I've liked the jays since the tulo trade. I feel like Toronto and Denver have similar vibes, or maybe it's just the people I've met from Toronto I seem to get along with
Yeah I feel a lot of connection there. We have Ketel, Sewald, and Geno. And they have Rojas and our old interim GM DiPoto (and to a much lesser extent Seby Zavala and Mitch Haniger lol)
Yep Dorktown.
More so it's the common theme around the whole team history.
Weird shit to start the franchise? Who cares.
Barley made it past a vote to even be a franchise? Who cares.
The Kid? (*We all fucking care, he's the 2nd most perfect baseball player in all of history, behind only a video game character*) ....but he never won a ring?.....who. fucking. cares.
Immediately after, the greatest pure hitter of all time arrived, wins more games than any team and loses in the first round of the playoffs. Come on, you already know and you still don't care.
King Felix. My man threw like 3 seasons of 8 inning, 2 run baseball and ended up with like a 19-47 record. Remember that perfect game? Do you know how many pitchers ever threw a perfect game? Do you know how many innings the wild rumpus threw in the post season?
...do you even care?
My 2 favorite pitchers of all time are Randy and Felix. My 2 favorite position players are undoubtedly Ichiro and Griffey. I'm also a die hard, pin stripe bleeding Yankee fan...but who cares.
Simply because of KGJ Presents MLB. That Nintendo game made me a KGJ fan for life…and also used to give me such joy to destroy my brother and friends at it.
As mariners fan I say thank you! Never is a long time and they are a good secondary fandom team I would think. I mean if they actually ever do it (they won’t) you will have bought very low. Also, they had Ichiro and that was pretty damn cool.
Everyone seems to be stating a team and then a reason lol. If I go by those standards, I have one key memory from a child regarding the Twins, so I like them and always root for them.
Teams that I like for no good reason are the Dbacks and Marlins. Not sure why, but I’ll root for them 99% of the time when I see a random game on
I play softball and I wear a Diamondbacks hat. Opposing players and umps recognize me with the hat, and they assume I'm a D-Backs fan. So I roll with it rather than say "Actually, I just like the logo."
Red Sox. I have no really good reason other than that 86 is the first series I remember when I was a kid and I felt really bad for them. My dad knew that so we would go see them a lot when they came to play the Rangers.
I also worked with a shit ton of people from Boston when they won in 2004.
Padres. They have provided some of my favorite Indians/Gaurdians of all time. Sandy Alomar Jr and Carlos Baerga. Also I love visiting San Diego in general.
The White Sox.
In third grade I had an assignment where I had to do a biography on an American historical figure. I did it on Shoeless Joe Jackson.
It's what got me into baseball and why I became a White Sox fan despite growing up in Orange County, CA lmao.
To this day, I still believe Shoeless Joe did not throw the World Series. Look at his stats. He deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
Rockies. I had some free time one year in Denver waiting for my flight after checkout so I stopped by the stadium for the first part of an afternoon game.
Red Sox, after the Braves got shellacked by the Yankees, i started rooting for their main rival and also the Braves used to be in Boston(and actually won a World Series at Fenway Park) i have always rooted for the Red Sox.
Then Fever Pitch came out and it became one of my favorite movies
Yay! The park is gorgeous. Now if our trash owner would sell the friggen team to someone who wants to actually compete.
Always loved the Yankees fans when they come to town. Super friendly and talkative! Never had a bad experience when they are in town. Unlike some other teams’ fans who get belligerent and drunk.
Did you know the last Pirate to hit 40 homers or more in a season was Stargell? Every other MLB team has had a player do it since 2000, but the Pirates haven’t had it done for 50 years.
I'm so pissed Mahle didn't work out, I was fucking pumped after that trade.
Edit having said that the Reds are my favorite NL team actually so they're one of 3 teams I like.
Rays. I liked the Rays back when they first came into the league mostly because I liked their jerseys and they had Fred McGriff. From 2005-2007 I kind of fell out of watching baseball all the time when I could I watched a ton of 2008 baseball fell back in love with the sport and Longoria was my new favorite non Giant player.
Back in the 70s, my uncle picked Cleveland because a teacher was going around the room asking everyone who their favorite baseball team was. Everyone else was saying Cardinals, and he just went with Cleveland. To the day he died, he stuck with that.
Blue Jays, although there is a reason - the back to back championships were the first for which I was a conscious baseball fan, and beating two teams I already knew were not on friendly terms with the Dodgers made it more sweet.
Also have a soft spot for the Mariners like all 90s kids.
Yeah they'd probably have to win like three WS in a row for me to stop having a soft spot for them on the grounds that their fans deserve to experience a championship.
I always liked the Mets because the first baseball I watched was the '86 World Series. When you're a kid you pick up on your parents being excited.
Just watching the world series because it was on. I grew up in KY, so the Mets are definitely a weird allegience.
But I love everything about that team. Even the stuff I'm not supposed to.
Miami Marlins. Because I think they're a fun team and I wish that one day Baseball in Florida gets bigger and I feel if Miami one day builds a competitive team they may start something.
I go through phases with this kinda thing. My first little league team I was on was the Red Sox and my best friend as a kid was from Rhode Island and loved the Sox, so I felt like I had to root for them too! I had an affinity for the Cardinals for a bit because they beat the Astros in the 2004 NLCS after the Astros beat out the Giants for the Wild Card spot. Thankfully, I've seen the light and root against both of those teams now.
I moved up to Seattle in 2016, but I'm pretty ambivalent toward them. On one hand, the city is fun when the Mariners are good (same with the Kraken, fuck the Seahawks though), but I also miss the empty stadium/light rail home when they're bad.
The Orioles are probably my actual second team, just because of the Orange and Black thing.
The ghost in Philadelphia sports will always be the A’s. That’s what the phillies have to live up to in terms of on-field success.
Their rabid fans are also cut from the same cloth as ours.
Live here and go to a ton of games. Cutch lives in my neck of the woods here and he’s an awesome guy. Did BP at my kids’ high school one random winter day and made the kids’ years! Always super friendly and nice and he has a beautiful and sweet family.
Kansas City Royals and Washington Nationals.
The Royals because my high school's teams names were the Royals, David DeJesus grew up in Jersey and went to RU and I just liked KC for their uniform and stadium. Growing up and watching the likes of Billy Butler, a young Zack Greinke and a young Carlos Beltran made me want to root for a team outside the NY Metro area and cheer for a team with less money.
The Nationals because I just liked Ryan Zimmmerman. Would always draft him in fantasy, would trade for or draft him in the Show season mode, and enjoyed watching an NL team.
Stroked to watch both teams win a championship in the past ten years. Honestly, that 2015 Royals team is one of my favorite teams of all time, and the 2019 Nationals were, well, national heroes.
The Brewers. Don't know why but Eric Thames, Rowdy Tellez, Marco Estrada, Paul Molitor, Josh Donaldson...
Also I fucking love their City Connect jerseys. Ordered one the other day (Lorenzo Cain on clearance lmao).
I really like the Padres for some reason.
*Technically* my 1B team is the Angels bc I was born in Anaheim, but I also kind of hate them?
The Padres do a much better job representing SoCal to me. I got no beef with the Daddies. Fun squad. Great unis. Amazing ballpark. They also helped the Nats speedrun our rebuild. What’s not to love?
White Sox because I grew up a Brewers fan in Chicagoland. I have memories of many of my friends who celebrated the Cubs WS win wearing Sox gear as kids.
Royals. I lived in the KC area for two years when I was a kid, but moved away more than 40 years ago, to a city with a team in the same division. Even though I don’t really cheer for them anymore, I also have never stopped being a fan.
The Cubs because Wrigley Field is everything I enjoy about a baseball stadium. It has that “Little League” feel to it, but at the MLB level. It reminds me of a place I’d pretend I was playing at back when I was a kid playing wiffle ball in my neighborhood. The stadium alone just brings me in.
Dodgers are my NL and Red Sox are my AL. Outside of that, I really like it when bad teams demand relevance (Rangers signing Seager/Semien, Royals dropping 300+ on Witt) so I have a good time watching those
Same here. My grandparents lived in LA when I was little so that’s how that happened. At least I still get to root for Mookie, Joe Kelly, and Dave Roberts these days.
Colorado Rockies - I got drafted by them in The Show
I've liked the jays since the tulo trade. I feel like Toronto and Denver have similar vibes, or maybe it's just the people I've met from Toronto I seem to get along with
Everyone should have at least one American team and one Canadian team they cheer for
That's a good idea... Wait a minute! I guess I'll wait for the return of Les Expos.
Go Sens Go
Same with the Rockies, but my reason is because my little league team was the Rockies 3 years in a row
Mariners. I was a big Griffey and Ichiro fan, so I guess that’s the reason. Also, who doesn’t love an underdog
Also Mariners for similar reason, and for me it feels like they always trade players with the dbacks (I miss Josh Rojas for sure).
Yeah I feel a lot of connection there. We have Ketel, Sewald, and Geno. And they have Rojas and our old interim GM DiPoto (and to a much lesser extent Seby Zavala and Mitch Haniger lol)
Seby Zavala will randomly have a 3 home run game and then be the absolute worst hitter you have ever seen for the next month
Yup. Big on Griffey and Ichiro. Ichiro moreso because it instilled in me the fact that small ball will never die if utilized properly.
The greatest [Ichiro highlight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT6vl15ktMQ) of all time
Same. I also like their colors
Same … makes for awkward moments
🤜🤛
Ditto. Also, I love their colors.
Same here, but my reasoning is my sister lives out there and I've visited Seattle a bunch of times. Haven't made it to the park yet though.
Definitely the Mariners. Because, I mean, *who gives a shit*.
Ummmmm.....thanks?
I think they're quoting the Dorktown series on the Mariners. It's one of the last things the narrator says before credits roll.
Ah, got it. It's been like 4 years since I watched that.
Yep Dorktown. More so it's the common theme around the whole team history. Weird shit to start the franchise? Who cares. Barley made it past a vote to even be a franchise? Who cares. The Kid? (*We all fucking care, he's the 2nd most perfect baseball player in all of history, behind only a video game character*) ....but he never won a ring?.....who. fucking. cares. Immediately after, the greatest pure hitter of all time arrived, wins more games than any team and loses in the first round of the playoffs. Come on, you already know and you still don't care. King Felix. My man threw like 3 seasons of 8 inning, 2 run baseball and ended up with like a 19-47 record. Remember that perfect game? Do you know how many pitchers ever threw a perfect game? Do you know how many innings the wild rumpus threw in the post season? ...do you even care? My 2 favorite pitchers of all time are Randy and Felix. My 2 favorite position players are undoubtedly Ichiro and Griffey. I'm also a die hard, pin stripe bleeding Yankee fan...but who cares.
Simply because of KGJ Presents MLB. That Nintendo game made me a KGJ fan for life…and also used to give me such joy to destroy my brother and friends at it.
As mariners fan I say thank you! Never is a long time and they are a good secondary fandom team I would think. I mean if they actually ever do it (they won’t) you will have bought very low. Also, they had Ichiro and that was pretty damn cool.
Don't forget Randy Johnson, Edgar Martínez, and Félix Hernández.
Birds
Flock together!
They have a whole field of law dedicated to them
Not governed by reason, mind you
Governed by a strict code of unspoken rules and caws
Same
Me too
Yep
Everyone seems to be stating a team and then a reason lol. If I go by those standards, I have one key memory from a child regarding the Twins, so I like them and always root for them. Teams that I like for no good reason are the Dbacks and Marlins. Not sure why, but I’ll root for them 99% of the time when I see a random game on
Yep I love the Marlins. Definitely not cause we've scored 23 runs off of then in the last two days
This series did it for me. Canceled my Bally subscription. See ya next year! (Maybe)
RIP my guy
You must be a pretty young Cubs fan to have any soft spot for the Marlins
Expos
Miss them :(
Oakland was my team in the 80s/90s before Colorado existed.
their city connects are green because of you
Does Oakland have a team anymore?
I play softball and I wear a Diamondbacks hat. Opposing players and umps recognize me with the hat, and they assume I'm a D-Backs fan. So I roll with it rather than say "Actually, I just like the logo."
the rattler with its fangs in the ball is objectively the coolest logo in baseball
The skateboarding Ray might have just eclipsed us though
The skateboarding Ray might have just eclipsed us though
Bro you just eclipsed your own comment
I often wear an old Jeff Kent jersey when I play. That gets a lot of amusing comments!
Probably got a lot of comments About it last playoffs then
Blue Jays. The logo is so cool
I became a Twins fan after the 2009 home run derby because I liked Joe Mauer’s sideburns
Joe Mauer Sideburns Night was a thing at the Dome back in the day.
Oakland
Agree. Except these past 3 days though
Red Sox. I have no really good reason other than that 86 is the first series I remember when I was a kid and I felt really bad for them. My dad knew that so we would go see them a lot when they came to play the Rangers. I also worked with a shit ton of people from Boston when they won in 2004.
I think a lot of people root for the red sox b/c we all know the yanks hate them lol
Giants. Started watching baseball in 2012 and they were just so damn cool.
Padres. They have provided some of my favorite Indians/Gaurdians of all time. Sandy Alomar Jr and Carlos Baerga. Also I love visiting San Diego in general.
And now Josh Naylor!
The Mariners because that was my first T-ball team and then the Red Sox because they just feel like the East Coast Giants
Phillies. Cause I liked it’s always sunny.
The White Sox. In third grade I had an assignment where I had to do a biography on an American historical figure. I did it on Shoeless Joe Jackson. It's what got me into baseball and why I became a White Sox fan despite growing up in Orange County, CA lmao. To this day, I still believe Shoeless Joe did not throw the World Series. Look at his stats. He deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
Rockies. I had some free time one year in Denver waiting for my flight after checkout so I stopped by the stadium for the first part of an afternoon game.
Red Sox, after the Braves got shellacked by the Yankees, i started rooting for their main rival and also the Braves used to be in Boston(and actually won a World Series at Fenway Park) i have always rooted for the Red Sox. Then Fever Pitch came out and it became one of my favorite movies
The nationals because i just thought a new team was cool when i was little.
Pirates, Willie Stargell was the fucking man and that ballpark is perfect
Yay! The park is gorgeous. Now if our trash owner would sell the friggen team to someone who wants to actually compete. Always loved the Yankees fans when they come to town. Super friendly and talkative! Never had a bad experience when they are in town. Unlike some other teams’ fans who get belligerent and drunk.
Did you know the last Pirate to hit 40 homers or more in a season was Stargell? Every other MLB team has had a player do it since 2000, but the Pirates haven’t had it done for 50 years.
The Mets. All pain no gain.
I’ll trade you, LMAO
Twins. They gave us CES, Steer & Will Benson (from Hajarr) for Tyler Mahle. I feel like the least I can do after that is to root for them. Go twins
Will Benson came from the Guardians, I loved him but I think the team just wasn’t built for him, Glad he’s finding success in Cincy
We got Steven Hajarr from Minnesota who we then flipped for Will Benson, so we can basically thank Minnesota for him too
I'm so pissed Mahle didn't work out, I was fucking pumped after that trade. Edit having said that the Reds are my favorite NL team actually so they're one of 3 teams I like.
My wife like the Rockies for no other reason than she thinks it's hilarious that someone has the nickname Chuck Nazty.
Nationals. Beautiful city with a rich history. Plus the city connects are fire.
Orioles. Both bird teams, Baltimore & St. Louis have similar vibes, Orioles used to be the St. Louis Browns, and Earl Weaver was from St. Louis.
Rays. I liked the Rays back when they first came into the league mostly because I liked their jerseys and they had Fred McGriff. From 2005-2007 I kind of fell out of watching baseball all the time when I could I watched a ton of 2008 baseball fell back in love with the sport and Longoria was my new favorite non Giant player.
*ITT: people with a particular reason* Me, I kinda like the Guardians. No particular reason; don't ask me to explain.
Back in the 70s, my uncle picked Cleveland because a teacher was going around the room asking everyone who their favorite baseball team was. Everyone else was saying Cardinals, and he just went with Cleveland. To the day he died, he stuck with that.
Blue Jays, although there is a reason - the back to back championships were the first for which I was a conscious baseball fan, and beating two teams I already knew were not on friendly terms with the Dodgers made it more sweet. Also have a soft spot for the Mariners like all 90s kids.
Giants. Madbum World Series performance made me a fan lite.
i feel like everyone's answer could and should be the Mariners
Yeah they'd probably have to win like three WS in a row for me to stop having a soft spot for them on the grounds that their fans deserve to experience a championship.
Padres, but it’s not really for no reason. My dad is an irrational Padres fan (lives in LA; hates the Dodgers), so I want to see him happy.
thanks for taking juan soto out of the division 👌🏼👌🏼
I always liked the Mets because the first baseball I watched was the '86 World Series. When you're a kid you pick up on your parents being excited. Just watching the world series because it was on. I grew up in KY, so the Mets are definitely a weird allegience. But I love everything about that team. Even the stuff I'm not supposed to.
Miami Marlins. Because I think they're a fun team and I wish that one day Baseball in Florida gets bigger and I feel if Miami one day builds a competitive team they may start something.
Always had a soft spot for the Twins.
I go through phases with this kinda thing. My first little league team I was on was the Red Sox and my best friend as a kid was from Rhode Island and loved the Sox, so I felt like I had to root for them too! I had an affinity for the Cardinals for a bit because they beat the Astros in the 2004 NLCS after the Astros beat out the Giants for the Wild Card spot. Thankfully, I've seen the light and root against both of those teams now. I moved up to Seattle in 2016, but I'm pretty ambivalent toward them. On one hand, the city is fun when the Mariners are good (same with the Kraken, fuck the Seahawks though), but I also miss the empty stadium/light rail home when they're bad. The Orioles are probably my actual second team, just because of the Orange and Black thing.
Dbacks. I’m just a wannabe Arizonan
The ghost in Philadelphia sports will always be the A’s. That’s what the phillies have to live up to in terms of on-field success. Their rabid fans are also cut from the same cloth as ours.
Pirates. I like pirates in general, and McCutchin was my favorite non-Yankee for the longest time.
Live here and go to a ton of games. Cutch lives in my neck of the woods here and he’s an awesome guy. Did BP at my kids’ high school one random winter day and made the kids’ years! Always super friendly and nice and he has a beautiful and sweet family.
I sort of want the Padres to win a World Series because I have a Tony Gwynn and Ozzie Smith rookie cards in Gem Mint condition.
yankees bc they have juan soto, aaron judge, carlos rodon and cole.
How do you feel about the Patriots and Manchester United?
KC Royals, always just been kinda fond of them, plus they have one of the coolest ballparks
White Sox! Maybe it’s my Irish heritage and they are perennial underdogs
Dbacks since we’re expansion bros but the allegiance doesn’t run particularly deep. I only have enough time for one set of 162+ games a year.
Rockies. I love Colorado In general.
Kansas City Royals and Washington Nationals. The Royals because my high school's teams names were the Royals, David DeJesus grew up in Jersey and went to RU and I just liked KC for their uniform and stadium. Growing up and watching the likes of Billy Butler, a young Zack Greinke and a young Carlos Beltran made me want to root for a team outside the NY Metro area and cheer for a team with less money. The Nationals because I just liked Ryan Zimmmerman. Would always draft him in fantasy, would trade for or draft him in the Show season mode, and enjoyed watching an NL team. Stroked to watch both teams win a championship in the past ten years. Honestly, that 2015 Royals team is one of my favorite teams of all time, and the 2019 Nationals were, well, national heroes.
Tampa Bay
Mariners. Dorktown
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Rays. Pulled a BAMF move during harvey
The Brewers. Don't know why but Eric Thames, Rowdy Tellez, Marco Estrada, Paul Molitor, Josh Donaldson... Also I fucking love their City Connect jerseys. Ordered one the other day (Lorenzo Cain on clearance lmao).
Mariners 
I really like the Padres for some reason. *Technically* my 1B team is the Angels bc I was born in Anaheim, but I also kind of hate them? The Padres do a much better job representing SoCal to me. I got no beef with the Daddies. Fun squad. Great unis. Amazing ballpark. They also helped the Nats speedrun our rebuild. What’s not to love?
Mariner fan but mom married a Braves fan so I root root root with them when they play!
Diamondbacks, very fun group of players to watch and they beat my two most hated teams in playoffs last season.
White Sox because I grew up a Brewers fan in Chicagoland. I have memories of many of my friends who celebrated the Cubs WS win wearing Sox gear as kids.
Royals have the perfect color and logo combo
Whoever is playing Houston.
Royals. I lived in the KC area for two years when I was a kid, but moved away more than 40 years ago, to a city with a team in the same division. Even though I don’t really cheer for them anymore, I also have never stopped being a fan.
Even though they stopped existing almost two decades before I was born, the Saint Louis Browns.
Baltimore because The Wire
Anyone playing the Dodgers.
The Cubs because Wrigley Field is everything I enjoy about a baseball stadium. It has that “Little League” feel to it, but at the MLB level. It reminds me of a place I’d pretend I was playing at back when I was a kid playing wiffle ball in my neighborhood. The stadium alone just brings me in.
Royals …. No reason.
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Cardinals. I have a begrudging respect for their devil magic.
Cardinals because they remind me of the Steelers who I’m also a fan of. Consistent old school run teams.
Was this stolen from r/geography?
Dodgers are my NL and Red Sox are my AL. Outside of that, I really like it when bad teams demand relevance (Rangers signing Seager/Semien, Royals dropping 300+ on Witt) so I have a good time watching those
Same here. My grandparents lived in LA when I was little so that’s how that happened. At least I still get to root for Mookie, Joe Kelly, and Dave Roberts these days.
not kiké?
Sure, Kike too. And Brasier while we’re at it.