Curious….

I grew up in So Cal and started loving baseball before Inter-league play was a thing. Back when it seemed more exciting that 2 teams that don’t play each other normally, suddenly meet in the World Series to see who the best team might be that year. And All-Star Games where Randy Johnson’s (Seattle) fastball scares the crap out of John Kruk (Philly) moments.

I watched both the Dodgers and the Angels on TV whenever they were on. Games at Dodger Stadium and the “Big-A”.

I still love both teams, when they play head to head, I don’t want either to lose, but usually root for whichever team needs the win the most. If the Dodgers have a 5 game lead, I’m leaning towards the Angels, but if they are only 1 game ahead of the Padres and the Angles are 10 games out, then the Dodgers need it more, so I lean that way.

But overall I hate internet-league play because each team could screw up the other in the standings.

So the reason for this post is that it seems that I’m in the minority. Every post in each of the subs when mentioning the other team is hate or at least rivalry.

So where do you stand?
Love em both. Love one, Like the other Love one, Hate the other

Dodgers are my National League Team, Angels are my American League Team, am I a freak of So Cal Nature?

28 comments

  1. I’m guessing you are in your late 60’s or 70’s?

    That’s the only way I can fathom this “unique” take.

  4. Angels always for me when playing eachother. I dont dislike the Dodgers and their organization. I HATE majority of their Fanbase. The Dodger/49er and Dodger/Raider fans are the absolute worst.

  7. I’m the same as you. I started as an Angels fan but now also root for both teams in each league and whoever needs more wins. Nothing wrong with that no matter what people on reddit say.

  8. people in the subreddit probably won’t like to hear this but your attitude is pretty common outside the internet in my experience. I personally don’t really feel the same amount of disdain for the dodgers as say, the astros, but I’m not really a huge fan of them either. Despite this I was still pulling for them during the WS because of shohei 🤷‍♂️

  10. I’m both a Padres and Angels fan so I’m obliged to not like the Doyers. I have nothing against the players, in fact I think Mookie, Freeman, and Ohtani all seem like good dudes. I mainly take issue with their elitist fans and then some things the organization itself has done off the field that I severely disagree with.

  11. People really fail to recognize or remember that the Dodgers were straight up hot dog water from 1990 to about 2017-2018. Thats a long time of being an ass organization. I do not hate the Dodgers. They arent even in our division. They have never been a thorn in our side as far as traditional rivalries go. It is a fun Geographical rivalry and i am happy we do have a freeway series that gets media attention. My family is full of Dodger fans and old Angelinos but i grew up in Orange County so i support the home squad but i respect and love the tradition of the dodgers, tommy lasorda, the Sciosia connection, and i love Vin Scully

  12. Maybe it’s an older person thing, but never felt the rivalry between LA/ANA growing up until maybe when the Dodgers got Andrew Friedman. I also grew up in LA area so didn’t really run into many Angels fans or Dodgers fans. at that time, everyone seemed to be into the Lakers

  13. I grew up loving the Dodgers as a kid, but fell in love with the late ’90s Angels. It’s kind of hard to “hate” the Dodgers, but the Angels are unequivocally my team.

  15. I grew up as a Dodger fan, then after a scary experience at Dodger Stadium I started going to Angels games in the late 90s. I’m a huge Mike Trout fan but the team management is such a disaster I just can’t support them anymore. I love the current Dodgers team. They’re a way more fun team to watch than the hapless Angels.

  17. There’s a decent amount of people in SoCal who are fans of both, but I’ve noticed 90% of the time it’s someone who grew up a Dodgers fan and picked up the Angels later on as a backup team

  19. To each their own man. I dont see a problem honestly. The Dodgers cap is synonymous with SoCal and for that I like it. Represents more than just that team at this point i think.

  20. This is how I am too but apart from the six Freeway Series games where I want the Dodgers to win I don’t mind if both win on the same day.

  22. There is no rivalry there no matter how much Arte wishes there was one… we arent even on thier radar so, its moot.
    I have no issues with those who support both personally.
    Head to head im pulling halos, aside from that, it doesnt really matter to me.

  23. For me AND, my first game was Dodgers Opening Day 1981, Fernando

    My first Halos game was Opening Night 1982

    I have blue team as my NL, but could never abandon my Halos

    I so want to see a Red Vs Blue October !

  27. Angels always. The only time I ever want the Dodgers to succeed is when the Angels make the playoffs. Freeway World Series would be awesome…and we own them 81-73 head to head

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