2021 MLB Regular Season thread

It’s the Indians’ turn, thanks to “Dick Pic Mick.”

'Worst-kept secret’: What the Indians, MLB really knew about Mickey Callaway’s behavior

 

If they didn't do anything after the Red Sox/Yankees playoff debacle back in 2018, then they never will.
3 of 4 overturned in one game.

 

Life is baseball.

 

That's a really nice bit. The Cubs/White Sox thing is weird to me, maybe unlike any dynamic in American sports. There is so much romanticism about the Cubs nationally, whether it's Wrigley or the WGN days or Ernie Banks or whatever, whereas in the same city, there's a club that has been comparably successful but they play in a mediocre at best stadium with a stupid name on the Dan Ryan and nobody likes them. I've never met a full-fledged White Sox fan in my life, just Cubs fans who don't hate the White Sox. In 2005, the Sox hadn't won a World Series in 87 years and hardly anyone noticed or cared. Is it as simple as real estate and marketing?

 

In my experience, it depends on where you live as a Cubs fan.

If you're downstate or in one of the surrounding cornfield areas, then you care about the Cardinals rivalry. If you're from the city itself, you care about the White Sox rivalry.

 

I'm guessing this was the case a lot more often when there were two teams in Boston, Philadelphia and/or St. Louis, but there just isn't the same kind of parity between the New York teams (where the Yankees have almost always been winners and LOL Mets) or LA (where the Angels are LA but really aren't).

And the number of famous Cubs fans is too many to mention, but the White Sox have Barack Obama and ... ?

 

For New York, a lot of it also depends on the borough and region. Yankees territory generally is the Bronx (of course), Manhattan, and the Westchester area. Mets territory, for what it’s worth, is Queens (naturally), Brooklyn (where ex-Dodger fans adopted the Mets) and Long Island (proximity to Queens). Staten Island is generally split.

Same way with the Giants and Jets because they played in the respective stadiums of the baseball teams (Giants at Yankee Stadium, Jets at Shea). Older fans used to favor the Yankees and football Giants, while younger fans preferred the Mets/Jets, at least in the 1960s and 70s.

 

<Barack Obama has joined the chat>

 

The polar opposite may be San Francisco and Oakland. Hard-core followers for both, of course, but every now and then you see one of those dimwits with a half-Giants, half-A's cap that I thought was outlawed. Oakland fans seem to enjoy their team beat the Giants than vice versa.

 

Breaking ...

 

Forgot about that one. Other than the times their paths cross, I'm not sure I observed a lot of people giving the other side any mind when I was out there.