Who I'm rooting for ... NOW!!!!

[Frayed Knot]

Just cuz I know you were all just sitting around wondering who Frayed was rooting for at this point in the playoff picture.
And feel free to list your own if so inclined.

My preferences, in this order:
Orioles - they're an AL East team that's not the Yanx
Royals - fun team on the rise that's been out of it for so long
Giants - not quite sure how they do it sometimes, but they do
Cards - they're annoying, things seem to go their way all the time, and they're just plain not that good


Kind of weird that I'm going with both AL teams over the two NL, but it's time for some new blood.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Royals! They have cool caps!!

[Gwreck]

FK's order is fine; I would put KC first as more deserving than the Orioles but not by a huge margin.

I generally don't like rooting for the American League in the World Series, but as in 1997, 2008 or 2011, it's sometimes necessary.

[Zvon]

Royals all the way. All the way until they are bumped out and then....I'll be hard pressed to do my normal "back the NL team" thing. If the Royals go down....I may stick with an AL team. This is hard to do, but I'll grind and bear it.

[Lefty Specialist]

Two AL teams I kinda like, and two NL teams, one of which I despise (cough-Cardinals-cough) and one of which I don't like.

So it's easy. Royals, and failing them, Orioles.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Royals
Orioles





Giants






Plague of locusts

Earthquakes


Floods


Meteorite strike








Cardinals

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Orioles




Royals






Giants



Earthquakes


Floods

Plague of locusts





Meteorite strike








Cardinals

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I'm higher on the Orioles and on floods.

[MFS62]

I really can't bring myself to root for an AL club.
But if the O's don't win, somebody will have to talk Buck down from the window ledge. So I'll hold my nose and go for them.

Later

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

I still have lots of connections to St. Louis, and I was at Mizzou for the 1985 I-70 Series. The state went nuts.

So I'm pulling for the Royals and Cards.

I'm tired of the Giants. I would not weep if the Orioles won.

[Edgy MD]

The Orioles won't stop. And neither will I.

[bmfc1]

Go O's!

[TransMonk]

I'm rooting for either AL team that advances. No one needs another STL or SF championship.

[Guest Madoff's Mets]

Royals
Orioles
Cards
Giants

[G-Fafif]

1. Giants-Royals.
--I sort of enjoy SF's biennial familiarity. A year on, a year off...seems reasonable. The Cardinals, OTOH, are the thing that wouldn't leave.
--Spent enough time with swell NY Giants diehards and descendants that I've grown empathetic to their even-year cause. Call it Sausalito Syndrome.
--Royals too good a story to cut loose.
--My senior cat and the Kansas City first baseman share a name, and I can't get enough of hearing "Hosmer" on television.

2. Giants-Orioles.
--Neato note I picked up on Twitter, I believe: if this is the matchup, it will mean the Giants will have faced each of the eight American League franchises (in one iteration or another) that were in business in 1903 -- the year the World Series began -- in the World Series.
--Also lots of black and orange ahead of Halloween and two to-die-for gorgeous ballparks.

3. Cardinals-Orioles
--Only for the spate of 1944 rematch features by way of the Browns on the 70th anniversary of the Streetcar Series. Once those are over, no thank you to anything with the Cardinals in it.

4. Cardinals-Royals
--I'm 1985ed out. Though whoever wants to beat the Cardinals is welcome to do so.

[Fman99]

Rooting for the AL teams.

[MFS62]

Madoff's Mets wrote: Royals Orioles Cards Giants

Hey!
Just noticed you've joined us.
Welcome.

Later

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Just realized there are two Missouri teams and a former Missouri team in the final four.

[MFS62]

Mets � Willets Point wrote: Just realized there are two Missouri teams and a former Missouri team in the final four.

Show me.
Ba Da Bum!

Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

The wild cards, naturally. Because I like chaos and anarchy.

[ashie62]

Royals and Giants.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Royals......Orioles.............Giants................................Let's call the whole thing off .................At least thy're not the Yankees...........Cardinals

[Guest sharpie]

Giants - Royals - Orioles - Cards