"Real fans", huh?

[gridlore]

The A's have been running ads for this weekend's series against the Giants with the tag line "come see baseball with real fans."

This has pissed Giants Nation right the fuck off. We're the ones who used to fill Candlestick on summer nights where hypothermia was a real possibility. We're the ones who realize that enjoyment of a baseball game does not require beach balls, horns, or excessive amounts of really bad beer.

They just announced that this is just the third sell-out of McAfee Coliseum this season. Judging from the noise and the amount of orange in the crowd shots, a good 65% of these people are Giants fans. Over at AT&T Park, we've had over a dozen sellouts with a worse team.

"Real fans." Hmph.

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[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Despite all the attempts by MLB to create one, there really isn't that much of a rivalry. We're not crosstown, we're cross-bay, and to residents of the SFBA, crossing the Bay Bridge might as well be entering another world.

Hell, not even the 1989 World Series created a real rivalry.