World Series Rooting Interest Poll

[Benjamin Grimm]

I have to say, the LCS series both went very well!

Now, we have sort of a Subway Series between a New York football team and a New York hockey team:

[Guest themetfairy]

I welcome both teams as liberators.

But having to pick one, I'll go with the Giants.

[metirish]

I haven't look forward to a World Series as much as this one in years, I'll root for the Giants but would not be one bit upset if the Rangers take it, 7 games I hope.

Edited October 24, 2010 by Guest

[Fman99]

I'm rooting for Frenchy and Texas, and now that they've dispatched the Phillies, I can go back to rooting against hateables like Cody Ross and Pat Burrell.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Giants in 7!

[ashie62]

I like to see Noln Ryan smile. Rangers in 7 and Frenchie gets a ring.

[Frayed Knot]

It's New York vs Washington!! Man those east coast teams always dominate everything.


Francoeur, btw, is the last remnant for the Rangers from their ARod signing.
Joquin Arias was the throw-in (the Rangers reportedly chose him over another young player named Cano) on top of main bait Alfonso Soriano from the Yanx in exchange for ARod, and now Francoeur continues that trade thread.

And think about how, when the Rangers signed him to that monster contract all those years ago, they must have envisioned ARod on the field and maybe even in the batters box at 'The Ballpark' when they clinched their first WS appearance.
Well, their wish came true.



I'm pulling for the Giants in 7 - but don't have a lot of rooting interest in this one way or the other. Just hoping for a good series.

[Valadius]

Oh man, I really have to think about it. This was the matchup I wanted to see going into the playoffs, and now I really don't know who I want to win.

[Gwreck]

Unless there's a compelling reason not to (ie. Phillies), the correct choice is the National League team.

[bmfc1]

I agree w/Gwreck despite the bad experience I had with Giants fans when visiting SF in July ("we don't want your kind here"). Texas has three ex-Mets (Francoeur, O'Day, Oliver), an ex-Met as owner, and their hitting coach is Clint Hurdle, an ex-Met and possible next manager. Still, I have to go with the NL team.

Isn't it nice to have a WS match-up where we don't hate either team (or both teams)?

[Willets Point]

Mostly rooting for a good series, but I'll go with San Francisco both because they're NL and they've been around a little longer w/o a World Series.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

bmfc1 wrote: I agree w/Gwreck despite the bad experience I had with Giants fans when visiting SF in July ("we don't want your kind here").

Hah. I got a similar reception on the last day of the season: "WTF, man? The Mets cap ok, I can handle that. But a Jets shirt? WTF?!?!?!"

Of course, when it looked like they would clinch everybody was being nice. One dude even bought me a beer.

I'm a bit torn on this one, too. I know the Jints are the logical choice, but my heart is with the Jankee-slayers.

[Lefty Specialist]

I'm a National League guy unless there's a pressing reason not to, AKA Braves or Phillies. Find it personally hard to root for a team once owned by George W. Bush. (Unless they're playing the Yankees, whereas all bets are off).

I was also in SF at Generic Telecom Park in July and everyone was quite hospitable. So points for them and their gigundo glove in left field.

[Guest sharpie]

Giants are my second favorite team. Them vs. the team that GW Bush owned, the answer is easy.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I wonder if Bush and Nancy Pelosi will have one of those friendly wagers on the outcome?

Yeah, probably not.

[G-Fafif]

Close call, and I may not know until the Series gets underway. National League loyalty for a team I don't particularly hate when we're not playing them vs. appreciation for the American League team that knocked off the MFYs. I can't say I'll be rooting against anybody, which is refreshing.

Will default, for now, to the Giants.

[Guest Kong76]

Giants, got fans out there I'm pulling for! Got no one in Texas.

[Guest Kong76]

Not that I'll be able to watch it.

[bmfc1]

Now that I've said that I'm favoring the Giants because of the NL, Bondy in The News gives us three reasons to root for Texas:

"The Giants have three former Yankees on their staff - the batting coach Hensley Meulens, the first base coach Roberto Kelly and Righetti."

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/2010/10/24/2010-10-24_former_yankees_closer_dave_righetti_deserves_credit_as_giants_pitchers_close_out.html?page=1#ixzz13JzKNK5b

[Frayed Knot]

"The Giants have three former Yankees on their staff - the batting coach Hensley Meulens, the first base coach Roberto Kelly and Righetti."

Yeah boy, that's a trio of real beloved Yanquis.

OK, Righetti was, but Meulens - who, seeing as how YLDBs were touting him as the next Mantle when he was in their system, must only be considered a failure,
and Kelly - who YLDBs actually liked and wondered why the team was trading him for that NL loser Paul O'Neill, meaning that the best move of his Yanqui career was his departure

[G-Fafif]

Your National League Champion San Francisco Giants, led by 1982 New York Met catcher Bruce Bochy. I clearly remember two things about his recall from Tidewater:

1) Size 8-something batting helment -- huge coconut, they kept telling us.

2) He came up in the midst of a long losing streak that kept getting longer: 15 consecutive losses when all was said and defeated.

1982 Mets' record with Bruce Bochy playing: 5-12.
1982 Mets' record without Bruce Bochy playing: 60-85

Bruce Bochy becomes the first former Met player to manage two different teams in the World Series. Yogi Berra managed one (the 1964 Yankees) before becoming a Met (later managing the 1973 Mets).

In recent years, Bruce Bochy and Rick Sweet had begun to merge into a single 1982 Met entity. This World Series appearance helps to define some distance between the two.

1982 Mets' record with either Bruce Bochy or Rick Sweet playing: 6-14.
1982 Mets' record without either Bruce Bochy or Rick Sweet playing: 59-83.

They weren't the problem, but they surely weren't the solution.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Frayed Knot wrote: "The Giants have three former Yankees on their staff - the batting coach Hensley Meulens, the first base coach Roberto Kelly and Righetti." Yeah boy, that's a trio of real beloved Yanquis. OK, Righetti was, but Meulens [...]

I met Righetti's nephew tonight and he was a real cool guy.

(Take that Opera Singer).

[TransMonk]

Frenchy and Texas.

[dgwphotography]

Rooting for Nolan here

[Benjamin Grimm]

I voted Giants, only because I like San Francisco a lot more than Dallas/Fort Worth, which I don't like at all.

I'm as ambivalent about the outcome as I can possibly be; I have no feelings at all, positive or negative, for either team.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Then your vote was a lie, Grimmy!

Lincecum is one of my favorite players to watch (his continued dominance in this league as a 5'9", whippet-thin stoner doof both impresses and amuses the living hell out of me), and coked-up, Castro-bearded Brian Wilson is getting there*, too (five out saves help). Plus, I love the town, and I've got family I grew up with living there. Texas? (Especially Dallas/Ft. Worth?) Not so.

Plus plus, Baseball Bugs-y pitching rules, and offense can suck it.


*Interviews like this one with an untucked Chris Rose don't hurt, either. (A little after five minutes in... a surprise guest!)

Edited October 25, 2010 by Guest

[DocTee]

Go Giants!

With the local NFL teams tanking, the whole Bay Area is on the bandwagon. I haven't felt this excited about playoff baseball in some time.

I've never had a bad experience at any game in SF, even when sporting my colors. The closest was when some guy threatened to call CPS on my wife for dressing our girls in pink Mets gear, but that was a joke (I think).

[Willets Point]

I sat next to some hecklers at a Giants game in the bleachers there and they were simultaneously completely obnoxious and friendly & welcoming at the same time. And I was wearing a Mets hat.