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2019-Whenever Misc. Grab Bag Thread

HeyKurtz said:
I am hoping that if this happens, we get an American League team.

Hockey is my favorite sport, but there is no team I am a bigger fan of that my Mets. There is no way I can ever change my allegiance to a Raleigh-based team in the National League like I did with hockey and the Canes.
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Yeah, I could at least half-heartedly support an AL team … maybe. It would be a nice problem to have, either way.

I was lucky when we got an NHL team because I was more of a general purpose hockey fan than anything else. My favorite team was the Leafs, but I wasn’t a die hard by any means. I just liked how they played and all my friends were annoying Pens fans. And when NC got the Panthers it was easy to switch because I never really got into the (then) Redskins or Falcons.
 
I'd have a hard time pulling against the O's if Raleigh landed an MLB AL team. Just too died in the wool and too old to want to change that allegiance. And here's a nod of remembrance to our old pal GreensboroHurricanes.
 
Same for me as NoMich with Tigers and Cubs.. they'll always be my teams ('84 Tigers >>> all y'all) but I could certainly root for a team here and stay polite about my fandom when they're in town. Cheering baseball to me is not as rabid an activity as hockey anyway lol #chill

Just don't mess with the D-Bulls for the love of all that is holy in the Church of Baseball. W's and L's aren't important to me there, but a nice cheap night out at the ballpark (with 10000 fans, not 45000) is. #buymesomepeanutsandcrackerjack
 
jeffbear said:
Honestly, I’m too old to adopt a new team so even if Dundon pulls this off, I’ll probably turn up in Cardinals gear when the Birds come to town
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I'm the hypocrite. Although I grew up in NC, my teams are all over the place. Never cared one but about the Hornets. I don't watch the NBA. My favorite NFL team isn't the Panthers. Never will be. But I pull for them and wish them luck most of the time. Couldn't name 4 players if I had to. I was a Habs fan for 10+ years. I always liked the Avs too. That's from my Patrick Roy fandom. If the Canes disappeared tomorrow, I would go to the Avs over the Habs. I adopted the Canes the minute the move was announced. Would I ditch my baseball team for a local one? Probably not. But I won't root against them or hate them like so many transplants still do to the Canes, Panthers, etc.
 
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Fayettenamcanesfan said:
I dropped the Cowgirls for the Panthers and the Avalanche for the Canes....I was a Patrick Roy fan mainly because we share a last name lol so I started following colorado and fell in love with Sakic and Forsberg and those old Av Wings games....some real barn burners in that rivalry. Other than that I have always been a Braves and Hornets fan.....I grew up watching Boston with my dad because he is from there. Funny story is that my grandmother was a nanny for Jim RIce. Some of you true baseball fans would know that name. They would stop in NC in the winter on their way from Mass. to Florida and they would always bring me autographed Red Sox stuff....Rice, Yastrzemski. etc...
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I don't care what the Panthers ever do, I'll be buried in my Aikman jersey.
 
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