Go SF Giants !!! (stats, horse, manager)

[sav858]

Originally Posted by expect

lol i show you why the 49ers will ALWAYS matter and you chalk it up to a double standard.. you sound like a woman when ppl start arguing about why a man is a "player" when he plows thru many many women and if women do the same they're trollops. "omg double standard is unfair!"

but because the a's (and every bay area team) doesnt have the legacy the 49ers have, they will always play 2nd fiddle.

the a's are somewhere ahead of the raiders and below the sharks in terms of relevance in the bay area. certainly havent mattered in recent years like the sharks. definitely ahead of the raiders and my sorryass warriors

I have no problem admitting the Niners are the Bay Area's best sports franchise overall but don't act like they were relevant or mattered from 2003-2010 just because their past success gets you excited.

As far as Bay ARea sports history, the A's are clearly right behind the Niners with everyone else, including the Giants, behind them. Recently yeah they didn't matter until this year.

[commonparlance]

I know it's old news, but could someone explain the whole thing about the Giant's not helping out the A's the way the A's helped them out vis a vis the proposed move to Florida? I've heard bits and pieces of the story but I'd like to know the whole thing (just a brief explanation is fine, I don't need to know all the details).

So the A's management helped get AT&T built to keep the Giants in SF but the Giants won't help the A's do the same?

[Harrier]

Where do the Earthquakes rank in Bay Area sports relevency?

http://www.sjearthquakes.com/

[kittykat13]

Shout out to the San Francisco Giants!! Congrats!! I so enjoyed watching the World Series this year, and it was a sweet sweep!!!

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by Harrier

Where do the Earthquakes rank in Bay Area sports relevency?

San Jose Earthquakes

The manly jock-itch types will rain down their flippant Ray Ratto-esque dismissals, but the Quakes have just finished the MLS regular season with the Supporters' Shield (best record in the regular season), have the league's top goal-scorer, who also tied for the league record in goals (Chris Wondolowski), are sending ever more players up to play for the USA National Team for World Cup qualifiers, and just broke the Guinness World Record for the largest amount of people participating in a building groundbreaking ceremony ever for their new stadium, now being built next to Mineta San Jose Int. Airport. Selling out Stanford Stadium for a regular season game this year was a record as well. Playoffs about to start, Quakes favored to bring a third championship to the Bay Area.

The Quakes owner, who is also the A's owner, Lew Wolff, at least has this stadium and surrounding property to look forward to developing. If it weren't for the Giants, we could be breaking ground down here on another new stadium, that one for the A's. With yet another flood of bandwagon Giants fans jumping on after this World Series, you might think the upper brass wouldn't worry about the A's taking any significant piece of their growing fanbase...but they clearly are. Or, they're just being dix, which is a bit extraordinary given that the A's giving them territorial rights to the South Bay back when the Giants were threatening to move to Florida, was an essential component to the Giants getting investors to pony up to build that beautiful new oceanfront ballpark now called AT&T. The A's have been playing in a place as crappy as Candlestick ever was all the while, but now that the 'other' team in the Bay Area needs a decent place to play, the Giants go apopleptic on the idea. Imagine that. Giants want the A's out, and the BA all for themselves.

But then again, there are children in here who don't remember much beyond last week, so wherefore shall these arguments go?

[krudmonk]

I haven't even been to Candlestick since the Diamondbacks clinched there in '99 but I would not say that the Coliseum is yet to be as crappy. That said, the Coliseum lacks a bit of the charm of the past, being that the greatest memories were recorded before Mt Davis. Candlestick, meanwhile, looks more or less the same as it does in 49ers highlight reels from the glory days.

And Ratto (like most other old pieces of crap in his field) is too lazy to cover soccer on top of the already established sports, which is the big reason for dismissing it.

[Natural510]

Originally Posted by commonparlance

I know it's old news, but could someone explain the whole thing about the Giant's not helping out the A's the way the A's helped them out vis a vis the proposed move to Florida? I've heard bits and pieces of the story but I'd like to know the whole thing (just a brief explanation is fine, I don't need to know all the details).

So the A's management helped get AT&T built to keep the Giants in SF but the Giants won't help the A's do the same?

A 1992 proposition on the ballot in San Jose for a new Giants ballpark was defeated by voters. The Giants were all but packed and ready to go after the '92 season, to be sold to a group in Tampa Bay. At the last minute, a local group stepped up but insisted they needed "territorial rights" to San Jose so they could possibly build a privately-financed ballpark there. Walter Haas Jr, A's owner at the time, ceded those rights (for free) as a goodwill gesture to keep the team in the Bay Area. The Giants eventually built their park in SF, but refuse to cede the "rights" to SJ, claiming they couldn't survive if they "lost" the fans they have down there.

[expect]

Originally Posted by Harrier

Where do the Earthquakes rank in Bay Area sports relevency?

San Jose Earthquakes

it's soccer. they're as as relevant as the mls is compared to the other sports league.

nfl > mlb > nba/nhl > soccer

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by expect

it's soccer. they're as as relevant as the mls is compared to the other sports league.

nfl > mlb > nba/nhl > soccer

Only one of these can be called the world's game. Every other country gets it.

[04kL4nD]

Dude, other countries don't count!

Just like championships don't count unless they've been earned in the past 3 years!!!