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2016 MLB Season Thread
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Elrod was a fan favorite in Baltimore for years. Prob more so post playing career.
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Yeah, he was getting a little long in the tooth by the time he came to the Yankees.
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When I was in 8th grade my English teacher took me and another kid to an Orioles game and then she hung out with us getting autographs outside Memorial Stadium after the game. Elrod was a bullpen coach at the time and he would sign for everybody. I went to a private Christian school and this teacher was a conservative white girl. He was hitting on her and invited her, and us by default to go eat with him after the game. She kinda explained what he was implying to us when we asked why we couldnt all go.
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Baseballs worst fans. Im surprised the Skanks and Sux fans arent #1 & #2 . . . . . . . . .
1. Los Angeles Dodgers
Unlike a Lakers game, which is really just an excuse for plastic narcissist actors and the power grubbers who fund their films to figure out a different way to be on camera, Dodgers stadium is less about the flash, and more about two very real, very different elements:
A) The people in the expensive seats really do get there late, take off their shirts to reveal smaller, tighter shirts, stay four innings, knock around six to eleventy thousand beach balls they mostly bring in themselves, eat a crappy Dodger Dog, tell a made-up Vin Scully story they heard from their uncle, leave early, and listen to the You Must Remember Thispodcast on the way home instead of the game. And yes, we get that this is because the traffic is horrible, and parking at the stadium is an exercise in self-flagellation, and the entire idea of LA was founded on the idea that it would be a majestic series of villages for no more than 35 people with cars to travel around, but still, maybe just don't go?
B) The people in the cheap seats really do beat up opposing fans. Or call them horrible things until they leave. Every single person we talked to who is either a Dodgers fan, or has been to the game as a visitor, recalled some of the most uncomfortable, unprintable stories of fights, or things being poured on women, children, and the like, just to provoke a fight. Cool, guys. Way to show your passion.
Oh also: your beloved Dodger Dogs are basically limp, under-salted, un-snappy Slim Jims that no one would ever consider eating were they not trapped in an enclosed space four miles from their car surrounded by people hitting beach balls and trying to fight their children.
2. St. Louis Cardinals
We like to have fun around here, but we realize many of these sweeping generalizations we're making might apply to some elements of a fanbase but not necessarily the fanbase as a whole. But Cardinals fans? WOW. Fact: every last Cardinals fan believes right down to the marrow of their custard-fortified bones that, by golly, the Cards are just a special franchise blessed by whatever deity you believe in (oh, who are we kidding, it's the Christian one) with the capacity to just do things the right way.
They fancy themselves the best fans in baseball to such a degree that it’s become a punchline within baseball circles and a dynamic blessed with its own must-read,hypocrisy-exposing Twitter account where you can read all the horribly racist things they continue to say about Jason Heyward for daring to, you know, choose his employer. Oh, and their front office broke federal laws hacking into the Houston Astros computer system, which has somehow received about 1% the attention that Tom Brady's taste for slightly more grippable balls did.
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/major-league-baseballs-worst-fans-worst-fans-in-mlb
1. Los Angeles Dodgers
Unlike a Lakers game, which is really just an excuse for plastic narcissist actors and the power grubbers who fund their films to figure out a different way to be on camera, Dodgers stadium is less about the flash, and more about two very real, very different elements:
A) The people in the expensive seats really do get there late, take off their shirts to reveal smaller, tighter shirts, stay four innings, knock around six to eleventy thousand beach balls they mostly bring in themselves, eat a crappy Dodger Dog, tell a made-up Vin Scully story they heard from their uncle, leave early, and listen to the You Must Remember Thispodcast on the way home instead of the game. And yes, we get that this is because the traffic is horrible, and parking at the stadium is an exercise in self-flagellation, and the entire idea of LA was founded on the idea that it would be a majestic series of villages for no more than 35 people with cars to travel around, but still, maybe just don't go?
B) The people in the cheap seats really do beat up opposing fans. Or call them horrible things until they leave. Every single person we talked to who is either a Dodgers fan, or has been to the game as a visitor, recalled some of the most uncomfortable, unprintable stories of fights, or things being poured on women, children, and the like, just to provoke a fight. Cool, guys. Way to show your passion.
Oh also: your beloved Dodger Dogs are basically limp, under-salted, un-snappy Slim Jims that no one would ever consider eating were they not trapped in an enclosed space four miles from their car surrounded by people hitting beach balls and trying to fight their children.
2. St. Louis Cardinals
We like to have fun around here, but we realize many of these sweeping generalizations we're making might apply to some elements of a fanbase but not necessarily the fanbase as a whole. But Cardinals fans? WOW. Fact: every last Cardinals fan believes right down to the marrow of their custard-fortified bones that, by golly, the Cards are just a special franchise blessed by whatever deity you believe in (oh, who are we kidding, it's the Christian one) with the capacity to just do things the right way.
They fancy themselves the best fans in baseball to such a degree that it’s become a punchline within baseball circles and a dynamic blessed with its own must-read,hypocrisy-exposing Twitter account where you can read all the horribly racist things they continue to say about Jason Heyward for daring to, you know, choose his employer. Oh, and their front office broke federal laws hacking into the Houston Astros computer system, which has somehow received about 1% the attention that Tom Brady's taste for slightly more grippable balls did.
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/major-league-baseballs-worst-fans-worst-fans-in-mlb
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3. Boston Red Sox
There has never been a fall from national grace quite like Red Sox fans' tumble over the last 12 years. Before that first World Series win, they were the lovable losers, a provincial town of hilariously accented n'er-do-wells crushing Fenway Franks, that spicy brown mustard lodged in the sides of their "Cowboy Up" Kevin Millar playoff beards. People appreciated the spectacle, and felt a little sorry for the chubby guys from Revere wearing Tom Brunansky jerseys who spent all their money on beers at the game, and ended up passing out in Kenmore station until the blue line picked back up.
And then they won. And as anyone who's ever been to Gillette Stadium can attest, there is nothing worse than Boston fans when a Boston team is winning. But unlike the unshakeable confidence of the Yankees fan, the Sox fan possesses a terrifyingly pessimistic view of the game. Boston sports talk radio is filled with conspiracy theorists and apologists in equal measure, as is Fenway. Luckily, unless you’re in a Yankees jersey, the fans are more likely to pick fights based on local high school Thanksgiving Day football rivalries ("There go those kids from Catholic Memorial! Get 'em!"), but then again, in Boston it’s usually best not to press your luck.
There has never been a fall from national grace quite like Red Sox fans' tumble over the last 12 years. Before that first World Series win, they were the lovable losers, a provincial town of hilariously accented n'er-do-wells crushing Fenway Franks, that spicy brown mustard lodged in the sides of their "Cowboy Up" Kevin Millar playoff beards. People appreciated the spectacle, and felt a little sorry for the chubby guys from Revere wearing Tom Brunansky jerseys who spent all their money on beers at the game, and ended up passing out in Kenmore station until the blue line picked back up.
And then they won. And as anyone who's ever been to Gillette Stadium can attest, there is nothing worse than Boston fans when a Boston team is winning. But unlike the unshakeable confidence of the Yankees fan, the Sox fan possesses a terrifyingly pessimistic view of the game. Boston sports talk radio is filled with conspiracy theorists and apologists in equal measure, as is Fenway. Luckily, unless you’re in a Yankees jersey, the fans are more likely to pick fights based on local high school Thanksgiving Day football rivalries ("There go those kids from Catholic Memorial! Get 'em!"), but then again, in Boston it’s usually best not to press your luck.
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4. New York Yankees
Remember that mirror scene in 25th Hour? Well, Yankees fans are basically the Bensonhurst Italian section of that scene, times a thousand. No fanbase on Earth is more arrogant, more entitled, more cocky, and more horrible than the Yankees. And the best/worst part of it? They're not that good anymore. All these ******, long-term, bloated deals, paying $25 million to 35-year-old CC Sabathia this year; $23 million to 35-year-old Mark Teixeira; $21 million to both Jacoby Ellsbury and 40-year-old A-Rod; $15 million to 38-year-old Carlos Beltran. That's $105 million, which would be the 17th-highest payroll in MLB, to five players whose average age is 37. I mean, holy ****, that is honestly just horrendous management.
And the sad thing is it used to be that it didn’t matter. The Yankees would cherry-pick the best players from the smaller clubs and ride them for two years to a couple of World Series wins and reload, and no one else could really do anything about it. But now, despite the literal entire Colorado Rockies payroll they're throwing away to old dudes who might not even start on the Colorado Rockies, they don't even get to claim they have the highest payroll in MLB. And after all that money spent, they're still losing wild-card games. You might think this would make Yankee fans a little bit more subdued, a little bit more modest. You would be wrong. Yankee fans view modesty as a weakness, and so they blow the trumpet harder and louder. Bensonhurst. BENSON-HURST.
Remember that mirror scene in 25th Hour? Well, Yankees fans are basically the Bensonhurst Italian section of that scene, times a thousand. No fanbase on Earth is more arrogant, more entitled, more cocky, and more horrible than the Yankees. And the best/worst part of it? They're not that good anymore. All these ******, long-term, bloated deals, paying $25 million to 35-year-old CC Sabathia this year; $23 million to 35-year-old Mark Teixeira; $21 million to both Jacoby Ellsbury and 40-year-old A-Rod; $15 million to 38-year-old Carlos Beltran. That's $105 million, which would be the 17th-highest payroll in MLB, to five players whose average age is 37. I mean, holy ****, that is honestly just horrendous management.
And the sad thing is it used to be that it didn’t matter. The Yankees would cherry-pick the best players from the smaller clubs and ride them for two years to a couple of World Series wins and reload, and no one else could really do anything about it. But now, despite the literal entire Colorado Rockies payroll they're throwing away to old dudes who might not even start on the Colorado Rockies, they don't even get to claim they have the highest payroll in MLB. And after all that money spent, they're still losing wild-card games. You might think this would make Yankee fans a little bit more subdued, a little bit more modest. You would be wrong. Yankee fans view modesty as a weakness, and so they blow the trumpet harder and louder. Bensonhurst. BENSON-HURST.
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5. Philadelphia Phillies
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has given Philly fans the sense that their general awfulness has been rebranded with a fresh-faced comic identity, but the reality is your typical Phillies fans possesses all of the alcohol-riddled obliviousness and stupidity of a Charlie or a Mac with absolutely none of the charm (Dennis is far better groomed than your typical Citizens Bank denizen). The horrible Philly fan has become such a well-worn stereotype that one could understand a little bit of "they aren't actually that bad" contrarian sentiment. But no. Just no. They are 100% that bad and will remain that bad until at least the end of Ryan Howard's contract sometime in 2035.
8. New York Mets
Mets fans are an interesting group. On the one hand, the team's staggering capacity for ineptitude spawned the LOLMets meme that continues to provide hilarity even when the team is relatively good, and they get to stake out the claim as the hardscrabble, die-hard outsider fans, just wallowing in the nether regions of Nassau County while the Yankees soak up all the attention. Mets fans would have you believe they have suffered in ways few fans can possibly understand.
But has it really been that bad? A pair of momentous World Series wins that remain well within the lifespan of plenty of fans, plus a couple of exciting near-misses in more recent years. However, because they cheer for a New York team, they believe what suffering they HAVE experienced gets more weight, more gravity, and therein lies the insufferability of the Mets fan.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has given Philly fans the sense that their general awfulness has been rebranded with a fresh-faced comic identity, but the reality is your typical Phillies fans possesses all of the alcohol-riddled obliviousness and stupidity of a Charlie or a Mac with absolutely none of the charm (Dennis is far better groomed than your typical Citizens Bank denizen). The horrible Philly fan has become such a well-worn stereotype that one could understand a little bit of "they aren't actually that bad" contrarian sentiment. But no. Just no. They are 100% that bad and will remain that bad until at least the end of Ryan Howard's contract sometime in 2035.
8. New York Mets
Mets fans are an interesting group. On the one hand, the team's staggering capacity for ineptitude spawned the LOLMets meme that continues to provide hilarity even when the team is relatively good, and they get to stake out the claim as the hardscrabble, die-hard outsider fans, just wallowing in the nether regions of Nassau County while the Yankees soak up all the attention. Mets fans would have you believe they have suffered in ways few fans can possibly understand.
But has it really been that bad? A pair of momentous World Series wins that remain well within the lifespan of plenty of fans, plus a couple of exciting near-misses in more recent years. However, because they cheer for a New York team, they believe what suffering they HAVE experienced gets more weight, more gravity, and therein lies the insufferability of the Mets fan.
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I followed the link to that article... good read! LOL!
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Cespedes picking right up where he was in ST 
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I havent been to Dodger Stadium in 25 years or so. My experience there was fine. And surprised St Louis fans are rated so poorly.
Having seen plenty of Yankee and Sox fans my only surprise is they didnt make the top 2.
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Mets cant beat the Royals AND the umpire
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Not with OF play like Cespedes
I told y'all that he is in La la land out there. I just did not think it would come in the 1st inning of the first game!
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Weather not looking so good for baseball in some places
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6 consecutive opening day wins and the best opening day record in all of MLB for the past 15 years!
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Go ahead.
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The Astros win their opener 5-3 over the Yankees.
