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#43,984
@PB&J, your favorite college football game must be the 1986 Sugar Bowl.

Ever since they left Brooklyn for LA, the Dodgers have sucked. Win, lose, they suck. LA Dodger fans suck. You don’t want to be associated with them. Now, if you live in Brooklyn and want the Dodgers back (give LA the Mets), then, OK. That weirdness elevates.
 
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GordonC said:
I wonder if @volfanbill remembers this.

You say you grew up a Reds and Dodgers fan. I am a Reds fan. My earliest baseball memory is the 72 WS, so 90 was sweet (and it only took four). The old NL West made it impossible to like the Astros, Bravos, Dodgers, or Giants; all were rivals. In the East, it seemed like Cincy was always playing Pirates or Phillies, so I could tolerate the Cubs and Cardinals. Not so much now, because of the realignment.

Baseball lost me with the strike of 94, even though I made it a point to go to the NLCS in Cincy in 95 just to say I had been to one. I don't really care about baseball, but the Braves and Dodgers can both suck it. At least Cruz, Cedeno, Richard, and McCovey made the Stros and Gents somewhat more tolerable than Pocaroba and Garvey made the Braves and Dodgers.
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I grew up hating the Dodgers and Reds because of ‘88 and ‘90 respectively. And that hatred has only grown. Also hate the Yankees, Giants, Red Sox, Astros, and here recently, the White Sox. I followed the Braves a lot as a kid due to tbs and my grandparents (both Grandma and Papaw) being huge fans. I even liked the Braves. The #3 is just as synonymous to Dale Murphy to me as that other Dale that made it a lot more famous. Murphy not even sniffing the HoF is one of the most unmentioned crimes in sports history. I loved a lot of those Braves when they first got good: Belliard, Lemke, Pendleton, Blauser, Gant, and Justice. What I deemed as horrible GM decisions made me to grow to dislike them. The realignment also affected it. Them beating out the Giants and Dodgers wasn’t a thing anymore. So I devoted all my attention to my at the time totally hapless A’s. Working for the Cards organization, LaRussa and McGwire going there, etc gave me interest in the Cards however.
 
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volfanbill said:
I grew up hating the Dodgers and Reds because of ‘88 and ‘90 respectively. And that hatred has only grown. Also hate the Yankees, Giants, Red Sox, Astros, and here recently, the White Sox. I followed the Braves a lot as a kid due to tbs and my grandparents (both Grandma and Papaw) being huge fans. I even liked the Braves. The #3 is just as synonymous to Dale Murphy to me as that other Dale that made it a lot more famous. Murphy not even sniffing the HoF is one of the most unmentioned crimes in sports history. I loved a lot of those Braves when they first got good: Belliard, Lemke, Pendleton, Blauser, Gant, and Justice. What I deemed as horrible GM decisions made me to grow to dislike them. The realignment also affected it. Them beating out the Giants and Dodgers wasn’t a thing anymore. So I devoted all my attention to my at the time totally hapless A’s. Working for the Cards organization, LaRussa and McGwire going there, etc gave me interest in the Cards however.
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LaRussa to the A’s. Then in a few years to the Cards.
 
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I guess it falls on where you live. Behr lives amongst Gators, so obviously he hates them more. When I lived in KY, they were right up there. Now after 20+ years here, I hate Georgia more than anyone.
 
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Tin Man said:
@PB&J, your favorite college football game must be the 1986 Sugar Bowl.

Ever since they left Brooklyn for LA, the Dodgers have sucked. Win, lose, they suck. LA Dodger fans suck. You don’t want to be associated with them. Now, if you live in Brooklyn and want the Dodgers back (give LA the Mets), then, OK. That weirdness elevates.
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1986 was one of my favorite college football seasons, ever.
 
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joevol33 said:
I guess it falls on where you live. Behr lives amongst Gators, so obviously he hates them more. When I lived in KY, they were right up there. Now after 20+ years here, I hate Georgia more than anyone.
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It’s Georgia without question. Outside of recruiting, those bastards want the virgin waters of the great state of Tennessee.
 
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