Favourite NL Team?

[Governator]

I want to start following the NL more but I don't really have a team to root for yet so it makes it hard. I need to know more of the players and get a good insight of how the team is run before making that choice (ex. I'm not just going to pick the Dodgers because they have money).

 

Who's your favourite from the NL and why?

[CJ-Freeway]

Well it used to be the Expos but so much for that...

 

So right now I'd say Mets. Since they are underdogs and I like their young players like Harvey, Lagares, Tejada, Wheeler, etc.

[G-Snarls]

Cardinals

[pickoff22]

Marlins. In 2003 when I was in undergrad my buddy and I put down a bet on them to win it all at 400-1 odds. They had just called up Dontrelle Willis at the time and had started to pull out of the pit they had dug themselves in. Needless to say they were the best team in baseball right after the bet, won the world series and my $100 bet turned into $40,000. Goodbye student debt!

 

Hoping they make a move this year. Would love to see them get Price (assuming Jays dont). They have the minor league players to do it and even if it isn't enough to get them far this year (though would have great shot at playoffs with Price) when Fernandez is back next year a combo of him and Price would be unbelievable.

[Governator]

Marlins. In 2003 when I was in undergrad my buddy and I put down a bet on them to win it all at 400-1 odds. They had just called up Dontrelle Willis at the time and had started to pull out of the pit they had dug themselves in. Needless to say they were the best team in baseball right after the bet, won the world series and my $100 bet turned into $40,000. Goodbye student debt!

 

Hoping they make a move this year. Would love to see them get Price (assuming Jays dont). They have the minor league players to do it and even if it isn't enough to get them far this year (though would have great shot at playoffs with Price) when Fernandez is back next year a combo of him and Price would be unbelievable.

 

 

That is one hell of a story! I didn't think any team could be a 400-1 dog to win the WS, well played.

[HERPDERP]

Pirates.

[bzapple]

Rockies, I took an interest in them around mid-2007 and latched onto them for their amazing World Series run, and I've been watching them fairly regularly since.

[pickoff22]

That is one hell of a story! I didn't think any team could be a 400-1 dog to win the WS, well played.

 

Caught an online bookmaker sleeping - hadn't adjusted the odds since they had the worst record in the league. Was a sportsbook called Bluegrass which perhaps unsurprisingly is now out of business

[NorthOf49]

Probably the Brewers. I hop around a fair bit with NL teams but I've always liked the Brewers.

[Sammy225]

I am a huge Votto fan.... Probably more than anyone in baseball Jays included. That being said i have always followed the Reds closely for the last 5-6 years. Does that make me a canadian homer.....Probably....Sue me lol

[eastcoastjaysfan]

Cardinals

 

Same. Love how they're run. Hate their fans but love the org from top to bottom.

[CJ-Freeway]

Marlins. In 2003 when I was in undergrad my buddy and I put down a bet on them to win it all at 400-1 odds. They had just called up Dontrelle Willis at the time and had started to pull out of the pit they had dug themselves in. Needless to say they were the best team in baseball right after the bet, won the world series and my $100 bet turned into $40,000. Goodbye student debt!

 

Hoping they make a move this year. Would love to see them get Price (assuming Jays dont). They have the minor league players to do it and even if it isn't enough to get them far this year (though would have great shot at playoffs with Price) when Fernandez is back next year a combo of him and Price would be unbelievable.

 

Not to be a prick but I watched mostly NL games in 2003 and I can tell you that the Marlins were lucky enough to win the NL WC for two reasons:

 

1. Expos had "home" games in Puerto Rico which exhausted the team

 

2. Expos weren't allowed September call ups that year because Selig said so

 

 

Without these reasons, I doubt the Marlins were gonna be able to win the WC. Not necessarily means that the Expos would have won it, but they would have given the Marlins a hard time doing so. They had very similar ballclubs that year.

[TheHurl]

Cards and Nats (the Expos fan in me)

[GD]

Cubs

[pickoff22]

Same. Love how they're run. Hate their fans but love the org from top to bottom.

 

Funny you mention that. For some reason I had it in my head that they had greats fans. But the series in Toronto against them this year proved otherwise - saw a lot of douchebags Card fans.

[pickoff22]

Not to be a prick but I watched mostly NL games in 2003 and I can tell you that the Marlins were lucky enough to win the NL WC for two reasons:

 

1. Expos had "home" games in Puerto Rico which exhausted the team

 

2. Expos weren't allowed September call ups that year because Selig said so

 

 

Without these reasons, I doubt the Marlins were gonna be able to win the WC. Not necessarily means that the Expos would have won it, but they would have given the Marlins a hard time doing so. They had very similar ballclubs that year.

 

 

That would have been fine, I had the Expos at 60-1 too But honestly, the Marlins were much more talented. Were a blast to watch. The two reasons you listed didn't cause the Expos to lose 8 more games than the fish.

[G-Snarls]

Funny you mention that. For some reason I had it in my head that they had greats fans. But the series in Toronto against them this year proved otherwise - saw a lot of douchebags Card fans.

 

I really liked the fans I've sat with at Bush Stadium and in Jupiter for ST. But may have just gotten lucky.

[CJ-Freeway]

Marlins. In 2003 when I was in undergrad my buddy and I put down a bet on them to win it all at 400-1 odds. They had just called up Dontrelle Willis at the time and had started to pull out of the pit they had dug themselves in. Needless to say they were the best team in baseball right after the bet, won the world series and my $100 bet turned into $40,000. Goodbye student debt!

 

Hoping they make a move this year. Would love to see them get Price (assuming Jays dont). They have the minor league players to do it and even if it isn't enough to get them far this year (though would have great shot at playoffs with Price) when Fernandez is back next year a combo of him and Price would be unbelievable.

 

That would have been fine, I had the Expos at 60-1 too But honestly, the Marlins were much more talented. Were a blast to watch. The two reasons you listed didn't cause the Expos to lose 8 more games than the fish.

 

That's your opinion, but most people who followed the Spos in 03 would disagree as the Expos were 1st in the NL East for most part of the first half. In addition, Expos and Marlins played about 10 games in August/September 2003, and I think the Marlins went 9-1. I think they would have went 5-5 at best if it weren't for the reasons I mentioned!

 

But I agree, I liked their team. Especially a big fan of young Miggy (see avatar lol)

[NLJays]

Feyenoord.

[G-Snarls]

Feyenoord.

 

I don't think that's a National League team.

[NLJays]

Nope, but it's a team from NL.

 

My favorite National League Team is probably the Reds, though I've been watching more of the Mets and Marlins to see our old friends like Henderson Alvarez.

[closetjaysfan]

Mets. First game I ever attended was at Shea Stadium when I was 10, July 1989. Glen Close (a friend of my moms) got us tickets. They were playing the Reds. Pete Rose was manager and a day or two before it had been revealed that he bet on baseball. This was one of his last games in baseball. Darrell Strawberry was slumping at the plate so the fans were booing him until he saved a HR and threw out a runner at second in one motion. The boos were replaced by screams of "we love you Darrell!". Eric Davis tore his MCL? or ACL? and was never the same again. A personal highlight was when unbeknownst to my brothers and I, Glen had prearranged to put our names on the score board it looked like this: THE METS WELCOME and Robin Williams and Billy Crystal

 

I can just picture them saying "who the f*** are those guys?" Incidentally, our family recorded the game on VHS for us and sure enough, Williams and Crystal commentated a couple of innings with Crystal being the color guy and Williams pretending to be from Russia and scoffing at American rules.

 

The real highlights came in the final innings. The night before, Juan Samuel (Mets), Tim Teufel (Mets), Norm Charlton (Reds) and Rob Dibble (Reds... who some of you may remember as the ass in "Best damn show in sports period") got into a fight. It started on the field when Dibble deliberately plunked Teufel who then charged the mound, (benches clearing) and continued into the locker room with Samuel beating the s*** out of Dibble. Samuel was benched for the game I attended and everyone expected Dibble to be suspended as well. In the late innings, Dibble came in relief with the Reds ahead. The fans started chanting DIBBLE! DIBBLE! like only a NY crowd can (I swear it was shaking the stadium). He walked the first batter on 4 pitches. The Mets pinch hit with Samuel who promptly crushed a ball over the right field fence. Mets win.

 

So yeah, its the Mets for me.

 

Here is a NY Times perspective on the game if anyone is interested:

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/10/sports/samuel-s-homer-soothing-to-mets.html

[StevieRay]

Phillies

 

After 2008 when they won the WS, I started to get into this game called MLB dugout heroes, in which Hamels had the best stats so it was easiest to start with that team. So it became natural to root for Phillies, and bonus for majority of their hitters being lefty and i am too.

[OtisNixonFan]

Arizona.

[L54]

Cards and Pirates. As a few guys have mentioned, the Cards are the model of consistency in baseball, one of the premier run teams in all of baseball.

 

As for the Pirates, I loved Travis Snider so I will always be partial to him. Also, huge Cutch fan. Enjoyed their run last year.

[Stangstag]

Love the Nationals' young core of Harper/Strasburg/Rendon

 

Also, the Cardinals because they are a f***ing powerhouse with a consistent flow of young talent.

[labadee]

D-Backs

[HASHTAGYOLOSWAG]

Giants. Love their pitching first mentality. Love the ballpark. Love how their team is run.

[NLJays]

Cards and Pirates. As a few guys have mentioned, the Cards are the model of consistency in baseball, one of the premier run teams in all of baseball.

 

As for the Pirates, I loved Travis Snider so I will always be partial to him. Also, huge Cutch fan. Enjoyed their run last year.

 

The Pirates used to be a model of consistency also. Recently it seems they have fluctuated quite a bit in how much they suck.

[Qwerty]

The Pirates used to be a model of consistency also. Recently it seems they have fluctuated quite a bit in how much they suck.

 

The brewers. Honestly i just love baking their babies.