Which AL Central team do you hate the most?
 

Which American League Central rival is the most hated?

I’ve said it in several threads this year that I absolutely hate the Twins. Went to a game there one year and the fans were the worst

Indians!

I personally don't have any use for the White Sux.

That's a pretty good question. I don't know who I would consider our most loathed division rival. They're all pretty equal to me.

Racist.

I don't really mind any of them. I just want the Royals to beat them all every time they play them.

What do Indians call another Indian?


Would they be racist if they called them a Indian or a Redman?

Is it racist for them to call a white man a white man?

Just asking

White Sux. I don’t know how anyone’s answer could be different.

I kind of feel more sorry for them right now (well, their fans at least) than I do despise or hate them :shrug:

Major League taught me to hate the White Sox since I was a little boy.

Father and son methheads jumped an older KC first base coach on the field...let that sink in...hopped onto the field and attacked an old man

Then add in AJ Pierzynski's bitch ass and its even more of a no brainer for the White Sox

The only baseball team I hate is the Cardinals

Yeah, I kinda hate em all, but gun to head, it’s gotta be the White Sox. Twins are a close 2nd, with the Tribe and Tigers for third and 4th.

I hate the Guardians more than the Indians.

This momentary lack of judgement will soon pass. :D

Absolutely, their fans are shit.

I despise being in the AL Central. Would have rather stayed in the AL West. A's, Angels, and Rangers were more rivals.

The poll seems to be missing a category?

White Sox seems easy. Still bitter Dye mashed a ton of homers for them that one year.

Baseball doesn’t invoke the rivalry hate in me like football does. In baseball it’s more about what teams do in the playoffs. Like I kinda still hate the Giants for 2014. If the Blue Jays could ever beat us in something relevant, I’d loathe them. But I guess it would be the White Sox if I had to pick one. But they are so pathetic I can’t even spend any energy hating on them currently.

It's definitely the White Sux, but it's hard to have any type of rival when the team I cheer for has been the worst team in baseball since I was born. Just looked up teams with most losses since 1990 and the Royals are 1st with 2974.

#2 Tigers - 2893
#3 Pirates - 2888
#4 Orioles - 2838
#5 Padres - 2809

Those are the only teams with 2800+ losses.

Whats kinda cool though is we have the 19th most playoff wins and a .710 winning% in the playoffs.

This.

Cleveland, because **** everything about ohio.

Twins. When I used to go back when I lived in the KC area their fans used to invade the stadium and it was hella annoying.

That was the first thing that came to mind as far as why I'd hate any AL Central team.

Even when the Royals have been good, those teams were just kind of there.... I had some relatively short lived hate for the Bautista/Donaldson Jays.

My wife was at the Jeff Samardzija brawl game in 2015. We were still in KC but she was in Chicago for work and went to the game with some coworkers. Fortunately a guy on her team was a 6'8" former division I basketball player who got them escorted out of the stadium as it was getting nasty in the stands

Just a terrible fanbase in a time full of terrible fanbases

The White Sox are one of those teams with such a bad fan base, that if my son told me he was going to be a fan of them, I would walk him to the street and tell him he's never welcomed back.

Additions to that list are Raiders, Cowboys, Yankees, Dodgers.

What it he becomes the X-Factor of Minnesota Lynx fans?

Will forever and always be the White Sox. A shit stain on baseball and the AL.

From the condescending Hawk Harrelson to POS’s like Tony Phillips and Lamar Hoyt, their asshat manager Ozzie Guillen and that little ****er at 2B/SS that they just moved on from this off-season

**** them all with a long, serrated rusty knife!!

Jesus, how old are you man? It’s been 31 years! A’s and Angels haven’t been true rivals since the 70’s/80’s!

White Sox, shitbag fan base, unbearable announcers and always one guy on the team who’s a complete piece of shit. Even when I was a kid watching them play against the Royals I thought Greg Luzinski looked like a total creeper!

I like to think that the '14-15 Royals expedited Hawk's retirement (and hopefully soon death). I relocated to Chicago the early 2015 season and would catch the Sox broadcasts and he'd get so mad during the Royals series'. We had such an annoying brand of baseball for opponents. We'd keep the line moving and he'd call a bloop single a "Kansas City Special" and turned his catch phrase of "He Gone" onto his own team in disgust. Like a less professional Dan Fouts announcing a Mahomes game

Sox would have a runner on 1st. Dude would get a decent jump and before Perez even got the ball out of his hand Hawk would be like "He Gone" in pure disgust that they'd even think about running on Perez

God damn I was in hog heaven listening to those broadcasts knowing his entire day was ruined

You have to include the video to that insane ordeal. Father and son scumbags, fit right in on the Southside!

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It was terrible, but I enjoyed watching the entire Royals team sprint out and pile onto those thugs. It seems unfortunate that they weren't able to cause notable injuries to the guys.

I wonder whatever became of them. They seem like people who are destined to end up dead in an alley somewhere. We can only hope.

They were promoted to full Raidurr fans after this incident.

Wait, I'm looking at the video again. Was the son Maxx Crosby?

There was a 10 year update on them over a decade ago. Crazy how long ago that was.

It’s been 10 years since William Ligue and son attacked Tom Gamboa at Comiskey Park

Kevin Kaduk
Wed, Sep 19, 2012

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The anniversary isn't receiving much attention, but it was 10 years ago Wednesday that 34-year-old William Ligue Jr. and his 15-year-old son William III attacked Kansas City Royals first base coach Tom Gamboa at Chicago's Comiskey Park. That's 10 years of knowing that, yes, there are cretins like that living among us and they can hurdle a short fence to beat a baseball lifer and irreparably change his life. Gamboa suffered permanent hearing loss during the attack.

"I felt like a football team had hit me from behind. Next thing I knew, I'm on the ground trying to defend myself," Gamboa told reporters at the time. "It just happened so fast."

The Chicago Tribune did a where are they now?-style piece with the three subjects of the story last November. Gamboa never coached in the major leagues after being let go by the Royals after the 2003 season and spent several years as a minor-league coach for the Padres and Angels before retiring last year at age 63.

The Ligues, not surprisingly, have struggled to stay out of trouble. The elder Ligue, who's now 44, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2006 for breaking into a car, which was a violation of the probation he received for beating Gamboa. The younger Ligue, now 25 and apparently still proud of his 15 minutes of shame, was released from prison in 2011 and is on parole after serving time for a 2010 drug charge. Of all the great father and son highlights that baseball has produced over the years, there's no doubt that the Ligues authored the sport's worst moment between two generations. May we never see something like that again.

Cleveland fans get pretty arrogant and it’s irritating AF. The Royals have had some really shitty teams and there’s no way around it, but Cleveland has had some of the most loaded teams over the years and they fall apart year after year in the postseason. They are baseball’s answer to the Buffalo Bills yet they act like they’re some kind of dynasty because they manage to not suck enough to not win the central. They will die without seeing Cleveland win a WS and they deserve it!

Sox fans are Raiders fans.

Dirty, disgusting people. Deviants and pederasts.

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No way both of those scumbags are still alive. At least one is dead, the other is rotting in prison or in a worn down trailer in whatever WT shithole he ended up in.

Jesus, what a loser that "father" was/is. I have a 15 year old son. Not that I would ever do what Ligue did, but even if I did lose my shit and do something crazy, my 15 year old would take no part in it and would probably call my wife and say "dad is losing his mind, come get me or get him or call the cops". But then again, I actually have taught my sons how to not be pieces of shit so......

Poll fail

This is pretty solid hatred for a baseball rivalry. :thumb:

Right?

And to be honest Cleveland fans should hate KC. That 97 Cleveland team was about as close as to a layup as it gets as far as winning a WS and they blew it to the ****ing Marlins. The Guardians year in and year out are pretty consistent at making the playoffs but can never seem to get it done, but then to have to see a traditional bottom feeder rise up and win back to back pennants and win a World Series title has got to be beyond maddening

If the ‘97 team was a layup, that ‘95 team was a slam dunk. And of all the Braves teams to actually win it all, they managed it against the ‘95 beast of a Cleveland team.

Kinda makes you feel a little more thankful for 2014 and 2015, right? Lot of mediocre to mostly shitty Royals teams over the past 30 years, but we have a World Series winner, something that hasn’t been done by any other Central team since 1991.

White Sox swept the Astros in 2005 World Series. Game 4 winner was 1-0 score, with only RBI courtesy of Jermaine Dye.

But your point stands; our division ain't exactly brimming with contenders.

It used to be the A's. None of these other clowns can hold a candle to them. :shake: But I guess now it would be Cleveland for being the pussies they are for surrendering their name to the woke crowd.

Opinions from Biggest pillowbiters In Baseball and Bluejays fans not wanted or needed TBH

I thought hating the White Sox was just something people were born with.

I mean those goes all the way back to hating Charles Comiskey, which was historically about as easy as hating someone gets. That dude sucked somethin' awful.

Did not know I was a Blue Jay's fan or that a team could be a "pillowbiter".

BFIB - sorry if you don’t get the reference

Ravens

White sox.......from their players, to their coaches, to their annoying announcers (and of course fans).........F 'em.

I'd imagine Hawk made a lot of fanbases despise the White Sox. The most homer broadcaster in baseball had a national platform on WGN.

I can understand Hawk Harrelson being annoying.

Jason Benetti lifted up the telecast recently, but he just left for Detroit.

Are you annoyed by Steve Stone, too? I think he's one of the best color guys in the business.

Benetti is solid. He's good across the board. Enjoyed him as alternate play-by-play guy for the Bulls during his Sox years. He has the right combo of work put in and sense of humor. Very Ian Eagle-ish for me

Stone can be a bit of an ass but can at least back it up with his analysis

100% Hawk.

I didn’t know the Indians changed their name to the Guardians…I found out from this poll. The only baseball teams I hate are Yankees with the George Brett pine tar incident and the Red Sox because of Tom Brady.

Broncos

Ah shit, you’re absolutely right. Totally forgot about that ‘05 White Sox team.

None.


But I hate the Blue Jays.

That year that people respected Ozzie Guillen for some strange reason...

Twins because it seems like they are always winning. But should be the white Sox since they stabbed our coach.

Twins for me as well and I can't really articulate why.

because they're from a shitty, cold city and they have a lame name

Yeah, its always been the Twins for me as well. I suppose there's nothing inherently hateable about the team itself, but as a kid being at the K it always seemed the Twins fans were the most obnoxious and its just stuck with me since then.

I use all my hate on the Cardinals and have none left for AL Central.


Glad the Cards are into another year of major suckage.

Fond memories of going to Chicago with the Sporting KC supporters back in 2012 for a match against the Fire. The entire game the KC fans sang the tune 'We've got the whole world in our hands' but changed the lyrics to "you burned your whooollle city.. to the ground". The anger, hate and need to brawl from the Chicagoans was on a level I have not witnessed in my life beyond that day. It was glorious.

**** Chicago. Burn them straight to the ground like they did their own city. Twice.

Get bent