Master Index of Archived Threads


NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

Philadelphia Phillies

7 votes

St. Louis Cardinals

20 votes

Benjamin Grimm Sep 29 2011 02:08 PM

For whom are you rooting?

Edgy DC Sep 29 2011 02:09 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

I live and breathe in Philadelphia freedom.

seawolf17 Sep 29 2011 02:50 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

Edgy DC wrote: I live and breathe in Philadelphia freedom. /shakes head sadly

Edgy DC Sep 29 2011 02:53 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

I felt like you do... 'til the whippoorwill of freedom zapped me.

Frayed Knot Sep 29 2011 02:54 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

I clicked Phils also. I suppose it's easier to do that while not living in south/central Jersey or eastern PA, but the Cards have annoyed me over the years much more so than the Phils. Besides, I don't think they're that good and, for the most part, I want to see the better teams advance.

Benjamin Grimm Sep 29 2011 02:55 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

Cardinals. Only because I'm embedded deep inside Phillie country. I know for sure that I'll be rooting for whichever team wins this series to lose in the next round.

G-Fafif Sep 29 2011 03:02 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

La Russa, Molina and Pujols (though Pujols not as much because he's transcendent) still bring with them the darkness of brass rings ungrasped. Phillies success, when it came at Mets' expense, was the Mets' fault. Phillie success more recently has nothing do with the Mets. Mind you this is splitting hairs so as to make a call. They can both burn in hell, and may the Braves' figurative corpses be used to put out their flames.

TheOldMole Sep 29 2011 03:10 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

NL East.

Gwreck Sep 29 2011 03:11 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

I am shocked by the Phillies votes and the only thing I can think of is that those voting that way must have (very fortunately) not encountered any Philadephia fans over the past 3-4 years. I realize there's much to dislike about the Cardinals: Pitchers hitting eighth; Yadier Molina; DWIs; Historical antipathy (the 80s); The "best fans in baseball" nonsense... ...yet Philadelphia's abomination of a fan base makes me root for those fucking Cardinals without even stopping to consider it.

TransMonk Sep 29 2011 03:20 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

I think the Phillies have the best shot of beating the Yanks if they make it to the WS, so maybe that's where some of the Philly love is coming from. But, I voted for the Cards.

G-Fafif Sep 29 2011 03:21 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

TheOldMole wrote: NL East. Yeah, something like that. I guess I'm just used to them. Like a wart. Philadelphia's abomination of a fan base That they are. Encountered them plenty. Still can't bring myself to root for the Cardinals in October after 2006 (and 1985). Should they meet up with the MFYs down the road, of course, color me Redbird.

metsguyinmichigan Sep 29 2011 03:36 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

My time in Missouri leads me to root for the Cards in this.

themetfairy Sep 29 2011 03:49 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

Cardinals, in homage to my older son's former allegiance to them during the Mark McGwire era.

metirish Sep 29 2011 04:03 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

Don't care for either really and I voted for the Cards but I would think if the yankees made it then the Phillies are best equipped to beat them.It's not easy.

MFS62 Sep 29 2011 06:24 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

G-Fafif wrote: Mind you this is splitting hairs so as to make a call. They can both burn in hell, and may the Braves' figurative corpses be used to put out their flames. This. And, along with Mole, I vote for the NL East. Later

Fman99 Sep 29 2011 07:45 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

TransMonk wrote: I think the Phillies have the best shot of beating the Yanks if they make it to the WS, so maybe that's where some of the Philly love is coming from. But, I voted for the Cards. This was me also.

Ashie62 Sep 29 2011 07:53 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

Phillies at behest of Ashie 1.

batmagadanleadoff Sep 29 2011 08:43 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

TransMonk wrote: I think the Phillies have the best shot of beating the Yanks if they make it to the WS, so maybe that's where some of the Philly love is coming from. But, I voted for the Cards. If the Phillies and MFY's meet in the Series, it will be an unqualified disaster for most Mets fans, no matter who wins it all.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Sep 29 2011 09:03 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

Yeah, there's Herzog, and Pendleton, and LaRussa, and Yadier F. But until the Greatest Fans in Baseball infest my life so as to put Redbird merchandise on chain-store shelves and bicycling kids in my NYC borough, yell homophobic slurs and toss condiment packets at me when I visit their ballpark, and leak into my family via a least-favorite in-law... it's Whoever's Playing The Phils (Unless It's The MFYs), all day, every day.

Lefty Specialist Sep 30 2011 11:57 AM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

Cards. Although I hope Yadier F. Molina goes 0-20.

willpie Sep 30 2011 01:18 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

you know what? I can't pick. Eff them both.

Rockin' Doc Oct 01 2011 12:14 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

Not really a fan of either team. I'll be pulling for the Cardinals, but I don't see them overcoming the 1-2 punch of Halladay & Lee in a short series.

G-Fafif Oct 01 2011 03:15 PM Re: NLDS Rooting Interest Poll: Cardinals vs. Phillies

Funny, I thought I wanted the Cardinals to lose slightly more than I did the Phillies. Yet at 3-0 St. Louis versus Doc Wondeful, I'm not at all saddened.