Getting closer to fan free agency - help me pick a new team!

[thaima1shu]

Re: Getting closer to fan free agency - help me pick a new team!

I'd hate being on the West coast trying to watch East coast teams. You only mentioned the weekend. Sure, it's nice then and for football on Sunday, but every game during the week, unless you have a very flexible job (or no job), you are going to miss half, maybe more, of every evening game. Central and Mountain are king when it comes to time. When I lived in central, I could usually watch all games on weeknights and going to bed around midnight wasn't too bad. Mountain starts to push it with start times being around 5, but again, all games over around 11 or so. You get the advantage 7 days a week, not just 2.

Unless you have DVR. Then it becomes even better. By the time you get home, you could watch the game and skip all the commercials.

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Re: Getting closer to fan free agency - help me pick a new team!

I'd stay with the Mariners. I dealt with similar stuff as an Orioles fan...several bust prospects, terrible front office, Angelos not spending money/meddling/nixing trades, but being in Camden Yards last year for the ALDS was one of the most awesome and rewarding experiences ever. Dealing with the losing sucks, but it's worth it once the team gets good. Plus there's Zunino, Walker, Paxton, and Hultzen to look forward to.

^^^This is the best advice anyone can give you.

Born in '81 I spent my childhood going to see awful Phillies teams play in a horrible stadium. When the product on the field was all too boring, I would go to the 700 section of the vet and stare out at the city.

I loved Rocky and the Blue-Collar nature of Philadelphia/Pennsylvania and I stuck through the Von Hayes/Ricky Jordan Phillies, got teased in '93 and had my heart ripped out, and then on along came Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, and Pat Gillick like knights in shining armor.

You don't want to find a new team. You want your team to win. You need to stick with them through the ups and downs.

Agreed with those saying stick with the M's. It'll feel that much better when they finally do start succeeding again (and they will, every team does at some point).

All organizations go through horrible management at some point, then they all get great management at some point. In my mind, part of being a fan is sticking through the hard times because it makes the good times that much sweeter.

These are the only correct answers.

The only reason I came in here and busted your chops was because no matter what "new" team you started to follow, you would jump right back over to the M's if they started winning next year and there is nothing you can say that would make anyone believe differently.

Stay true to your team.

[daflyboys]

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I feel like OS has more Braves fans that live outside of Georgia, let alone Atlanta than those that actually do. The TBS effect is real

It's not that...it's just because those Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina MLB teams haven't done so well! Arkansas too!

Seriously, I did the same thing with the Reds. The combo of their disassembling post-Barry Larkin and my kid becoming a Phillies fan (which was my second) made it easy. I wasn't following baseball as closely and the Reds then became unrecognizable to me sealing the deal.

Any one of the Mariners would gladly jump ship for a better deal somewhere else, so, where I once was a "stay true to your team" guy when players stuck around, that means little, if anything anymore.

[Bronx Bomber03]

As a Yankee fan, I find the Cardinals a perfect franchise. Let's look at these pros:

-Consistent playoff contenders
-Best farm system easily
-Maybe the best fans
-Beautiful Ballpark
-Friendly city

I envy them.

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[Redacted01]

Re: Getting closer to fan free agency - help me pick a new team!

Unless you have DVR. Then it becomes even better. By the time you get home, you could watch the game and skip all the commercials.

Prefer live. Way too easy to mess up and see a score doing DVR with smart phones, internet, etc... and I wouldn't want to have to avoid, well, everything. Not to mention, commercials give me time to do other things.

[Chaos81]

Re: Getting closer to fan free agency - help me pick a new team!

Contenders:

Royals

This makes absolutely no sense to me. Have you paid any attention to the Royals over the last 20 years?

[Bluejaysfan65]

Go for the Jays. They have a couple of stars in their lineup after the New York and Miami trade but they also have some up and coming prospects like Anthony Goose, Aaron Sanchez and Daniel Norris. Not to mention Marcus Stroman...

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These posts are done out of frustration, as I'm sure you guys already know.

I will always be an M's fan. It's just that, I am so sick and tired of ownership and their front office. No accountability, when the rest of us are head accountable in a ****ty economy to do our jobs well.

I think anyone here who knows me in the least knows that I would not jump ship... The thought of loving another team doesn't sit well.

It doesn't change the fact that, by and large, the M's are the worst ran organization in baseball... But it can't last forever, right? I want to be able to be proud to take my sons to a big league game in five to six years, so they have time.

Go M's.

[Blzer]

Re: Getting closer to fan free agency - help me pick a new team!

These posts are done out of frustration, as I'm sure you guys already know.

I will always be an M's fan. It's just that, I am so sick and tired of ownership and their front office. No accountability, when the rest of us are head accountable in a ****ty economy to do our jobs well.

I think anyone here who knows me in the least knows that I would not jump ship... The thought of loving another team doesn't sit well.

It doesn't change the fact that, by and large, the M's are the worst ran organization in baseball... But it can't last forever, right? I want to be able to be proud to take my sons to a big league game in five to six years, so they have time.

Go M's.

Hey man, I'm a Giants fan through and through. Nobody will ever break that from me. They're my number one.

The Braves are my number two, though. I'm allowed to have a number two, are are you. There's no shame in loving two teams, as I'm sure many others here do as well. I never dropped a single shred of loyalty from my affection for the Giants just because I also have another team to root for. Not one.

That's what I thought you were going for. Not "jumping ship." Nobody should ever do that, really. I was just selling you on why the Braves should be your #2. They still can be.

[HammerCrime]

Re: Getting closer to fan free agency - help me pick a new team!

If you switch teams and in the next couple of years the mariners make the playoffs, you would probably root for them then. So even if you switch your favorite team, deep down inside you would still be pulling for them and want them to do well.

[Dirty Turtles]

Re: Getting closer to fan free agency - help me pick a new team!

It could be worse. You could be a Pirates fan.