Poll: Bay Area Identity

Avidly follow the Niners and I am admittedly a fair weather fan of the Giants

eeewwwuh!

Giants are a distant second for me in MLB. Hate the Raiders. Indifferent about the Dubs.

I don’t come here for that mess.

Hockey earlier this year was the cool. It was my first experience in that. Baseball is horribly boring. Football is fine in the playoffs. Hockey is cool in the playoffs. College sports don’t do it for me. Especially college basketball.

I follow the Sharks…. and pay attention to the 49ers. I can appreciate the passion that Sharks fans have. they are great. alot like us, they have yet to get over the hump in the playoffs, but still remain loyal and rabid. my kind of fans.

All my friends are Niner and Giant fans though, so I go to those games a bit.

We’re just collecting data on whether it makes sense lump Sacramento in with SBN’s larger Bay Area regional coverage. Nothing at StR will be changing.

with passing interest in giants and sharks.

Bandwagon jumper about the Sharks, hate the Warriors, indifferent about the A’s and Raiders.

And when I thought hard about the question, I realized I know too much about the Giants, 49ers, and Sharks to say I didn’t follow them.

Even before that pounding we gave them in ’90…

Giants? Hell no. Old NL West rivalries die hard. 49ers and Raiders can both suck it, Cal & Stanford are mediocre teams in a mediocre conference, and the Sharks play hockey, apparently.

A’s, Dubs and Raiders are dead to me

pay a little attention to the Sharks, just cause.

but I only follow the A’s and Niners very loosely. I’m a completely fairweather fan of those two teams, but that’s because I’m not a huge fan of either sport unless its in video game form.

The A’s and Cal football

Dad was born in the bronx, and went to his first New York Giants baseball game in 1928. My first game was 1965, Mays was in center, McCovey was at 1st, and Marichal was pitching. ’Nuff said.

I was also a Raiders fan right up to the point where Al Davis decided to diss Marcus Allen, perhaps the greatest Raider of all time. That was it for me. I’ve enjoyed watching the 49ers over the years (especially Steve Young), but I don’t have a lot of emotion invested there.

As my profile says, 49ers diehard, Oakland A’s fan and Kings are what it’s all about. If only Sacramento wasn’t so hot so we could get a MLB baseball team (Oakland A’s due to thier farm system being here) or NFL Football team (49ers know Nor Cal well since they had summer camps here for so long, although Raider’s would fit right in with Stockton) up here. Honestly I think it would be better for both leagues to clear some space in between teams in the bay area, especially with A’s and Giants. There is just not enough of a fanbase to keep both operating that close to each other.

Don’t care for any of the Bay Area teams… Kings / Rivercats here with a little English Premiership thrown in for pretentious flava.

Can’t stand anything Raiders and can’t understand area fans that could still embrace them after they flew the coop to So Cal.
Nevada Wolf Pack for me, all things collegiate. Browns and Indians fan for life. (UGH)

And I don’t really like baseball, but I root for my home teams so I have a preference towards the Giants.

Love: Kings, Ducks, Dodgers, Arizona State Sun Devils, Cowboys
Hate: LAKERS, LA Kings, Giants, USC

I follow the A’s and Niners as well as the Cal Bears. I used to be a frequent commenter on AN but I’m not so in love with the community over there anymore. I also follow the Niners at NinersNation. Good group of guys but the NFL off-season gets a little tedious. I watch 9 hours of football every Sunday. I DVR and watch every televised A’s game and I don’t miss a single Kings game either on TV or live. I’m not a game day thread guy, I prefer to watch the action without commercials so I start a few minutes late.

So it’s only natural to follow the Sharks.
I hate baseball, but I’m starting to like the Giants.
Don’t get me started on the Kings. :D

Also like the A’s. Increasingly apathetic toward the NFL. Never really got into hockey.

I grew up riding Bart to the Coliseum to watch Mr. October, Catfish, and the rest of the crew from the $1 bleacher seats. I followed the Mad Bomber, Kenny “the snake” Stabler, and the nastiest defense in the NFL as a loyal Silver and Black fan. When I got married, I introduced LPA to the Bash Bros and the Kings. Somehow she ended up as a 49ers fan (Couldn’t have anything to do with that good looking Mormon QB of theirs.)

My kids are all Raiders fans. But none of them get my love of baseball.

I hate the Giants.

And it’s a very light lukewarm following at that. Otherwise, couldn’t give two shits about the Bay sports scene.

especially over LA teams haha. I am a rabid fan of the 49ers, Sharks, and Giants but I’ll root for the other teams when not playing those three, and Kings of course

Sharks too, but only when fewer people around care about them. Usually when they’re mediocre in the regular season.

related blogs at SBN are excellent – except GSoM. As an avid Giants fan, I frequent McCovey Chronicles almost as much as STR. Grant is phenomenal. Athletics Nation, Cal Golden Blogs, and Niners Nation are very well run sites. I’m not as familiar with SABP…

I would definitely like to see STR as part of SBN Bay Area…though I might prefer to have it simply called SBN Nor Cal ;)

Went to Yankee Stadium with my Dad, and Shea, but baseball just isn’t a League so I don’t watch except the World Series and only if I have time. Going to see a game in AT&T park is fun, Oakland not so much but I don’t support the teams in fan form.
I follow Raiders, Niners, Giants, A’s socailly as a local inhabitant and ESPNews watcher.
Football is Miami Dolphins first as well as the Hurricanes for college (alumnus ties, my other schools don’t even have mediocre teams). It has been tough the last decade or so.
I don’t follow Ice Boxing at all.
Tennis is alright.

I follow the Warriors and if it weren’t for the Kings I would make the drive to Oakland (I go to a few Dub games every season anyway). Now that I make trips to LA and have access to Staples I attend as an NBA fan – Clips have all the passion of an Applause sign, the Lakers make the experience feel like a reality show, but NBA Bball is still Fan tastic for me in any form.

Most of my teams are in Seattle except the New York Jets (life long fan, can’t tell you why).

But the Sharks are my NHL team without a doubt, just don’t follow them with the same morbid curiosity I do the Kings.

But I grew up in Portland and am getting ready to move near Fresno, via Indiana and Wisconsin. If it was up to me, I’d lump you guys in with the Blazers and Bucks (never did gain an affinity for the Pacers, though I understand that is not uncommon).