I'm for the Dodgers. Pretty simple
1) The Rays beat the Yankees and there fore deserve to get beaten into a bloody pulp. I don't buy into the "at least we lost to the guys that won" stuff. They beat me. They are bad. They should lose.
2) I have a friend that's a Dodgers fan and it's been 32 years since they won. That's a long time
3) Yes I know the Rays never have won. They've also been around 10 fewer years than the Dodgers have been without a title.
4) Rays have that stupid giant logo hat
5) Rays efficiency baseball has made the game less fun for me to watch. Not having starters? Shifting ruining the classic lefty bat as well as making me unable to know off the bat whether something is a hit or not when watching on TV? Not paying these guys any real money? No thank you.
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1. The Rays were better than the Yankees and have bullpen guys who can throw inside without hitting people in the head.
2. It’s easy to wait when your team will be in the playoffs every year. It won’t be the Rays fault if the Dodgers perennial best and richest organization continues to lose to teams that aren’t as talented. They stole that 1988 title from a team that was better in every way at the time except for not having Orel Hershiser. When they’re a wildcard, they’ll have a chance again.
3. Tampa may not have many fans, but they have never had a WS win, and had to lose their one shot to the Phillies. That just sucks.
4. The Rays have too many different blues in their uniforms, but at least they don’t call any of them “Rays” Blue.
5. The Dodgers basically start every season 10 WAR better than everyone, have the best pitcher of the last 15 years, and the best player for the next 15, and probably another top five one in Bellinger, have a half a dozen guys in their bullpen who would start for most teams, use them for two innings at a time, and make more money from cable in a year than the Nats have made in franchise history, and the Rays are the ones ruining the game? The Dodgers bought all their hacks out from under them and work them twice as hard! Ask the Dodgers to pay Smith, Gonsolin, May, Buehler, and co, what they’re “worth”
Pulling for the Rays. But I was actually a Rays fan before moving to DC and starting to pull for the Nats. They are still my "AL" team.
I admit that the constant roster churn makes it difficult as a Rays fan. You know that the players you like aren't going to be there long. But it also feels like that is a trend that they are starting to impart on their larger market brethren in recent years; it feels like more and more rosters have greater turnover than they used to.
The fan thing is also frustrating but it's as much about the stadium and surrounding area than anything else. It's a terrible atmosphere and it's not as easy to get to as it could be. I wouldn't be crushed if the franchise relocates -- totally on board with them moving to Charlotte -- but I would imagine that the fan experience will remain poor no matter what as long as they are the Trop.
This Dodgers roster isn't "buying the title" as much as ones in the past have, so I'm not as anti-Dodger as I would probably have been say 5 years ago. Rather the Dodgers than the Braves. I do think that the Dodgers will win. The Rays offense is just too inconsistent.
As a Maryland Alum, I'm pulling for the Rays purely because of last night's hero Brandon Lowe (Terp baseball has a long and storied history of sucking, so a player in the Bigs is a rarity)
That and as blovy8 put it, the Dodgers are the Yankees of the West (sorry Harper)
1) Screw the Yankees
2) Screw the Dodgers
3) This season doesn't count anyway. (Please note that I would absolutely be taking a different stance if the Nats were in the WS)
4) Tampa Bay is the sports capital of three U.S. because 2020 truly is that terrible. Go Bucs!
5) whatever
Pulling for the Rays. You have to love a David over Goliath (except if you're Harper, I guess). But mostly I'm hoping for 7 fun games. I have the sneaking suspicion that it's going to be a long winter with not a lot of joy as the outside gets colder and covid gets more prevalent. Hopefully we get a good goodbye show...
This series is awful for me. I basically like Kiermaier, Choi, Betts, and Kershaw and would like it if we could somehow give those four guys world series rings and just not have a champion for 2020. The Dodgers have caused me, personally, a lot of pain and anguish, and I agree with Harper that the Rays have been at the vanguard of almost every change in the game at large that I hate.
Re: David and Goliath biblical references:
David wins in every version. So who is the real underdog?
SM, fair. If you want to go that route though, which of them is on the side of good and right?
The "opener" trend is the one that annoys me the most, even as a Rays fan, but that wasn't even really something that was truly intentional. The Rays just didn't have enough healthy starters at one point and instead of trotting out a player that was at like Fedde's level, they tried something different. It worked pretty well in terms of winning games so they just stuck with it for a while. But they have tried to go back to the 5 man rotation at various points since; they have just had a really high number of starter injuries at both the major league level and at AA and AAA over the past several years.
But I remember watching the first game where they started doing it and can remember everyone from the color guys to the coaching staff just being like "we don't like this, but felt like it was the best option to win the game."
Matt: Touché!
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