What Team Do You Hate Most?

Then the A’s, M’s, and NYY.

But living in Chicago, I have a special urge to kill every Cubs and White Sox fan living in this city every summer.

So I guess I hate the Angels the most, but I hate Chicago baseball fans even more.

The Cardinals, especially their fans. As a Wrigleyville resident it is annoying to see half of the city of St. Louis drive up 55 to Wrigley twice a summer. Probably because living in St.L is like living in a mouth…humidity, smells bad, nothing to do….I think they are all jealous of the wonder that is the city of Chicago. Feel free, throw in the 102 year jokes, they don’t bother me…I get to live in a city, not a small bumpkin town on the banks of the mighty Mississippi.

Oh yeah, I hate the White Sox fans too, probably because of their obvious complex about being the #2 team in Chicago. Their fans would rather see the Cubs lose than the CWS win, there is something wrong with that.

Followed by White Sox, Tigers

What kind of soulless, knuckle-head roots for a team with a 185 million dollar payroll? A Yankee fan, that’s who. I hate that one team is allowed to blow the market out of kilter for free agents so much that we can’t hang on to even one of our home grown stars like Adrian Gonzalez. They are directly or indirectly involved with everything that’s wrong in baseball and probably the world.

Furthermore, it was a strike to Tino Martinez! That grand slam in game 1 should be stricken from the records.

I don’t know if I’d say hate, but I really enjoy watching the Mets and Cubs implode every year.

The Red Sox dislike probably started when I still watched Sportscenter (so at least 10 years ago) when they continually rambled on about that ridiculous curse as the reason why the Red Sox couldn’t win (this applies to the Cubs as well). On top of that, I just don’t find Red Sox games all that enjoyable to watch.

You can put it on the board…..YES! God I hate the Hawk.

Then probably the White Sox.

pretty much any team from boston. they have an affinity for acquiring douchebag players.

papelbon is a chode.

I hate a team that pleads poverty and then pockets the revenue sharing. That is complete bush league and is against the integrity of the game.

I also hate the Nationals. They would still be in Montreal if it weren’t for the 1994 strike and Jeffrey Loria ruining the franchise (see above).

because they’re the stinking Dodgers

Next I’d say the Rockies and D-Bags.

Yankees.

only SLIGHTLY less so now that they moved out of the ShitDome.

followed by the Yanks. Cardinals because although the fanbase is among the most loyal…they’re also the most predictable, and complete homer schills. Standing ovation for McGwire at the convention? Seriously? Embarrassing.

One of the biggest problems with this is that I actually don’t mind watchin a Cubs game on TV. However, the fans are what kill me! Buncha spoiled rich people in suits. When I went to a game at the worst field in the majors (Wrigley of course) more people were watchin their labtops and stock quotes than the actual game. Kind of ironic their known as the “lovable losers” because I’d classify them more as “extremely easy to hate losers.”

I’ve got:
1.) Yankees
2.) Bulls
3.) Lakers
4.) Blue Devils
5.) Jets/Colts

By far.

Shane Victorino, awful.

Yankees…they make me want to punt a baby

then the Angels, and their inability to pick one locality name for their team

The Mets.

2) Cardinals – 2006 with their damn 83 win team
3) Marlins – Moneygrubbing cry poor franchise that has only had any success because of the wild card.
4) Red Sox – Definitely the most annoying franchise/fanbase combo.

Followed by Red Sox because of their “fans”

The most obnoxious bunch of fat drunken slobs that have ever graced PNC park’s stands… closely followed by the Pirates fans that only show up for the fireworks and pierogi race.

From early on. Angels, more recently. They have the most irritating, awful fans on earth.

but hate Red Sox fans. Does that count?

Angels, Mariners, A’s, Yankees, and Red Sox. I also can’t stand the Marlins, but that’s just jealousy. They’ve haven’t been a team long enough to have two championships — especially since my team (Rangers) has never won so much as a playoff series.

I’m a Jays fan in Toronto so naturally the Yankees are my most despised club. They’re pure evil and represent so much of what is wrong with the game. The Red Sox come in second place, being almost as loathsome as the Yankees. Third place is the Chicago White Sox, for the particular reason that I’m personally offended every time I hear “Hawk” and whoever call games. I always love when one team really takes the wood to them and hawk just pisses and moans through the game. I despise that biased, ignorant man.

But ironically, some of my best friends are Mets fans. Plus they’re harder to hate right now when they’re such a mess. But it is the natural rivalry for both those teams.

As far as all sports go, though, I hate the Cowboys with the fire of a thousand suns.

Because every time I talk to someone that says they are a Cubs fan I first assume they know something about baseball. Than I find out they nothing about baseball let alone anything about their own team. I am the one who has to explain the current dealings with their own team.

Similar to how I feel about grumpy old war vets. Don’t much like the attitude, but have to respect what they’ve gone through. They’re just frustrated, I think. The Cubs themselves, I don’t mind. I like it when they’re competitive, it makes for a better rivalry.

The Phillies and Mets are the teams I generally dislike. Phillie fans have kind of a notorious history. Especially being a Cardinal fan, the J.D. Drew incident comes to mind, and the way they treated Scott Rolen. I don’t like the bandbox stadium, it seems vain to me and a direction I wish baseball wasn’t going in. That said, I would kill to have Chase Utley on my team. The Mets just seem really disorganized as a franchise. They spend all that money and rarely have much to show for it. Pretty much the opposite of the Twins, a well-run organization.

Dodgers

One of many examples – Do you think – pussy Timmy is the ugliest player in MLB ??

…and the Braves. But take how much I had the Braves and mutiply it by about a million and that’s how much I hate the Yankees.

I hate the Dodgers for so many reasons, but here are a few:

1. I grew up in LA in the mid-70s and couldn’t stand Tommy Lasorda. I always thought he was a phony, and nothing I learned later in life changed that. His obnoxious cheerleading act made me sick, and if I have to hear one more quote about the Great Dodger in the Sky, I’m gonna re-enact the gluttony sequence from ‘Seven’ using him and his own pasta sauce while I do it.

2. I was a huge Reds fan as a kid, owing my love of baseball to the Big Red Machine. The Dodgers were our greatest enemy, and I had to suffer through ‘77 and ’78 when those jerks beat us out for the NL West title. Then, the strike in 1981 not only allowed Bowie Kuhn to screw the best record in baseball Reds, in the final year of the Big Red Machine era, with the split season crap, but the Dodgers were able to win the West and the World Series. How can you win the WS when you didn’t even carry your own division in a pre-wild card era?

3. Garvey/Lopes/Cey/Russell – starting with the big phony at 1st base, I hated their phony act, their swagger, and the way the Dodger fans treated these guys like they were Tinker, Evers and Chance. When Garvey was phonying it up to the press with his ‘perfect’ family, my sister was getting hit on by him at a local nightclub in Santa Clarita. Nice guy, but at least we have him to thank for the greatest ‘Cheap Seats’ episode of all time.

4. Chavez Ravine – listen to the song ‘Third Base, Dodger Stadium’ off Ry Cooder’s album Chavez Ravine. It sums up why I hate that big pit of a stadium that the city stole from its residents. I don’t blame O’Malley specifically for what happened, but it’s the #1 reason I’ll always be happy to be a resident of another city besides LA. I have friends and family whose histories were altered by the theft of Chavez Ravine, and while I can forgive, I’ll never forget.

5. Inside The Stadium – NO FUN OF ANY KIND! You got a banner? Take it down. You stand up to rev up your team? Sit down! A bunch of gangbangers sit in your seat and refuse to move? Leave me alone, I’m busy, says the ushers. I’ve watched people get drinks thrown on them while security looks the other way, I’ve had to fight a cholo for my bobblehead that he stole from behind my seat, and I’ve had to watch nice people defending themselves from abusive drunk assholes get kicked out of the park because the ushers and security didn’t do their jobs. Plus, the outfield looks like Cleveland Stadium in Major League II after Corbin Bernsen bought the team and had to cover the stadium in advertisements to pay for it. Frank McCourt has turned the stadium into a NASCAR vehicle.

6. Idiot fans – I had a stuck up family sit down in front of me and my buddies after they arrived in the 3rd inning. The wife, an uptight librarian type, kept looking back at us as we commented on the game, and during a rally in the 8th inning, turned around and asked us to be quiet. They left after the top of the 9th, with the Dodgers down 1 run. Then there’s the frigging wave – it just won’t die. Finally, the beach balls aren’t that annoying to me, but these are the highlight for half the fans. It could be bottom of the 9th, game 1, 1988, Eck vs Gibson and if a beach ball comes into their section, what game?!? Let’s play with the beach ball!!! You know the brake lights that came on the cars in the parking lot as Gibson hit the home? Those were Dodger fans who realized they’d forgotten to get their stupid beach ball!

I often find myself telling other people that I’d hate the Yankees if I hadn’t been raised a Yankees fan since birth. That being said, the Yanks sport some of the most ignorant fans as well as some of the most knowledgeable. It’s a pretty amazing dichotomy if you ask me. The Yankees should be on the top of any list b/c of payroll issues as well as an absolute arrogance and the fact that they have won it all 27 times.

That being said, here are the teams that I have problems with:

The Mariners. It seems like everyone here is a Mariners fan, they’re our “local” team on tv, and because of this, I’ve had to hear the praises of Dave Niehaus so many freaking times that I wonder if all Mariner fans actually think that he’s the second coming. Come on people, he does a decent job of play-by-play on a daily basis unless something happens that favors the Mariners. If say, a walk off homer beats the Sox or the Yankees, you have to listen to someone yell so freaking loud and long that you wonder if they pay him for filling the air. I like my broadcasts as neutral and as far from John Miller and Joe Buck as possible. It just screams of amateurism and it bothers me a lot. Also, I’ve had discussions with too many Mariner fans that felt that Willie Bloomquist was pretty much slighted every year he didn’t win the MVP while on the Mariners. Perspective!

The Rangers: 10 years, $252 million. Also, they housed G.W. Bush.

The Marlins: I hate the purchasing of championships (yes, even when the Yankees do it). More than that I hate the buy everyone, win, and dump on your fans for the next 8 years. Then do it again.

The Dodgers: TMOX says it best.