If you could pick your favorite team

[TOBTTReds]

Votes are public.

If you could pick your favorite team to naturally love, who would you choose. Take these things into consideration:

Current or past players
Success
Front office
Front office philosophies/personalities
Ticket prices
Stadium
Media Coverage
Game Atmosphere
Fans
Overall Image of Team
Other things as well...

[Always Red]

I have always enjoyed watching and following the Oakland A's. Even after the heartbreaking loss to them in the 1972 WS.

Why? Just their history, from Connie Mack to today, all the losing after Mack until Dick Williams and Finley, the characters, the characters, the characters , their cross country odyssey from Philly to KC to Oakland, only to settle in their role as red headed stepchild of the Bay Area. Not to mention the winning- they have won 9 WS Championships in all.

The uniforms. Don't know why, but I love them.

OH, and one other thing: they know have Chris Denorfia on their side.

[camisadelgolf]

I'd go with the Kansas City Royals because I like underdogs, and the franchise is practically doomed.

[Screwball]

Tampa Bay Rays. They're going to be an exciting young team for a few years. Until, of course, they can't afford their players anymore.

[RedsManRick]

I voted Cleveland.

- Interesting history
- Good recent success
- Great management
- Beautiful park
- Smallish market (fewer bandwagoneers)

[Joseph]

If I didn't pick the Reds, I think I'd be a Dodgers fan.

[Vada Pinson Fan]

I took into consideration past players. If I could go back in time and had been Billy Crystal's friend growing up, it would have been great to watch Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris in 1961. Along with Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Elston Howard and even a future Red - Deron Johnson was on that '61 Yankee team.

[*BaseClogger*]

Oakland A's--because Billy Beane and that computer wrote Moneyball

[macro]

If I didn't pick the Reds, I think I'd be a Dodgers fan.

Same here. I hated them in the 70s and 80s, but since the realignment of 1994 I have come to appreciate their class and continuity with regard to their ballpark, their uniforms, their history, and the way they run the franchise.

[M2]

I assume this means other than the Reds.

My criteria would be NL team, plays an appealing brand of baseball, preferably located in the northeast, wears blue (I like blue).

[Raisor]

Hey, the Reds are one of the choices. I'm a glutton for punishment.

[Highlifeman21]

My parents are both from Cleveland, so I was brought up to love the Indians.

While the Indians still have a place in my heart, I love the Reds first and foremost, but will always root for the Indians except when they are playing the Reds.

[RichRed]

Dodgers for me, too. And no, Steve Garvey is not my padre.

[Red in Chicago]

I was torn between the Cubs and Yankees. I picked the Cubs just becaues my life would be much easier in Chicago. If I were to go with past players and tradition, I would have picked the Yanks.

[Tom Servo]

I already had my choice and I picked the Reds. I may not always like my decision but dammit, I'll stand by it.