Two City'ers: Where Is Your Allegiance?

[Skywalker]

Grew up in NYC, and I was always a Mets fan over the Yankees.

What part of NYC did you grow up in? I don't know how accurate it is, but I once heard that people from Manhattan and the Bronx tend to favor the Yankees, while people from Brooklyn and Queens lean toward the Mets. Obviously that wouldn't apply to everyone, I'm just curious as to how close that might be to the truth.

 

[clint g]

It goes like this

Staten Island, Manhattan, and the Bronx is mostly Yankees territory

Queens and Long Island (yeah, I know its not NYC ) mostly skews towards the Mets. Long Island people especially.

Brooklyn can go either way. There used to be alot of loyalists from the Dodgers era but not so much anymore

 

[Kira's Mom]

I'm originally from Staten Island. So I guess I'm a bit odd for being a Mets fan.

 

[Starbreaker]

It's odd for me because just about everybody is a Braves fan (if they can be bothered to watch baseball). Braves have coverage in Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi.. From where I live, you have to go pretty far to get to any Reds or Marlins fans. I see some Pirates and Reds around here sometimes, but I'm almost positive it's just to coordinate with outfits.

When it comes to the NFL, I see Falcons, Titans, Steelers, Cowboys, Bucs, Broncos, Dolphins, Packers fans etc... Due to widespread TV coverage of a lot of teams, I guess it doesn't really matter.

 

[Davros]

I hate the Raiders, no matter where they were.

As a lifelong Bronco fan, I approve of this message.

The Oakland Raiders are the focus of evil in the NFL today.
Go Broncos!!!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Oakland Raiders are the focus of evil in the NFL today.

They're probably just bitter because of that shit pile of a stadium they have to play in.

(Although the Raiders probably have an easier time there than the A's do. Especially since it's the Raiders' fault that the Coliseum is such a piece of crap. )

 

[SVD]

First generation baseball fan in my family, as a kid (5-8), I liked the A's and Giants, despite not actually watching the games. At about age 10, I found Giants games on TV and learned some of the game, and cemented my loyalties.

I'm solidly a Giants Fan, mainly because I was able to find the Giants game forst and I saw a nifty poster in this restaurant in Middletown, CA with a Giant of the mythological kind in a Giants uni chasing down another player.

I'm a bit of a fair weather viewer, but the Giants will always be my primary team.

my faves in the other two-team markets are mainly in the Senior Circuit: Texas = Astros, New York = Mets, Chicago = Cubs, Florida = Rays (Marlins are damn tough), LA = ANAHEIM Angels in '02 + traditional Dodgers hatred = NEITHER.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

While Phoenix, Arizona is technically a 1-team town, there are times when it has felt otherwise. Before the Cardinals finally stopped sucking a couple years ago, they often seemed like an away team in their own stadium (except that Sun Devil Stadium wasn't really their stadium. But I digress...). In particular, Sun Devil Stadium always felt like home territory for the Dallas Cowboys, and also sorta for the Green Bay Packers & Oakland Raiders whenever they would happen by. (Personally, I avoided the whole thing by focusing on college football. Go Sun Devils!)

Meanwhile, my father is originally from New Jersey. He grew up a dyed-in-the-wool Mets fan. But now, his allegiance has shifted to the Arizona Diamondbacks. (Although, considering how the Mets are doing vs. how the D-Backs are doing right now, I think he's made a huge mistake.)

 

[SmoothieX]

He grew up a dyed-in-the-wool Mets fan. But now, his allegiance has shifted to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

I'm a dyed in the wool Mets fan, can you tell me his secret of how he moved on, I'd really like to know?

 

[Starbreaker]

Watch some other team's games every day for several years?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Logically, I should be a Royals fan, 'cuz Kauffman Stadium is the closest major league park, and Omaha has their AAA team (also called Royals). My attachment to New York teams is strictly because I'm a tourist, with a tourist's obsession with that city.

And that is why I am a Yankees *and* Mets fan, since if I had to choose one team, I'd have to root against the other, and of course I can't do that. Unless they play each other. Which is rare, and therefore meaningless. (In the end, a rivalry only means something if the teams regularly play each other - Giants/Dodgers, Yankees/Redsox, etc.)

 

[Starbreaker]

There's really no need to keep defending yourself.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

While I like the A's and have been intrigued at following a lot of their moves over the years I was always a Giants fan.

Looks like the A's might move to San Jose now, which is Giants territory. Your thoughts on that?

 

[Davros]

The Oakland Raiders are the focus of evil in the NFL today.

They're probably just bitter because of that shit pile of a stadium they have to play in.

No they are just evil.

(Although the Raiders probably have an easier time there than the A's do. Especially since it's the Raiders' fault that the Coliseum is such a piece of crap. )

The Raiders are not the ones who leave that big diamond shaped dirt mark on the middle of the field.

 

[SmoothieX]

[anakin]From my point of view, the Colts are evil![/anakin]

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Logically, I should be a Royals fan, 'cuz Kauffman Stadium is the closest major league park, and Omaha has their AAA team (also called Royals). My attachment to New York teams is strictly because I'm a tourist, with a tourist's obsession with that city.

You're even more evil than I thought! The only thing worse than a Yankees fan is a Yankees fan who doesn't even have the excuse of being in or from New York!

He grew up a dyed-in-the-wool Mets fan. But now, his allegiance has shifted to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

I'm a dyed in the wool Mets fan, can you tell me his secret of how he moved on, I'd really like to know?

Watch some other team's games every day for several years?

I suspect that has a lot to do with it. He's lived in Arizona since at least the 1970s. He was still very much a Mets fan before the Diamondbacks were created and even during their 1st few years. But more than any particular team allegiance, he's a baseball fan first & foremost. Since the Diamondbacks games are the ones that are on TV most frequently around here, I believe that's the main cause of his shift. (Heck, he's so persistently cheap, I thought he would be one of the last people on the planet to get cable. But he immediately made the jump to cable once channel 3 stopped showing any Diamondbacks regular season games.) Now, he still has a secondary affinity for the Mets. But imagine my shock when we went to a Mets/Diamondbacks game a few years ago and he was rooting for the Diamondbacks over the Mets!

Personally, I'm born & raised in Arizona and strictly a home team guy. However, I do have the odd exception that I now root against the Arizona Cardinals. I used to root for them back when they sucked, but they sucked for so long & so irredeemably that now my universe no longer makes sense unless the Cardinals are losing. (Which was very awkward a couple years ago, when the Cardinals were in the Super Bowl and all the other Arizona natives were ecstatic, including a couple of my Arizona friends who had recently moved to Pittsburgh and were drawing considerable ire from their Steelers neighbors.)

Riddle me this: My step-mother is from East Chicago, Indiana. That's way south beyond the south side of Chicago, ostensibly White Sox territory. And yet, she's a Cubs fan. Is there some geographic peculiarity of East Chicago that I should know about or is this an individual thing that I should ask her about?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Logically, I should be a Royals fan, 'cuz Kauffman Stadium is the closest major league park, and Omaha has their AAA team (also called Royals). My attachment to New York teams is strictly because I'm a tourist, with a tourist's obsession with that city.

You're even more evil than I thought! The only thing worse than a Yankees fan is a Yankees fan who doesn't even have the excuse of being in or from New York!

Ironically it's easier for me to go to Yankees & Mets games than Royals games, even though KC's a lot closer. This is because I got relatives out east - no need for a hotel. That's why I developed such an attachment to New York - it's the only place I can afford to go.

(true, KC is "only" three hours away but I ain't gonna waste six fucking hours on the road just for one game. I'd pay as much for gas as I do now for plane fare. )

Since the Diamondbacks games are the ones that are on TV most frequently around here, I believe that's the main cause of his shift.

That's where MLB.TV comes in handy. Don't even need to watch games on TV anymore. In fact I may drop cable altogether now that I got this. I can see every Yankee and Met game live.

 

[SmoothieX]

I used to root for them back when they sucked, but they sucked for so long & so irredeemably that now my universe no longer makes sense unless the Cardinals are losing. (

I'm a Pats fan. My only hope is that some key player doesn't blow out his knee that week! Plus I grew up in NY. Took a lot of heat after, you know, that game against the Giants.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Raiders are not the ones who leave that big diamond shaped dirt mark on the middle of the field.

Well, now that the A's may just pack up and move to San Jose, they may not have to do that anymore.

 

[Admiral Shran]

I live in Northwestern Ohio, so I have no local major league teams to be a fan of; but my favorites in football, baseball, basketball, and hockey are the Cincinnati Bengals, the Cincinnati Reds, the Chicago Bulls, and the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Of cities that have two or more teams in those sports, my allegiance goes as follows....

NFL:
New York = Jets (I like the AFC better than the NFC.)
San Francisco Bay Area = Raiders (The 49ers beat the Bengals twice in the Superbowl .)
Washington D.C./Baltimore Area = Baltimore (Again, I like the AFC.)

MLB:
New York = Mets (The Yankees = PURE EVIL!)
Chicago = Cubs (I love an underdog.)
Los Angeles = Dodgers (Who can't like the Dodgers?)
San Francisco Bay Area = Giants (I used to be a Barry Bonds fan.)
Washington D.C./Baltimore Area = Orioles (Again, I like an underdog.)

NBA:
New York = Knicks (Hell, for the longest time, I didn't even know the Nets existed.)
Los Angeles = Clippers (Again, I love an underdog.)

NHL:
New York = Islanders (Hell, I'm just picking at random. I hardly follow hockey at all.)
Los Angeles = Ducks (Again, I'm just picking at random.)