![]() ![]() The Giants season isn’t even cold yet-we can’t go around and cheer for the team that out-paced them in the West by 8 games. That being said, this business and you just can’t root for a division rival right out of the gate. I feel for these people, their historical trials and tribulations-I’ll always shamefully hold a soft-spot for the Swingin’ Friars. ![]() My brother and a lot of my friends are Padres fans. Ortiz’s California burritos, the zoo and its pandas (though I think the pandas are gone now), Qualcomm, Tony Gwynn, Trevor Hoffman, and KHALIL GREENE. San Diego Padres (5) vs New York Mets (4) Maybe you really like Bo Bichette’s hair. Maybe former Mets reliever Roger McDowell spit on you coming out of the players parking lot after a game in the early 90’s and from that moment on you swore off anything Shea for the rest of your life. We all have our hang-ups and our blind spots. Sami posted their rankings earlier-similar, but not the same. How you, loyal Giants fan, cheer for the contending teams is up to you. It’s an act that covers a multitude of past sins. Who cares what Atlanta did in 1993? They redeemed themselves by knocking the Dodgers from championship contention. The moment the Atlanta Braves cemented game 6 of the ‘21 NLCS, Northern California took a collective sigh of relief. This fan guide is dictated by what team has the best chance of beating the Los Angeles Dodgers. It’s not the healthiest or emotionally productive way to spend the next couple of weeks, but the solution certainly isn’t to turn off the TV, curl up by the fire and read a book. The past five Octobers have been driven by a slightly less wholesome, arguably fiercer drive to see one team in particular fail and fail and fail and fail and fail. The early 2010s were a dream-a bliss bordering on delirium of three championships each more unlikely than the last. ![]() San Francisco Giants fans are very much in touch with this sentiment. Duane Kuiper quipped recently that the postseason is all about rooting passionately for a team or passionately against one. ![]()
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