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World Series Rooting Interest Poll Rays vs Phillies
Who do you root for in the 2008 World Series
AL Champion Tampa Rays | 27 votes |
NL Champion Philadelphia Phillies | 6 votes |
SteveJRogers Oct 19 2008 09:46 PM |
Tampa Rays vs. Philadelphia Phillies.
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Nymr83 Oct 19 2008 09:48 PM |
milwaukee would be worse for ratings. obviously i'm rooting for tampa to beat the hated phils.
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Gwreck Oct 19 2008 09:50 PM |
Tampa, in 4 please.
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Willets Point Oct 19 2008 09:52 PM |
I don't hate the Phils, there's no reason to hate them other than jealousy. I'm a NL fan except when the Red Sox are involved and I like to root for underdogs. The Phillies are the losingest team in sports history and have only one championship in a franchise history dating back to 1883 so I'd say that trumps the underdogness of those whippersnapper Rays. So put me down for the Phillies. Really I just want a good series.
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Gwreck Oct 19 2008 10:06 PM |
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I think your perspective would change if you went to a few more Mets-Phillies games. If Philadelphia wins, our games against them next year will be unbearable. If Tampa wins, our games against them next year will be like any others.
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Zvon Oct 19 2008 10:07 PM |
No Fair.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 19 2008 10:10 PM |
Yeah. I root for a good series above everything but I find all this hatred for the Phillies a little small.
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Frayed Knot Oct 19 2008 10:12 PM |
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Of the cities with franchises is all four major sports Philly has gone the longest w/o a championship ('83 Sixers)
I think this whole concept is vastly over-played. If they get a good series they'll get good ratings and it's not like Philly & TB/StP are minor TV markets. Plus I think the folks in the hinterlands get turned off by the thought of the same teams from the big East Coast cities in it year after year and historically some of the better rating series have been from "non-sexy" matchups (Cleve-Fla '97, Atl-Minn '91, etc.)
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Willets Point Oct 19 2008 10:13 PM |
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I'm looking at it more as the Mets games versus the Phillies will be all the more sweeter when the Mets crush "the Champs" and clinch the division shortly after Labor Day. And if that doesn't happen, well it's probably because the Mets bullpen sucks.
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Valadius Oct 20 2008 03:45 AM |
Tampa Bay. The parallels to the '69 Mets are all I need.
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Rockin' Doc Oct 20 2008 04:50 AM |
I generally pull for the NL teams, but this year put me down for the Rays. I like their collection of young players, I like that they have Cliff Floyd, I like their style of play (fewest sacrifices and most steals in MLB), and I like that they don't have Jimmy Rollins.
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Iubitul Oct 20 2008 04:52 AM |
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What Val said...
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themetfairy Oct 20 2008 05:02 AM |
I live among Phillies Phans.
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G-Fafif Oct 20 2008 05:45 AM |
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I don't think I truly rooted for the Phillies to lose on strict party lines (as opposed to rooting for the Mets to win and whoever our opponent was to lose) until I spent a three-game series with their fans in September. I can't stand the idea of those people feeling any satisfaction. Or Shane Victorino, for that matter.
And I wish the Mets had won 114 games in 1998. Doesn't mean I rooted for the team that did no matter how well that team played. I admire how the Phillies were built, how there are a lot of homegrown players who have coalesced into a unit, how Pat Gillick plugged in a lot of pieces brilliantly. From the standpoint of earning it, the Phillies deserve to be league champions more than anybody else who could have won it. But we don't do this in a vacuum. Brand names mean something to us. The Phillies brand is anathema to the Mets consumer at this point in time. Grudging admiration for the rival does not trump the rivalry. The spirit of '69 has been reborn in St. Pete. Go Rays.
And perhaps getting our [url=p://mlb.fanhouse.com/2008/10/14/matt-stairs-loves-having-his-ass-pounded/]ass hammered by guys[/url]. There's no better feeling than to have that done.
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Fman99 Oct 20 2008 06:07 AM |
I have no NL-based loyalty. I hate all the NL teams that are not the Mets. After all they all spend 162 games trying to beat my team.
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smg58 Oct 20 2008 07:22 AM |
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Couldn't have said it better myself. I have enormous respect for the Phillies, but I can't root for them. And the Rays are as easy a team to root for as you can have.
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MFS62 Oct 20 2008 07:23 AM |
Holding my nose while I vote for the NL team.
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AG/DC Oct 20 2008 07:26 AM |
I voted Phillies.
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Benjamin Grimm Oct 20 2008 07:26 AM |
Rays.
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Vince Coleman Firecracker Oct 20 2008 07:37 AM |
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 20 2008 07:46 AM |
Brand schmand.
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Frayed Knot Oct 20 2008 07:46 AM |
I haven't decided yet.
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Vic Sage Oct 20 2008 08:32 AM |
what is this "world series" of which you speak?
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soupcan Oct 20 2008 08:40 AM |
Don't really care one way or the other but I voted Rays because I just can't root for the Phillies.
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holychicken Oct 20 2008 08:41 AM |
Rays in 4 and Lidge getting 4 blown saves.
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G-Fafif Oct 20 2008 09:04 AM |
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Technically, or at least on their stationery, the Marlins represent Florida. And for whoever started the poll, that's the Tampa Bay Rays who won the American League pennant. The Rays represent the Bay Area, the Gulf Coast and, in their dreams, Central Florida. Not that their region is necessarily a prize, but don't blame Tampa-St. Pete for the rest of the state.
Hard to imagine the Mets leading the league in anything right now.
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AG/DC Oct 20 2008 09:25 AM |
They definitely lead the league in Ambiorices.
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Willets Point Oct 20 2008 09:40 AM |
I just realized that this is the first World Series since 2001 without a wild card team.
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Gwreck Oct 20 2008 10:16 AM |
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No disagreement. But aside from the Yankees, we get more of the Phillies' lousy mook fans in our ballpark than from any other team. My own anecdotal study also reveals that the only time I've ever felt truly unsafe while wearing Mets stuff at a road game (this study includes the House of Evil and the Wrigley bleachers) was at a Sunday night game in Philly early this year. If Tampa wins, are we going to get it rubbed in our faces when they come to town in June?
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HahnSolo Oct 20 2008 10:32 AM |
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Maybe, but the Yanks will get it rubbed in their faces nine times in their new place.
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Frayed Knot Oct 20 2008 10:51 AM |
No team from the state of Florida has ever lost a post-seaon series.
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Benjamin Grimm Oct 20 2008 11:18 AM |
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I hear you. I went with my son to a Mets-Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park last year, and we went "undercover." I wore a Brooklyn Dodgers cap instead of my Mets cap, and my son wore a souvenir cap from Denali National Park. We didn't get any hostility directed our way, but it was such an ugly environment that I don't think I'll go back there again, at least not with kids. If I see a Mets road game in 2009, it will either be in DC or at Fenway, if it's possible to get tickets. (DC will be easy, Fenway might be nearly impossible.)
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metsguyinmichigan Oct 20 2008 11:43 AM |
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What Val and Iubitul said...
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seawolf17 Oct 20 2008 01:06 PM |
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This. And this:
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MFS62 Oct 20 2008 01:24 PM |
The more I think about it, the more I'm rooting for the Phillies.
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willpie Oct 20 2008 04:35 PM |
Rays, but it was closer than I expected.
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Kong76 Oct 20 2008 05:37 PM |
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cooby Oct 20 2008 06:18 PM |
Phillies. Why would anyone vote for a Florida team? Might as well vote for an Alaskan.
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Gwreck Oct 20 2008 06:50 PM |
Because politics have nothing to to with who plays in the world series?
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Kong76 Oct 20 2008 06:57 PM |
coob: Why would anyone vote for a Florida team? Might as well vote for an Alaskan <<<
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Nymr83 Oct 20 2008 11:00 PM |
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You guys left the Obama option out of this poll, he's anounced he is rooting for both teams at seperate press conferences.
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G-Fafif Oct 21 2008 03:44 AM |
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Reaching across the aisle and bringing people together, those who wear blue caps, those who wear red caps. A good sign.
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Willets Point Oct 21 2008 05:19 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 21 2008 07:26 AM |
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Yeah, but after the election is over we'll have at least 4 years of a VP from Alaska.
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Fman99 Oct 21 2008 06:42 AM |
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You betcha. Add Brad Chadford (the bearded Chad Bradford) to the mix, as another Ray who acquitted himself well in the orange and blue. I can pull for these guys real easy. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is not one former Met suiting up for the Phillies in this tournament.
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Benjamin Grimm Oct 21 2008 07:40 AM |
Another reason to root for the Rays: A World Series ring for Steve Henderson!
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metirish Oct 21 2008 07:48 AM |
Ex Met Tim Bogar - Quality Assurance Coach for the Rays
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Willets Point Oct 21 2008 07:52 AM |
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Nymr83 Oct 21 2008 11:50 AM |
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Have you seen a poll lately?
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Willets Point Oct 21 2008 12:32 PM |
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Only one poll counts and it's on Nov. 4.
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Benjamin Grimm Oct 21 2008 12:41 PM |
Do you really think McCain will win, or are you doing that 27th World Championship piss-taking?
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Farmer Ted Oct 21 2008 01:07 PM |
A bearded Dan Wheeler chucking fastballs for the Deviled Eggs.
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metirish Oct 21 2008 01:10 PM |
Two very annoying things about this series are the white towels that Phillie fans will wave and the cow bells in Tampa.
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Benjamin Grimm Oct 21 2008 01:18 PM |
The most annoying thing for me will be the pep rally in my office building's lobby tomorrow at noon.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 21 2008 01:23 PM |
Jon and Kate Plus 8 got all down with the Phillies last nite. Shane Victorino and Charlie Manuel's Wifey and stuff all gave 'em the red-carpet treatment.
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metirish Oct 21 2008 01:27 PM |
Your missus makes you watch that too? , when my missus was pregnant I had to endure that show every week and the goddamn Roloff family and the other family in Baltimore with the 16 kids...Irish dad and German mother.....every now and then I sit through them all.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 21 2008 01:39 PM |
I can't deal with the weird 16-kid mormons. That show creeps us both out.
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G-Fafif Oct 21 2008 02:01 PM |
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Not only that, but Pat Gillick includes an all-time Met villain among his circle of confidantes, [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2008/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=3650057]according to Jayson Stark[/url]:
That's Charlie Kerfeld who tried to be John Rocker before there was a John Rocker. That's Charlie Kerfeld who woofed during the '86 NLCS at Shea, "I'm ready to get away from this zoo. I'm ready to get back to where some real people are and get away from these animals." That's Charlie Kerfeld who fielded Gary Carter's bouncer in Game Three and waved it at him before throwing it to first. That's Charlie Kerfeld, a punk twenty-two years ago, unforgiven to date. Eph him. Eph the Phillies.
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Vince Coleman Firecracker Oct 21 2008 02:04 PM |
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What's wrong with cow bells?
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Frayed Knot Oct 21 2008 02:05 PM |
They showed Kerfeld in the stands the other day sitting w/some other Philly execs.
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metirish Oct 21 2008 02:10 PM |
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Chuck LaMar of course was the GM that did the deal with Duke.....not that anyone cares anymore.
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AG/DC Oct 21 2008 02:58 PM |
Well, I guess if Ed Charles is with the Rays, that's good enough for me.
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Valadius Oct 22 2008 06:18 AM |
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From a Yahoo Sports article on the Rays, with the help of Rays backup catcher Shawn Riggans:
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Centerfield Oct 23 2008 08:20 AM |
My only rooting interest in this series is for Philadelphia to be weakened for 2009. I haven't quite figured out how that can happen.
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AG/DC Oct 23 2008 08:38 AM |
They can also come close but lose, and overcompensate with some panicky offseason moves.
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metirish Oct 23 2008 08:40 AM |
Pat Gillick is retiring after the WS so that's a blow for them.
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themetfairy Oct 25 2008 07:06 AM |
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[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/sports/baseball/25rays.html?_r=1&ref=baseball&oref=slogin]This[/url] makes me like Garza - LOL
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