Twins fans 25th most annoying, 29th worst behaved

[Rod Carews Birthday]

4 hours ago, Richie the Rally Goat said:

criteria copied from the article:

1. Always drunk fan
2. Always negative fan
3. The fan who never stops yelling
4. Bandwagon fan
5. The know-it-all fan
6. The condescending fan
7. The fan who never sits down
8. Obsessed with fantasy fan
9. The fan who pretends to like sports but doesn’t
10. The fan stuck living in the glory years

Are we sure that Twins fans should be ranked as sparkly as they are…. I think we all do these very frequently :)

I have by no means been to every major league ballpark (or city for that matter), but I have been to quite a few.  My experience is that fanship at Target Field is definitely among the most "civilized" that I have seen.  It's not perfect. . . I'm a realist. . . there are ding dongs all over, but it really is pretty good. 

I do feel like I have to defend the White Sox fans.  I find them to be pretty normal and reasonable people. . . they could be Twins fans.  Again, there are a few real ding dongs out there doing really, really dumb stuff so that's not good but that is the exception and not the rule.  Unfortunately we all tend to gravitate toward the example of the worst imaginable behavior and assume that it happens all the time.  On the other hand, and the other side of town, it is impossible to go to a Cubs game and not experience at least 7 out of 10 of the criteria and sometimes more than that.  Insufferable does not even begin to describe the situation, and it is almost always present. Honestly, I have experienced most of these things with Cubs fans without even being at the ballpark.  They are a different sort. . .

[Squirrel]

18 minutes ago, Rod Carews Birthday said:

there are ding dongs all over

I could deal with that … 🙂😋

 

[Rod Carews Birthday]

8 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

I could deal with that … 🙂😋

 

Mmmmmm.  Delicious. . . .

[Bigfork Twins Guy]

I truly don't hate any teams any more.  For awhile I hated the Dallas Stars because I perceived that they took our North Stars away and then won a cup.  I used to hate the Dallas Cowboys because of the Drew Pearson push off.

Now, I do not hate any teams because they are all just trying to win.  I dislike very much the Eagle's fans as I read stories that their fans dumped beers on our visiting fans and talked nasty in front of wives and kids when we played them in the NFC Championship a few years back.

I hate the fans fighting and I would not pay for a ticket where fans stand in front of me the whole game.  How disrespectful IMO of them to do that.

We cannot be so high on ourselves as we have the black mark on your record where somebody threw a booze bottle at a Viking playoff game and hit a referee in the head.  I was VERY embarrassed to be a Minnesota fan after that event.

[ashbury]

1 hour ago, Squirrel said:

I could deal with that … 🙂😋

 

Nature's Most Perfect Food™

[EGFTShaw]

5 hours ago, Nine of twelve said:

The Red Sox are the Yankees, except with beards.

Not wrong 

😂😂😂

[EGFTShaw]

highly dislike:
Cowboys: America’s my a$$

NYY: the Cowboys of MLB

Any team Brad Marchand is on. 

BoSox: Yankees with Beards (loved this suggestion)

NYM - I like for this season and maybe next ONLY because the flipped off the NYYs and the other owners with their interpretation of the Cohen Tax. 

[Nine of twelve]

BTW, speaking of the entitlement issue with fans, the Gophers mens hockey team is the Yankees of NCAA Div. I. They feel that the way recruiting should work is thusly: the Gophers choose which players will be on their team and all other colleges go from there. This is especially the case regarding players from Minnesota. I hope their streak of not winning a national championship continues.

[wsnydes]

7 hours ago, Richie the Rally Goat said:

I hope to never fall off the Human Being Bandwagon.

There are times where I'm almost willing to jump off the Human Being Bandwagon! 😆

[Richie the Rally Goat]

1 hour ago, Nine of twelve said:

BTW, speaking of the entitlement issue with fans, the Gophers mens hockey team is the Yankees of NCAA Div. I. They feel that the way recruiting should work is thusly: the Gophers choose which players will be on their team and all other colleges go from there. This is especially the case regarding players from Minnesota. I hope their streak of not winning a national championship continues.

Go Huskies!

[notoriousgod71]

10 hours ago, Trov said:

 His play in playoffs against Oakland national media talked about how no other player would have even thought of doing that, only Denny Hocking had a similar play prior to that in a normal game, not playoffs.  Did anyone talk about how smart of a play Hocking did?  

Ok, Hocking's play at Fenway in 2001 was ridiculous. Mientkiewicz's sliding catch and pop up throw to Hocking was equally as impressive. That play epitomizes the resurgence of the TWINS as it was just heads up and miraculous from start to finish.

[I wish the twins were good]

On 3/8/2023 at 7:31 AM, Brock Beauchamp said:

 

• The most annoying fan behavior: 1. Getting in fights at games 2. Bad Sportsmanship 3. Fairweather/bandwagon fans.

Philly Phan special: D batteries used as projectiles

[Original_JB]

17 hours ago, EGFTShaw said:

highly dislike:
Cowboys: America’s my a$$

NYY: the Cowboys of MLB

Any team Brad Marchand is on. 

BoSox: Yankees with Beards (loved this suggestion)

NYM - I like for this season and maybe next ONLY because the flipped off the NYYs and the other owners with their interpretation of the Cohen Tax. 

Yeah, that's right, I forgot to include the 'Rat' in my comment too. Ryan Reaves doesn't exactly please me either, and here I'm stuck with him on the Wild.

[nicksaviking]

I reserve the right to unreasonably dislike any team that makes one of my teams look foolish in a big game.

The list is getting really, really long too.

[Aerodeliria]

I was watching the Twins vs Tigers--the first game of the 1987 playoffs at a low-key sports bar near the San Diego Airport (before my flight). There were only a few people in the place and only four Detroit fans and I were interested in the game. As the game started turning bad for the Tigers, they became increasingly obnoxious as well as angry and started loudly voicing threats towards any Twins fans. I'm sure if I had let out a cheer for the hometown boys that I would have ended up in the hospital (if I was lucky) and not on an airplane.

[dex8425]

23 hours ago, Muppet said:

And let's not forget those lovely Dodgers fans that put Giants fans in the hospital for supporting the wrong team. 

What about the Yankee fans that assaulted the Guardians outfielders last year?

[EGFTShaw]

32 minutes ago, Original_JB said:

Yeah, that's right, I forgot to include the 'Rat' in my comment too. Ryan Reaves doesn't exactly please me either, and here I'm stuck with him on the Wild.

Ken Linesman was the OG rat for me...I am sure there was someone before him. 

But he never LICKED anyone as far as I know.

[dex8425]

20 hours ago, Rod Carews Birthday said:

I have by no means been to every major league ballpark (or city for that matter), but I have been to quite a few.  My experience is that fanship at Target Field is definitely among the most "civilized" that I have seen.  It's not perfect. . . I'm a realist. . . there are ding dongs all over, but it really is pretty good. 

I do feel like I have to defend the White Sox fans.  I find them to be pretty normal and reasonable people. . . they could be Twins fans.  Again, there are a few real ding dongs out there doing really, really dumb stuff so that's not good but that is the exception and not the rule.  Unfortunately we all tend to gravitate toward the example of the worst imaginable behavior and assume that it happens all the time.  On the other hand, and the other side of town, it is impossible to go to a Cubs game and not experience at least 7 out of 10 of the criteria and sometimes more than that.  Insufferable does not even begin to describe the situation, and it is almost always present. Honestly, I have experienced most of these things with Cubs fans without even being at the ballpark.  They are a different sort. . .

I would agree. I've been to several games in Chicago-both ballparks. White Sox fans were great. Cubs fans were...like Boston fans. I don't really find the appeal of either ballpark TBH. Wrigley smells. Us Cellular field/comiskey/guaranteed rate or whatever it is called now is stale and has no character. 

[wsnydes]

21 hours ago, ashbury said:

Nature's Most Perfect Food™

I'm still looking for the seeds to grow them.  They're impossible to find!  Must be popular.

[Bodie]

On 3/8/2023 at 8:27 AM, Trov said:

For me it is a combo of fans, players, and media for how I feel about a team.  My dislike for teams change over years as well.  I will always hate the Yankees, and it was a combo of things.  One, their choice to go out and overpay for many FA just because they could annoyed me, but what annoyed me more is how national media overvalued some of their players.  

Mainly, Derek Jeter is one that national media raised his profile more simply because he played for Yankees.  Do not get me wrong, he was a HOF player, but he made plays on defense that were raised in the eyes of the media simply because of playing for Yankees.  He was graded out second half of his career as subpar defender but was still touted in national media as a top defender.  His play in playoffs against Oakland national media talked about how no other player would have even thought of doing that, only Denny Hocking had a similar play prior to that in a normal game, not playoffs.  Did anyone talk about how smart of a play Hocking did?  No.  How about the "play of the year" when the legend has it Jeter dove into stands to make a catch?  Well, if you actually watch the play, he made a running catch, no different than any OF does.  Then he chose to jump into the stands because he was on a full run, and not slide or something like that.  He caught the ball on the run, then jumped into stands.  It was not even a diving catch.  

Jeter is not the only player that gets put up higher because he plays well for the Yankees.  That is one reason I hate them.  The other reason, is Twins never beat them, even when Yankees are not a good team.  I also do not like the entitled fans.  I also hate Boston, because they did much of what Yankees did, but people loved them because they were the rivals of Yankees, I do not like either for much of same reasons. 

Just pertaining to Jeter (yeah a HOFer w/3000 hits and 58 [estimated] WS rings)...

A very good  case can be made that at NO TIME in his career was he the best shortstop in baseball.  Kinda weird for a HOF position player.  

At retirement he was likely the  3rd best SS.  On the Yankees.

[Original_JB]

22 hours ago, ashbury said:

Nature's Most Perfect Food™

Gotta disagree......  TastyKake Butterscotch Krimpet

[Bodie]

3 hours ago, I wish the twins were good said:

Philly Phan special: D batteries used as projectiles

Wasn't that against Santa Claus to boot!?!?  

[CRF]

I really don't like the word "hate". I probably hate the word "hate", more than I could ever hate any team. That being said, there are two teams that I dislike immensely. The NY Yankees, and the Dallas Cowboys. I grew up in the NY/NJ metro area, and as kid, I had Yankees this and Yankees that thrown at me constantly by relatives and friends. I ALWAYS root against them. That's why I was a Mets fan. When I moved to Mn, my dislike of the Yankees grew even more. As for the Cowboys, I was a NY Giants fan and Dallas always kicked the snot out of the Giants, when I was a kid. The strange thing is...I liked and respected Tom Landry a great deal. Fantastic coach, and he got done dirty by Jerral, which was an absolute shame. When it comes to attending games, the two worst experiences myself and my family have ever had, were unfortunately here in MN. Once at Target Field, and once at the dome for a Vikes game. Both instances caused by drunk, loud, unruly, offensive, obnoxious idiots. At the Twins game, the offending people were eventually booted out of the stadium. Kudos to the ushers and security there. At the Vikes game, nothing was done, and we ended up leaving because it was unbearable. In all the games I've attended back in NY and Philly, I've never had anything like that happen. No other city either. I know that's amazing, but it's true. I'll never go to an NFL game again, but I love going to Twins games and will continue to do that. 

[KirbyDome89]

The Twins have had basically no success on a national stage in 3 decades. I'm not at all surprised this fan base is viewed as "well behaved," or "not annoying." It's hard to be bothered by something you never notice. 

La Russa as the most annoying manager is hilarious; 100% he received a nod from every Sox fan polled. 

[Nine of twelve]

6 hours ago, dex8425 said:

Us Cellular field/comiskey/guaranteed rate or whatever it is called now is stale and has no character. 

It was stale and had no character on the day of the first game played there. It's the last of the boring 20th Century ballparks. The next stadium to open was Oriole Park at Camden Yards which ushered in the modern era of baseball venues.

[Squirrel]

3 hours ago, KirbyDome89 said:

100% he received a nod from every Sox fan polled. 

They didn't poll that many because most of the Sox fans I know here in Chicago didn't like him, at all

[Nine of twelve]

15 minutes ago, Squirrel said:

They didn't poll that many because most of the Sox fans I know here in Chicago didn't like him, at all

I think KD89 was saying that the Sox fans were the ones who voted LaRussa most annoying.

[Longdistancetwins]

6 hours ago, CRF said:

 When it comes to attending games, the two worst experiences myself and my family have ever had, were unfortunately here in MN. Once at Target Field, and once at the dome for a Vikes game. Both instances caused by drunk, loud, unruly, offensive, obnoxious idiots. At the Twins game, the offending people were eventually booted out of the stadium. Kudos to the ushers and security there. At the Vikes game, nothing was done, and we ended up leaving because it was unbearable. In all the games I've attended back in NY and Philly, I've never had anything like that happen. No other city either. I know that's amazing, but it's true. I'll never go to an NFL game again, but I love going to Twins games and will continue to do that. 

Fascinating.  I don’t have a terrible time from the fans at Yankee Stadium.  That’s because the Twins roll over and die there, I guess.