What are the best MLB rivalries going on today? In the bay area the Giants/Dodgers is always a crazy series, this year they are giving tickets for the games to lucky fans who win a monthly contest, hopefully it helps to pump up the crowd.
There are some great rivalries in baseball. I hadn't heard Giants/Dodgers was that intense, but cool that it is. I'm pretty sure Cubs fans hate everybody, and Philly fans hate their own team.
Cards/Cubs is a great rivalry that nobody seems to really notice. There's so much passion involved, and its not as friendly as everyone says. That's one thing I always hear that kind of baffles me, I guess they think since we're in the Midwest we must be super nice or something . It doesn't get the publicity of the Sox/Yanks (neither does LA/SF, which is just as good as any of these rivalries), but it's just as intense.
"Oh, that Lankford and McGee, the trio of 'em. They're a one-man wrecking crew."
TheRock wrote:There are some great rivalries in baseball. I hadn't heard Giants/Dodgers was that intense, but cool that it is. I'm pretty sure Cubs fans hate everybody, and Philly fans hate their own team.
its true! wouldnt you if pop-pop manuel was managing your team too?
The Dodgers/Giants rivalry ever since it came to California is pretty intense (I could imagine more so when both teams were situated in NY), but I think aside from a few incidents (i.e. a Giants fan being killed by a Dodger fan in '03, Steve Finley's walk-off pennant-winning grand slam in '04), the rivalry isn't that unfriendly, in my opinion. You'll still hear trash talk or harsh words exchanged between Dodger and Giants fans at the games that turns into a matter of why Norcal is better than Socal and vice versa, but that's all really. I remember when I was in college, campus seemed to be flooded with Giants fans and/or Norcal natives and it seemed like some or most of them were so snobbish, they didn't want to mix any verbal jabs at you. While there's a rivalry, I find that there's this prevailing Californian attitude of "I won't mess with you if you don't mess with me" which kind of waters down the intensity of it all. But that's just me, seeing how I look at soccer rivalries in Europe and South America as the yardstick as to what makes a rivalry filled with bad blood.
The Artful Dodger wrote:The Dodgers/Giants rivalry ever since it came to California is pretty intense (I could imagine more so when both teams were situated in NY), but I think aside from a few incidents (i.e. a Giants fan being killed by a Dodger fan in '03, Steve Finley's walk-off pennant-winning grand slam in '04), the rivalry isn't that unfriendly, in my opinion. You'll still hear trash talk or harsh words exchanged between Dodger and Giants fans at the games that turns into a matter of why Norcal is better than Socal and vice versa, but that's all really. I remember when I was in college, campus seemed to be flooded with Giants fans and/or Norcal natives and it seemed like some or most of them were so snobbish, they didn't want to mix any verbal jabs at you. While there's a rivalry, I find that there's this prevailing Californian attitude of "I won't mess with you if you don't mess with me" which kind of waters down the intensity of it all. But that's just me, seeing how I look at soccer rivalries in Europe and South America as the yardstick as to what makes a rivalry filled with bad blood.
Giants fans are snobbish because they didn't mix any verbal jabs???
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by ccorces1 » Tue Jun 12, 2007 3:21 pm 
. It doesn't get the publicity of the Sox/Yanks (neither does LA/SF, which is just as good as any of these rivalries), but it's just as intense.
