r/Mariners • u/Thumbszilla • 3d ago
Since the Mariners are unfortunately out, who else is cheering for the Seattle Pilots / Milwaukee Brewers now?
The Dodgers payroll is more than the remaining 3 playoff teams combined, so at the very least I'd like to see them get eliminated. Who are you cheering for and why?
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u/iguessineedanaltnow 3d ago
Well I WAS cheering for the White Sox because Murakami is my favourite player in the league right now. Then they blew a 2-0 series lead.
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u/_SeamusFrancisWilde_ 3d ago
Anyone but Dodgers
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u/PendragonDaGreat Bring Back $5 Tallboys! 3d ago
Last year it was a bit harder to make this declaration when they were playing the Jays. This year it's REALLY REALLY easy to make this declaration. If MKE takes the series I'll just be rooting for a long fun World Series. If Dodgers take it you better believe I'm rooting AL.
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u/Character-Wrongdoer8 Seattle Mariners 3d ago
I really hate the Dodgers, so I hope they lose. Don’t really care who wins as long as it isn’t them
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u/PhDPepper5 3d ago
Brewers! Visited Milwaukee in August and went to the series where we lost one game 22-0. The fans were so nice to my sister and me. One guy even bought us a little Bernie stuffy as souvenir. Also the brew buses are kick ass.
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u/Former-Sea-8070 3d ago
I just want a Brewers / Rays world series. From there, I'm indifferent. Really like both those teams.
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u/United_Mushroom2762 3d ago
I'm still not over them taking the pilots from us
Born in 1990
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u/xwing_n_it 3d ago
You're too young to remember the hate between the teams prior to the move to the NL. The year you were born I was at the game for this fight and it was unbelievable. An actual FIGHT, not just standing around chirping at each other.
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u/nachobroski580 3d ago
Me! Go Brew Crew. They've always been a team I've liked
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u/SpaceForceAwakens 3d ago
Yeah even though they beat us the fuck up this year they’re old Seattle so I’m for them.
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u/BigAdministration368 3d ago
Agreed...though it has nothing to do with them being the Seattle Pilots for one season before i was born
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u/KingRalf13 3d ago
At this point, I just want to see good October baseball. Game 7s, even matchups, pitching duals, aggressive small ball, highlight real defense, the stuff that gets real tight when everything's on the line. I just hope to be entertained. Also I hope to see skubal get blown to pieces while the dodgers implode, but I'm not holding my breath.
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u/jacobferry7 3d ago
Bob Uecker is one of my favorite sports personalities of all time. I’m cheering for the Brewers for that reason if nothing else.
Also, the Brewers are the model of what the Mariners should strive to be. So…watch and learn.
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u/NaysayerMightKnow 3d ago
I’m rooting for them but mostly because legendary Beaver baseball coach, Pat Casey, is a consultant
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u/Botfinder69 3d ago
Dodgers, I want to watch the league burn.
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u/Voltage_Atl 3d ago
At this point I want a Rays Dodgers World Series and I want the Rays to get their dues.
It’d almost be a reverse of the 2003 World Series.
The Dodgers are the Yankees of the late 90s-early 2000s
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad-8684 Josh Naylor is very cool 3d ago
Anyone but the Dodgers, they already got 2
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u/MiserableOne9342 3d ago
Go Brewers, always. Our small market cousins
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u/Legitimate-Rate5819 3d ago
Brewers vs Rays is my dream WS. The two most skilled analytics teams going toe to toe. Not even being facetious, I’d love to see it.
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u/Former-Sea-8070 3d ago
I don't think "analytics" when thinking about the Brewers. Their offense places a ton of value in things that analytics often disregards these days. Bauers is like their only TTO player. Everyone else is a bat-to-ball, tough at-bat monster.
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u/Legitimate-Rate5819 3d ago
True to say they favor an approach born out of the pre-analytics, pre-steroid era, but their org does emphasize the “unsexy” numbers so their analytics department deserves praise for going after that type of player.
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u/Own-Economics-1745 2d ago
They sacrifice bunted twice last night. First one led to a run when the next batter singled.
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u/PrinceOfPuddles 3d ago
It would make me really happy if Ben Williamson could get a ring with Tampa, but with all the salary cap talk it would be really funny if the world series ended with the lowest payroll team in baseball sweeping the highest payroll team in baseball.
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u/Good_Nyborg We got the funk, we got the funk 3d ago
Cheering for Brewers too. With ChiSox eliminated (Yay!), we're guaranteed a smaller market team from the AL for the World Series, now we just need the Brewers to win to make sure there's also one from the NL.
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u/rdubmu 3d ago
I don’t like stolen teams, I haven’t watched the NBA since 2008
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u/Fit_Leather9366 Turn Ahead the Clock 3d ago
Pilots was an objectively bad situation in an old minor league stadium. MLB promised to make it up to Seattle if they built a stadium. Within 7 years they followed through. Also Milwaukee deserves a team from a business standpoint and Okc does not.
No reason to hold a grudge.
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u/rdubmu 3d ago
Now we are stuck with the mariners
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u/Fit_Leather9366 Turn Ahead the Clock 3d ago
Nothing wrong with the Mariners… it’s the owners we are stuck with 😫
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u/Own-Economics-1745 2d ago
MLB promised to make it up to Seattle if they built a stadium. Within 7 years they followed through.
I thought that was only after a city of Seattle successful lawsuit?
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u/Thumbszilla 3d ago
Stolen LOL? The Pilots literally went bankrupt.
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u/SlowGoat79 there's a Woo sitting on the ground 3d ago
Miz v Skubal should be good (understatement). I hope the Brewers get the job done!
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u/crow_revolution fun fact: I LOVE HIM 3d ago
I seem to curse every single team I root for so as a result I am forced to root for the Dodgers
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u/Pleasant_Actuator253 3d ago
Sorry, a stolen team. Eff the Brewer and Bud Selig.
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u/Thumbszilla 3d ago
What? Selig saved the franchise out of bankruptcy. The Pilots couldn't even pay their players and staff which were days away from all being granted immediate free agency due to missed paychecks.
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u/CosmiTourist 3d ago
Honestly, at this point, anybody playing the Dodgers. Watching their payroll dwarf the rest of the remaining field just makes it impossible not to root for chaos. Whoever plays them gets my temporary allegiance.
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u/cpz_77 3d ago
Fuck the brewers but I’m from Minnesota so I hate anything Wisconsin.
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u/Thumbszilla 3d ago
I'm sorry to hear that... being from Minnesota that is
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u/cpz_77 3d ago
What’s your problem with Minnesota?
Sorry to hear you jumped on the bandwagon of the clown crew in Milwaukee, hope the Dodgers steamroll them. Maybe they can hope their roof gets in the way of another HR.
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u/Thumbszilla 3d ago
I lived up there for about 6 months. It was insanely cold and little to nothing got plowed. 0 stars. 5 stars for the Juicy Lucy though.
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u/base-HI-WA Mariner Moose 3d ago
Part of me is cheering for the Dodgers. In my mind a Dodgers win would speed up salary cap negotiations
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u/laz_montes_4_prez Rick Rizzs 3d ago
It’s like cheering for OKC. Go dodgers and rays
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u/UpperLeftOriginal Been on this bandwagon since 1977 3d ago
The reasons for the move aren’t comparable at all.
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u/3720-to-1 3d ago
I'm an Ohio native, I have a soft spot for the Guardians, so I've been cheering for them
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u/Gobbo_Jareth 3d ago
I was on the White Sox train because they beat the Astros, but now I'm largely ambivalent.
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u/hlnklrczu 3d ago
I live in Ohio now so I've been watching Cleveland. Great game last night against the Sox!
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u/17papers 3d ago
I’m rooting for the guardians or rays or dodgers to win. Don’t care at all for those fucks in Milwaukee who stole our city’s team. I’d rather watch the dodgers win every year for the rest of my life than see Milwaukee get a ring
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u/feignednobody 3d ago
Yeah - but also, I went to college in Milwaukee (back when the Brewers were AL, so I could usually catch a Mariners game late each spring semester and early each fall semester). And my late mother’s side of the family is from Wisconsin, so it’s not hard for me to pull for their teams … when it’s not hurting a Seattle team 😉
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u/SketchyConcierge Key Peninsula Transplant 3d ago
Mostly in a "anyone but the dodgers" mood but the Miz is growing on me as a pokemon affecionado
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u/Eorcenwald Everett AquaSox 3d ago
Last year I rooted for the Dodgers after the ALCS, but this year I'll take anyone but the Dodgers.
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u/roostercacciatore 3d ago
I had a family connection to the Pilots and would have gone to work with them if they had stayed.
I recognized that they were doomed and rooted for the Brewers for years. Robin Yount and Paul Molitor were my favorite players and are exactly the type of players I wish the Mariners would sign.
In the expansion draft they selected Lou Pinella but apparently didn’t like him and traded him away. Big mistake.
Dewey Soriano had been a brilliant general manager for the Rainiers and I had high expectations for what he could do with the Pilots but he brought in an executive from the Angels who was useless.
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u/No-Cut-1297 There's Always Next Year 3d ago
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Nope. I prefer everything that's come out of Seattle to be a failure...as is tradition.
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u/samwyatta17 60 Dumps! 2d ago
The rest of my family are Dodgers fans (except for one Blue Jay fan), so I'll root alongside them. But I'm pretty happy with any of the remaining teams winning. I would feel a little bad for Tampa Bay if Cleveland goes to WS over them. I feel like Tampa has worked to be the best AL team and they were head and shoulders above the rest of the league this year.
Brewers - Rays would be a fun WS
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u/Grimble27 Seattle Mariners 2d ago
WI Want to see the Brewers beat the Rays for the WS championship.
I’ll live vicariously through the former Seattle baseball team like I did with the Oklahoma City Thunder after they defected from being the Sonics.
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u/dal5dal5 🔱 !Daaaaaa Mariners Win 🔱 2d ago
Honestly once/if the Dodgers get eliminated, I don’t care who wins.
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u/National_Opening_420 7h ago
Can’t stand the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Dodgers seasonal payroll is more money than Cleveland Tampa Bay and Milwaukee combined !!!!
How is that ok ?
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u/Just_a-Citizen 3d ago
Never, never, never will I root for the Brewers. I was 14 years old when they left Seattle after one season. I am a fourth generation native born Washingtonian. I will never root for a team that was stolen from us. Lose Brewers lose! (Are you also rooting for OKC Thunder?)
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u/DannkHippo I get dumped 3d ago
Football and hockey started. Baseball is still going?
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u/Thumbszilla 3d ago
Well... for the winning teams
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u/DannkHippo I get dumped 3d ago
I was kidding. Although I haven't really been paying attention. All I can say is, F the Dodgers
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u/uraniumrooster 3d ago
Go Dodgers! They've been my NL team since the 90s, not gonna stop rooting for them cause they're good.
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u/Have_A_Jelly_Baby #56 Randy Arozarena 3d ago
Brewers over Dodgers and Guardians, Rays over Brewers.
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u/ADirtyHookahHose draped in teal 3d ago edited 3d ago
One time at T Mobile Park the Mariners were getting their ass beat and a Brewers fan decked out in full Brewers garb was rooting HARD for the M's to lose... So no, fuck the Brewers specifically to spite that one person.
Edit: We weren't even playing the Brewers
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u/bubbamike1 ! It’s a liner to Parrot. oh that’s got to hurt 3d ago
What are you shooting? Fuck them.
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