** 2012 ANNUAL STATE YOUR BASEBALL ALLEGIANCES THREAD **

[charlie and algernon]

Opening Night is tonight, Opening Day is tomorrow! So time for our annual "Post your Favorite Baseball Team" Thread!

Here's Mine:

[gratuitous]

1. I know nothing of Major League Baseball

So of course, I'm a Royals fan.

[Iggo]

2. GO DODGERS. BEAT THE HATED GIANTS.

[KamaAina]

27. Here's the Dodgers' new home run billboard

[randr]

3. Dodger fan all my life

but now live in Colorado where it is GO ROCKIES! unless the Dodgers are in town.
Watched a special on the Bums night before last on the Doc channel, I think. Reminded my why I chose them over all the other teams growing up on the east coast.
Spent many days and evenings in Connie Mack, especially when the Dodgers were in town.

[Rambis]

4. Wait til next year or 3-5 years after that

I do think they are finally doing it right

[Wait Wut]

19. GO CUBBIES!!!

We'll do it...eventually!!!!

[LynneSin]

5. #1 Cincinnati Reds and #2 Philadelphia Phillies

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Go Tigers!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Or, maybe the team in Lansing, MI

[UrbScotty]

21. Go Tigers and Whitecaps!

[JonLP24]

8. Rockies

[Chan790]

9. Go Sox!!

In the NL, I root for the Nats because I live here and well...someone has to root for the Nats because most of DC is from somewhere else and roots for their hometeam.

[ceile]

10. I'm embarrassed to say...

The Astros will be starting from scratch for the next 3-4 years. It's not going to be pretty.
And I predict the Rangers will be the Buffalo Bills of the World Series...

[hifiguy]

11. Number one is my hometown

Number two:

[bluedigger]

12. Play ball!

And what is up with all these second choices? There is no hedging your bet in baseball.

Go Sox!

[hifiguy]

25. I fell in love with the Sox back in 1967

when the Impossible Dream team beat my Twins for the pennant on the last day of the season. They played so hard and gallantly that I just couldn't hate them. And the Sox had been pretty downtrodden for a long while before that.

I also lived in Boston when I was in grad school and went through the unspeakable heartbreak of Game 6 in 1986. So the Sawx are near to my heart.

[lovemydog]

13. St. Louis Cardinals

Been a Cards fan since I was seven. My dad turned me on to them.

We're the champs till October!

[RedCloud]

38. Finally a voice of reason in this ocean of souls!

[bigwillq]

14. NY Yankees (nt)

[Bertha Venation]

15. Angels and Blue Crabs

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[geardaddy]

16. Mine:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. I regularly attend services in the One True Church of Baseball

REPENT, the rest of you heathens!

[Initech]

53. I've been there.

I actually went with a family friend who's been a Cubs fan since the 1930's - that's commitment.

[murielm99]

57. That's pretty normal for a Cubs fan.

I have been a Cubs fan since I figured out what baseball is.

That would be some time in the 1950's.

[Kadie]

18. San Francisco Giants!

[sakabatou]

36. Fear the Beard!

[Kadie]

40. !

[sakabatou]

42. Our favorite relief pitcher

XD

[KamaAina]

43. Don't forget...

Come to think of it, if the plan to bring the A's to San Jose falls through, the Giants' AAA team in Fresno would fit nicely in a scaled-down version of the downtown ballpark; other clubs such as the Braves and Padres have moved to bring their high affiliates into the home market.

[Blue_Tires]

20. This will be the year shit gets straightened out...

[gratuitous]

22. Meet the Mets, Greet the Mets

Come on out and beat the Mets!

[KamaAina]

29. Bring your wife and bring your pets, to beat the Mets!

courtesy of a lifelong Phillies fan.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

23. Cubbies and Obama winning

all in one year. How much happiness can a woman take.

[FlyByNight]

24. Go (Red) Sox!

[benld74]

26. Cardinal Nation

[RedCloud]

39. yet another illuminated one!

[KamaAina]

28. On the plus side, the Marlins finally took the name "Miami"

However, they still must answer for this crime against the national pastime:

[ohiosmith]

30. There never was a curse. The Red Sox just sucked for 86 years.

[HERVEPA]

31. Phillies of course

Broke my 15 year old heart

[elleng]

32. BROOKLYN DODGERS!

[emilyg]

33. Braves.

[OriginalGeek]

34. First and foremost

But I have a soft spot in my heart for the Astros, the Reds and the Orioles. As long as they aren't playing the Rangers I'm rooting for them.

My grandpa and I went to the Astros/Yankees Spring training game last Saturday and watched the two teams combine for 9 homers. Yankees won but I think we could have come back in the 9th if the game hadn't got cut short for rain. We already had a man on base...

[Giantsfootball10]

35. Go

Red Sox.......And........Marlins.

[Ikonoklast]

37. Cleveland Indians.

Tribe fan my entire life.

Go Chief Wahoo!

[NewJeffCT]

41. Yankees

is there another team?

[Swede]

44. TO Bluejays!

[Initech]

45. Going to Angels opening day Friday!

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[femmocrat]

46. No Pittsburghers here tonight???

[kaitcat]

47. Mariners fan here.

Only because we can't get MLB here in Portland and they took our AAA team away a couple of years ago.

[Rochester]

48. Cubs!!!

They're going all the way this year!

[Graybeard]

49. New York Mets

I've been a fan since the Mets returned National League baseball to NYC after the departure of the Dodgers and Giants.

But the Mets held no grudges against those teams and actually adopted their colors (Dodger Blue and Giants Orange) for the Mets uniforms.

Perennial underdogs, always in the shadow of the Yankees, they on occasion prove to be the little engine that could.

[opiate69]

50. Mariners!

Could be an interesting year... hated to see Pineda go (especially to the evil empire), but we might have a little bit more offense this year

[center rising]

51. The greatest baseball tema in the world

The NEW YORK YANKEES!!

[Broken_Hero]

52. The Seattle Mariners...working on ten years of sucking, nt

[hay rick]

54. The evil empire.

Looking for number 28.

[a kennedy]

55. GO BREWERS GO

Even without Prince....

[hobbit709]

56. Baseball?

[jmowreader]

58. Red Sox, Indians, and whoever is playing the Yankees