lakerevolution wrote:3Peatkb24 wrote:Here is Rev tonight
Congrats on beating a great team and a hated rival and advancing.
Dodgers take out Giants 3 games to 2!
The whole "hated rival" thing has been mostly fan-created, and stems from their days as crosstown rivals in New York/Brooklyn. Northern and Southern California are two wildly different places from a cultural angle, with most of the "hate" coming from a jealous and frustrated Northern California which views LA, Hollywood etc. as a spoiled, superficial place with no soul. But Bay Area teams have had tons of success - more, probably than LA-area teams in the last four decades. Only the Lakers can boast a better franchise than any NorCal team - between the Forty Niners, Athletics, Giants and Warriors, there has been a lot to cheer about since the 1980s. The Giants and Warriors just recently pushed their way into the spotlight, and the Niners have appeared in two Superbowls recently. The A's seem to always field a competitive team (though the sad reality is they're probably headed to Las Vegas as well). Northern California teams seem to build their teams organically through good drafting and lots of luck, while SoCal teams have often been known for acquiring big talent through the use of big money.
In comparison, the Dodgers - though finally getting back to championship form - struggled through the 90s and part of the 00s before slowly climbing back into perennial playoff contention. The LA Raiders 1983 title was mainly the product of their 1981 Oakland Raider title team and the addition of Marcus Allen. After that, they've been one of the worst teams in the NFL and haven't come close to any real playoff success (outside of an all-too-brief period with Rich Gannon at QB - which ended in a Superbowl defeat at the hands of John Gruden's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and one of the most controversial rulings in NFL history on a snowy night in New England).
Giants fans will NEVER let this one go - even though they benefitted from a similar missed-call on a check-swing during the regular season that led them to a win (they won the NL West by one game, thus forcing the Dodgers into the Wild Card and a loss of homefield advantage against the Atlanta Braves). With the recent successes of both ballclubs, and now this controversial ending, it's safe to say the "hated rivalry" has never been bigger.
Interesting history Rev. While I was growing up I never understood why White Sox fans hated the Cubs so much and vise versa. As I got older I got it. Cubs are the North Siders, White Sox the South Siders. I have never lived in Chicago is probably why. To tell you the truth I never even cared if the White Sox won or loss, they were and are in the American League. What they do really had no bearing on what the Cubs were doing unlike your situation where the Giants are in your division. I always looked at the Cards as our rival and measuring stick. Most Cubs fans have. I never had hate for the White Sox up until we were in the WS in 2016 and there was a guy I worked with that was a White Sox fan, he hated the Cubs and every time we lost during that playoff run he would talk smack all day. Saying stuff like it is getting ready to be 109 years, you guys choke every year, etc.. I let him have it after we won it all in 2016 and he shut his piehole
. He started it so I began my smack talk for months, talk smack to me you wake up a sleeping fat teddy bear that growls
. Going back to 1903 when WS started, White Sox and Cubs have both won 3 but we just won in 2016, last one they won was in 2005. That 2016 Cubs team was 103-58 and would wipe the floor against that 2005 White Sox team as I was telling him, his rebutal - it was rigged for you guys to win
, that is all he had. Every night I would come in chanting MVP MVP (that was for Bryant), he hated that. One night when he came in and he went out into the facility I got on our Public address system, that was to notify employees of things. I said now batting for your World Champion Chicago Cubs, KRIS BRYANT. The whole warehouse was laughing. It was loud too
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