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[Lach72]

Very loosely follow the Bluejays, as they were the first team I watched live. They also had the best hotdogs I’ve ever eaten sold from carts outside the sky dome.

They beat the Mets as I recall.
Also saw the white Sox on that trip in 1998

 

[The Round House Drunk]

I grew up in Wisconsin, so the Brewers have been my team since the early 80's. Apparently I went to the World Series in 82 but I was just a baby, so I don't remember it! lol.

Let me give you some context on the Brewers and Cubs and their fans. The Brewers are the small market team with very passionate fans. Wisconsin is a football state, but Milwaukee is a baseball town. The Brewers fans are winsome and genuine, who prefer to tailgate starting early in the morning so they got a good buzz on by the 7th inning so they can belt out "take me out to the ball game" at full throat. Brewers spent $86million on their 26 man active roster last year.

The Cubs are the "big market team" compared to the Brewers. The Cubs spent $177million on their 26 active man roster last year. So, over double the Brewers. The cubs fans are well known for coming to the Brewers stadium (it's only 60 min away) and getting into fights and acting like the a**holes they are. Here's just one example from this year where a Cubs fan was harassing a 10 year old kid.(https://sports.yahoo.com/article/cubs-fan-dragged-stadium-handcuffs-023720818.html). The Cubs fans call AmFam/Miller park "Wrigley North" because so many of them come up to watch the games. They mock the Brewers fans because there are more Cubs fans at times for a Brewers home game. What they don't understand is that we are AVOIDING THEM. There are 162 games a season. Why would we want to go watch some drunk a**hole get arrested for being a dick? We sell our tickets for secondary to make a buck off those dipsh**s to the south. And that's also why you won't see a lot of Brewers fans at Cubs games. It ain't worth it.

I live in the Chicago area now and honestly the fans are insufferable. Plus Wrigley field is a dump and notoriously smells like urine due to their open trough urinals (google "wrigley field smells like urine"). Here's a guy who covers the Reds take on Wrigley field.
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Wrigley was deemed to be the Grossest park in MLB, in 2012! Let me tell you it hasn't gotten better 13 years later. https://www.espn.com/blog/playbook/...igley-is-the-grossest-filthiest-ballpark-ever

It's very historic and beautiful in a "wow, this place has no modern amenities, the views are average, and it's a dump. Wasn't baseball great back in the day?" That's a no from me. You want history? Go to Lambeau Field. I've had Packers season tickets since 1995. There's no stadium like it anywhere. And the fans are fun, kind, love to talk smack (in a good way), and party harder than any fan base in sports. Here's a map of the percent of population that are considered "excessive drinkers" for all counties in the US.

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America's Drunkest and Driest Counties

This website shows how your area ranks among America's Drunkest and Driest Counties

intoxistates.com

Notice Wisconsin...they have like 14 of the drunkest counties in the country. In short, we party hard. Like really hard.

Obviously, I'm biased, but that's my take on things. If you want a smaller market underdog team that "punches above their weight" like greatgatsby said, then the Brewers are a great choice. There will be frustrations because of the inequities of MLB (unless they institute a salary cap or floor) but it's a good story to root for. Very Freo-esque. If you want a big market team that underperforms (won one world series in 100 years) despite being 5th in the league in spending and whose fans are avoided on game day because of their behavior, then the Cubs are a good choice.

If you ever come to Chicago, hit me up and I can help direct you to some good places to eat and go to wash off the urine smell after you visit Wrigley. lol.

And the Phillies? Well, their 3rd in the league in spending. Must be hard to win games when you spend a quarter of a BILLION dollars on players. F**k them too.

Thanks Daddoo, I really appreciate the local perspective.

I love an underdog - it’s part of the reason why I switched my support from WCE to Freo as a 12 year old in 1995.

So a small market team with passionate, dedicated and decent fans is a good match for me.

The colours might take some getting used to, though!

And thanks for the offer about Chicago. Next year we’re going to Korea and Japan as my wife is from that part of the world. I’m planning on taking my son to as many ball games as I can when over there.

The US is the goal for 2027 or 2028!

 

[DQ 4EVER]

You support Miami Dolphins as well

Somehow Freo give me less pain atm if that makes sense.

Not sure which of my 4 sporting teams will win a title first.

Freo are probably the closest tbh right now

NRL - Parramatta - Havent won since 1986 (rebuilding on the right track probably 2-3 years & been to 3 GF Losses in my lifetime

NFL - Miami - Havent won since 1973 started following them in 2008 - Yet to win a playoff since 2000

EPL - Fulham - Staying in the Premier League is a victory for me with Fulham

All the best with your teams
My other ones are Dynamo Kyiv, AC Milan, Barcelona & Tottenham Hotspur.
WAFL footy = mighty Bulldogs, South Freo
Can't get into nrl, so good luck to Parameter