Players you like on teams you hate

[Evan]

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Absolutely false. The Yankees and Sox are competing in the same division. The Yankees and Mets are in completely different leagues and until interleague play started a couple years ago they only played each other in the Mayor's Trophy game in spring training. I absolutely despise the Red Sox and almost everything about Boston/New England. I don't feel nearly that way about the Mets because we never play them. The two are not the same at all.

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Why do you hate Boston more than Toronto? Boston/New England is more similar to New York than any other city.

Perhaps it's the laid-back Canadianness. Getting away from that, if there were an LA team in the same division (not too much of a reach, since everyone competes for the wildcard now), do you think there would as many L.A. haters due to Hollywood culture clash?

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I hate Boston more than Toronto largely because they're the team that competes with us every year. Hating Toronto would be like hating Tampa Bay, I just don't care enough to hate them. The proximity also fuels the fire.

I have no idea if the same situation would exist in LA. I get the sense that west coast fans are not nearly as passionate about sports as east coast fans, but I don't really know if that's true. I've probably spent a combined 2ish months in the LA area and 3+ months in the bay area, so I'm not really familiar enough with the culture to answer that question.