embarrass themselves in a playoff game <\/a>so those two individuals can feel some of the pain they inflicted on our angel-hero Jose.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
Call me<\/strong>, Maybe<\/strong>: New York Mets<\/p>\nReasoning: <\/strong>I still like Francisco Lindor and it would be funny to see the Mets win a World Series and take over New York from the Yankees a little more. But, still, definitely not my top preference because I\u2019m too much of a small market\/small city loyalist for that.<\/p>\nYes, Let\u2019s Playoffs and Chill<\/strong>: Seattle Mariners, Philadelphia Phillies<\/p>\nReasoning<\/strong>: There are two perspectives out there about how you view teams that haven\u2019t won a World Series or haven\u2019t won one in a long time \u2013 some Guardians\u2019 fans feel jealous if they do, others want to see them win one so it feels like \u201cour time is coming, eventually, also\u201d. I fall in the latter category. I enjoy seeing \u201cnew\u201d teams win and it makes me feel like it could happen someday for the Guardians. So, for that reason, I will root for the Mariners to win the AL. For the Phillies, my mom\u2019s family were all Phillies fans from the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, area so I find my family ties there enable me to feel some affection for Philadelphia. Plus, they\u2019ve only won one title in recent memory, so another doesn\u2019t feel gratuitous, and they\u2019re a fun team to watch.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
Yes, Come out of the Friend Zone<\/strong>: Milwaukee Brewers<\/p>\nReasoning:<\/strong> The Brewers are what the Guardians have been and aspire to be in the future. No one knows how they do it, but they just keep winning and not particularly spending much. They\u2019ve hosted Cleveland baseball teams in the past when the weather in Cleveland was bad, and partnered up to try to elect players from Cleveland and Milwaukee to the All-Star team. It would give me a good amount of joy to see the Brewers somehow topple the Dodgers, Mets and Cubs and take the NL Pennant and the World Series title (I\u2019d root for them over the Mariners if it came to that).<\/p>\nYes, Let\u2019s Hook Up for October:<\/strong> San Diego Padres<\/p>\nReasoning:<\/strong> Some of my dad\u2019s family is from San Diego, so I\u2019ve got some family ties. The Padres\u2019 ownership group has spent how I wish Paul Dolan would spend JUST ONCE and GM AJ Preller sees prospects as means to acquire better players in a way I wish Chris Antonetti would do more often (at all?). If the Padres win, it would be somewhat of an earth-shaking challenge to the usual MLB way of doing business. They are a fun team with some dynamic personalities and seeing them upset the Dodgers AGAIN would be priceless. And, they have never won a World Series title (as mentioned in my rationale above). Plus, the Swinging Friar is my favorite logo in MLB. The Rad Dads are my Fad for October, this season.<\/p>\nHow about you? Who has caught your eye with the Guardians making plans for Cancun this fall?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you weren\u2019t convinced the Guardians aren\u2019t making the playoffs after their 10-game losing streak, or after their…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":194589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[22900,96302,1271,13593,1885,81911,3689,2382,16751,16755,2502,20415,4247,1266,61637,1305,2228,2083,3959,3549,1306,69655,62,1290,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-194588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-braves","9":"tag-carlos-santana","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-cleveland","12":"tag-detroit-tigers","13":"tag-ernie-clement","14":"tag-francisco-lindor","15":"tag-houston-astros","16":"tag-jose-ramirez","17":"tag-kevin-gausman","18":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","19":"tag-mariners","20":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-mlb-playoffs","23":"tag-new-york-mets","24":"tag-new-york-yankees","25":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","26":"tag-red-sox","27":"tag-san-diego","28":"tag-san-diego-padres","29":"tag-shane-bieber","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-unitedstates","34":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115135733515804511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}