Your MLB team is out, so who do you root for?

Anthony LociceroAnthony Locicero|published: Fri 6th October, 09:00 2023
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Playoff baseball is in full swing. As we move closer to crowning a champion, who do you root for if your team has been eliminated? Do you stick with a club in your favorite squad’s league? Support the underdog? Or just watch football or whatever else is on TV?

Here are some reasons to get behind or root against those left standing.

Minnesota Twins

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Pros: The Twinkies are an underdog, and finally ended North America’s longest playoff-win drought.

Cons: You’re rooting for the inevitable ALDS elimination. (This team won only 87 games.)

Texas Rangers

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Pros: A World Series win would be the franchise’s first.

Cons: The team’s biggest fan is George W. Bush.

Houston Astros

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Pros: None, especially since Dusty Baker already got his long-deserved trophy.

Cons: They’re f*cking cheaters. They banged on more trash cans than Doug Funnie. Jose Altuve wore a buzzer.

Baltimore Orioles

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Pros: The O’s are an AL East team not named the Yankees or Red Sox.


Cons: Baltimore is owned by John Angelos, who suspended broadcaster Kevin Brown for a benign comment about the team, and had fans thinking he was moving the team.

Arizona Diamondbacks

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Pros: They did humanity a favor and ended the New York Yankee’s late ‘90s-early 2000s dynasty.

Cons: Even if you despise the Yankees, New York needed that title in 2001 just mere weeks after 9/11. And that 2001 Diamondbacks team featured Nazi sympathizer Curt Schilling.

Philadelphia Phillies

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Pros: If the Phillies win, the fans may burn down Philadelphia.

Cons: Having to hear the obnoxious Philly faithful celebrate another title while also boasting about the Eagles’ recent success.

Los Angeles Dodgers

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Pros: They’re the West Coast version of the Yankees.

Cons: They’re the West Coast version of the Yankees.

Atlanta Braves

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Pros: You get to do the chop.

Cons: The chop is racist (take note, Chiefs fans).

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