I would just narrow down your choices to the Cardinals and the Angels. Tigers are choke artists and the Dodgers ownership is in jeopardy because of the divorce.

you’d know that the Angels already far exceed your requirements for support (owner committed to winning, reasonable chance of making the playoffs in the next 10 years, group of guys worth cheering for).

Many of the contributors to this site have remained fans through the worst of times. We didn’t abandon our team even after the debacles of ’86 and ’95, through the playoff drought from ’86 to 2002, and so much more. We collectively had our hearts torn out after the death of Nick Adenhart.

So before I go any further, convince me why you aren’t a bandwagon fan in waiting.

case closed. best owner in sports

You need to convince us why we should let you join.

But if you ever get a chance next season, go to an Angels home game. You really can’t beat the California sun and a classy winning ballclub in a modern ballpark. I don’t recommend becoming a Dodger fan, because Dodger games are more scary than fun. The Tigers and Cardinals have good fanbases, but the Tigers do choke more often than not, and the Cards… well really can’t say too much, they’re a good organization too.

But the Halos are who you should look to for a new team. They are young, talented, and have the best owner (Arte Moreno – google him) in sports. Not to mention, ESPN ranked the Angels number 1 in all of American sports (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL) in fan experience and value. If you’re a family man, the Angels cater to the kids more than the adults! Sundays are “Family Sundays” at the Big A, with plenty of fun activities for the kids to do in Right Field, not to mention that kids run the bases after every Sunday home game.

If you want a team that’s going in the right direction (6 postseason appearances in the last 8 years), has some young talent to build around (Jered Weaver, Kendry Morales, Erick Aybar, Howie Kendrick, Ervin Santana…etc.), has the best manager in the AL (Mike Scioscia 2002/2009 Manager of the Year), and has THE MAN Torii Hunter patrolling CF, then come to the Halos.

Dodgers, Cardinals, Tigers, they all have history, great history. The Angels are writing their great history now. These are the best years of Angels Baseball ever. If you want to be a part of history, now is the time to become an Angels fan.

Dont be a bandwagon fan, dude. Stick with your team. It will make winning, when it does come (and it will!) all that much better. You’d feel like a FOOL if 10 years down the line if the Jays were doing awesome but you had renounced them.

When I was growing up the Jays were KICKING ASS. I had to watch Joe Carter win you a World Series ring while I rooted for dudes by the name of Luis Sojo and Mike Fitzgerald. Who??? Exactly.

Its only been sixteen years since you last won a World Series…BACK TO BACK World Series I might add. And now that Riccardi is out, you might start seeing some good decisions being made by the FO.

Aaron Hill, Halladay, Travis Snider….you got some good players on that team. In addition, your organization has a history of winning. Stick to your guns. Stay a Blue Jay fan.

My requirements are (1) that you use spell correctly, use proper grammar and punctuate which you have already shown that you can do. (2) Have a good sense of humor. (3) Not be that good at the pregame picks game right away so as not to make me angry.

Hud is like coffee for your ears
You don’t have to listen to sabremetric talk all day long
Red is an awesome color
You will stand out while in Toronto
Much like Toronto we can’t stand Boston or New York
Our owner may or may not be the inspiration for “the most intersting man in the world”
You get to read Rev everyday and watch him upset every other group of fans in baseball
You get to claim east coat bias
While other teams are laundry, animals, meaningless names we are harbingers of god (if you so choose to believe in the great cloud rider)
Mini Sirloin Burgers
Not only are we the best fan experience in sports we were also once voted as having the hottest women fans (by the players)
You get to see Giants fans avoid eye contact with you when you wear your hat

then just shut up and stay a Blue Jays fan.

Sorry.

Your team has won two World Series in the 1990’s when our team was scraping the depths of baseball doldrums. You have to take the bad that follows the good times.

Hell, I am still a Rams fan even after shitty ownership took the team from my region. Until there is a new team in my local area, I will remain loyal to my original team, even though they were not loyal to me.

The last place you’ll want to look is the Dodgers. That’s just going to get uglier (and I’m not very upset).

However, we’d love to have you as a fan. :) Last time I checked Arte isn’t getting a divorce.

our games are on later anyways, stay faithful to your hometown bud.

to become Halo supporters? It seems pretty stupid to rail against the unnatural quantities of media love that befall east coast teams, and then reject an eastern fan who desires to become one of us. Posts here advocate that Jevant stick with his hometown team, as if fate of birth has anything to do with it.

When I was a toddler, I was a Rams fan, just like everybody else in my extended household (10 people strong). Then I became iconoclastic and got a slight bit interested in the Chiefs (cool unis). So, interested in the Chiefs, I sat mesmerized by The Longest Game and discovered the Miami Dolphins. They became my team immediately. The next season the household was 9 Rams fans, 1 Dolphins fan. Guess whose side of the household went undefeated and picked up their first Super Bowl? That season, however, introduced me to the AFC East. The Patriots unis were even cooler than the Cheifs. They totally sucked, but I was intrigued. Then they drafted Sam Cunningham out of USC in 1973, and I made my lifelong commitment. I don’t look at it as abandoning my Rams, or turning my back on my Chiefs, or jumping on some Miami bandwagon. I look at it as my journey to my Pats.

As for the Angels, I did not have any favorite baseball team until they moved next door to me. There was no hometown OC baseball team for me to be born into. Hell, as a 9 year old left fielder for the North Sunrise Little League AA Pirates, I figured maybe the Pirates should be my team. But they were not purple, like my cap and shirt (with the “Lock and Key” Hardware Store ad ironed onto the back as our sponsor!)

So, Jevant, get your ass over here and learn yourself some Halo History. You gotta lot of catching up to do, and we only have a few months to do it. I, for one, welcome the new addition!

This team is the greatest. We don’t have great history like some other of the teams but we do have a great future upon us. If you want a team with no controversy, no prima donnas, a scrappy team, with the best owner you got the Angels my friend. If you ever watch a Angel game you will get hooked. I got my wife, best friend and many others liking the Angels. This is a great team. Going to a Angel game is unbelievable. So I welcome you my friend, you will love this team!

I’m a transplanted Canadian. I grew up in Cochrane Ontario, lived in Hornepayne ontario, and moved to California in ’88, and was a DIE hard blue Jays fan.

Ironically, my Angel fandom started because of a Canadian, too. More on a that in a second.

Joe Carters Homerun? Juan Guzman’s Slider? Paul Molitor? Fred McGriff, John Olerud, Kelly Gruber, Dave Stieb, Dave Stewart, David Cone (I’m skipping Clemens on purpose), Tony Fernandez, Dave Winfield, you name it, i was a HUGE Jays fan. I drove around my neighborhood in So Cal – - 16 years old – - screaming out my windows when they won the world series.

But in 89, I had gone to an Angels game. My dads company had season tickets, front row, first base side, and I was reading the program that day. Turns out a pitcher named Kirk McKaskill was from Kapuskasing ontario.

KAPUSKASING? are you #$*( KIDDING me? I know where that is, hell, when I lived in Hornepayne, that was the big city.

So he was running laps around the track, warming up before the game. The program that day even had his hockey card from when he was a kid as the promotional insert. So I yell to him that I’m from Kap – - and he stopped and came over.

I admitted I wasn’t FROM Kap, but Hornepayne and he laughed ad said he didn’t think anyone was from there. He was gracious, friendly, and literally signed EVERYTHING I had that day, including the hockey card insert.

From that moment on? The Angels were my team.

Joe Carters Home run was my favorite moment in sports until 2002.

The one night, living in the guest house at my parents place (who they bought from Tony Tavares, by the way, the old Angels and Ducks GM under Disney) I saw Spezio hit that home run. Tears.

Joy.

Elation.

Bunch of friends and I piled into my truck and raced to the stadium, just to be near it. it was electric.

Joe’s always number 2, but the Angels, they’re number 1. Period.

It’s literally the best franchise for fans in all of sports. Come on over to the Red Side, You won’t be disappointed.

Just an extra shout out? Victoria Park in London is the home of a Tank called the Holy ROller – - My grandfathers tank through many a skirmish w/ the First Hussars in WWII. Yep, that was his tank.

:) Say hi for me next time you drive by…

best team money can buy.

literally.

The new hotness is to sell your loyalty.

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Or you could do my friends do. They root for the worst teams in baseball. They know they try their hardest, they just never win. It’s more fun than rooting for a team everybody expects to win (so I’m told).

1) We are the only team out of the ones you mentioned that stands any chance of consistently defeating the Red Sox and Yankees, both of which I’m assuming you hate because of being a Jays fan. We were more competitive against NY than the Phillies. We had 2 extra inning games and 3 of the other 4 were save situations.

2) Arte Moreno and Reagins make big moves. Franchise value has almost tripled since Arte bought the team.

3) The Dodgers aren’t going anywhere now thanks to the McCourts and the fact that Manny picked up his $20 million option because he knows he’s never going to get close to that amount every again after the events of his 2009 career.

4) The Tigers aren’t consistent enough. And Miguel Cabrera proved himself to be an irresponsible d-bag at the end of this season.

5) The Cardinals might not be good after 2010. Pujols will be a FA and Holliday might be gone this winter. I don’t know what they’d do to replace them.

That ought to do it I’d say.

you get to claim east coast bias. over and over and over 24/7/365

I’m grinning madly at the thought of this

lol, look at it this way… we are essentially the braves of the 90’s. we are always gonna be in the postseason, but more often than not, our hearts get broken in the postseason.

At least everyyear we can go back to thinking that this year will be different.

Also, IMO aside from the phillies and giants (only when lincecum is on the mound) the NL is terrible to watch, at any rate not as fun as watching Mice Tits come up with clutch hits, and Vlade swinging at everything withing 20 feet of the plate

You should post your decision on the blogs and explain your thought process. I enjoyed reading the other blogs reactions and although I find some of them comically misrepresenting us (MIDWEST BIAS!) it is an interesting argument to see put forth by the fans.
Whatever team you land on I hope you follow with the same passion that you had for the Blue Jays.