Guest Blogging: The Bangworthy Experience

Followers of the great blog.  Today, is a special treat.  We have the great Bangworthy guest blogging today giving us insight into the world of professional baseball.  While his Mac Golf credentials allow him to post of this blog, his views are not necessarily those of young Bear and myself.  Without further delay, here is Bangworthy.

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Matt Butler and I were recently talking about baseball, he is a Pirates fan.  I made a comment that the Pirates were one of the most deserving teams to win a championship.  This is mainly because they haven’t won in a long time and also, Pittsburgh kind of sucks as a city.  Sports championships should be a reward for suffering.  People who choose to live in Florida don’t need any championships.  Here is the list of fan bases that most deserve a championship.  The main criteria are (1) does living in that city suck because of weather/lack of economic prosperity? (2) Have they not won in a while? (3) Do they have a sizeable fanbase? (4) Is there fan base obnoxious (this makes them less deserving)  Basically my excuse to rank the Yankees lower. 

1.Indians
Nothing left to be said that has been said over the last 15 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY

2.Tigers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM&feature=relmfu

3.Pirates

4.Reds
Ohio is a good place to move if you want to be important in the Electoral College or be high on this list.

5.Royals

6.Brewers
Hey, Bridesmaids was based in Milwaukee.  Hey, none of the hilarious and talented people involved with that movie actually live there.  Also even in Bridesmaids it was treated as the less cool sister city to Chicago.   

7.Orioles
I have never seen The Wire, this is a major failing of me as a person.  Right up there with not being able to dunk, but also something I have control over so even worse.  I hear Omar Little is a great character.

8.Twins

9.A’s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhrtLidtfIw

10.Giants

11.Dodgers

12.Cubs
Not convinced all Cub fans actually want to win.

13.Mariners

14.Blue Jays
I don’t know what to do with their non-Americanness.  But it is cold in Toronto.

15.White Sox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A63XjuA8u3U

16.Phillies

17.Mets

18.Red Sox
Red Sox fans are obnoxious, but one of them is Mike Schur, so that’s nice

19.Nationals

20.Cardinals
Of all the Midwestern teams they are the most full of themselves.  I know very little about St. Louis, Nelly is from there.

21.Rockies

22.Rangers

23.Braves

24.Yankees

25.Angels
Mike Trout is awesome, but wouldn’t it be better if he played for the Indians?

26.Padres
Let’s go surfing bro.

27.Diamondbacks

28.Astros
Wes Anderson is from Houston. Here is my ranking of Wes Anderson’s movies
      1.Rushmore
      2.Moonrise Kingdom
      3.Royal Tennenbaums
      4.Bottle Rocket
      5.The Darjeeling Limited
      6.Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Remember how I said I have never seen The Wire, I have also never seen Fantastic Mr. Fox.  This is way worse than having never seen The Wire or being able to dunk.  Whenever I meet people I spend the whole conversation hoping having never seen Fantastic Mr. Fox doesn’t come up.  This would be easier if I didn’t start every conversation with new people asking them about how much they like Wes Anderson.  Even if I see Fantastic Mr. Fox tomorrow I feel like the fact that it has taken this long is something I will always feel guilty about.  If we could count movies that Anderson produced The Squid and the Whale would be  2nd or 3rd depending on how I’m feeling.  I’m gonna need some time away from Moonrise Kingdom to decide officially.

29.Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay has the best front office in baseball to follow and root for.  They are very good at their jobs, and I am not sure they don’t just create pitching prospects with their mind.  But it would be better for everyone if their talents weren’t wasted trying to win games for the people of Tampa Bay. 
Florida is like the bizarre Ohio, also very important in the Electoral College, but living there pretty much guarantees that you don’t deserve a championship team.

30.Marlins
Miami embodies everything about a city that doesn’t deserve a championship; beaches, big club scene, Pitbull.  I want to rank them higher since I know there is a big Cuban population and Cubans are famous for liking baseball, but they don’t ever seem to go to games.  1997 was terrible.