Congratulations, St. Louis
You are the champions of baseball, and you just completed one of the most miraculous comebacks in the history of sports.
Source: FanGraphs
Dave is the Managing Editor of FanGraphs.
You are the champions of baseball, and you just completed one of the most miraculous comebacks in the history of sports.
Source: FanGraphs
Dave is the Managing Editor of FanGraphs.
Well, it could be worse. Could have been the Phillies. Or the Yankees.
Truth
I understand the sentiment, but comparing the Phillies to the Yankees in base hateability is pretty stupid.
Not if you’re a Braves fan. And I am.
Dodger fan here, Philly hate currently on par with Yanks/Sox
Not.
The Yankees media is definitely the worst, but Phillies fans might be worse than anybody else.
If you’re rooting in the NL, hating the Cardinals and the Phillies makes a lot of sense. I hate the Yankees third most.
I’m a baseball fan, Philly hate is on the same level. Huge payroll, and their fans act like they’ve always been good. When those 20M/year contracts are on aging 35 year olds, not going to be packing the park anymore.
Or the Red Sox
But the Red Sox are a gritty, lovable, blue collar bunch!
Or any of the other 29 teams in MLB…
Nah, I think the list of “worse” winners is shorter than you think.
Phillies
Yankees
Red Sox (Arguably. I mean, I have no problem with them, but they do have a huge payroll and legions of adoring/obnoxious fans, so I can easily see the argument here.)
And then the Cardinals follow them, but pretty far down, breaking away from all the irrelevant teams simply by virtue of the fact that they’re managed by a dumb, overrated sonovabitch.
Re: Anon21. There is nothing “arguably” bad about the Red Sox winning. Just bad.