
I'm a Royals fan, so needless to say if anyone had to win it, I was glad the White Sox won it last year. Maybe if we had a better rivalry with them...anywho, I'd like to see Detroit win it all this year. They were where we are not too long ago.
W_Marone
07-30-2006, 06:05 PM
Dang it, I clicked the wrong one again! O well...I would have to go with if my all time favorite team, the Phillies, can't win, than go with my second favorite team, the Devil Rays, if not them, than probably the underdogs and anyone but the cardinals, mets, or yankees.
Reed Johnson
07-30-2006, 06:09 PM
If they Jays dont win Im going for the Cardinals all the way.
yankillaz
07-30-2006, 06:21 PM
My favorite team is Toronto, if they can't win, i'll go for the Braves, since i lost a bet last season i go for them.
Appling
07-30-2006, 07:44 PM
I had a hard time with this one myself. My #1 favorite team is the Twins -- since I lived in the Twin Cities off-and-on for 25 of the last 40 years.
I have lots of sympathy for the Cubs. It has been 100 years since they last won a World Championship (1906) -- longest famine of any MLB team and so many heart-breaking ways to lose. It is not likely that anyone living today is able to remember the last Cubbie World Championship.
But then I had to remember my roots -- I was born and raised on the SOUTH SIDE of Chicago. Everyone in our neighborhood HATED the Cubs. Now I have been away from there so long, I feel I can now pull for the Cubs -- but not over the White Sox. So for me, my #2 team is the White Sox (who happen to be in the same division as the Twins). But this year it is especially hard to pull for the White Sox, since they won it all last year, and are now in a battle with the Twins (and some Eastern Division team) for the AL Wild-Card spot.
baseball junkie
07-30-2006, 08:01 PM
Well I think it is the Mets' destiny to win the World Series this year. But if they fail, I'd be assuaged by another Yankees Championship.
So I guess my answer is an other league team.
ElHalo
07-30-2006, 08:36 PM
Yankees are my team, but I'm an AL fan. I see it as a disgrace to the (only) major league when some team from AAAA wins a title, so I'd have to go with whoever the AL representative is... unless it's Boston.
jpenrod
07-30-2006, 08:54 PM
I have two teams I root for every year On in the AL and one in the NL. The Braves have always been my team in the NL and the Redsox have been my team in the AL since about '90. I became a Braves fan in the early 80's growing up in ATL cheering for Horner, Virgil, Murphey and the likes. I became a Boston fan when I started researching a the history of the Braves and found they started in Boston. I know it may seem like a stupid reason to like a team, but for a 14 year old Braves fan it was good enough. Anyway I guess all of that to say, if the Braves can not win it all then I want the Redsox to win it all and if niether can win it all I want anyone but the Yankees to win it all.
flash143817
07-30-2006, 09:44 PM
Where is the choice for "anybody except for the Giants"?
Wade8813
07-30-2006, 09:53 PM
Dang it, I clicked the wrong one again! O well...I would have to go with if my all time favorite team, the Phillies, can't win, than go with my second favorite team, the Devil Rays, if not them, than probably the underdogs and anyone but the cardinals, mets, or yankees. So, your 2nd favorite team fulfills your other requirement, of being underdogs... is that why you chose them? :rolleyes:
Where is the choice for "anybody except for the Giants"? Interesting. May I ask why?
slaytanicsdmf
07-30-2006, 10:12 PM
My #1 team is obviously the Yankees. After them I have to say the Cubs. My dream world series is the Cubs vs. The Yankees. Not just because they are my favorite teams but because they are the greatest world championship team in all of sports and the team that has the longest drought in all of sports. If the Yankees don't win this year and obviously the cubs don't have a prayer I would have to go with the Reds. It seems no one has faith that they will keep the wildcard spot in the NL. I'm sure that seems weird that a Yankee fan would root for the underdog.
Also I wouldn't be terribly upset if boston won. They have a lot of work to do to make up for that 86 years of failure. :p
Dravecky43
07-30-2006, 11:38 PM
Where is the choice for "anybody except for the Giants"?
And, on the same subject, where is the choice for "anyone but The Hated Dodgers, the Yankees, A's, or Red Sox?"
If, by some wild stretch of the imagination :D, the Giants don't quite make it, anyone but the four teams above would be alright with me.
Mattingly
07-30-2006, 11:58 PM
Yanks and Mets would be my only choices. Sometimes I have Boston, but if we lost and they won, I'd never hear the end of it. Then again, same with the Mets, so stuff happens.
2Chance
07-31-2006, 12:19 AM
If (Heaven forbid) somebody from our division gets past us, I hope they go all the way.
BigStellyPADRES4LIFE
07-31-2006, 12:21 AM
Padres then the Rangers, Astros or Angels, I love Texas and California but hate LA and the Giants. Texas is just such a cool place as is southern California. Basically Texas or southern cal is the way to go for me.
I'm surprised I'm the only hard-liner so far. No second pick, no compromise. I guess I'm surprised because I honestly feel a lot less attached to my team emotionally than most people here seem.
BaseballHistoryNut
07-31-2006, 03:08 AM
Where is the choice for "anybody except for the Giants"?
Flash, I'm a lifelong Giants fan. I was born in 1953 and started following the Giants in 1958, rabidly in 1960. I also started studying baseball history in 1960.
Are you aware that, with the Red Sox and (somehow) White Sox having won World Series, only the Cubs (1908) and Indians (1948) have gone longer without a W.S. championship than the Giants (1954)? Do you know that, despite having simultaneously had: (1) a guy whom most rate among the top 10 non-PED users at 1B (McCovey); (2) a guy whom many history buffs not too impressed with Dead Ball "pitchers" rate among the Top 10 righties (Marichal); (3) another guy who was a Hall of Fame slugger at 1B, only they got it into their heads he was a (terrible) LF (Cepeda); and (4) the man MANY consider the greatest player ever, and I consider the #2 MLB player ever, and almost everyone has top 5--Wilie Mays--the Giants STILL have never won a World Series in 48 seasons in S.F., entering this year?
OK, that "paragraph" was an unwieldy monster. I blame it on the hour. So here is an easy one:
I'll bet you hate Bonds. But I guarantee you that you don't dislike him any more than I do. I've gone on and on about how much I loathe him, and you can find it all over this site. I rate him #14 of all time in MLB based on what he did through 1999; I give him exacty ZERO credit for after that.
But why hate the whole team? They were once the most storied franchise in the N.L., with the man many still consider the greatest manager ever, and a ballpark many, me included, consider the greatest ever (Polo Grounds). They may be trading Bonds before season's end, from the media speculation I've been reading.
Hate that guy all you want, but why not root for a team which has suffered SO much frustration and been so long without winning it all?
BHN
I have lots of sympathy for the Cubs. It has been 100 years since they last won a World Championship (1906)
actually we are not to that 100 year mark yet...
last won in 1908. ;)
Sluggerrr
07-31-2006, 04:56 AM
I'm surprised I'm the only hard-liner so far. No second pick, no compromise. I guess I'm surprised because I honestly feel a lot less attached to my team emotionally than most people here seem.
I don't root for anyone else during the regular season, but I'm of the opinion that if my team doesn't win it all, and somebody else has to, they should be from the same division or at least the AL. If we can't beat 'em, nobody else should either.
Granted, the Royals can't beat anybody, but still. :) AL Central all the way.