Who MLB would like to see win?

by LantermanC on Feb 22, 2008 7:35 AM PST

I saw an article recently about players being asked who they would like to see win a championship (that hasn't already done so) and the KG got first with 6 (seems kind of low) and Nash was 2nd with 5.
I wonder what the results would be for baseball. I don't think Ichiro would be very high, since players are more in awe of him, not buddy buddy (well opposing players perhaps). You think A-Rod would be high on the list?

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Griffey'd probably be up there.

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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 22, 2008 7:42 AM PST reply actions

If you were going with the MLB HQ financial guys,

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by Jed MC on Feb 22, 2008 7:51 AM PST reply actions

I don't think they'd be nearly as happy

with one of the SoCal teams as they would be if Chicago, Boston or NY won, since the fan bases of those teams are not nearly as rabid as the east coast teams.

Honestly, the Mariners winning probably would make them pretty happy - further marketing opportunities in Asia (well right now just Japan but...)

by seattlebruin on Feb 22, 2008 8:15 AM PST up reply actions

If I understand the question correctly

and I'm not sure I do, because of the...creative syntax, I think he's asking which PLAYER you'd like to see win a WS ring.

For me, it's Junior, followed closely by...well, that's pretty much it, really. I'd love to see A-Rod win one, too, but not with the Yankees.

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by pdb on Feb 22, 2008 8:42 AM PST up reply actions

Yeah, I think your interpretation is correct,

but while we we're on the subject of teams.

For players, I think that, it would be Junior for sure, and then maybe... Derek Jet... oh wait.

Yeah, there really aren't any other players out there. In terms of people, I'd love to see Billy Beane win one someday, just as a giant fuck you to MLB/Bud Selig as a whole

by seattlebruin on Feb 22, 2008 9:10 AM PST up reply actions

I think he was asking about players too,

but I couldn't come up with anyone in particular and I don't really know who is popular among players. Biggio and Bagwell both retired and they were my first two.

by Jed MC on Feb 22, 2008 9:27 AM PST up reply actions

This is unrelated

but I didn't see the need to write a new diary for it.

Prince Fielder, everyone's favorite liftoff-sliding 260 pound masher, is now a vegetarian.

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by Gomez on Feb 22, 2008 8:58 AM PST reply actions

Trevor Hoffman

would be someone I wouldn't mind seeing win a world series....

Jamie Moyer would be my other...

Doubt though many in baseball would have the same feelings about them.

by MfaninAlaska on Feb 22, 2008 9:15 AM PST reply actions

I forgot about those two

and I'd be happy to see either one win, Moyer more so than Hoffman.

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by pdb on Feb 22, 2008 9:20 AM PST up reply actions

Good call

I think most people in baseball would absolutely agree with you.

I'd add Biggio, Todd Helton and maybe Torii Hunter.

by marc w on Feb 22, 2008 10:51 AM PST up reply actions

Ernie Banks?

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by PositivePaul on Feb 22, 2008 10:05 AM PST reply actions

Duh!

Dave Niehaus!

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by PositivePaul on Feb 22, 2008 10:55 AM PST reply actions

I'd like to see A-Rod win the series

with a walk off homer, with the caveat that he rounds the bases at Yankee Stadium with both middle fingers high in the air and then curbstomps Jeter on home plate.

by Jordan of Boise on Feb 22, 2008 10:55 AM PST reply actions

Bonds?

by johnbai on Feb 22, 2008 11:15 AM PST reply actions

I almost said that

but didn't want to face the inevitable shitstorm. And when I almost said it, I was actually serious.

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by pdb on Feb 22, 2008 11:17 AM PST up reply actions

I actually think I'd be marginally happy

if Bonds won the WS. Especially if he did it in SF, where they love him (and also because a lot of my close friends are big Giants fans).

Plus, he's taken a lot of shit over the years, a lot of it deservedly so, but a lot of the criticism has been unfair too. As Jeff so eloquently put it,

"Barry Bonds is neither the first player to (allegedly) cheat nor the first player to be a dick."

by seattlebruin on Feb 22, 2008 11:22 AM PST up reply actions

Absolutely Bonds

And on the same note Clemens. Never mind what Rocket's done in the past, I just want to see them win without being on the juice (and when their competition isn't on it, either) so they can give the collective F-U to the masses who immediately assume now that they'd never be talented without roids. These weren't the only guys who took them, and they'd still be pretty damn talented if they hadn't.

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." ~Rogers Hornsby

by thejew4u on Feb 22, 2008 12:45 PM PST up reply actions

Clemens already has a ring

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by pdb on Feb 22, 2008 12:52 PM PST up reply actions

i agree

I was happy when Pujols won despite being on a mediocre team for the same reason. When you're so much better than everyone else, there's something tragic about not winning a championship. Maybe because we know it opens the door for the media to unjustly downgrade the player's abilities in the minds of many.

holt shit its christmas.

by yteimlad on Feb 22, 2008 4:18 PM PST up reply actions

I'd put Ichiro at the top of my list

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by Gomez on Feb 22, 2008 11:53 AM PST reply actions

Jay Buhner

How about the entire 40 man roster that the M's carry into this season. It's not about who will win it, it's about who I want to see win it. Of the current players who I'd genuinely be happy to see win it? Ichiro for sure, Beltre and Putz too. Bedard and Felix, but they both have plenty of time to keep being awesome after this season (hopefully spending the next decade at the front of the M's rotation!)

Sorry, you pushed me down the optimism hill. Now it's just snowballing :)

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." ~Rogers Hornsby

by thejew4u on Feb 22, 2008 12:48 PM PST reply actions

Shane Monahan

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on Feb 22, 2008 1:52 PM PST reply actions

Nick Punto

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Feb 22, 2008 2:04 PM PST reply actions

How's the hangover?

by Sec 108 on Feb 22, 2008 2:07 PM PST up reply actions

Hangover, hell

He'd better still be drunk. He's got nothing better to do.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Feb 22, 2008 2:08 PM PST up reply actions

Damn straight!

Could you please make another Bloody Mary in honor of those of us stuck at work?

by Sec 108 on Feb 22, 2008 2:11 PM PST up reply actions

it would be my pleasure.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Feb 22, 2008 2:23 PM PST up reply actions

No hangover.

Had about 4 drinks and got into a coughing fit (unrelated to the drinking). Limited myself to only two more the rest of the night, because the coughing was making me need to piss too badly ever 5 seconds. The big celebration is today, though, so I'll let you know how it goes, if I remember it.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Feb 22, 2008 2:23 PM PST up reply actions

Man...

I'm fucked up. But thanks. I drank... a lot? But some girl I'm seeing/not seeing because she's fucking insane made out with me for like 20 minutes. So it was a good night. She's a pool shark too, so we beat like the other 10 people there 5-0, or whatever.

Anyway. Fuck this, I'm going to play Halo until I throw up. Thanks guys.

~Librocrat.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Feb 23, 2008 2:43 AM PST up reply actions