Phillies or Rays?

[JackRiddler]

Poll question: Phillies or Rays?

POLL: Who are you rooting for?

THREAD: Are you a fan of either prior to this postseason? What's your playful sociopolitical spin on the matchup? What impact will it have on the election?

(Mods, please allow this thread. To many of us, the World Series is always Big History of the Republic.)

Teams listed in order of league seniority.

[brendan120678]

1. I voted for the Rays...

not because I care about them at all, but because I'm a bitter Mets fan who does not want to see the Phillies do well.

[Mandate My Ass]

12. A bitter Mets fan? Awwwww.....it must suck watching the Phils rock!

I say Phillies win it all in Game 6.

[JackRiddler]

24. See below for some Met fans who like the Phils

Like me! Wish it had been Mets-Phils in the Championship.

[Mandate My Ass]

33. How cool would that have been?

Maybe next year. I love the Mets/Phils rivalry. Those are always my favorite games to attend. Although they're both NL teams and can't compete for the big one.

Thanks to you and all those pulling for the Phils who have reasons not to!! :applause:

[ACTION BASTARD]

48. Speaking as a Yankee fan....

Anybody that puts a hurting on Boston is a friend o mine.

[JackRiddler]

50. Ah, a message from the smouldering remnants of the once-mighty Evil Empire

The Sox are the new superpower and that's the way it's going to be for the rest of this decade. Sorry!

[Toasterlad]

53. Which World Series Are the Sox Playing In This Year?

Oh...it must be the "Superpowers World Series". From the same folks who brought you the "Superpowers Super Bowl" the Patriots will be playing in this February.

:hide:

[JackRiddler]

55. As an ahemcough Met fan, what I meant...

was that the Sox will be in it every year, and the Yankees won't. The Yankees didn't win either since 2000, but they were a superpower. No more.

[taterguy]

2. Why the fuck does a team from the "sunshine" state need a domed stadium?

That just ain't right

[JackRiddler]

3. Sunshine is propaganda-speak for random rain all the damn time. And...

The dome was built in 1990, long before it finally attracted an MLB team as planned.

[Thorandmjolnir]

13. Uhmm, beacuse of Thunderstorms

In the summer, practically every afternoon we have tremendous violent thunderstorms with lightning and heavy rain.

Too many games would have to be canceled if they played in an open air stadium.

[taterguy]

16. The Buccaneers do just fine without a domed stadium

Is the weather in St Petersburg significantly different than the weather in Tampa?

[cherokeeprogressive]

29. The Bucs are a football team.

In my whole life I've only seen two NFL games suspended or postponed due to rain that wasn't a hurricane.

[bushmeister0]

40. That's the NFL. Nothing stops the NFL.

Not even the death of JFK kept the games from going on.

[JackRiddler]

49. Hey, does war stop for anything before it runs its course?

[bushmeister0]

38. All it does is rain in Florida.

And violently, too.

If you've ever lived through a Florida thunder storm, you know what I mean.

That sunshine state crap is all a marketing ruse.

Go Phils!

[Blue_Tires]

4. phils...at least they have a fanbase

not some group of people who just 'discovered' their team and started going to games in the middle of september

[JackRiddler]

6. Your avatar fingers the wound...

that has me posting this thread and imbibing large quantities to pretend good cheer.

Oh, the humanity! (Ouch, that friggin' bullpen.)

[Blue_Tires]

22. believe it or not, i'm kinda happy for them

i'm the type that usually cheers for the NL team 90 percent of the time...and having once played for a little league phillies team, it is hard for me to hate them...as for other teams in the division, it is VERY easy for me to hate the Braves (former Atlanta resident) and Marlins...

[JackRiddler]

23. Oh no, I agree with you...

Go Phils, Go NL East (except the evil Braves, who were originally in the NL West).

& I love Philadelphia!

[bushmeister0]

43. Thank you! Philadelphia is like 9 to 1 Democratic.

Obama will have no problem in Philly and if it's close in Pa. we'll probably be the difference.

That's why you all must pull for the Phillies!

If for nothing else, the riot footage after they win.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. I agree...and I'm a Mets fan, too, so it was hard to vote for the Phils

But they deserve it and they have real fans.

Go Phils.

[Kajsa]

5. Rays.

First time in the World Series.

It's their turn now.

[tuckessee]

7. Go Phils! I'm a hardcore yellow dog National Leaguer.

Down with the Junior Circuit, the Other League, the place where the Designated Abomination roams.

That being said I like that David Price kid on the Rays and hope he does well. But everybody else - they're bums. Boom, outta here.

[cherokeeprogressive]

30. Designated Abomination LOL. I feel the same way.

If you wear a glove in your hand, you need to hold a bat at the plate. Plain and simple. I'm sorry if some get too old to compete in the game the way it was intended to be played. Too bad. Get a job in broadcasting.

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. Phillies but 535 our favorite and most accurate pollster predicted the Rays

a long time ago. They got their start doing baseball predictions and stats for players.

[nerddem]

10. i missed the celebration in the streets after the last game in la

so now the phils have to win so that i can go party on broad st

so it's really just about me, haha

[Redbear]

11. I was impressed by how many women fans the Rays had in the stands.

I like both teams and I'm glad they both made it to the Series.

[norepubsin08]

14. I always root for the team that is in the

most democratic city...except when the Packers play and then I root for them no matter what because it is the only team that is even partly owned by the PEOPLE of the city they play in. I firmly believe that if sports teams take their city's names. then the city should be entitled to the revenue. In other words I think sports teams should be municipalized. (Yes, I know that isn't a word..I just made it up) Also I really want this series to go to six games..it would mean more viewership for the Obama address.

[Lone_Voice]

15. Philadelphia hasn't won a championship...

...in any major sport since 1983. They are due.

Phillies in five.

Go Phils!!

[bushmeister0]

double post, woopse.

[bushmeister0]

45. Packers fans are the best.

I recall we (the Dolphins) played them in 2000 and the Packers fans (there zillions of them!) all had Gore/Lieberman bumper stickers on their backs.

Besides that, they are always the most well behaved at an away game. Unlike certain fans from a certain gang green team from Jersey, who play in another team's stadium and always seem to be wearing an extra shirt under their team colors, just in case things don't go their way.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Philadelphia is the Cradle of Democracy

Floriduh gave us George W. Bush.



You decide.

[seasat]

18. According to Kristol, the Rays beating the Sox mean Obama wins

My wife was flipping channels and caught him on Faux saying that the Rays were like Obama, a young new team but couldn't finish strong. He predicted that the Red Sox would win the last game and that McCain would stage a last minute rally to win the presidency. Sox fans probably lost hope after this prediction since William Kristol's record of being wrong is the most extensive in all of punditry. It may have contributed to the win by my home town team by demoralizing the Red Sox.

[flvegan]

19. Let's go Rays!

They beat my Red Sox, and their my local/second fave. Have been for years. Nice to see the stands FINALLY filling up.

[Kosmos Mariner]

20. Go Rays!

One of the best sports stories EVER!




:dem:

[strategery blunder]

21. As long as it's neither the Red Sox nor the Yankees, I'm happy.

It's nice to see two teams who haven't had to buy their success face off in the World Series for a change.

Edit: Admittedly I don't follow baseball. See steroid scandals.

[dflprincess]

25. I'm with the Phillies for strictly personal reasons

The first year he was with the Minnestoa Twins Charlie Manuel lived in the same apartment building as my family and he, and another Twin who lived there, used to play catch with my brother and give him tickets to games. A really nice thing for a major league player to do for a little boy whose dad had recently died. So, I have a soft spot for Manuel (and don't tell me if he's turned into a butt-head since then, I don't want to know.)

[TahitiNut]

26. While I'm uncomfortable rooting for the National League, I have no choice.

I refuse to cheer for any Florida team. :shrug:

[SidDithers]

27. I hope the Phillies win...

'cause '93 was a long time ago, and hopefully the memories of Mitch Williams throwing that gopherball to Joe Carter have faded.

Sid

[CatholicEdHead]

28. Rays

Go Garza and Bartlett

/former Twins

[Lex]

31. The Rays are the major team for my beloved Durham Bulls!

Price, the pitcher last night at the end, was just here pitching right down the street from me. I saw him and Longoria play here just a few short weeks ago.

Go Rays!

[old mark]

37. Yeah Go Rays - go down in 4.

Phils will win this big.

mark

[Lex]

42. I bet you are so much fun in real life.

Bless your friends and family.

[KamaAina]

32. Teams listed in order of league seniority?

In that case, the non-Phillies option should be down below "Please let the world end first"! Their lifelong fans are still in grade school, for Pete's sake!

[JackRiddler]

35. That would be the Leagues, not the teams...

NL is known (to fossils) as the "Senior Circuit," having started a couple of decades earlier than the "Junior Circuit" AL (i.e., back in the 19th effin century).

;)

Of course there is a real, tangible difference: AL has the Abomination.

[NeedleCast]

34. Devil Rays?

When did they take "Devil" out of Devil Rays? Fundies get upset or something?

[JackRiddler]

36. This year, incredibly enough...

And some Christians have indeed attributed their success to that, but I don't know if the Rays themselves are a God Squad team or just figured a shorter name = easier marketing.

The Phillies do not strike me as a God Squad team. Quite the opposite, though WTFDIK.

[bushmeister0]

41. When are they going to take "Bay" out of "Tampa?"

There's no such place.

[flvegan]

46. They represent the area.

They play at The Trop in St. Petersburg, matter of fact, not Tampa. I think "Tampa Bay" is appropriate. Kind of like the New England Patriots.

[bushmeister0]

47. I had the Bucs more in mind, since they started it

but I still think it's silly.

I hate the "Florida" Marlins, too. They should be the Miami Marlins.

BTW, the Patriots used to be the Boston Patriots back in the old AFL. (Now, they just suck.)

[Thorandmjolnir]

63. Well, yes there is

Its called water!

[noel711]

39. If I can't cheer for the Cubbies, then it's GO PHILLS!

[Mad_Dem_X]

44. Go, Phils!!!!!

:bounce:

[Toasterlad]

51. Only a Casual Baseball Fan, But Philly Born and Bred, So Go Phils!

Besides, Cole Hamels is freakin' HOT.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

52. Born a Phillies fan.

My Uncle ran their ticket office in the 1960's and 70's, and worked with the farm system as far back as the late 1940's.

I see no spin to take, these are 2 teams who were given little chance to make it into the post-season, and had the Phils not been the NL team, I'd be rooting for the Rays. Cinderellas in sports always get to me ;)

One would hope there is none. Let 'em play.

I don't care if I ever get back.....

[SaveOurDemocracy]

54. Gooooooooooooooooooo Phillies!!

All the wayyyyyyyyy....


I was at the game when they won the '80 World Series!! Had tickets for the 7th game too, but they clinched it in 6. I was glad because that's the game I took my dad to see. Great team, great year, great baseball!! The league championship series against the Astros was almost better than the WS ... it was painfully exciting.


A fun look back at the team: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_yyrq__LVg

[MrSlayer]

56. I practically live in the shadow of Citizens Bank Park.

My wife and brother work for the Phillies. Add that to the fact that we actually care about our franchise unlike the frontrunners in FLA and it adds up to a hardcore GO PHILS!!!

Of course, as a native Philadelphian, I know better than to get my hopes up too high.

[JackRiddler]

58. So you're getting tickets? Hope you do!

[MrSlayer]

60. Actually, Because they work there I don't need tickets.

I'll be at game 3 and 4. I work second shift so I'll miss game 5 if we need it.

[JackRiddler]

61. Lucky you!

[VoodooGuru]

57. I voted Phillies.

Because the city of Philadelphia needs some brotherly love. (No city championships since 1983, and a number of heartbreakers in the years since, too.) And the State of Florida just has had altogether too many championships of late. Sorry, Rays fans. Nothing personal. Way to kick the AL East in the ass this year, though!

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

59. I'm a National League guy......

....but I'm also a Pirates fan, and the Rays story gives hope to all of us out here rooting for a bargain basement team.

I just want a good series.

[JackRiddler]

62. Philadelphia fans booed Palin - at a hockey game!

Case closed.

[Thorandmjolnir]

64. Rays players appeared with Obama at Legend's Field in Tampa

Case Closed. :)

[petronius]

65. I'm pulling for a four game series, so there's more time to televise hockey!

Other than that, I've been to Tampa years ago, and it was pretty cool. However, I've been to PA more recently than FL, and had a great time in PA. But, I was only in Pittsburg, so maybe that shouldn't engender Philadelphia loyalty... :shrug:

Put me down as a 'Don't Care' - just give us a good series so the baseball fans don't have to mope about all morose and whiny until April...