We Need an American League Mistress

[Centerfield]

Looking for a team that's young, kinda hot. Something fun on the side. It's summer. We're young. And if God didn't want us to use these good looks, he wouldn't have given them to us.

A few ground rules:

1. Has to be an AL Team. Obviously. And one that isn't going to play the Mets. Way too awkward dude.
2. This shit is short term. No commitments. Things may not be great at home right now but they should know we fully intend to work things out.
3. We keep this super quiet. Maybe restricted only to this board. We don't post pictures from their games, or update facebook with "CF, did you see the Cleveland score?" [u:123z5z06]No social media[/u:123z5z06]. I don't need this shit getting back to the Mets.

AL Standings below:

http://www.espn.com/mlb/standings

Who do we go with? The smoking hot Houston Astros? Girl next door Minnesota? Make your case!

[bmfc1]

"Looking for a team that's young, kinda hot. Something fun on the side. It's summer. We're young. And if God didn't want us to use these good looks, he wouldn't have given them to us. "
Are we looking for a sidepiece because our main squeeze isn't satisfying us as much as usual?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Baltimore is my AL babe. She is hanging in a tight AL East race and we should probably gift her Addison Reed and Blevins.

[Centerfield]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Baltimore is my AL babe. She is hanging in a tight AL East race and we should probably gift her Addison Reed and Blevins.

Baltimore is easy on the eyes. Beautiful ballpark. Don't even get me started on her inner harbor.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'll just continue to have quick anonymous infatuations with whoever is playing the Yankees on any given day.

[Guest d'Kong76]

The Sawx are generally my AL team, but I can jump on the Oriole bandwagon
too if need be. Rays and Jays are also cool, anyone but you know who...

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

I have a long time relationship with the Red Sox, but that's due to geographic convenience.

[seawolf17]

My ennui of the Red Sox -- they've won enough, they're annoying -- as assuaged only by my Jim Rice fandom. (I had typed "hatred," but I don't really hate them, so I changed it.)

Houston's too trendy. I do generally root for Cleveland and Minnesota to do well, and I'd like the Angels more if Nick Tropeano wasn't hurt. (I can like them next year.)

[batmagadanleadoff]

I hate to jump on the winning bandwagon, but who's got better throwbacks than the Astros? How many teams had a better run of uniforms than the Colt/Stros did for their first 15 or so seasons?

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Isn't that jacket Durocher's wearing the perfect bridge between '60spsychedeila and '70s garishness?

[seawolf17]

And admittedly, the Astros are kind of like our sibling franchise anyway.

[Guest themetfairy]

Oakland has been my AL team, going back to the days when they had the Big Three pitching staff. I haven't been following them closely lately, but I root for them when I think about it.

I've been to a couple of games out there. The stadium is indeed a dump, but the fans are terrific. I love the guys in the outfield with the horns, drums, etc. - they are always entertaining.

[Guest sharpie]

Twins are my babe.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

F the Astros, they play in the wrong league

[Frayed Knot]

I'd like to pull for the O's but I've never believed in them. Their pitching suxx.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That's why they need Matt Harvey.

[Farmer Ted]

The Indians are my AL mistress. Kinda MILF-y, can dress up perty when need be but not afraid to smack you on the ass and talk dirty when the time is right, which is fairly often for Clevelanders.

[seawolf17]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: That's why they need Matt Harvey.

I keep wavering as to whether a Harvey-Gausman trade would be worth it.

[Guest cooby]

I'll always be an Indians fan

[Lefty Specialist]

Anybody but the Yankees. Partial to the Twinkies but I don't think they have enough (unless we give something to them). Can always get behind the O's. I'm over the Red Sox.

[HahnSolo]

I love when Lindor and Santana whisper sweet nothings in my ear.

Team Tribe.

[TransMonk]

I would gladly take Milwaukee if they were still in the AL. As a kid, I used that as an excuse to root for them.

Now, I keep an eye on the White Sox, but consider the DH cheating and, therefore, it's not real baseball.

[ashie62]

Twinkies here.

[Guest 41Forever]

It's gotta be the Tigers. Like the Mets, they are bouncing through a rough patch. But Detroit as a city is on the upswing -- a wonderful place -- and the Tigers will be, too.

[Ceetar]

Anyone that's gonna destroy the Yankees, so AL East for me for now

[Guest d'Kong76]

It will be a good ten more years before I might start thinking of
the Astros as an AL team. At 65 that will put me a good fifteen
years from social security at the rate we seem destined.

[Gwreck]

Centerfield wrote: Looking for a team that's young, kinda hot. Something fun on the side. It's summer. We're young. And if God didn't want us to use these good looks, he wouldn't have given them to us. A few ground rules: 1. Has to be an AL Team. Obviously.

With a DH? Not a chance. Never.

[Batty31]

Metfairy swayed me to the Oakland side during the Barry Zito days...LOL My AL loyalties bounce back and forth between Oakland and Boston

[Chad ochoseis]

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I've never kept my AL affair secret, and if there was ever any doubt, I moved in with her two years ago. The Mets don't mind. They know that my heart is still with them.

She's a little cold sometimes - last time I saw her was Monday night, and although her scoreboard said 70 degrees, it was really more like 60 and windy and rainy. On the twenty-sixth of June. And after the fourth inning, she looked like she was going to turn into a real loser. But this happened...

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Great things about the Indians:

- District tickets. $13 gets you standing room and one free beer. The choices are Bud, Miller, or Labatt's, but it's still free beer. Or soda or bottled water if you'd prefer. Arrive at the bar early enough, and you can sit at a table overlooking right field from club level as long as you want. And there's a fire pit nearby. You'll appreciate it (see above).

- Jason Kipnis is the only player in the majors who has smooth jazz walkup music. His fans are bringing inflatable saxophones to the ballpark.

- They sing the José, José, José chant for Jose Ramirez, their superutility player who had a breakout 2016 and is currently OPSing .940. I've given up on telling the people around me that Mets fans were there first and I just accept it now.

- Their Terry is better than our Terry.

Not great things about the Indians:

The first baseman, Carlos Santana, wears #41. Every time I see a SANTANA 41 jersey, a few hundred brain cells explode from the cognitive dissonance.

Fucking Chief Wahoo. He's an embarrassment to the club and to the city. I think he'll go away as soon as everyone stops telling the club to get rid of him. The Indians have been pushing the blocked C logo for the past five or ten years, but the fans are hanging on to the Chief, partially in defiance and partially in recognition that his days are numbered, and they want to snap up the Wahoo logo while they still can.

Progressive Field - way too quiet.

[Fman99]

Fgirl has an unabashed crush on the Orioles logo, to the point that I bought her, for her birthday next week, a garish pink baseball hat with his picture on it. She thinks he looks more like a duck and calls them "the Ducks."

But, they do wear orange, and they play the MFYs, and I have been to their park a couple of times. So, there you go.

[MFS62]

If I had to have one, it would be the Toronto Blue Jays because I have many Canadian friends who root for the Jays.
And they play the MFYs.
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